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Painting of a cobbled town square with a large Gothic church, stepped-gable houses, and people in period dress with a horse a

View of the Grote Markt and the Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk in Haarlem

Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, 1680

Textured painting of a green bird on a tree with an orange sun and small figures on a dark blue ground.

Nordic Fairy Tale

Paul Klee, 1930

Oil portrait of a woman with two young children against a dark background, the boy at left and the girl at right.

Portrait of the painters' wife and their two oldest children

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528

Painting of a young woman in a white blouse and red sash resting an arm on a water jug in a soft landscape.

Italian woman at the fountain

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865

Paul Klee's 1926 painting of a grid of pastel blocks with sketched houses, windows, ladders and small trees.

Suburban Idyll

Paul Klee, 1926

Cubist still life of a guitar, fruit bowl and glass on a table in muted ochre, grey and black tones.

Guitar and Fruit Bowl on a Table

Juan Gris, 1918

Loose painting of a woman kneeling in prayer inside a shadowy Gothic cathedral with tall columns and arches.

Marguerite à l'église

Eugène Delacroix, 1850

Painting of a figure in a boat spearing geometric sea creatures in blue water, by Paul Klee, 1923.

Kampfscene aus der komisch-phantastischen Oper “der Seefahrer”

Paul Klee, 1923

Painting of a weeping nude woman holding a dagger, with a Latin inscription below and a small scene in a roundel at upper rig

Lucretia

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1517

Painting of the Nativity with Mary in teal, Joseph in red holding a candle, angels, the infant Christ, and an ox and donkey.

The Nativity (Basel)

Hans Baldung Grien, 1510

Painting of a seated crowned ruler in blue facing a kneeling man in red who gestures to his wounded chest, on gold ground.

Antipater before Julius Caesar

Konrad Witz, 1435

Painting of a riderless chestnut horse leaping over a jockey lying injured on a grassy hillside under a cloudy sky.

The injured jockey

Edgar Degas, 1896

Pastel abstract drawing of a stylized flower with pink rings and orange center on a stem, over a field of colored dots.

Aufblühend

Paul Klee, 1934

Still life painting of pink and white asters and other flowers in a brown jug on a plate, against a dark background.

Bouquet of Asters

Gustave Courbet, 1859

Oil portrait of a bearded man with dark hair and fur collar against a grey background, inscribed FLORENZ 1875.

Bildnis des Kunsthistorikers Adolph Bayersdorfer

Arnold Böcklin, 1875

Etching of a nude woman reclining across a gnarled tree, with two birds perched on a branch above her.

Virgin (dreaming)

Paul Klee, 1903

Painting of a nude woman embraced from behind by a skeletal figure of Death beside a tree trunk.

Death and the Woman

Hans Baldung Grien, 1518

Painting of a crowned woman in a red mantle holding a golden chalice and cross beside a window.

Ecclesia

Konrad Witz, 1435

Painting of a half-timbered mill beside a rushing stream, with limestone cliffs and wooded hills under a cloudy sky.

The Mill at the Loue

Gustave Courbet, 1872

Painting of Christ on the cross with mourning women, a figure in red robes, and an armored soldier beside a green landscape.

The Crucifixion

Matthias Grünewald, 1515

Seated young man with a lamb and flowers, beside a wooden staff and inscribed scroll, against a dark background.

Saint John the Baptist

Juan Bautista Maíno, 1608

Painting of a nude young woman embraced from behind by a skeletal figure of Death against a dark background.

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Hans Baldung Grien

Circular painting of a ragged beggar pleading before a richly dressed man, with a dog, townspeople and a town behind.

Episode uit de parabel van de Verloren Zoon: de Verloren Zoon wordt afgewezen door een rijke man

Jan de Beer, 1515

Painting of a red fox attacking a white rooster on a rock while three fox cubs watch from the shadows.

Fox Attacking a Cock

Benno Adam, 1855

Painting of the Virgin Mary crowned, holding the Christ Child, framed by cherubs and a Latin inscription on blue.

Virgin and Child

Ambrosius Holbein, 1514

Abstract painting by Paul Klee in red, black and brown with rectangular fields and a stick-like figure, titled Locksmith.

Locksmith

Paul Klee, 1940

Painting of a bearded man in a green cloak and white shirt holding a scroll, looking upward against a dark background.

St James the Greater

Painting of a red-haired girl in a red vest holding a white rat beside a table in a dim interior.

Red-Haired Girl with White Rat

Edvard Munch, 1886

Paul Klee's Villa R: geometric houses on a red hill beneath a yellow moon, with a large green letter R in the foreground.

Villa R

Paul Klee, 1919

Painting of a figure in a red robe leaning on a stone ledge in a dark, overgrown wooded landscape with a distant house.

Petrarch at the Spring of Vaucluse

Arnold Böcklin, 1867

Painting of a woman in a yellow robe holding stone tablets with inscriptions and a broken staff beside a blue banner.

Synagogue

Konrad Witz, 1435

Abstract watercolor by Paul Klee, 1921, showing a stylized garden of angular plants and muted grey and brown shapes.

