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A work made of oil on canvas.

Jupiter Rebuked by Venus, c. 1612

Abraham Janssens

A work made of oil on panel.

Head of a Guillotined Man, 1818–19

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Painting of four nude women composed of geometric shapes, against patterned background.

Bathers by a River, 1909–10, 1913, and 1916–1917

Henri Matisse

A work made of oil on canvas.

A Marine, c. 1874–75

George Inness

Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.

Arlésiennes (Mistral), 1888

Paul Gauguin

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Terrace, c. 1660

Dutch

A work made of oil on panel.

Springtime, c. 1860

Théodore Rousseau

A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921

Piet Mondrian

A work made of oil on canvas.

Sea View, Calm Weather (Vue de mer, temps calme), 1864

Édouard Manet

A work made of oil on panel.

Pasture in Normandy, 1852

Constant Troyon

A work made of oil on canvas.

Tobias and the Angel, 1878

Jean Charles Cazin

Orange, yellow, and white flowers in a brown vase on a round table, with a blue-green floral tablecloth and mottled, brownish background. Each perceived main color is made up of strokes of bright, vibrant colors—reds, blues, pinks, and purples—lending dimension to the scene.

Chrysanthemums, 1881–82

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting of an Indigenous woman native to Mexico bent and seated on a brown floor, using red thread to create a geometric design on a backstrap loom. Earth tones dominate, while a dresser in the background and the bottom portion of the woman's white dress are a deep blue.

Weaving, 1936

Diego Rivera

Painting of four figures in blue, red, brown dresses playing croquet.

Croquet Scene, 1866

Winslow Homer

Portrait of a straight-faced, light-skinned man with a bushy, light-brown beard and rosy cheeks wearing a dark vest, jacket, and shiny top hat. He grasps a thin cane, held horizontally, with both hands.

Édouard Manet, 1867

Henri Fantin-Latour

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses, 1884–89

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Abstract painting in various bright colors—yellow, blue, red, green, orange, pink—with lines indicating building-like structures as well as canons in the lower right corner.

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Banks of the Marne in Winter, 1866

Camille Pissarro

A work made of oil on canvas.

Two Sisters, Valencia, 1909

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

A work made of oil on canvas.

Landscape, 1865/70

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

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