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Half-length portrait of a woman with dark bangs in a brown dress, set against a blue-grey background with plants.

Bildnis Clara Bruckmann-Böcklin

Arnold Böcklin, 1876

Holy Family with young John the Baptist in a mountain landscape, set in an ornate gilded frame.

De H. Familie met Johannes de Doper als kind in een berglandschap

Herri met de Bles, 1525

Cubist still life with a bottle labeled Fraises, a glass, and a newspaper in muted browns, greys and cream.

The Pot of Strawberry Jam

Juan Gris, 1917

Abstract painting on yellow ground with a large black disc at top, red and grey shapes, and dripping paint below.

Schwarz, noch am Ort

Paul Klee, 1940

Oil still life of a grey vase holding red, pink and orange flowers against a dark background.

A Bunch of Dark Flowers

Gustave De Smet, 1919

Dark still life with a wine glass, fish on a pewter plate, bread, walnuts, onions, grapes and a red draped cloth.

Still life with a roemer, fish, bread, walnuts, onions and grapes on a dark cloth

Willem van Aelst, 1679

Nativity scene with Mary kneeling, Joseph in red holding a candle, angels around the manger, and a river landscape beyond a w

The Nativity

Adriaen Isenbrandt, 1520

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

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

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

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

Bildnis Anna Elisabeth Burckhardt-Brenner

Arnold Böcklin, 1868

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

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

Hutment

Paul Klee, 1932

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

Portrait of a young woman with dark bangs in a black high-necked dress against a warm brown paneled wall.

Marie

Amedeo Modigliani, 1918

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

Angular painting of a sleeping woman in red and ochre tones, with a night view of a church and cross through a window.

Sleeping woman

Gustave De Smet, 1919

Painting of a bound, bloodied figure in a red robe with a crown of thorns, flanked by two men in white and dark armor.

Ecce homo

Lovis Corinth, 1925

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

Oil portrait of a man in a wig holding a hunting gun, with a spaniel, dead game and a hound beside him.

Portrait d'un chasseur - Alexandre-François Desportes - KB 1090

Alexandre François Desportes, 1704

Half-length oil portrait of a woman with dark hair in a dark dress with red trim and a gold necklace, against a brown backgro

Portrait of Luise Bachofen-Burckhardt

Ernst Stückelberg, 1865

Abstract watercolor by Paul Klee showing a blue disc with organic shapes above jagged green and olive rock forms on blue.

Im Lande Edelstein

Paul Klee, 1929

Painting of Venus seated with three cupids handling Mars's sword and helmet, with white doves flying above.

Venus and Cupids with the Arms of Mars

Charles André van Loo, 1743

Half-length nude woman with pink flowers in her hair and an amber necklace, holding a pink flower before blue foliage.

Self-Portrait as a Half-Length Nude with Amber Necklace II

Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1906

Abstract landscape with a stylized fir tree, an orange sun and overlapping colored rectangles on a textured ground.

Small Picture of Fir Trees

Paul Klee, 1922

Painting of Jesus raising Lazarus from a tomb, with startled onlookers and a dark rocky cave around them.

La Résurrection de Lazare

Eugène Delacroix, 1850

Painting of a bearded king in red robes gesturing to a kneeling armored knight holding a golden cup against gold background.

David et Abisaï, scène extraite de David et les trois preux, retable du Miroir du salut

Konrad Witz, 1435

Narrow vertical abstract painting on textured canvas with pink and grey fields, a white bowl with red foot, and geometric sha

Vegetable-Analytic

Paul Klee, 1932

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a black hat, black costume and white collar against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Gérard ter Borch, 1661

Painting of a bearded man in a red cloak wading a river carrying a child, with rocky cliffs and a village behind.

Saint Christopher

Konrad Witz, 1435

Abstract watercolor of colored rectangular blocks with dots, signed Klee, titled Motif from Hamammet, 1914.

Motif from Hamammet

Paul Klee, 1914

Painting of an overgrown garden with a pale statue among roses, tall grasses, a stone urn and a curved stone basin.

