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Vivid, lush view of rolling waves in purple, white, blue, and green against a bright blue sky with a watercolor-like blending of blues and purples. Sea and sky nearly become one.

Seascape, 1879

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Races at Longchamp, 1866

Édouard Manet

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Bathers, 1884

William Adolphe Bouguereau

Bust painting of a long-faced, light-skinned Virgin Mary crying, her bloodshot eyes looking downward. Draped white fabric surrounds her face below a blue black robe. The background is painted gold with black flecks.

Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin), c. 1490

Workshop of Dieric Bouts

Horizontal oil painting in shades of pale purple, pink, and light blue of a bridge composed of multiple linked archways over water, engulfed in hazy fog. Various indistinct, colorful forms cross the bridge, and factory smokestacks rise in the distance.

Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, 1903

Claude Monet

A work made of oil on canvas.

Houses of Parliament, London, 1900–1

Claude Monet

A snowy landscape in cool tones featuring a prominent, snow-dusted haystack in reddish brown in front of a row of red-brown trees and low, blue mountains, all beheath a pink-gray strip of sky.

Stack of Wheat, 1890–91

Claude Monet

A work made of oil on panel.

A Witches' Sabbath, c. 1650

Cornelis Saftleven

A diagonal line of leaping ballet dancers recedes from a starkly lit dancer partially visible at bottom left. All are broadly painted against a blue-green ground above them, pale pink below. They have obscured features and are highlighted in yellow and green. A conductor's hands emerge at bottom.

Ballet Dancers, 1885–86

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Two haystacks, dusted with snow, in a hazy, snow-covered field at sunset. The snow is highlighted in purple tones, the sky a yellow and orange gradient.

Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect), 1890–91

Claude Monet

A close-up view of five hickory leaves in vivid yellow, a white daisy in the lower middle portion, on a white background.

Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy, 1928

Georgia O'Keeffe

At seascape rendered in pastel tones. At right, boats line a pink shore underneath a tall cliff. At left, a single red sailboat floats in blue water.

Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont, 1885

Claude Monet

An older man at left in red raises his hat toward a central table chaotically overflowing with dead game, fruits, and vegetables. The wings of dead birds and limbs of animals are splayed out at dramatic angles; a deer at center is suspended by his back legs. Live birds and a cat animate the scene.

Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market, 1614

Frans Snyders

Watercolor of a pile of red apples to the right of a short, green glass, all atop a crumpled white backdrop suggesting cloth.

Still Life: Apples and Green Glass, 1925

Charles Demuth

View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds. Thick brushstrokes built up atop each other are visible throughout.

Auvers, Panoramic View, 1873–75

Paul Cezanne

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

Interrupted Reading, c. 1870

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

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

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.

Portrait of a Man with Gray Hair, 1810–20

Sir Henry Raeburn

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