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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Among potted flowers and lush foliage, a tiny child in a white dress plays with a hoop. A woman peers at the child from an ivy-covered building at right.

The Artist's House at Argenteuil, 1873

Claude Monet

A pensive faced woman sits, slightly hunched, holding a book.

Interrupted Reading, c. 1870

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Animated scene of many mostly nude figures in close combat, on earth and aloft in low-hanging clouds, reaching toward one another with long spears.

The Battle between the Gods and the Giants, c. 1608

Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael

Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.

Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), 1887–88

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Earth Is a Man, 1942

Matta

Painting of a placid-looking, light-skinned woman in a maroon dress, seated in a chair with yellow upholstery, hands folded.

Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair, 1888–90

Paul Cezanne

Painting of a dark-skinned man seated and wearing a red open-necked tunic. He looks up to the right. His wrists are shackled and a large chain rests at his right, running down the bench he sits upon.

The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge), 1827

John Philip Simpson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of a Man with Gray Hair, 1810/20

Sir Henry Raeburn

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

Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1865

Édouard Manet

A brown-toned image of a group of scantily clad young women at left, one holding out her arm toward a group of naked young men standing at right.

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys, c. 1860

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Shallow and tall painting tightly focused on a black paneled door, a wreath of dying flowers hanging on it and a hand reaching to the doorknob from left.

That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door), 1931–41

Ivan Albright

Painting in short strokes of pale blue, green, white, yellow, and pink, of a fisherman in one of two small boats on a river, a tree-lined bank and a bridge in the background.

Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières), 1887

Vincent van Gogh

In a shaft of light, surrounded by dramatic shadow and numerous sheep, a woman on horseback in a white bonnet and red skirt carries a baby and a basket, a black dog at right. Behind her two men follow, one mounted, one on foot, on a dirt path surrounded by trees.

The Road to Market, 1858/59

Constant Troyon

Earth toned landscape painting of boats and lighthouses composed of geometric shapes.

Little Harbor in Normandy, spring 1909

Georges Braque

A work made of oil on canvas.

Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch), 1875

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Light-colored snowscape with visible brushstrokes featuring a bridge in front of red and white barns and farmhouses, surrounded by trees.

Sandvika, Norway, 1895

Claude Monet

Painting of two red-and-orange flowers in the bottom half of the frame and beyond them, in the top half, reddish-brown hills.

Red Hills with Flowers, 1937

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Eruption of Vesuvius, 1771

Pierre-Jacques Volaire

Painting of a small stream in the middle of the woods. In the center of the painting, there is a small waterfall over a large boulder. Radiant beams of sunlight penetrate the thick forest of birch and other trees, and a small bird sings from a broken branch over the waterfall.

Mountain Brook, 1863

Albert Bierstadt

Three cavalry scouts—light-skinned men mounted on gleaming brown horses—among light-beige, arid mountains. The figure in the foreground has begun to to slump and seems poised to fall, his rifle on the ground, his horse agitated and alarmed. The others ride off in pursuit.

The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush), 1890

Frederic Remington