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Painting of women in shawls and two girls standing before a sunlit arched doorway with decorated columns.

Femmes pres des Escaliers no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Watercolor of the Pont du Gard aqueduct's tiered stone arches under a blue sky, with green hills and shrubs.

Pont du Gard, France

Cass Gilbert, 1926

Painting of a woman in green holding a nude toddler while a girl in yellow kisses the toddler's cheek.

The Caress

Mary Cassatt, 1902

Oil portrait of a man in feathered headdress, red beaded sash and dark coat, with a river landscape behind him.

Portrait of Ossahinta, Chief of the Onondaga Nation

Sanford Thayer, 1840

Watercolor of a cloister arcade with striped arches, carved capitals, and a sloping tiled roof beside a stone wall.

Cathedral Cloister at Le Puy

Cass Gilbert, 1929

Half-length portrait of a man in a feathered beaded headband, red blanket and pink shirt, holding a decorated pipe.

No Heart (Nan-che-ning-ga)

Charles Bird King, 1837

Half-length portrait of a young woman in a white satin gown with blue sleeves and a blossom in her hair, c. 1760.

Polly Ouldfield of Winyah

Jeremiah Theus, 1760

Watercolor portrait of a young woman with dark bangs, face softly modeled against muted brown and violet washes.

Mary

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Oil portrait of a young man with dark swept-back hair, dark coat and white collar, against a dim brown background.

Portrait of the Artist, Age 23

William Edgar Marshall, 1860

Painting of a sunlit Paris-style street with a church facade, pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage in warm golden tones.

Saint Roche, Rue Saint Honore

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Watercolor of a half-timbered courtyard with red tiled roofs, two stone statues, and flowering shrubs and vines.

The Smaller Courtyard, Hotel Guilleaume le Conquerant, Dives, France

Cass Gilbert, 1924

Watercolor of a rainy Munich street with a Gothic clock tower, carriages, and pedestrians on wet cobblestones.

Street Scene in Munich

Ross Turner, 1880

Painting of a woman's head with elongated face and large eyes against a green flowering hillside and blue sky.

Head of a Woman

Alfred H. Maurer, 1920

Seated woman in a white dress and wide hat leans against a tree in a forest, holding a white parasol.

Sophie Hunter Colston

William Robinson Leigh, 1896

Oil portrait of a man with coiled hair, beaded earrings, shell necklace and a decorated fringed garment against a cloudy sky.

Ha-wón-je-tah, One Horn, Head Chief of the Miniconjou Tribe

George Catlin, 1832

Painting of a seated woman with braids weaving a circular plaque beside a painted pot and finished plaques on a rug.

Hopi Woman Weaving Plaques

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of yellow chrysanthemums in a blue and white vase on a wooden table with draped cloth and a chair.

Still Life with Flowers

Russell Cheney, 1881

Painted portrait of a man in a feathered headdress, red face paint, and beaded shirt, holding a decorated pipe.

Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe

George Catlin, 1832

Painting of a woman in a straw hat and white dress seated among pink peonies and white flowers in a garden.

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Helene

Carl Newman, 1890

Portrait of a bearded man in dark naval uniform with gold epaulettes, leaning on rocks before a stormy sea and sky.

Samuel Francis Du Pont

Daniel Huntington, 1867

Two children in white dresses with pink sashes stand beside a potted white lily plant under a dusky sky.

The Davis Children (Eliza Cheever Davis and John Derby Davis)

Edward Savage, 1795

Two fife and drum soldiers in tricorn hats march in snow, with troops and a flag behind them beside bare trees.

The Continentals

Frank Blackwell Mayer, 1870

Painting of misty sandstone pinnacles and a canyon stream with a bird soaring above, by Thomas Moran, 1892.

Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah

Thomas Moran, 1892

Watercolor of a tall Italian bell tower with red brick base, stone upper stages, a bell, and birds in a cloudy sky.

Bell Tower, Italy

Cass Gilbert, 1933

Ta-do-udo-sa (Prairie Chicken)

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1880

Painted album cover showing a bearded man in a turban and red trousers holding a rifle, standing before a green landscape.

Turkish Soldier (Painted Album Cover)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Painting of the Nativity: Mary and Joseph beside the newborn Christ in a manger, with three angels above in glowing clouds.

La Natividad

José Campeche, 1799

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair and a white cravat wearing a dark coat against a tan background.

John Cockey, III

Philip Tilyard, 1820

Painting of a woman in a pale satin gown seated by a window, parting blue curtains to look out at trees.

Dawn

Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1907

Painting of three nude female figures dancing and seated near water among trees in warm amber tones.

Dancing Dryads

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1879