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A work made of porcelain with polychrome decoration.

Allegorical Figure Group: The Virtues, 18th century

Buen Retiro Porcelain Factory

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

A work made of marble.

Bust of Diana, c. 1692–93

Giuseppe Mazza

A work made of stockings and plaster.

Sowing Lipoids, 1996

Ernesto Neto

Small dots of soft color form a woman in a red shirt and brown skirt seen up close, washing her bare feet in a lush brook while seated on a sloping bank.

Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook, 1895

Camille Pissarro

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

A work made of graphite, with erasing and fiber-tipped pen (faded to yellow), on ivory wood-pulp laminate board.

Study for the Sculpture Glass Strata with Mulch and Soil, 1969

Robert Smithson

A work made of ivory.

Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ, c. 1350

French

A work made of synthetic polymer on vacuum-formed acrylic plastic.

Untitled, 1968

Craig Kauffman

A work made of bronze.

Bodhisattva with Hands in Gesture of Teaching (Vitarkamudra), 9th/10th century

A work made of ivory.

Mirror Case with Falconry Scene, 1325–50

A work made of wood, glass, paper, metal, and shell.

Soap Bubble Set, 1940 (reworked 1953)

Joseph Cornell

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

Three light-skinned, dark-haired ballerinas, painted in muted tones, wear off-the-shoulder yellow leotards and tutus as they huddle near each other. One adjusts her costume, while one holds her hands clasped above her head. At left is a painted screen with four pairs of feet visible underneath.

Yellow Dancers (In the Wings), 1874–76

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

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

A work made of bronze with bone or ivory inlay.

Pair of Protomes Depicting the Forepart of a Griffin, 625-575 BCE

Ancient Greek

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

A work made of gilt bronze.

Corpus and Superscription Plaque, c. 1550

Florentine

A white severed calf's head is suspended from a hook in its nose at right, painted with blue undertones and pink and yellow highlights. At left is a severed ox tongue and mouth rendered in soft white, pinks, and reds, all against a blue-gray background.

Calf's Head and Ox Tongue, c. 1882

Gustave Caillebotte

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

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