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A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life with Fish and Shells, 1898

James Ensor

A work made of oil on panel.

Landscape with Tournament and Hunters, 1519–20

Jan van Scorel

Dozens of figures in a brown field filled with discarded corn silks form two rows and sit across from each other husking corn, a farm in the background.

Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket, 1876

Eastman Johnson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Spring Rains, c. 1924

Victor Higgins

A work made of oil on canvas.

Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1799

John Ritto Penniman

Very dark painting of a light-skinned, mostly clean-shaven young man in dark suit and dark full-length coat, holding a rolled-up paper and gloves.

Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy, 1894

James McNeill Whistler

A work made of oil on canvas.

Watering Place at Marly, 1875

Alfred Sisley

A work made of distemper, metallic paint, and pastel, on canvas.

Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin), 1879

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rocks at the Lighthouse, Biarritz, 1906

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

A light-skinned woman in a long, shiny white dress sits at a desk reading a book. The book is propped on a large red pillow. Her head is propped in her hand.

Isabella Wolff, 1803/15

Sir Thomas Lawrence

A work made of oil on panel.

Bouquet of Flowers in an Earthenware Vase, c. 1610

Jan Brueghel, the elder

A work made of oil on panel.

The Temptation of the Magdalene, c. 1616

Jacob Jordaens

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Vessel with Painted Landscape, 180 BCE–500 CE

Nasca

A work made of tempera on panel.

Saint Anthony Abbot, 1440–41

Fra Angelico

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

Abstract painting with soft shapes of brown, pink, yellow, red.

The Plow and the Song, 1946–47

Arshile Gorky

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Death of Orpheus, c. 1870

Henri Leopold Lévy

A work made of tempera and oil (?) on panel.

Triptych of the Crucifixion with Saints Anthony, Christopher, James and George, c. 1400

Netherlandish

A work made of oil on canvas.

Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant), 1865

Gustave Courbet

A vividly colored self-portrait in oil paint by the artist Beauford Delaney. Delaney depicts himself using bold, thick strokes of paint. His skin tone is polychromatic and contrasted by a mustard yellow background. He wears a blue shirt with accents of red and bright red hat.

Self-Portrait, 1944

Beauford Delaney

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