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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Laundress, 1877–79

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An older black woman in white bonnet, wire glasses, long dress, and shawl sits holding yarn. She looks at the camera thoughtfully, one hand raised, with her elbow resting on a small table. Beneath her is the caption "I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth."

Untitled ("I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance"), 1864-65

Sojourner Truth

A work made of limestone and pigment.

Stela of Amenemhat and Yatu, Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 12–early Dynasty 13, about 1870–1770 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of soft ground etching with foul biting in dark brown on cream laid paper.

Two Women Drying Themselves, 1896

Suzanne Valadon

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

A work made of oil on canvas.

View of Pirna with the Fortress of Sonnenstein, c. 1760

Bernardo Bellotto

A work made of watercolor, with touches of gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper.

Peasant Women from the Region of the Eaux-Bonnes, 1845

Eugène Delacroix

A work made of pastel and pen and black ink on cream laid paper.

Three Women, Enghien, 1926

Pedro Pruna

A work made of etching on ivory china paper, laid down on white wove paper.

Women Bathing, 1867

Paul Huet

Heavy daubs of pigment form a crowded scene of roughly defined, finely dressed individuals in a brightly color park along a riverbank.

Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884", 1884

Georges Seurat

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 graphite on off-white wove paper.

Breton Women on the Beach, 1867/68

Eugène Louis Boudin

A work made of etching on paper.

Two Women Beggars, plate eight from The Beggars, c. 1622

Jacques Callot

A work made of color woodblock print; oban diptych.

Women Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge, c. 1786

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of drypoint in black on cream wove paper.

Studies of Women, n.d.

Henri Matisse

Photograph of woman standing in front of closed storefront on a darkened street.

Untitled, 1932

Brassaï, (Gyula Halász)

A work made of woodcut in brown ink with letterpress above on discolored ivory laid paper hinged to tan laid paper.

Three Breton Women with Infants, 1894

Armand Séguin

A work made of oil on canvas.

On the Road, 1856

Jules Dupré

A work made of pen and brown ink, and brush and gray and brown wash, with graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.

Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man, 1778

Jean Baptiste Greuze

A work made of distemper on canvas.

Foliage—Oak Tree and Fruit Seller, 1918

Édouard Jean Vuillard

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