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A work made of oil on copper.

Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis, c. 1606

Francesco Albani

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 panel.

Landscape with Tournament and Hunters, 1519–20

Jan van Scorel

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.

Rocks at the Lighthouse, Biarritz, 1906

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

A work made of oil on canvas.

Watering Place at Marly, 1875

Alfred Sisley

A work made of oil on panel.

Bouquet of Flowers in an Earthenware Vase, c. 1610

Jan Brueghel, the elder

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 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.

The Temptation of the Magdalene, c. 1616

Jacob Jordaens

A work made of tempera on panel.

Saint Anthony Abbot, 1440–41

Fra Angelico

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 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 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 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.

Divided and Divided, 1941

Ivan Albright

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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