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Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and white collar against a brown background, painted in 1857.

Portrait of Edward Wheelwright

William Morris Hunt, 1857

Painted theatre set design of a courtyard with ornate palace facades, flags, a statue, and a city skyline behind.

Don Carlo (Francesc Soler i Rovirosa)

Francesc Soler i Rovirosa

Painted scene of robed figures gesturing toward a crucifix, with a kneeling man in the foreground inside a scrolled frame.

Scenes from the Life of Saint Arianus

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, 1755

Oil painting of a nude gladiator reclining against a green shield, with a red drape, sword, and wound on his chest.

Death of a Gladiator

Jean-Simon Berthélémy, 1773

Night naval battle with burning sailing ships, smoke, a full moon, and small boats in the foreground.

Battle of Çesme at Night

Ivan Aivazovsky, 1848

Gilded altarpiece panel of the Virgin and Child flanked by two saints and two angels on a gold background.

Virgin and Child with Sts. Louis of Toulouse and Michael

Luca di Tommè, 1362

Painting of a line of white-sailed warships moving across a calm sea while officers watch from a deck on the right.

Parade of the Black Sea Fleet

Ivan Aivazovsky, 1886

Portrait of an elderly bearded man in black robe and beret holding a red book and a folded letter.

Portrait of Wilhelm Kannengiesser

Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder, 1550

Elderly bearded man reads a book while a young woman points to a Nativity painting, with a landscape window behind them.

Philosophy and Christian Art

Daniel Huntington, 1868

Six-panel gold screen with ink landscape of misty mountains, thatched village houses, pine trees and small travelers.

Landscape

Watanabe Shikō, 1750

Painting of a mounted commander in red cloak on a white horse amid a battle, with fallen soldiers and carried wounded man.

The Victory of Alexander over Porus

Charles André van Loo, 1738

Calm sea with an ornate yacht flying Dutch flags beside other sailing boats under a cloudy sky.

A Yacht and Other Vessels in a Calm

Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1671

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine trees, and a rustic village with pink blossoms along a winding path.

Literati in a Rustic Landscape

Kinoshita Itsuun, 1865

Three women in period dress play flute and lute and read sheet music in a richly furnished interior.

Three Musicians

Master of the Female Half-Lengths, 1530

Hanging scroll of a standing courtesan in a patterned kimono holding a decorated robe, gazing downward, with red accents.

Walking Courtesan

Katsushika Hokusai, 1850

Gold-ground painting of the Virgin Mary in a dark veil holding the Christ Child, in a carved Gothic gilded frame.

Maria mit Kind

Mariotto di Nardo

Painting of twisting tree trunks and branches in a green and blue forest with reddish earth below.

Undergrowth

Paul Cézanne, 1893

Painting of a crowded wedding banquet with a haloed central figure, seated guests, and servants in a vaulted hall.

Marriage at Cana

Luca Giordano, 1663

Painting of a naked man reaching toward a woman holding a cloth, with companions on a seashore under a cloudy sky.

Odysseus and Nausicaa

Salvator Rosa, 1655

Two children at a red torii gate, one pulling a white inscribed banner while the other holds a pole, in loose ink and color.

Children at Torii Gate Stealing Banner and Plaque

Kawanabe Gyōsai, 1850

Painting of a log cabin and family in a clearing below a sunlit rocky peak and wooded mountains beside a lake.

Pioneer's Home, Eagle Cliff, White Mountains

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1859

Impressionist landscape of sunlit diagonal fields on a hillside with a small figure in white in the foreground meadow.

Valley of the Seine, Giverny

Theodore Robinson, 1887

Ink painting of a monk seated backward on an ox, with loose brushwork on pale paper and a red seal at lower right.

Monk Riding Backward on an Ox

Sekkan, 1550

Vertical gold-leaf painting of a pine by water with two seated figures in a pavilion below.

Akashi from the Tale of Genji

Tosa Mitsunori, 1650

Painting of two blindfolded women in classical white robes beside a limp male figure and a marble urn against a dark backgrou

Hecuba and Polyxena

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1814

Winged archangel with raised sword stands on a fallen demon while rebel angels tumble into darkness below.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Luca Giordano, 1666

Gilded panel of the crucified Christ with Mary and John beside the cross, and an enthroned Madonna and Child above.

Christus aan het kruis, met Maria en Johannes

Unknown artist, c. 1250

Painting of Abraham raising a knife over kneeling Isaac on a wood altar as an angel descends from the sky above.

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Hippolyte Flandrin, 1860

Painting of trees framing a grassy clearing with two cows and a pale sky beyond the distant hills.

Wooded Landscape with Cows in a Clearing

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1855

Painting of a Dutch beach with sailing boats, fishermen, dunes, a church spire and a tower under a cloudy sky.

Beach at Katwijk

Adriaen van der Cabel, 1650

Painting of a young man with a staff beside reclining women under red drapery, with a landscape and water behind them.

Cymon and Iphigenia

Benjamin West, 1773

Painting of a lone tree silhouetted against a glowing orange sunset at the edge of a forest, with a dirt path below.

Edge of the Forest, Sun Setting

Théodore Rousseau, 1845