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32,819 works

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ in a blue mantle before red drapery, with a town and mountains at left.

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini, late 1480s

Venus reclines nude on a gilded couch with doves and cupids attending her beside a teal drapery and a pearl necklace.

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher, 1751

Portrait of a young man in a dark velvet doublet and cap, one hand resting on a gilded book beside a red pedestal.

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino, 1530s

Harvesters rest and eat beneath a tree in a golden wheat field, with a village, church and bay in the distance.

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Painting of a woman playing an organ in a garden, with a seated armored man and a winged red-robed figure beside her.

The Love Song

Edward Burne-Jones, 1868-77

Painting of a sunlit Venetian piazza with a tall bell tower, a domed basilica, arcades and strolling crowds.

Piazza San Marco

Canaletto, late 1720s

Painting of four young musicians with a lute, violin and sheet music, one winged figure, against a dark background.

The Musicians

Caravaggio, 1597

Three male figures in a rocky landscape with a skull, crown of thorns, inscribed tablets, and a hilltop town behind.

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio, ca. 1490

Oil painting of the Virgin Mary crowned by two seated figures, with a dove above and musician angels on clouds below.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci, after 1595

Four men in hats play cards at a pale table, one standing and smoking, with pipes on the wall and a gold curtain at right.

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne, 1890-92

Painting of a boy blowing a soap bubble through a pipe at a stone ledge, with a child peeking from the right.

Soap Bubbles

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, ca. 1733-34

Half-length portrait of a bearded Carthusian monk in a white hooded habit against a glowing red background.

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus, 1446

Painting of a seated woman in a red dress holding fruit, with a patterned yellow chair and floral curtain behind her.

Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850-1922) in a Red Dress

Paul Cézanne, 1888-90

Painting of tall sailing ships with red pennants in a bay, with women in classical dress gathering on the shore.

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1643

Painting of a kneeling woman in a dark cloak and a child in a rocky landscape, with a winged angel in the sky above.

Hagar in the Wilderness

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1835

Cézanne still life: scattered apples on a white cloth beside a pot of pink primroses against a teal wall.

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1890

Reclining nude woman with curly hair reaches toward a parrot in a dark interior with patterned curtains.

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet, 1866

Portrait of a woman in a white blouse and red bodice with a headdress, holding a red flower against a brown background.

Sibylle

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, ca. 1870

Painting of three nude women before an armored knight and a bearded man beneath an oak, with Cupid overhead and a castle land

The Judgment of Paris

Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca. 1528

Painting of crowded third-class railway carriage with a mother nursing an infant and an older woman holding a basket.

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier, 1864

Painting of a woman in blue robes nursing an infant in a forest landscape, with travelers and a castle in the distance.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David, ca. 1512-15

Painting of Socrates in a stone prison cell, raising a finger as a young man holds a cup while mourning companions gather.

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, 1787

Painting of a large bouquet of mixed flowers in a bowl beside a seated woman in a lace bonnet resting her chin on her hand.

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas, 1865

Painting of Saint Anne in a white veil behind Mary in a pink dress, who looks down at the sleeping Christ Child against green

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer, probably 1519

Painting of a seated man writing at a red-draped table beside a standing woman in white, with laboratory instruments nearby.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836)

Jacques-Louis David, 1788

Portrait of a man in black cloak and lace collar, leaning on a chair beside a table with a globe and compass.

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1622

Diptych: left panel shows the Crucifixion with mourners and soldiers; right panel shows the Last Judgment with Christ enthron

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck, ca. 1436-38

Oil portrait of a woman with pearl-studded powdered hair and a ruffled gown, holding a small white dog with a blue ribbon.

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716-1806) with a Dog

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1769

Painting of three children in a dark wooded landscape under a stormy sky, a girl holding a toddler who points right.

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough, 1787

Nativity painting with the Virgin resting, the Christ Child in a manger, crowned Magi, angels and animals on gold ground.

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone, possibly ca. 1320