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Woman in a black hat seated at a table beside a silver tea service, with a harbor view through the window behind her.

Tea

James Tissot, 1872

Canaletto painting of a busy Venetian canal with gondolas, a sailboat and palazzi under a pale blue sky.

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge

Canaletto, 1730s

Painting of a Venetian square with a baroque church facade, bell tower, pedestrians, and palazzi under blue sky.

Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice

Canaletto, 1730s

Canaletto view of the Grand Canal in Venice with gondolas, palazzi and a tall brick bell tower under a pale sky.

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right

Canaletto, 1730s

Canaletto painting of a Venetian square with a tall bell tower, stone wells, and people in period dress.

Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice

Canaletto, 1730s

Painting of a lagoon lock, a tall column and a domed classical church, with figures on the shore and a distant city skyline.

A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon

Painting of Warwick Castle seen across a green lawn, with elegantly dressed figures in the foreground and a town at right.

Warwick Castle

Canaletto, 1748

Seated woman in white gown with a harp, lamp at left, and a veiled attendant in shadow beside a column.

Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)

Théodore Chassériau, 1849

Painting of a woman at an open window beside a wounded man on a bed, with chain mail and armor hanging in a stone chamber.

Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe

Eugène Delacroix, 1823

Painting of a woman in a dark riding habit and green-ribboned hat on a piebald horse under a stormy sky.

Horsewoman

Théodore Géricault, 1820 or later

Painting of the island of San Michele in Venice with a domed church, bell tower, gondolas and sailboats on the lagoon.

The Island of San Michele, Venice

Francesco Guardi, 1770s

Painting of a man leaning on a parapet beside a tree, with pale buildings and sunlit pavement behind him.

A Man Leaning on a Parapet

Georges Seurat, ca. 1881

Painting of a seated woman in a gold striped gown and a standing man in grey reaching toward her in a gilded rococo room.

The Garter

Jean-François de Troy, 1724

Man in red coat kneels holding hand of seated woman in blue-embroidered silk gown beside a spaniel and gilded bed.

The Declaration of Love

Jean-François de Troy, ca. 1724

Tiepolo painting of the Holy Family with a donkey and a kneeling winged angel beside a rocky cliff and sea.

The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1767-70

Oil sketch of a woman in a yellow gown greeted by a man in a red cloak, with servants, a ruined wall and a dog.

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1745-47

Painting of a black gondola leaving a stone landing where masked figures in pink and black gather near a classical arch.

The Departure of the Gondola

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, mid-1760s

Painting of a young girl in a green dress and white headscarf looking into a red-framed mirror at her reflection.

Julie Le Brun (1780-1819) Looking in a Mirror

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787

Seated woman in silk gown holds a palm frond and looks up at a white dove in a dim prison interior.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison

Paolo Veronese, ca. 1585

Painting of fishermen by a river with women in long dresses, a parasol, a boat, and a billowing cloud over green trees.

The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1875

Painting of the Madonna with the Christ Child and infant Saint John holding a lamb, in a rocky landscape.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Santi di Tito, early 1570s

Painting of a woman in a teal shawl beside two scarlet ibises on a balcony, with a city skyline behind under a rose sky.

Young Woman with Ibis

Edgar Degas, 1857-58; reworked 1860-62

Painting of a couple embracing on a forest swing, a man in red and a woman in white, with irises and butterflies nearby.

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1873

Painting of Vesuvius erupting with smoke and lava flows, small figures and horses in foreground, bay and town at sunset.

An Eruption of Vesuvius

Johan Christian Dahl, 1824

Painting of Salvator Mundi seated on clouds in blue and red robes, holding an orb and cross, surrounded by cherubs.

Salvator Mundi

Domenico Fetti, ca. 1622-23

Dark painting of mourners carrying the dead body of Christ at night, lit by a torch, with a kneeling woman in red at right.

The Burial of Christ

Annibale Carracci, 1595

Painting of a stormy beach with fishermen, beached boats, a sailing vessel, a horse cart on the dunes, and a distant windmill

A Beach with Fishing Boats

Jan van Goyen, probably 1653

Landscape painting of a flat dune terrain with a distant city, church tower, windmills, and travelers under a cloudy sky.

A View of The Hague from the Northwest

Jan van Goyen, 1647

Dark still life with oysters, a lemon, wine glasses and an ornate silver tazza on a draped table.

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware

Willem Claesz. Heda, 1635

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black hat and white ruff, holding a spiral seashell against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man with a Shell

Thomas de Keyser, ca. 1625-26