Venus Abandoned

Arnold Böcklin, 1860

Painting of Christ and the Virgin Mary praying with hands joined against a gold background, in an arched panel.

Christ bidding farewell to the Virgin

Gerard David, 1490

Abstract landscape of horizontal colour bands with slender green poplar trees, an orange block and small dark birds.

Landscape with Poplars

Paul Klee, 1929

Oil portrait of a man with curly hair and round wire glasses, wearing a dark coat and white collar, against a dark background

Portrait of Jakob Mähly

Arnold Böcklin, 1848

Painting of Christ carrying the cross past armored soldiers and a crowd toward a walled city, with a tree and women at right.

Christ bearing the cross

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1517

Painting of a boy in a black cap holding a white and black cat against a muted brown background.

Boy with Cat

Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1903

Paul Klee's 1928 painting: rows of small colored drawn houses and towers on a white panel under a dark disc, yellow border.

A Page from the Book of Towns

Paul Klee, 1928

Half-length portrait of a man in a black cap and gold chain, with trees and rolling hills behind him.

Portrait of Jacob of Savoy

Hans Memling, 1470

Painting of a large chestnut tree beside a grassy path leading to white farmhouses on rolling hills under a pale sky.

Chestnut trees in Osny

Camille Pissarro, 1883

Paul Klee watercolor and ink drawing in yellow and grey bands of stylized plants and geometric motifs, 1924.

ARA. “Cooling in a Garden of the Torrid Zone”

Paul Klee, 1924

Painting of a pale nude figure with raised arms bound to a large red tree trunk, with flowers below and a blue sky.

Saint Sebastian (Basel)

Odilon Redon, 1910

Two standing men in medieval armor and red robes hold goblets against a gold patterned background, on a tiled floor.

Sibbechai et Benaïa, scène extraite de David et les trois preux, retable du Miroir du salut

Konrad Witz, 1435

Painting of a woman in a red and gold dress beside a child holding an arrow, in front of green drapery.

Venus and Cupid

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1526

Loose oil sketch of a seated nude woman with blonde hair, face turned upward, against dark drapery and red background.

Nereid

Eugène Delacroix, 1822

Portrait du père Tanguy

Émile Bernard, 1887

Painting of a green-skinned winged figure with a scythe striding over a street where people lie fallen and flee.

The Plague

Arnold Böcklin, 1898

Painting of the Virgin Mary, Saint Anne and the Christ Child under a red canopy, with a dove above and cherubs in garlands.

Virgin with Child and Saint Anne

Hans Baldung Grien

Two young women in red bodices and leafy wreaths hold a tambourine and palm branch beside a sunlit bay with sailboats.

Dies palmarum, two Neapolitan girls returning from the festival

Léopold Robert, 1823

Fresco-style painting of King David with a crown and harp in an arched niche, with a winged cherub holding a scroll below.

King David

Arnold Böcklin, 1868

Painting of a young girl with dark bobbed hair in a grey pinafore dress, standing before a red chair against a grey backgroun

Girl Standing in Black Pinafore

Amedeo Modigliani, 1918

Pastel portrait of a man in a gray cap and blue striped coat against a dark background.

Portrait of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)

Jakob Emanuel Handmann, 1753

Oil portrait of a woman in a grey dress leaning against a tree at dusk, holding a handkerchief, with a distant landscape.

Portrait of Louisa Schmid

Arnold Böcklin, 1849

Painted portrait of an elderly man in a fur cap and black robe, holding a coral rosary, with golden halo rays behind him.

Portrait of an old man (Pius Joachim)

Master of the Mornauer Portrait, 1475

Oil portrait of an older man in a black cap and fur-trimmed dark coat against a blue background.

Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1530

Painting of a columned courtyard with arches, crowds on balconies, trumpeters above, and a small child in the foreground.

Samson destroying the Temple of Dagon

Salomon de Bray, 1659

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

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

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