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Ink wash landscape with a tall misty mountain, pine trees, a winding river, and calligraphy with red seals at upper right.

Album of Landscapes, Plants, Figures and Animals: Ink Mountains

Fang Shishu, 1745

Standing hooded monk in pale robe holds a skull in cupped hands against a dark background lit from the side.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1650

Painting of a crowned, multi-headed beast rising from the sea over a shore where figures kneel in fear beneath fiery smoke.

The Beast Riseth Out of the Sea

Benjamin West, 1797

Dark painted landscape with a glowing orange sun over water and a shadowy figure at lower right.

Macbeth and the Witches

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Grisaille painting of putti harvesting grapes in an arched niche, with a thyrsus staff, goblet and vine leaves.

Autumn

Jacob de Wit, 1751

Emperor Domitian

Domenico Fetti, 1610

Painted landscape of a sunlit mountain over a lake, framed by trees, with small figures and tents in the foreground under a s

The Course of Empire-The Savage State

Thomas Cole, 1834

Landscape study of a bay with a distant city skyline, sailboats, a dirt road, trees, and a cloudy sky.

Study for "View of New York City from New Jersey"

John Henry Hill, 1857

Portrait of a young girl in a blue dress and white lace collar holding red flowers, resting her arm on a dark chair.

Henrietta Dorr

Ammi Phillips, 1814

Ink painting of a bearded man in a tall black hat leading a monkey on a leash, on a hanging scroll with gold brocade mount.

Sarumawashi (Man and a Monkey)

Oil portrait of a man with powdered hair in a reddish-brown coat and white cravat against a dark background.

John [Bubenheim] Bayard (1738-1807)

Edward L. Mooney, 1850

Oil study of two bare feet, one lit and one in shadow, with a pencil foot sketch below, by Ingres.

Studies for foot in "Jesus Giving the Keys to Saint Peter"

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1817

Painting of a smoky battlefield with mounted officers, a blue flag, firing artillery crew, and infantry lines near farm build

The Battle of Princeton

James Peale, 1782

Painting of a bound nude saint suspended as soldiers hold torches, with an angel above and onlookers in a stone hall.

The Martyrdom of Saint Pontianus

Baltasar de Echave, 1612

Painting of the Virgin and Child receiving a kneeling king under a bright star, with a stable, saint and attendants.

Adoration of the Magi

Baltasar de Echave, 1610

Landscape painting of a river valley with a large tree on the right, distant mountains, and a seated figure under the tree.

Untitled (Landscape)

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Painting of Christ and the Virgin on clouds with a kneeling friar and two angels beneath green drapery.

The Portiuncula

Baltasar de Echave, 1609

Classical landscape with figures crossing a stream, cattle and sheep, framing trees, a castle on a hill and distant hills.

A Classical Landscape with Figures Crossing a Stream

Muted painting of a foggy winter street with bare trees, brick houses, a horse cart and small pedestrians.

Cheyne Walk in Winter

Paul Maitland, 1890

Classical scene of two women and a scribe on a terrace, with an erupting volcano and stormy sea beyond an arch.

Pliny the Younger and his Mother at Misenum, 79 A.D.

Angelica Kauffmann, 1785

Painting of a rundown farmhouse by a canal with barrels, ducks, a kneeling woman and a figure in the doorway.

Farm House on Canal

Egbert van der Poel, 1648

Hanging scroll of misty craggy mountains, a pavilion, pine trees and travelers beside a stream, with calligraphy at upper rig

Landscape

Oil portrait of an older woman in a white lace bonnet, black dress and patterned gray shawl against a dark background.

Susan Shippen Blair (Mrs. Samuel Blair, Jr.) (1743-1821)

Bass Otis, 1812

Seated woman in white lace bonnet and silk gown with teal skirt, holding pearls, against a dark cloudy landscape.

Mrs. William Peartree Smith (née Mary Bryant 1719-1811)

John Wollaston the Younger

Two-page album leaf of black ink Chinese calligraphy on tan paper with red seal stamps in the lower corners.

In Wind and Snow

Pastoral landscape with women milking cattle, goats and sheep, a stone aqueduct and a distant mountain range.

Landscape

Philipp Peter Roos

Interior of a 17th-century art gallery with walls densely hung with paintings and well-dressed visitors among sculptures and

The Art Gallery of Jan Snellinck

Hieronymous Francken II, 1621

Painting of a barefoot shepherd with a crook on a rocky hill at dusk, searching for a lost sheep below.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

John Atkinson Grimshaw

Oil portrait of a woman with grey upswept hair in a red gown with lace collar, set in a black and gold frame.

Portrait of Madame Leon de la Mejenelle

Nicolas de Largillière, 1711

Woman in a dark dress seated by a window with potted geraniums, looking out onto a green garden.

At the Window

Winslow Homer, 1872

Vertical columns of cursive Chinese calligraphy in black ink on tan paper, with two red seals at lower left.

Letter

Ink and color landscape with tall trees, a rock, flowering plants, a small figure in white robes, and calligraphy.

Album of Landscapes, Plants, Figures and Animals: Man in Landscape

Fang Shishu, 1745