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Double portrait of an elderly man in a white wig and a boy in a green jacket beside a table with a rolled paper.

Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey

Matthew Pratt, ca. 1772

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray hair, blue coat, gold trim and white cravat, in a gold beaded frame.

George Henry Remsen

William Verstille, ca. 1790

Painting of a woman in a white headscarf tending potted plants in a glass greenhouse, holding a watering can.

Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse

Anna Petersen, 1884

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black dress, white bonnet and lace collar against a dark background, 1854.

Portrait of Mrs. W.J.S. van Alphen, Baroness van Reede van Oudtshoorn

Raden Saleh, 1854

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray powdered hair in a dark blue coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Gulian Ludlow

John Ramage, ca. 1790

Oil painting of a nude woman holding an ornate silver box, with a putto behind her and a laurel-crowned figure at left.

Pandora

Barend Graat, 1676

Grayscale painting of a birchbark canoe on a river with three figures, a rock and forest behind them.

Pitched It Sheer into the River . . . Where It Still Is Seen in the Summer

Frederic Remington, 1889

Painting of a large bare dead tree in a forest clearing under a pale blue sky, with figures and deer nearby.

Woodland Scene with a Dead Tree

Johann Hermann Carmiencke, 1835

Painted banner of a multi-armed deity with a trident standing on a bull, set against a red background with flowers.

Double-Sided Painted Banner (Paubha) with God Shiva

Unknown artist, 16th-17th century

Tibetan thangka of a seated monk with disciples, snowy mountains, clouds, and animals in a lower register.

Milarepa on Mount Kailash

Unknown artist, c. 1500

Autumn river landscape with golden trees, fallen leaves, two figures on a rock, and a boat in misty light.

Indian Summer

William Trost Richards, 1875

Painting of a seated woman with a serpent at her chest beside a grieving woman, with fruit on a table and gilded drapery.

The Death of Cleopatra. Laterally reversed copy after Caspar Netscher in the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe

Julie Lütken, 1813

Oil painting of Iphigenia's sacrifice: a priest with a raised knife above a kneeling blindfolded woman, watched by grieving s

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Arnold Houbraken, 1690 - 1700

Black-and-white image of an 18th-century portrait of a man in a white wig, armor, and fur-trimmed royal mantle.

King Christian VI

Balthasar Denner, 1734

Painting of a group of people on a rocky ledge beside a large waterfall, with mist rising over boulders and a cloudy sky.

Underneath Niagara Falls

Ferdinand Richardt, 1862

Painting of a village of tiled rooftops seen from above, with fields and bare trees fading into a hazy distance.

A Bird's-Eye View

Theodore Robinson, 1889

Oval portrait of a woman with curled dark hair, pink roses, lace ruff and fur-collared black dress against a dark background.

Portrait of Madame Bernard-Léon, wife of the actor

Henri-François Riesener, 1825

Two standing men on a columned porch with seated women and children, with dogs and a lawn landscape beyond.

Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)

Thomas P. Rossiter, 1859

Painting of nude Adam and Eve standing either side of a dark tree with apples and stylized foliage.

Adam and Eve

Harald Slott-Møller, 1891

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with dark curled hair, white lace collar and beaded necklace, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Lady

Moses B. Russell, 1834

Dim landscape painting of a stone arched bridge among trees, a hill on the right, and towers under a warm sunset sky.

The Bridge

Albert Pinkham Ryder, ca. 1880

Man playing a lute beside a woman in a laurel wreath under a tree, with a shepherd and flock in the landscape behind.

Allegory on Nature as wet-nurse of the Arts

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1540 - 1557

Heavily textured painting with a golden glowing band above dark brown and red rounded forms, cracked surface throughout.

Curfew Hour

Albert Pinkham Ryder, by 1882

Dark, dreamy landscape with a twisted tree, rolling hills, swirling clouds, and two draped figures at lower left.

The Forest of Arden

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1888-97 (?), reworked 1908 (?)

Dark nocturnal seascape with a glowing moon behind clouds, a silhouetted sailing ship, and craquelured paint surface.

Moonlight Marine

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870-90

Arched panel of the Crucifixion with Christ between two thieves, grieving women at left and armored riders at right.

Calvary

Jan de Beer, 1508-1512

Dark painting of a grounded two-masted ship beside a rocky cliff and cave, with small figures, a horse, and a hazy sea.

The Smugglers' Cove

Albert Pinkham Ryder, ca. 1880

Painting of stormy harbor with masted ships and workers near a columned customs house, by Robert Salmon, 1828.

The Custom House at Greenock, Scotland

Robert Salmon, 1828

Painting of a river landscape with thatched farmhouses, rowboats, and workers stacking peat under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Fishermen and Farmers Extracting Peat in a Marsh

Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt, 1783

Two women in historical dress embrace on a stormy shore, with a church and town on the right under grey clouds.

The Abandoned Daughters of the Lord High Constable, Stig Andersen Hvide

Dankvart Dreyer, 1839