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Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi
ca. 1440
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Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi
ca. 1440
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)
ca. 1528
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen
ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Habiballah of Sava
ca. 1600
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
1597
Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)
Jean Antoine Houdon
1788
Damascus Room
dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Our Lady of Valvanera
Unknown
ca. 1770–80
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
ca. 1944 B.C.
In proof of true love, a watercarrier skeleton arguing with a woman (Posada); two skeleton angels in upper corners (Manilla)
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1890–96
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling
ca. 1470
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur
1852–55
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
ca. 1180
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565
Boating
Edouard Manet
1874
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
12th–early 13th century
Night-Shining White
Han Gan
ca. 750
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David
ca. 1510
The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes
Charles Nègre
1858–59
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau
1864
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour
probably 1630s
American Barque "Jane Tudor," Conway Bay
David Johnson
ca. 1855
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus
1446
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
500–550, with modern restoration
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand
late 1st century BCE
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir
ca. 1515
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin
probably 1633–34
Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret
332–30 BCE
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
Marie Antoinette in a Park
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
ca. 1780–81
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger
1532
Head of a ruler
ca. 2300–2000 BCE
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
1867
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun
ca. 1660
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David
ca. 1512–15
Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
ca. 1294–1279 B.C.
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
early 9th century
Enameled and Gilded Bottle
late 13th century
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage
1879