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Figures rest in a pastoral landscape by a lake, with children, a bearded elder, and rustic tools in the foreground.

Rest

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1863

Christ stands on opened doors of a rocky cave, pulling a bearded man up as a crowd watches and a red demon lies below.

Christ in Limbo

Benvenuto di Giovanni, 1491

Painting of a moonlit river with windmills, a large tree on the left, and a dead tree on the right under cloudy sky.

Moonlight on the Yare

John Crome, 1816

Nude workers chop logs, forge metal at an anvil and tend a fire beside the sea, with a reclining woman and infant at right.

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1863

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ on a cross, grieving women, mounted soldiers and a crowd in a landscape.

The Crucifixion

Benvenuto di Giovanni, 1491

Painting of a procession through an arcaded Venetian palace courtyard with costumed crowds and a domed church behind.

Procession in the Courtyard of the Ducal Palace, Venice

Antonio Joli, 1742

Three boys in matching green suits with white lace collars, a black dog and a basket of roses in an interior.

The Westwood Children

Joshua Johnson, c. 1807

Risen Christ stands on a tomb holding a banner while soldiers sleep around it, with a rocky landscape behind.

The Resurrection

Benvenuto di Giovanni, 1491

Venetian harbor scene with the Doge's Palace and campanile, crowded with gondolas and ships under a blue sky.

The reception of Nuncio Stoppani on April 17, 1741

Antonio Joli, 1741

Three standing men in fringed hide robes and feathered headdresses, painted in an oval vignette over a grassy plain.

Three Distinguished Warriors of the Sioux Tribe

George Catlin, 1861

Painting of a kneeling haloed figure praying as an angel with a chalice appears above, while sleeping companions rest nearby.

The Agony in the Garden

Benvenuto di Giovanni, 1491

Still life with oysters on a plate, chestnuts, sweetmeats, a glass of wine, a decanter, and scattered seashells on a table.

Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine

Osias Beert, 1620

Painting of a chief in feathered headdress flanked by a young woman and a warrior with spear on a grassy plain.

A Sioux Chief, His Daughter, and a Warrior

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of monkeys in period dress performing a concert with animals in a garden, with a conductor waving a baton.

Singerie: The Concert

Christophe Huet, 1739

Madonna and Child with infant Saint John and a lamb in a wooded landscape, with two angels in clouds above.

Madonna and Child and the Infant Saint John in a Landscape

Polidoro da Lanciano, 1540

Painting of Indigenous men, a woman and a child on a grassy plain, in fringed robes, with feathers and a pipe.

The Sioux Chief with Several Indians

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Monkeys in 18th-century clothing dance, play music and dine on a stone terrace with a garden view behind them.

Singerie: The Dance

Christophe Huet, 1739

Painting of armored European men landing on a palm-lined shore while Indigenous people gather and ships sail in the distance.

First Landing of Christopher Columbus

Frederick Kemmelmeyer, 1800

Painted oval scene of a small tipi village on the plains, with seated figures, horses, drying racks and riders on the hills.

A Little Sioux Village

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Monkeys in human clothing fish with nets from a rowboat and riverbank beside cottages and a distant bridge.

Singerie: The Fishermen

Christophe Huet, 1739

Painting of a steam train curving through a valley toward a town, with a seated man and a tall tree in the foreground.

The Lackawanna Valley

George Inness, 1856

Watercolor of Sioux men in feathered headdresses performing a crouching dance with shields and lances on a grassy plain.

Scalp Dance - Sioux

George Catlin, 1861

Painting of monkeys in human clothes acting as painters in an arched interior, with a cat and a garden view.

Singerie: The Painter

Christophe Huet, 1739

Painting of robed figures kneeling and seated in a colonnaded hall around a skull, with books and a staff nearby.

The Adoration of the Skulls

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, 1733

Watercolor of Sioux men in feathered headdresses performing a line dance on grass, with seated drummers at right.

Dog Dance - Sioux

George Catlin, 1861

Monkeys dressed as 18th-century people picnic in a forest, with hunters, dogs and birds in a landscape by Christophe Huet.

Singerie: The Picnic

Christophe Huet, 1739

Painting of a half-built ship on a shore with workers, a crowd, trees, a distant walled city, and two standing men in foregro

Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast

Dosso Dossi, 1520

Oval painting of Sioux women playing a ball game on a grassy plain, with spectators and rolling hills in the background.

Ball-Play of the Women - Sioux

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Monkeys dressed in clothing work as sculptors around a bust on a pedestal, beside a shed and wooded landscape.

Singerie: The Sculptor

Christophe Huet, 1739

Painting of a nude woman with a floral wreath holding a tablet, surrounded by deer, dogs, owls and a heron in a landscape.

Circe and her Lovers in a Landscape

Dosso Dossi, 1514