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A work made of oil on canvas.

Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, 1879

Camille Pissarro

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

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

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

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

Moche

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 work made of silk, warp faced weft ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Portrait of Napoleon III (1808–1873), Emperor, 19th century

Marc-Laurent Bruyas

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, 1963

Enrico Sarsini

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Lamp in Petit Montrouge, 1950

Todd Webb

A work made of drypoint in black on cream laid paper.

Drypoint Number Five: Portrait, 1909

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying some three color complementary self-patterning ground wefts in plain interlacings.

Panel, c. 1724/27

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 color lithograph on cream wove paper.

Debauchery (second plate), 1896

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A work made of chromogenic print.

Untitled [Pebbles on Sand], 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

Miniature of a cozy living room and kitchen in rich maple-colored wood tones, hardwood floors and wood paneling on the walls, a large brick fireplace and stove on the right. A cupboard on the back wall contains silver plates and mugs.

A1: Massachusetts Living Room and Kitchen, 1675-1700, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of marble.

Side Panel of a Sarcophagus, First half of the 3rd century

Ancient Roman

Deep earthenware soup bowl with two swirly designed handles and cover topped with a flower shaped element. The bowl is decorated in black with griffin and palmette pattern on rim and with a scene in an oval depicting a running male figure in a winged helmet handing a baby over to the lady sitting on the ground.

Tureen, 1810/20

Creil Pottery

A miniature room with yellow walls, inset pillars, and an ornate cabinet centered on the far wall. At room's center, a large chandelier hangs over a small table with two upholstered chairs.

A14: Pennsylvania Drawing Room, 1834-36, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of oil on canvas.

Heart of the Matter, 1963

Otis Kaye

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Obelisk, 1787/88

Hubert Robert

A work made of ceramic.

Jar with Relief of Standing Figure with Crescent Headdress, Holding Ritual Objects, 1200–1450

Chimú

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