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Two lovers embrace in Persian dress against a gold-flecked background with flowering stalks, a wine flask and fruit.

The Lovers

Riza-yi 'Abbasi, dated 1039 AH/1630 CE

Painted manuscript page of an elephant clock with a mahout, a dragon, a bird on top, and figures in a canopied tower.

"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif, dated 715 AH/1315 CE

Persian miniature of a youth in a garden pavilion attended by winged fairies, musicians and a crescent moon above.

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maid…

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597-98

Persian miniature of birds gathered by a stream in a rocky landscape, with a peacock, cranes and a falcon under a tree.

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1600

Persian miniature of a seated ruler at a mountain feast beside a central fire, with attendants, grazing animals, and calligra

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1525

Two turbaned figures meet in a rocky landscape, one on a black horse beside a man seated on a brown camel, framed by Persian

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)

Mustafa ibn Vali, ca. 1595

Persian manuscript painting of a courtyard with a balcony, a bathing pool with nude women, and a garden behind.

"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Maulana Azhar, ca. 1430

Pen and ink landscape sketch of thatched village houses with horsemen and travelers on a road beneath a tall tree.

Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road

Fra' Bartolomeo, ca. 1501

Brown ink drawing of masked, pointed-hatted figures gathered around a body under a brick vault, with a wheelbarrow and poles.

The Burial of Punchinello

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of an executioner raising an axe over a kneeling man, with soldiers and a crowd watching.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari, ca. 1557-58

Red and black chalk drawing of a seated woman turning her head and gesturing, with white highlights on tan paper.

Seated Woman

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1716-17

Pencil and wash drawing of a road lined with pollarded willows, with a figure sweeping in the foreground and walkers in the d

Road in Etten

Vincent van Gogh, 1881

Pen and ink drawing with wash of a bearded man's head and shoulders in the form of a classical bust, gazing upward.

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca

Peter Paul Rubens, 1600-1626

Pen drawing of men shoveling a pile of wooden chairs along a curved arch, with a large empty area in the center.

Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel)

Vranke van der Stockt, 1444-50

Pen and ink sketch of men in hats crowding around a painting on an easel, with a seated figure in the foreground.

Satire on Art Criticism

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644

Head of a Young Woman

Albrecht Dürer, 1522

Pencil portrait of a seated woman in a lace cap and ruffled dress with gold bracelets, resting her arm on a chair.

Madame Félix Gallois

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1852

Pen and ink drawing of an older man in a fur-trimmed hat gazing upward, rendered in brown hatching on tan paper.

Bust of a Man in a Hat Gazing Upward

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1480-90

Red-ground drawing with white heightening showing draped seated female figures, a standing figure with a staff, and small stu

Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1420

Brown wash drawing of a crowd gathered around a bearded man with a flowering staff and a veiled woman in an interior.

The Betrothal of the Virgin

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1770

Sketch of a rider in a top hat on a brown horse in a circus ring, with two spectators in red at the barrier.

At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899

Watercolor of a woman in a lavender dress seated by a yellow fireplace with a fan, mirror and blue vase.

The Yellow Room

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883-84

Grey chalk drawing of a woman in a voluminous gown and flowered powdered hair standing in a garden by a stone pedestal.

Marie Antoinette in a Park

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, ca. 1780-81

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark hair on brown paper, with a sketched second face at upper right, by Edgar Degas.

The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841-1878)

Edgar Degas, 1873

Loose painted portrait of a man with a red beard in a dark jacket and striped cravat against a grey background.

George Moore (1852-1933)

Édouard Manet, 1879

Fan-shaped drawing of three women gathering cabbages in a field beneath a cloudy sky, with a village on the horizon.

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1878-79

Pastel drawing of a nude woman bending over a shallow tub to dry her leg, with warm ochre and blue tones.

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub

Edgar Degas, 1885

Mademoiselle Isabelle Lemonnier (1857-1926)

Édouard Manet, 1879-82

Painting of figures harvesting and pressing apples beside barrels, thatched huts, and grazing sheep in a rural landscape.

Cider

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1864

Pastel drawing of a red-haired nude woman seen from behind, drying herself with a grey towel against a yellow and blue backgr

Woman with a Towel

Edgar Degas, 1894 or 1898