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A work made of color mezzotint, aquatint and etching, inked à la poupée, heightened with hand-colored watercolor on cream wove paper.

The Superb Lily, from The Temple of Flora, 1799

Richard Earlom

A work made of color mezzotint, aquatint and etching, inked à la poupée, heightened with hand-colored watercolor on cream wove paper.

The Superb Lily, from The Temple of Flora, 1799

Richard Earlom

A work made of wood, plastic leaf, cloth, nails, clay, glue, and white paint.

Untitled, Bassano in Teverina, 1980

Cy Twombly

Surrealist painting of cannon, artichokes, clock, train, desolate backdrop.

The Philosopher's Conquest, 1913–14

Giorgio de Chirico

Painting of the Annunciation, dove flying above Mary with angel.

The Annunciation, 1490–95

Jean Hey, (the Master of Moulins)

Impressionist painting of seated man, girl with brown, black hues.

Henri Degas and His Niece Lucie Degas (The Artist's Uncle and Cousin), 1875–76

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of oil on canvas.

Alexander Grant, 1770

Cosmo Alexander

Abstract painting composed of a central tangle of vibrant colors—purple, pink, orange, green, red—on a mostly gray background, subtly divided into rectangular areas.

City Landscape, 1955

Joan Mitchell

Balding man in tuxedo poses in orange, red, purple and green interior.

Self-Portrait, 1937

Max Beckmann

Cubist painting of distorted gray Paris buildings, red Eiffel Tower.

Champs de Mars: The Red Tower, 1911/23

Robert Delaunay

Cubist style painting of seated woman, with brown, blue, green shapes.

Portrait of Marevna, c. 1915

Diego Rivera

A rectangular painting consisting of a gray-brown rectangle set atop a gray-white rectangle. There is the slightest amount of blurring where they meet.

Untitled (Brown and Gray), 1969

Mark Rothko

A rectangular painting featuring two teal-green blocks of slightly different shades sandwiching a thin strip of blue. The blocks are hazily painted against a green background.

Untitled, 1967

Mark Rothko

Interior of warm colored room, woman sits on balcony, ocean behind her.

Interior at Nice, 1919 or 1920

Henri Matisse

Two men on horseback clash in battle, another man crouches with knife.

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826

Eugène Delacroix

A rectangular painting featuring stacked color blocks in shades of orange and white against a deeper orange background. Two orange blocks of different shades sandwich a slim white block. The edges of these blocks are smudged and blurred, creating a hazy effect against the deeper orange.

Untitled, 1969

Mark Rothko

Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892/95

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Large, dark painting of Jesus sitting with three standing soldiers.

Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1865

Édouard Manet

Large painting of soldier asleep outdoors surrounded by two women and a cupid.

Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo, 1742/45

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Painting of Greek landscape, classical architecture, yellow, red robed man reading.

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, 1640

Nicolas Poussin

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