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Kunstmuseum Basel

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Painting of Adam and Eve, nude, with Eve holding an apple and Adam looking toward her against a dark background.

Adam and Eve

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1517

Older man playing bagpipe beside smiling older woman in white headdress holding sheet music, rural landscape behind.

A Couple Making Music

Jan Matsys, 1565

Cubist still life by Juan Gris showing a guitar, newspaper, and glass in blue, black, and brown geometric planes.

Guitar, Book and Newspaper

Juan Gris, 1920

Painting of Saint Ursula kneeling in red velvet among a crowd of richly dressed young women, with a sword and arrow on the gr

Saint Ursula and the Virgins

Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1550

Two seated figures in jeweled robes against a gold background; a crowned woman in green and a man in red offering a scepter.

Heilsspiegelaltar, Innentafel: Esther vor Ahasver

Konrad Witz, 1435

Painting of chamois grazing among pale boulders and snow patches on a rocky mountainside under a grey sky.

Mountain Landscape with Chamois

Arnold Böcklin, 1849

Painting of a mythological scene with a nude woman on a couch, a crowned king on a throne, a messenger, and cupids.

Hermes presenting Pandora to King Epimetheus

Hendrick Goltzius, 1611

Painting of skeletons overwhelming crowds across a golden landscape with gallows, a burning village and a distant coast.

Triumph des Todes

Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1608

Christ seated on a globe with clasped hands, interceding before God the Father amid cherubs holding Passion instruments.

Christ Interceding with God the Father

Ambrosius Holbein, 1515

Dark painting of a gaunt standing man with folded arms inside a tent, lit from above, with a sleeping figure at right.

Don Quixote’s Vigil

Honoré Daumier, 1855

Golgotha: crucifixion scene with three crosses, crowds and mounted soldiers on a hill, with a walled town and mountains beyon

Golgotha

Brunswick Monogrammist, 1550

Carol singers and musicians gather before a snowy wooden house at dusk, a man lifting a glowing star lantern.

A Christmas Carol in Lucerne

Hans Bachmann, 1887

Woman in a dark veil grieves beside the nude body of a bearded man lying on a marble slab.

Magdalene Grieving over the Body of Christ

Arnold Böcklin, 1867

Painting of a green siren-like figure with red ornaments beside a pale shell under a swirling red and blue sky.

Siren

Odilon Redon, 1900

Painting of the Virgin Mary with long auburn hair holding a nude infant Jesus who holds bread, dark background.

Madonna and Child

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529

Muted abstract painting with a central red disc surrounded by small letters, line drawings and fantastical shapes.

Ad marginem

Paul Klee, 1930

Oil painting of cavalry riders in uniform seizing a herd of horses on an open plain under a pale sky.

Ulans rob Honved-Hussars a Herd of Horses

Franz Adam, 1864

Oil portrait of a bearded man with red hair in a dark jacket, set against a textured background with a pale curtain.

Portrait of the Painter Achille Granchi-Taylor

Paul Gauguin, 1885

Abstract painting of interlocking brown, pink and blue rectangular blocks resembling a brick wall, with a pink border.

Hutment

Paul Klee, 1932

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in a fur-collared dark robe and gold chains against a turquoise background, dated 1533.

Portrait of Johann Friedrich I, the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533

Mermaids play on a dark rock amid stormy waves, one holding an infant, under a bright breaking wave.

Play of the Nereides

Arnold Böcklin, 1886

Abstract work of stacked rectangular blocks in pink, grey, ochre and black suggesting a layered townscape with a yellow accen

Ascent of a Little Town

Paul Klee, 1930

Painting of a wounded man lying face down beside a pool in a rocky landscape, with a dark hilly horizon behind him.

Wounded Brigand (Roman Shepherd)

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Painting of a blue cat and a yellow cat with swirling colours, a green ball, red leaves and a white house behind them.

Two Cats, Blue and Yellow

Franz Marc, 1912

Abstract pastel painting on coarse burlap with a large black star at center and a small figure and crosses below.

Under a Black Star

Paul Klee, 1918

Still life of peaches heaped in a blue-and-white porcelain bowl with leaves, redcurrants, grapes and a butterfly on a table.

Still Life with Peaches in a Chinese Porcelain Bowl

Isaak Soreau, 1638

Bildnis Anna Elisabeth Burckhardt-Brenner

Arnold Böcklin, 1868

Watercolor by Paul Klee showing a geometric town of rooftops, domes and arches in warm red, ochre and blue tones.

Town with the Three Domes

Paul Klee, 1914

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the infant Christ as a kneeling king offers a gift, with attendants and ani

The Adoration of the Magi

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1520

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a green dress and pink headscarf against a dark background, by Arnold Böcklin.

Bildnis Wilhelmine Wiggenhauser

Arnold Böcklin, 1849