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Painting of the Calling of Saint Matthew: figures gather around a table of coins and a ledger while a robed man points toward

The Calling of Saint Matthew

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, early 17th century

Painting of a brick mansion with a domed roof behind a formal garden of clipped hedges, obelisks, and strolling figures under

The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the South)

Jan van der Heyden, ca. 1668-70

Painting of the domed Santa Maria della Salute church across a Venetian canal, with gondolas and a sailing boat in the foregr

Santa Maria della Salute

Francesco Guardi, mid- to late 1760s

Painting of a shaded dirt road under large trees leading into a village with cottages and a church spire under clouds.

Entrance to a Village

Meyndert Hobbema, ca. 1665

Painting of a formal garden with clipped hedges, a domed ivy pavilion, a brick mansion, and strolling figures under a cloudy

The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the East)

Jan van der Heyden, ca. 1668-70

Venetian canal scene with the Rialto Bridge, gondolas, and arcaded buildings under a pale cloudy sky.

The Grand Canal above the Rialto

Francesco Guardi, late 1760s

Painting of a dirt road through a wooded landscape with a large tree, two walking figures, a dog, and a cottage under cumulus

Woodland Road

Meyndert Hobbema, ca. 1670

Painting of the young Christ seated among bearded scholars in a columned hall as Mary and Joseph enter from the left.

Christ among the Doctors

Abraham Hondius, 1668

Painting of Venice's Dogana and domed Santa Maria della Salute across the lagoon, with gondolas and figures on the water.

Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute

Francesco Guardi

Interior scene of a man in a red coat and feathered hat with a woman in a white headscarf beside a cart, straw, and a dog.

Paying the Hostess

Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1670

Elegantly dressed musicians play lute and violin at a table on a palace terrace, with a formal garden behind them.

A Musical Gathering at the Court of the Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria

Peter Jacob Horemans, 1730

Painting of the Rialto Bridge over a busy Venetian canal with gondolas, sailboats, and palazzo facades.

Venice: The Rialto

Francesco Guardi

Black-and-white still life of a woven basket of grapes and peaches with a lemon, plums, a beetle and a butterfly.

Still Life: A Basket of Grapes and Other Fruit

Jacob van Hulsdonck, probably ca. 1635-45

Painting of Saint Anthony surrounded by demons, a nude woman, a burning city and grotesque creatures in a dark landscape.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Grisaille painting of a reclining nude woman seen from behind, with a head wrap, beside grey silk drapery.

Odalisque in Grisaille

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1824-34

Triptych with Adoration of the Magi, Nativity, and Flight into Egypt set in arched architecture and landscape.

The Life of the Virgin

Adriaen Isenbrandt, after 1521

Grayscale painting of an elderly woman resting by a fireplace while a girl in a white bonnet reads a book nearby.

Grandmother's Treasure

Cassone panel with three scenes of King Nebuchadnezzar: enthroned king, a central execution scene, and a rocky landscape, in

Scenes from the Life of King Nebuchadnezzar

Nicola di Maestro Antonio d'Ancona

Two Angels

North Italian Painter, ca. 1330

Two oval-style portrait miniatures in an ivory hinged case, showing a man in a white wig and a woman in a blue embroidered dr

A Patrician Couple

Unknown artist

Gold-ground triptych with the Crucifixion centered and Life of Christ scenes in registers on the side wings.

The Life of Christ

Franceschino Zavattari

Painting of a shepherd in a blue smock tending sheep and chickens in a barn lit by a barred doorway.

The Sheepfold

Charles Émile Jacque, 1857

Painting of elegant figures on a classical arcaded terrace overlooking a river with St. Paul's Cathedral and boats.

Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge

Antonio Joli, ca. 1745

Figures in a brick courtyard with a checkered floor, a greyhound, a copper pot, and ivy on a house wall under clouds.

Scene in a Courtyard

Ludolf de Jongh, early 1660s

Painting of two sailing ships on a calm harbor with a town and church steeple under a hazy sky.

Honfleur

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1865

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, a kneeling king in red, and attendants in an interior.

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove, 1472-74

Painting of a sorrowful young man in yellow seated among classical women serving fruit and water beneath a grapevine.

The Sorrow of Telemachus

Angelica Kauffmann, 1783

Painting of a stone arched bridge over a river with moored barges, washerwomen, and twin towers under a stormy sky.

The Pont Neuf

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1849-50

Black-and-white image of tall cypress trees beside a sunlit garden path and a whitewashed house with shutters.

Italian Garden

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, 1894

Classical painting of robed women and an elderly man with a young seated man, with flower garland and sunset sea behind them.

Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso

Angelica Kauffmann, 1782