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Painting of a rider on a rearing grey horse crossing rocky ground at dusk, with a distant figure and trees under an orange sk

Astolf Riding Away with the Head of Orill

Arnold Böcklin, 1873

Der Komiker

Paul Klee, 1903

Painting of Psyche ascending through clouds toward gods on Olympus, with Mercury flying above and a landscape below.

Psyche Is Carried to the Olympus by Mercury

Cornelius van Poelenburgh

Loose oil sketch of a pale ruined house among rocks under a dark stormy sky, with a cypress tree behind.

Destroyed House near Kehl

Arnold Böcklin, 1870

Abstract pastel drawing of blue, green and pink geometric shapes suggesting Venetian buildings under a night sky with a moon.

A small room in Venice

Paul Klee, 1933

Still life with a blue flask, a roasted chicken, a ceramic jar, fruit and an orange bowl on a wooden table.

Blue Flask and Chicken

James Ensor, 1925

Painting of a musical company seated at a table in a garden, with a flute player, a lute, a red gown, and a distant castle.

Musical company around a table in a garden

Ambrosius Benson, 1545

Painting of a hilltop medieval city with a domed church, walls, and robed figures in the foreground by a fountain and shrine.

The Heyday of the Middle Ages

August Ahlborn, 1829

Painting of three standing stones on a grassy mound under a stormy sky, with a bare tree and white birds in the foreground.

The megalithic tomb

Arnold Böcklin, 1847

Painting of Christ carrying the cross with a grieving Virgin and a young man behind him, against a dark background.

Christ Carrying the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John

Luis de Morales, 1570

Cubist still life by Juan Gris showing a guitar, clarinet, wine glass, bottle and grapes on a table in muted grey and brown t

Guitar and Clarinet

Juan Gris, 1920

Painting of a grove with a burning altar, two kneeling white-robed figures, a procession of figures, and golden autumn trees.

Sacred grove

Arnold Böcklin, 1882

Expressionist painting of an alpine village with blue roofs, grazing cattle and goats, and red and orange mountains behind.

Stafelalp, retour des animaux

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Painting of an angel and a startled young man beside a river with a leaping fish, rocky cliffs and a distant town.

A large fish appears while Tobias is washing his feet in the river Tigris; he is frightened

Joachim Patinir, 1500

Painting of a seated nude woman with a harp by a cave, and a cloaked man standing on dark rocks above the sea.

Ulysses and Calypso

Arnold Böcklin, 1882

Painting of a gold-armoured warrior driving a white-horse chariot through clouds with two female figures beside him.

Venus, Injured by Diomedes, Returns to Olympus

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1800

Painting of a winged figure lifting a woman above a cauldron amid a crowd, with an ox, columns and a distant hillside.

Mercury Abducting the Goddess Contento

Adriaen van Stalbemt

Painting of a sunset landscape with a pond, autumn trees, a grazing animal, and dark mountains under a green sky.

Landscape at Sunset

Arnold Böcklin, 1849

Loose painting of a red-roofed building, telegraph pole, trees and a small walking figure under a grey-blue sky.

Vuillard - L'Etang-la-Ville la gare (Passage à niveau de L'Etang-la-Ville), um 1900

Edouard Vuillard, 1900

Painting of a village doctor examining a vial in a rustic room while a family with children waits nearby.

The Village Doctor

Albert Anker, 1879

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ferdinand Hodler's 1912 painting of a snow-dusted alpine peak in blue tones under a yellow sky, above clouds.

Die Dents du Midi von Chesières aus

Ferdinand Hodler, 1912

Abstract painting in pink and mauve with a vessel-like shape, green leaf forms, circles and a zigzag line.

Untitled - Paul Klee, 1933

Paul Klee, 1933

Painting of a glacier between jagged peaks, with figures on a rock ledge and near a stream in the foreground.

The glacier of Lauteraar

Caspar Wolf, 1776

Dark stormy landscape with a crowd of swirling figures in the foreground and ruined arches on the right.

Scène de sabbat

Eugène Delacroix, 1831

Abstract painting of a terraced hillside garden in teal and green blocks with small houses and spiky plants.

Terraced Garden

Paul Klee, 1920

Painting of centaurs fighting on rocky ground, one raising a boulder overhead under a cloudy blue sky.

Fight of the Centaurs

Arnold Böcklin, 1872

Winter pond with bare trees, snow patches and a standing figure, painted in soft grey and green tones.

L'étang de Montfoucault, effet d'hiver

Camille Pissarro, 1874

Abstract painting of a townscape with angular ochre and green facades, arches, and stepped rooftops by Paul Klee.

Façade Brown-Green

Paul Klee, 1919

Oval painting of a calm bay with an old stone fortification, a tall tower, sailing and rowing boats, and figures on the shore

Bay with Old Fortification

Jan van Goyen, 1650

Painting of sunlit alpine peaks with rose and ochre rock faces, snow patches, and a green meadow under a pale blue sky.

