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Oil study on wood of a young man in a feathered cap, a bird head, a red-banded hat, and a figure's shoulder.

Study of man and woman

Kenyon Cox, 1880

Painting of a girl reading in a hammock under leafy trees, with dappled sunlight falling on the grass below.

Sunlight and Shadow

Winslow Homer, 1870

Painting of a young woman in a white dress standing before a hammock strung between dark green trees.

Summer Afternoon

Winslow Homer, 1870

Dusky painting of a wooden colonial house on a hill, with a stone wall, fence, and two walking figures in the foreground.

Garrison House, York, Maine

Winslow Homer, 1870

Oil sketch of red and green autumn treetops in the foreground with a hazy mountain ridge under a grey sky.

Autumn Treetops

Winslow Homer, 1870

Woman in a dark dress reaching into a blossoming apple tree in an open field under a cloudy sky.

Girl Picking Apple Blossoms

Winslow Homer, 1870

Oil sketch of a brown and white cow standing before a reddish barn wall, painted in loose brushwork.

Study of a Standing Cow, Farmington

Samuel Colman, 1870

Loose oil study of a brown and white cow grazing with its head down on a dirt ground, with a barn wall behind.

Study of a Grazing Cow

Samuel Colman, 1870

Loose oil sketch of three pink peonies and green leaves against a dark reddish-brown wash on pale paper.

Red Peonies

Samuel Colman, 1920

Painting of a child at a spinning wheel in a farmyard with a stone doorway, thatched roof, and trees beyond.

French Farmyard

Winslow Homer, 1860

Painted study of a seated woman wrapped in white electric cables, holding a telephone, against a gold background.

Study of Pendentive Figure for Electricity, Dome of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exp…

Carroll Beckwith, 1890

Oil painting of heavy green ocean swells breaking over dark rocks, with white surf and a distant headland under a pale sky.

Heavy Swells

Howard Russell Butler, 1910

Oval portrait of an older woman in a lace cap and red shawl with fur trim, set in an ornate gilt frame.

Portrait of Sarah Amelia Cooper

B. C. Porter, 1890

Three boys in a grassy field eating watermelon beside a whole melon, with a wooden fence and cloudy sky behind them.

The Watermelon Boys

Winslow Homer, 1870

Oil sketch of fallen fluted column drums and stone blocks among grass on a hilltop, with distant hills under a pale sky.

Broken Column, Parthenon

Lockwood de Forest, 1860

Painting of a woman in a dark hat and yellow jacket smelling a blossom beneath a flowering tree in a green field.

The Yellow Jacket

Winslow Homer, 1870

Watercolor design of a classical column with a Corinthian capital and ornate gold scrollwork filling the shaft.

Design for an Ornamental Colonette

Gertrude M. Clarke, 1900

Hand-coloured title page with a draped curtain, butterflies, trees and roses framing French text and a castle landscape.

Title page, "Insectes d'Europe, Pients d'apres nature," by J.J. Ernst

Jacques Juillet, 1770

Engraved print of six trophy arrangements with helmets, flags, arrows, swords, a basket and flower garlands.

Trophies

Jacques Juillet, 1700

Engraved print of an ornate balcony balustrade design with scrollwork, acanthus leaves, a crown, and the title Livres de Balc

Title Page and Balcony Balustrade (Rail) Design

G. Vallée, 1710

Engraved portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte seated in a chair at Fontainebleau, wearing a military coat and tall boots beside a d

Napoleon Bonaparte at Fon

Giuseppe Guzzi, 1820

Watercolor of a 19th-century study with a writing desk, marble table, sofa, framed portraits and a brass chandelier.

A Study Interior at St. Polten

Matthäus Kern, 1837

Pencil sketch of three children, two lying on the ground and one standing, on tan paper with a handwritten date.

Sketch of Three Children

Arnold William Brunner, 1870

Pencil sketch on pale paper showing studies of two outstretched arms and hands, one resting in the upper left.

Sketch of Hands

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Graphite sketch on brown paper of separate arms, a hand, and two legs with feet, by Walter Shirlaw, 1900.

Sketch for Bank Note Design

Walter Shirlaw, 1900

Pen and brown ink sketch of women behind a railing watching boats launched into the sea, with a lower study of a boat and fig

Two Studies of Women Standing behind Railing, Looking at the Launching of Dories, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Madonna rising on clouds under a radiant dove, with kneeling saints gazing upward.

Madonna and Saints

Sebastiano Conca, 1720

Pencil sketch sheet with shaded trees above, a small sailboat study, and a small building with figures by the sea.

Figures in Lee of Building with Ocean Beyond, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Brown ink drawing split in two: a hunting scene with nude figures above, and a crowd of riders and horses in a storm below.

Diana and Actaeon [above]; Dido and Aeneas Shelter from the Storm [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Pencil and chalk study of a bare leg with bent knee and foot on cream paper, by Robert Frederick Blum, 1890.

Study for the left maenad, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890