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Muted painting of a Parisian quay with a church and tall buildings, a street lamp, pedestrians and a handcart.

Quai de la Seine, Eglise St. Gervais

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Two women in grass skirts carry clay pots along a path between bamboo fences, with palms and banana plants behind them.

Papuan Women

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Painting of a young girl in a red dress cutting paper with scissors, seated on a carpet beside blue drapery and books.

Mary Leypold Griffith (1838 - 1841)

Sarah Miriam Peale, 1840

Oil portrait of an older bearded man in a white ruff collar and fur-trimmed dark cloak against a dark background.

Jan Uytenbogaert?

Jan Uytenbogaert, 1600

Oil painting of a three-masted sailing ship under full sail on rough sea at golden sunset, with a steamship in the distance.

Sailing Ship--off Coast of Maine

William E. Norton, 1870

Oval painting of a woman holding a mirror as a man leans in and points toward it, in warm brown tones.

The Magic Mirror

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1680

Painting of a Gothic cathedral facade with pedestrians and a carriage crossing a pale open square under a grey sky.

Notre Dame no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of slender birch trees on a grassy bank framing a pond and distant shoreline under a soft sky.

A Family of Birches

Willard L. Metcalf, 1900

Painting of women gathered at a tea table with a brass samovar, lit by pink-shaded candles in a warm interior.

Russian Tea

Irving R. Wiles, 1890

O-mata-ah-luta (Red Plume)

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1880

Expressionist painting of a haloed crucified Christ above a landscape, with nude mourners grieving in the foreground and a sh

(Crucifixion)

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of an elderly bald man with a long white beard, head bowed, wearing a green garment against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo, 1400

Half-length portrait of a man in a black coat and striped waistcoat with a gold pencil, against a taupe background.

Man with Gold Pencil

n.d Prior-Hamblen School, 1850

Painting of a horse herd galloping across a grassy plain, with riders and dust clouds under a pale sky.

The Enemies' Horses

W. Herbert Dunton, 1920

Oil portrait of a woman with dark hair turning her head sideways, wearing a blue garment against a dark background.

Head of a Woman

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Painting of women tending pottery and cloth in a sunlit adobe village courtyard with ladders and clay ovens.

Santa Clara Village Scene

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of a woman in a yellow gown surrounded by men in a colonnaded hall while a kneeling figure writes on the floor.

Woman Taken in Adultery

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1700

Painting of a snowy forest with tall dark tree trunks and blue shadows across the snow under a teal sky.

Woods in Winter

John F. Carlson, 1910

Painting of two horses in a dim wooden stable, one lowering its head to a feeding trough, in warm brown tones.

The Stable

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870

Muted painting of a city street with a stone archway, bare tree, pedestrians and a horse cart under a grey sky.

Porte St. Martin no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Two elderly men in a studio beside a marble bust and an easel, with a tapestry and rugs in the background.

In the Studio

Arnoldo Tamburini, 1880

Painting of a seated half-nude woman in green drapery against a dark background, with curved gold strokes at upper right.

Half Draped Figure

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1880

Woman and child riding a white horse across a sunlit sagebrush plain with mesas in the distance.

Apache Mother and Children on Horseback

Carl Moon, 1940

Night seascape with a glowing full moon over calm water, silhouetted fishermen and a boat on the shore below.

Night

John P. S. Neligh, 1930

Impressionist oil painting of seated people on a hilltop under trees, overlooking tents and a distant city with an obelisk.

View from Arlington Heights, with Chautaqua Tents and the Washington Monument in the Background

A. H. O. Rolle, 1920

Oil portrait of a woman with dark hair and shawl against a red brushed background.

Tete de Femme

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Two nude women sit on rocks beside a sunlit stream, one leaning on the other, painted in soft Impressionist brushwork.

The Bathers

Robert Reid, 1920

Painting of large waves breaking over rocks under a grey stormy sky, with a distant headland on the horizon.

Southwesterly Gale, St. Ives

Frederick J. Waugh, 1900

Painting of a seated woman with two children in a columned room, a toddler reaching toward a goldfish bowl on a table.

The Goldfish Bowl (Mrs. Richard Cary Morse and Family)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1830

Painting of a pensive young woman seated on a rock in a dark forest, head resting on her hand.

Evangeline

Christian Schussele, 1860