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4,705 works

Oil sketch of a rider on a white horse fleeing past gesturing figures and fallen bodies under a stormy sky.

Scene from the Gallic Wars: The Gaul Littavicus, Betraying the Roman Cause, Flees to Gergovie to Support Vercingétorix

Théodore Chassériau, ca. 1838-40

Painting of Roman soldiers attacking fleeing civilians before a colonnaded temple, with bodies on the ground and a raised axe

The Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans

François Joseph Heim, 1824

Three boys in blue suits with red collars stand and sit outdoors beside a tree, a small dog, and a stone ledge.

The Children of Martin Anton Heckscher: Johann Gustav Wilhelm Moritz (1797-1865), Carl Martin Adolph (1796-1850), and…

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1803

Painting of a cobbled Berlin street with townhouses, a distant church spire, copper pots, dogs and workers.

Parochialstrasse in Berlin

Eduard Gaertner, 1831

Small painting of a hunter with rifle and dog walking along a reedy lake shore toward distant hills at dusk.

An Evening beside Lake Arresø

Johan Thomas Lundbye, ca. 1837

Painting of a mountain lake landscape with a reclining figure, a dark horse, and robed people gathered near a tent.

Ovid among the Scythians

Eugène Delacroix, 1862

Painting of a double rainbow over a classical hillside city, with a shepherd piping beside seated women and grazing goats.

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch, 1824

Renaissance painting of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John, Christ holding a cherry and a bird.

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga, ca. 1524-26

Oil painting of a seated bearded man in a white turban beside a saddled brown horse, leaning against a brick wall.

Seated Arab Man with Horse

Alfred Dedreux, possibly ca. 1850-58

Painting of a woman in a fur-trimmed coat and feathered hat beside a balustrade with a black poodle on a yellow background.

Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle

Paul Ranson, ca. 1895

Painting of the Crucifixion with three figures on crosses, a ladder, kneeling soldiers, grieving women and a dog under a teal

The Crucifixion

Pedro Orrente, ca. 1625-30

Still life painting of grape vines with clusters of grapes, peaches, figs, cherries, and three small birds on a dark backgrou

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, ca. 1615-18

Painting of the Judgment of Paris: three nude goddesses before a seated youth, with a winged messenger, a child, a dog and sh

Judgment of Paris

Alessandro Turchi, ca. 1640

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a brown cloak holding a small white dog against a dark background.

An Old Man with a Dog

Giacomo Ceruti, 1740s

Painting of uniformed infantry in formal review on a parade ground, with mounted officers, spectators, and Gothic buildings b

Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York

Otto Boetticher, 1851

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a brown dress and lace bonnet beside a potted rosebush and a striped cat.

Emma Homan

John Bradley, ca. 1844

Painting of a wooden ship on a shipyard slipway, with horses, logs, workers, a tree, and a sailboat on the water.

Berg's Ship Yard

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a rider on a white horse crossing a river below a rocky cliff, with trees and distant hills under a glowing sky.

The Mountain Ford

Thomas Cole, 1846

Oil portrait of a seated woman in white satin and red shawl holding a small spaniel before a dark landscape with trees.

Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1763

Painting of a town street at dusk with riders on horseback, a red ox, townhouses, and a tavern sign.

Bull's Head Tavern

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Men in a golden marsh with long poles and a rifle, a white sailboat on the distant water under a pale sky.

Pushing for Rail

Thomas Eakins, 1874

Abstract drawing of a small bird and scratchy black line forms over a soft red wash, by Paul Klee, 1925.

Bird Landscape

Paul Klee, 1925

Naive painting of a man pushing a wheelbarrow of milk cans past brick houses, with a dog and chickens in the street.

Buttermilk Pedlar

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Neptune in a chariot pulled by grey sea horses through waves, with tritons, putti and a flying cupid under a cloudy sky.

The Return of Neptune

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1754

Watercolor and ink drawing of an angular geometric bird falling past a dark arrow over green hills and an orange sky.

Falling Bird

Paul Klee, 1919

Painting of a small town street with brick and wood houses, shops, a horse cart, and a man walking a dog in the foreground.

The Dog Killer

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Four children in period dress stand in a room with a patterned carpet; one girl holds a hammer and another a cat.

The Alling Children

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, ca. 1839

Paul Klee's 1926 painting of a small bird walking below stepped mountains, a staircase and a teal sprig in muted blue and rus

Bird Wandering Off

Paul Klee, 1926

Painted city street with a horse-drawn cart, brick row houses, tall trees, and pedestrians on the sidewalk.

The Garbage Cart

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Interior scene: a woman holds up a blue bonnet while an old man reads a letter, watched by a woman, a girl and a dog.

The New Bonnet

Francis William Edmonds, 1858