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Autumn landscape with a glowing sun, a calm lake, wooded hills, distant mountains and cattle grazing in a meadow.

Brimstone and Sugar Loaf Mountains from Warwick

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1872

Ink painting of a bearded man with a staff and wide hat walking past bamboo and a stream with animals, mountains behind.

Figures in Landscapes

Gao Fenghan, 1723

Hogarth painting of a rowdy tavern with revellers, women in bonnets, a man in a green coat with a sword, and scattered clothi

The Tavern Scene - A Rake's Progress series

William Hogarth, 1732

Painting of two giant ground sloths reaching into a tree beside armored armadillo-like animals in a lush tropical landscape.

Pleistocene Edentates of Patagoni

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Painting of a woman holding a hammer while looking down at a reclining bearded man with blue drapery below.

Jael Kills Sisera

Bartholomeus Spranger, 1561

Pink roses and white blossoms with green leaves arranged in a clear glass vase against a dark background.

Roses and Tree Anemones in a Glass Vase

Johan Laurentz Jensen, 1846

Oval painting of God the Father with a white dove of the Holy Ghost and cherubs among clouds.

God the Father with the Holy Ghost and angels

Bartholomeus Spranger, 1582

Painting of a curved Japanese footbridge over a pond of pink water lilies, with willow trees and green foliage around it.

Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge

Painting of a crowded colonnaded hall with a robed figure raising his hand before soldiers and onlookers, Christ Rejected.

Christ Rejected

William Dunlap, 1822

Three figures in an interior: a man whispers to a woman with a wine glass beside a woman holding an open songbook.

A Courting Couple and Woman with a Songbook

Cornelis van Haarlem, 1594

Relief of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, both with haloes, in a carved leafy frame.

Madonna and Child

Luca della Robbia

Hanging scroll of three grey ink monkeys, two crouching and one looking upward, above green grass, with a red seal.

Three Monkeys

Painting of a funeral procession with haloed mourners carrying a bier across a bare landscape under a pale sky.

Funeral of the Virgin

Giovanni Francesco Caroto

Painting of Cretaceous dinosaurs on a riverbank with marine reptiles swimming in the water and a pterosaur on a cliff.

Cretaceous Life of New Jersey

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1877

Ink landscape of trees, bamboo and a long corridor with a crane, with calligraphy inscription at upper right.

Album of Landscapes, Plants, Figures and Animals: Crane in a Long Corridor

Fang Shishu, 1745

Ink painting of hibiscus flowers and washed leaves on a curving branch, with calligraphy and a red seal at left.

Spray of Hibiscus (Spray of Flowering Shrub)

Bada Shanren, 1681

Painting of a nude woman seated on a bed with a bearded man beside her, a cupid peeking from blue curtains above.

Vulcan and Maia

Bartholomeus Spranger, 1585

Hanging scroll with ink landscape of mountains and pine trees, vertical calligraphy and red seals on gold brocade mount.

The Three Views of Japan

Tanomura Chokunyū, 1902

Painting of a sunlit snow-capped mountain above a meadow with grazing horses, small figures and tall trees.

Mount Adams, Washington

Albert Bierstadt, 1875

Oil portrait of a man in a powdered wig, blue coat with gold braid, and white waistcoat, in a gilt frame.

John, Second Baron Desart

Allan Ramsay?, 1751

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a powdered wig and red coat with a rose at his chest, against a dark background.

Portrait of Old John, Head Waiter at the King's Head Inn in Derby

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1780

Ink painting of a fisherman in a conical hat by a gnarled tree and misty mountain, with red leaves and a red seal.

Fisherman

Ink drawing of a seated robed Bodhisattva on a lion, mounted as a hanging scroll with blue silk brocade borders.

Bodhisattva Manjusri

Oil painting of a smiling elderly woman in a white headscarf holding a pink rose, in an ornate gold frame.

Old Lady with Rose

David Teniers the Younger

Painting of prehistoric reptiles and winged pterosaurs along a marshy lakeshore under a crescent moon at dusk.

Jurassic Life of Europe

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1877

Men relax under a canvas tent on a shore beside a rowboat, one playing guitar, with sailboats on the water.

The Greenwich Boat Club

Robert Walter Weir, 1833

Painting of Ulysses and Circe: a nude woman seated at a table turns toward a helmeted warrior beside a bronze statue.

Ulysses and Circe

Bartholomeus Spranger, 1586

Ink scroll of a grinning bald immortal crouched on a cloud above a wide-eyed dragon, with swirling mist behind.

Immortal Riding on Dragon, in Qing style

Oval oil portrait of a bald bearded man in a dark coat and white collar, in an ornate gilded frame.

John Thomas Duffield (1823-1901)

Edward L. Mooney

Full-length portrait of an elderly man in a dark suit holding a newspaper and spectacles, standing in a dim interior.

Henry G. Marquand

John White Alexander, 1896

Ink painting on silk of three horses beneath willow trees, with a seated robed man resting at a tree trunk.

Horses

Painting of court ladies on a veranda above workers beside a stream, framed by gold clouds and a flowering tree.

Chapter Eight “Festival of the Cherry Blossoms” from The Tale of Genji

Tosa Mitsuyoshi