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A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Misere et corde - first speech, then..., 1852–53

Paul Gavarni

A work made of chromogenic print.

Untitled [Broken Glass], 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

Replica of a sitting room with pale-blue walls and a wave-patterned wallpaper border. Heavy red velvet curtains on the center wall frame two tall windows, between which hangs a painting of a woman in a gold frame. A beige stone fireplace is at left, an open arched doorway at right.

E-28: German Sitting Room of the Biedermeier Period, 1815-50, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A portrait of a young man with dark hair and beard painted on an irregular piece of wood. The background is gold as a wreath of ivy and necklace he wears. There are many areas where the paint has come off the surface.

Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath, Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Ancient Egyptian

A small-scale room in gold and brown tones with several partial latticed wood walls leading back to a Buddhist altar.

E-30: Chinese Interior, Traditional, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Abstract line composition of black lines at right angles forming quadrants including a gray square at upper left and a gray rectangle and red rectangle at lower right, against a white background.

Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, 1935

Piet Mondrian

Terracotta cup with handles that appear tied in knots, a simple design around the middle, and a fluted section at the foot.

Kantharos (Wine Cup), 300-275 BCE

Ancient Greek

A large stone steele with multiple registers of images from Buddhas life and sacred texts carved on all four sides

Buddhist Votive Stele, Western Wei dynasty (A.D. 535–557), dated A.D. 551

Scale miniature of a rustic but refined kitchen with a varnished wooden table at center and one chair. A dark wooden chest sits beneath the window at left, a spinning wheel in the left back corner. In the right corner is an ornately carved door adjacent to a staircase. Metal plates line a wide hearth.

A17: Pennsylvania Kitchen, 1752, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Lisa Lyon, Joshua Tree, 1980

Robert Mapplethorpe

Miniature of an ornate room with red walls and white and gold trim, a large fireplace at center, and black and white checkered flooring. Two armchairs flank a window on the left side. Three large painted portraits in golden frames hang on the back wall. There is a small table directly in front of the fireplace.

E-3: English Reception Room of the Jacobean Period, 1625-55, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of silk, satin weave, embroidered.

Dress for Christ Child, 18th century

In a stark desert landscape, an older man sits in the foreground, illuminated, with a newspaper. Arranged evenly across the land behind him, smaller than perspective would indicate, are a faded child holding a hula hoop, a man holding a melting piano, a standing woman, and a figure near the horizon.

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano, 1936

Salvador Dalí

Miniature of a very dark, ornate bedroom with a partially canopied green bed at center, brown parquet flooring, and deep brown and golden wallpaper. A gold chandelier hangs in the center, and two dark-brown cupboards sit on either side of the room. On the right is also a white and brown fireplace.

E-17: French Bedroom, Late 16th Century, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, 1879

Camille Pissarro

A work made of oil on wood.

Tableau Vert, 1952

Ellsworth Kelly

A dense group of many adults, the men in top hats, sit atop a stagecoach pulled by four horses at full gallop.

A Stagecoach, 1818

Horace Vernet

A terracotta jar, wider at the top with a narrow neck and small handles, decorated in black, featuring human figures against red. One wrestles at center with a merman, creating a mass of tangled limbs, the creature's tail dominating the left portion of the scene.

Hydria (Water Jar), about 515-500 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Vessel in the Shape of a Bird, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, 1963

Enrico Sarsini

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