Die Dents Blanches bei Champéry in der Morgensonne

Ferdinand Hodler, 1916

Abstract painting of overlapping blue geometric shapes, arches and triangles outlined in dark lines on a blue border.

Blue Night

Paul Klee, 1937

Rembrandt painting of a kneeling youth presenting a severed head before a gold-robed king and soldiers, with a mounted rider

David with Goliath's head before Saul (1 Samuel 17:57-58)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1627

Painting of a wooded island with dancing robed figures, bathing nudes and swans on a dark lake under a cloudy sky.

The island of life

Arnold Böcklin, 1888

Abstract painting of faceted pastel rock shapes beside a blue sea band under layered grey horizontal stripes.

Promontorio Ph

Paul Klee, 1933

Painting of cowherds driving cattle, sheep and a mule through a shallow stream beneath a rocky cave arch at sunset.

Cowherds in a Cave

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1654

Painting of a village street with colorful houses, a woman in a blue hat in the foreground, and figures walking on the road.

Street in Åsgårdstrand

Edvard Munch, 1901

Armored rider on a white horse overlooks a stone bridge, a hilltop town and a procession under a dark stormy sky.

The March of the Goths

Arnold Böcklin, 1881

Painting of a green mountain peak under swirling blue and white clouds, with mist around its lower slopes.

Der Niesen bei Regen von Heustrich aus

Ferdinand Hodler, 1910

Group portrait of a family with a bearded man, women, young men and a child, with a marble bust and skull in the foreground.

The family of the engraver Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650)

Matthäus Merian the younger, 1642

Abstract painting of thick black linework forming arches, faces and shapes, with flat red, yellow, green and purple accents o

Rich Harbor (A picture of a journey)

Paul Klee, 1938

Painting of women seated on a green bench under blue-trunked trees, with figures in orange, yellow and grey clothing.

The Market

Paul Gauguin, 1892

Painting of a turquoise lake with white clouds reflected in it, blue mountains on the horizon, and trees on a grassy shore.

Lake Geneva as seen from Chexbres

Ferdinand Hodler, 1905

Abstract painting of colored blocks in blue, ochre, olive and black with two small stick figures at lower left.

With the two lost ones

Paul Klee, 1938

Painting of a brick castle with a stone gateway, figures on a lawn, large trees on the left and reeds by water.

Castle Nijenrode

Jan van der Heyden, 1665

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Colour Table “Qu 1”

Paul Klee, 1930

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

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

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

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

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

Still life painting of a pink rose with a bee, daisies, blue flowers and a beetle on a stone ledge.

Rosenzweig mit Käfer und Biene

Rachel Ruysch, 1741

Painting of a dark island with tall cypresses and pale tombs, while a small boat with a white-robed figure approaches across

Isle of the Dead

Arnold Böcklin, 1880

Painting of a river landscape with a windmill, thatched cottages, figures on a road and people in rowing boats.

River Landscape with Windmill and boats

Jan van Goyen, 1625

Panoramic landscape painting of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child under a palm, with Joseph at a fountain and a donkey near

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Joachim Patinir, 1550

Cubist still life with a dark bottle, glass, bowl, grapes and a coffee sack labeled CAFÉ in muted greens and browns.

The Bag of Coffee

Juan Gris, 1920

Oil sketch of a reclining nude woman reaching for pink blossoms beside a seated piper on a grassy hill.

Spring (sketch)

Arnold Böcklin, 1862

Painting of a dentist in a red cap extracting a tooth from a seated patient in a red jacket, with a woman watching.

At the Dentist

Adriaen Brouwer, 1631

Cubist still life by Juan Gris with a wicker basket, fruit, newspaper, glass, bowl and pipe in muted browns and greys.

The Basket

Juan Gris, 1924

Dutch landscape with a cornfield, dark wooded hill, dunes, walkers with dogs, and sailboats on distant sea under cloudy sky.

The Cornfield

Jacob van Ruisdael, 1660

Panoramic oil painting of Paris rooftops, chimneys and a windmill under a pale overcast sky, by Vincent van Gogh, 1886.

View of Paris from Montmartre

Vincent van Gogh, 1886

Abstract watercolor by Paul Klee of interlocking angular shapes and graded gray, blue and pink bands, dated 1921.

Crystal Gradation

Paul Klee, 1921

Cubist still life of a glass, bottle and newspaper with fragmented letters, in ochre, blue and black planes.

Glass and Newspaper

Juan Gris, 1917

Dark landscape painting of a waterfall over rocks, with sunlit mountain peaks glowing under a stormy orange-streaked sky.

Mountain Landscape with Waterfall

Arnold Böcklin, 1849

Candlelit scene of a smiling nude woman in a turban on a bed, while an older woman leans in with a candle.

Flea Hunting in the Candlelight

Gerard van Honthorst, 1650