Dry-Cool Garden

Paul Klee, 1921

Painting of a seated man offering an apple to a nude woman in a sunlit garden with a fountain, goats and companions.

The Judgment of Paris

Albert von Keller, 1891

Painting of two robed figures walking past a stone well toward a hilltop village under a stormy sky.

On the Way to Emmaus

Arnold Böcklin, 1868

Abstract watercolor of muted blue, green and gray rectangles with a small grid of windows, by Paul Klee, 1926.

erstes Haus einer Siedelung

Paul Klee, 1926

Cubist painting of a violin, bow and sheet music on a table, built from angular planes of grey, black and ochre.

The Violin

Juan Gris, 1916

Painting of a coastal landscape with hills, scattered trees, and a grey sea under a pale sky, in loose expressive brushwork.

Coastal Landscape (Paysage côtier)

Edvard Munch, 1918

Watercolor and ink drawing of balloons, sun discs, a crescent moon and towers floating in a pastel sky.

Im Reich der Luft

Paul Klee, 1917

Portrait of a bearded man in black with a lace collar, in front of a wall of paintings and an arcade.

Portrait of a painter

Anthony van Dyck, 1650

Painted self-portrait of a bearded man with green eyes in a dark jacket, against a striped blue and yellow background.

Self-Portrait with Japanese Print

Vincent van Gogh, 1887

Abstract grid of muted rectangular blocks in olive, rose, ochre and maroon tones against a dark background.

Ancient Sound

Paul Klee, 1925

Four-panel altarpiece: Adoration of the Magi above, and an angel and the Virgin Mary of the Annunciation below.

Die Anbetung der Könige; Verkündigung

Hans Baldung Grien

Cubist still life of a green bottle, white bowl, and newspaper reading LE JOUR in angular ochre, red and black planes.

Bottle and Fruit Bowl (Bottle, Newspaper and Fruit Bowl)

Juan Gris, 1916

Abstract watercolor by Paul Klee with overlapping triangles, a red arrow and soft muted washes of blue, grey and pink.

Geläute

Paul Klee, 1928

Oil painting of a grieving woman in a pale headscarf, hands clasped in prayer, tears on her cheeks, against a dark background

Mater dolorosa, Copy after Ribera

Théodore Géricault, 1811

Oil portrait of a man with curly auburn hair and a full red beard, wearing black clothing and a white lace ruff.

Portrait of the Doctor of the Elector of Brandenburg, Leonard Thurneysser zum Thurn of Basel

Frans Floris, 1569

Grid of painted squares in orange, blue, yellow, red, green and white arranged in a checkerboard pattern.

Colour Table “Qu 1”

Paul Klee, 1930

Portrait of Hans Herbst (Herbster)

Ambrosius Holbein, 1516

Painting of a stag hunt with deer swimming a river, hounds, mounted hunters, a boat of figures, and a distant city.

Stag Hunt

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1600

Paul Klee's 1919 watercolor Burggarten, a mosaic of geometric planes suggesting towers, arches and a stylized garden in paste

Burggarten

Paul Klee, 1919

Painting of Diana and companions hunting through a wooded landscape with a bow, hounds, and a stag near the sea.

Diana's Hunt

Arnold Böcklin, 1862

Painting of a laughing peasant in a bicorne hat holding a tankard at a tavern table.

Peasant with Bicorne and Tankard

Adriaen Brouwer, 1630

Paul Klee's 'With an umbrella' shows a stick figure with a red body beneath a yellow umbrella on a dark blue ground.

With an umbrella

Paul Klee, 1939

Painting of a hillside with cypresses and a stone loggia, where a woman in blue holds an infant beside an angel and a donkey.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Arnold Böcklin, 1868

Half-length portrait of an elderly bearded man in a black robe holding a scroll against a pale background.

Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon

Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1560

Half-length portrait of a woman in a white headdress and black dress with clasped hands, against an olive-green background.

Portrait of a Woman

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1508

Adoration of the Magi: Virgin and Child receive a kneeling king's gift while two attendants stand nearby in a landscape.

Adoration of the Magi

Albrecht Dürer, 1492

Abstract painting on textured grey canvas with two red birds on bare branches, a dark snake, and angular brown and purple lin

Garden Gate K.

Paul Klee, 1932

Half-length nude woman with red curled hair and coral necklace holding a dagger, a sheer veil draped over her body, black bac

Lucretia

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1525

Painting of a warrior with a raised sword threatening a seated woman in yellow, with startled attendants, a macaw and statues

Odysseus threatens Circe

Jacob Jordaens, 1630

Triptych with Mary nursing the Christ child in the centre, Saint Andrew with a cross left, Saint Francis right.

Triptych of Mary and child with Saints Andrew en Francis

Ambrosius Benson, 1520

Painting of a crowded tavern interior with men drinking at a table and a woman cooking by a hearth in the foreground.

Woman Making Pancakes

Adriaen Brouwer, 1630

Cubist still life of a guitar broken into angular grey, brown and orange planes against a dark background.

The Guitar (Still Life with Guitar)

Juan Gris, 1916

Painting of a seated woman with long red hair in a blue dress, hands clasped, against a green painted background.

Portrait of Käte Perls

Edvard Munch, 1913