Fra Filippo Lippi
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
ca. 1440
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Thomas Rowlandson
Deer Hunting – A Landscape Scene with Stag and Hounds in a River
1787
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Portrait of a General Officer
ca. 1710
Netherlandish Painter
Portrait of a Young Woman
Date not stated
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Portrait of a Woman
1633
Netherlandish Painter
Portrait of a Man
Date not stated
Piero del Pollaiuolo (Piero di Jacopo Benci)
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1480
Louis Léopold Boilly
Portrait of a Boy
ca. 1805
Anonymous, 17th century
Saint John the Evangelist holding a goblet with a snake emerging from it, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"
1600–40
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)
A Hunting Scene
ca. 1494–1500
Barthel Beham
Judith, looking towards the right, seated nude atop the dead body of Holofernes, with a sword in her right hand and the head of Holofernes in her left hand
1525
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)
The Genius of Castiglione
ca. 1645–47 (published 1648)
Rembrandt Peale
Michael Angelo and Emma Clara Peale
ca. 1826
William Merritt Chase
Carmencita
1890
Paul Gauguin
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
1891
John La Farge
The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River
1897
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
1597–98
Kenyon Cox
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1887, replica 1908
Odilon Redon
Armor
1891
Wang Hui
The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai
datable to 1698
Anonymous, French, 18th century
Portrait of the consort of Maria Theresa, queen of Hungary and Bohemia, on horseback
18th century
French (Fontainebleau) Painter
The Nymph of Fontainebleau
Date not stated
Rufus Hathaway
Molly Wales Fobes
1790
Unknown maker
The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
1495–1505
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