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Painted panel of a banquet with a severed head carried on a gold platter and a figure lying dead at left.

Beheading of St. John the Baptist and Herod's Banquet

Fra Angelico, 1430

Painting of a smiling young man in a red and black striped costume playing a lute against a grey background.

Lute player

Frans Hals, 1624

Oil portrait of a young man with curly dark hair in a black coat, holding a gun with a gloved hand against a dark background.

Portrait de jeune homme en chasseur

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1811

Women in black mantles and white veils visit in an interior, while a mother nurses an infant beside a curtained bed.

Dames de Malte se faisant visite

Antoine de Favray, 1751

Sunset harbor with a large ship, rowboats, classical domed buildings, and richly dressed figures descending marble steps to t

Cleopatra Disembarking at Tarsus

Claude Lorrain, 1642

Oil sketch of a wooded hillside with stone villas, an arched bridge and a tower under a cloudy sky.

À la villa Farnèse: les maisons sur la colline

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1775

Renaissance painting of the Virgin and Child with five saints in an arched interior under a blue sky with trees.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre saint Zénobe (?), saint Jean-Baptiste, saint Antoine abbé et saint François d'Assise

Francesco Pesellino, 1455

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, with two angels, white lilies and a distant landscape with trees.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Filippino Lippi, 1470

Fra Diamante's 1470 Nativity: kneeling Virgin, Saint Joseph, infant Christ, angels, ox, donkey and shepherd in a landscape.

The Nativity

Fra Diamante, 1470

Formal wedding ceremony in a grand hall with crystal chandeliers, clergy, uniformed courtiers and spectators in galleries.

The Wedding of Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orléans

Joseph-Désiré Court, 1837

Oil portrait of a powdered-wig man in brown coat holding a palette and brushes beside an easel and canvas.

Portrait of the painter Jean-Baptiste Oudy (1686-1755)

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, 1753

Painting of a stormy sky over a sandy beach with breaking waves, a small boat, figures, sheep and a cliff on the right.

Weymouth Bay with approaching storm

John Constable, 1818

Allegorical ceiling-style painting of winged figures and cherubs in clouds above men bringing tribute on a hillside.

Les provinces autrichiennes apportant leur tribut à l'Empire

Gregorio Guglielmi, 1760

Dark Gothic banquet hall with a crowd of armored men and a bishop in gold vestments amid candlelit table and torches.

The Murder of the Bishop of Liège

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Pastoral landscape with shepherds, sheep, figures by a pond, tall trees and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Paysage arcadien avec bergers et joueur de flûte

Johannes Glauber, 1686

Painting of two sisters in blue and red dresses posed among calla lilies and columns in a garden setting.

Portrait des sœurs Friderike et Betty Bloem

Johann Richard Seel, 1841

Painting of a vaulted forge with smiths, armour and helmets in the foreground, a nude woman and cherub, and a distant eruptin

Fire

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1606

Full-length portrait of a hussar officer in red and gold uniform with a sabre, standing before a smoky battlefield.

Le général comte Fournier Sarlovèze

Antoine-Jean Gros, 1800

Painting of Orpheus with a lyre before the seated Pluto and Proserpina, with a cupid, a dog and a red curtain.

Orphée devant Pluton et Proserpine

François Perrier, 1600

Gold-ground panel painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, who holds a Latin inscribed scroll.

La Vierge et l'Enfant

Paolo da Visso, 1450

Painted church interior with kneeling white-robed monks, a bishop in gold vestments, onlookers in choir stalls, and a golden

Die Einkleidung des heiligen Bruno und des heiligen Hugo

Meister der Brunolegende, 1475

Painting of an oak forest with a dirt path, a gnarled tree on the left, small figures, and a cloudy sky.

La Forêt de chênes

Meindert Hobbema, 2017

Half-length oil portrait of a man with loose hair and a white collar against a dark brown background.

Frédéric Chopin

Eugène Delacroix, 1838

Mercury playing a pipe beside the sleeping Argus, with goats and a large tree in a landscape.

Mercury and Argus

René-Antoine Houasse, 1688

Woman in a dark monk's robe holding a knotted rope beside a desk with a teacup, books and a white cat below.

Louise-Anne de Bourbon, Mlle de Charolais (1695-1758), in a monk’s robe, holding the chord of St. Francis

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1730

Two men at a table with an open ledger, quill, scattered coins and a candle in a wood-paneled room, wearing pink and green he

The Tax Collectors

Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1550

Painting of a crowded open boat with survivors struggling on rough, dark sea under a stormy sky.

Shipwreck of Don Juan

Eugène Delacroix, 1840

Painting of a large oak beside a pond with cattle grazing in a meadow under a cloudy sky.

La Mare

Jules Dupré, 1850

Painting of the Last Supper with Christ and twelve apostles gathered around a table in a draped room with a chalice.

La Cène

Gérard Douffet, 1650

Painting of a bearded man in a red turban seated beside a saddle and rifle against a stone wall.

Le turc à la selle

Eugène Delacroix, 1835