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Introduction

European Galleries

The European galleries feature works from the 11th to the 20th centuries. Across a sequence of 11 galleries (which include the David and Peggy Rockefeller Gallery, the Creamer Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, and the Murray Skylight Gallery), objects are displayed to reflect the issues, materials, and processes that shaped European artistic production. Highlights include tapestries and textiles; furniture, ceramics, jewelry, and other decorative arts; drawings and prints; sculpture; and paintings by Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Morisot, Picasso, and Van Gogh.

Selected Objects

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1760
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Joseph Chinard

Bust of Madame Récamier, after 1801
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Attributed to Thomas Couture

Romans of the Decadence, ca. 1847
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Sevres Porcelain Manufactory, manufacturer

Fabrication du Carton Plate, 1835
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François Honoré Georges Jacob-Desmalter, cabinetmaker

Console table, ca. 1805
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François Honoré Georges Jacob-Desmalter, cabinetmaker

Stool, early 1800s
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François Honoré Georges Jacob-Desmalter, cabinetmaker

Stool, early 1800s
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Austrian, Probably Austria Probably Vienna

Globe Table (Globustisch), 1810-1820
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French

Pyx, 1200s
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Dutch, Groningen, Netherlands

Communion Beaker, ca. 1660
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Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Virgin of the Annunciation, ca. 1474
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Burgundian (Migration period) French, Burgundy region

Saint Peter, ca. 1106-1112
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Italian

Screen, ca.1130-1300
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Jacopo di Cione

The Taking of Saint Peter, 1370-1371
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Spinello Aretino

St. Anthony Abbot Enthroned, ca.1385
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Spanish

Christ in Majesty, ca. 1090-1100
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Spanish, Possibly from Aragonese Pyrenees

The Crucified Christ, ca. 1150-1200
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French, Dordogne region

Apostle, ca. 1110
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French

Tracery Arch, ca. 1300
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French

Stained Glass Window, ca. 1225-1235
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Spanish, Barcelona, Spain

Monstrance, ca. 1525
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French

Romanesque Portal, ca. 1150
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French, (Dordogne region)

Apostle, ca. 1110
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Italian Sienese, (Siena or Pisa)

Angel of the Annunciation, ca. 1350
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Lippo Memmi

Mary Magdalene, ca. 1330
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French

Pax, ca. 1510
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Spanish

Head of Christ or a Saint, ca. 1220-1240
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Spanish, possibly Province of Léon

Christ in Majesty, ca. 1100-1200
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Bartolo di Fredi Cini

Madonna and Child, ca. 1380
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Possibly Netherlandish

Madonna and Child with Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine, ca. 1525
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Italian, Florence or Siena

Birth Tray (Desco da Parto) Depicting the Birth of the Virgin, ca. 1430
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Tilman Riemenschneider

Pietà, ca. 1515-1525
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Bruges Master

Portrait of a Cleric, ca. 1490
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Benedikt Dreyer

Christ in the House of Simon, ca. 1515-1525
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Italian, Gubbio Italy

Bella Donna Plate, 1500-1550
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Probably Castel Durante

Bella Donna Plate, ca. 1535-1540
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Jan Joest

Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1520
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German, Germany Augsburg Augsburg

Book Cover, 1500-1550
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French, Île de France

Diptych with scenes of the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and the Last Judgement, ca. 1275–1325
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Italian

Drug Jar (Albarello), ca.1550
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Pierre Reymond, enameler

Virgin and Child with Clerics and Donors, ca.1513-after 1584
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German

Death of the Virgin, ca. 1460
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French

Saint Roch, ca. 1500
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Attributed to Master of the Missal of Amboise Le Veneur

Book of Hours (use of Rouen), ca. 1510
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German

The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse, late 1400s
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Studio of Paolo Veronese

Wisdom and Strength, ca. 1565-1580
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Artist of Fontainebleau School

Charity, ca. 1550
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Michele Pace del Campidoglio

Still Life with Figure, ca. 1660
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Hubert Robert

Architectural Fantasy, ca. 1802-1808
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Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, 1610
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Anglo Flemish, England

Portrait of a Lady of the Hampden Family, ca. 1610
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Thomas Lawrence

Portrait of Lady Sarah Ingestre, ca. 1827-1828
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Attributed to Pier-Leone Ghezzi

A Musical Group, ca. 1730
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Alessandro Magnasco

Arsenal in a Ruined Basilica, ca. 1711-1720
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Aert de Gelder

Esther and Mordecai, ca. 1685
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Francesco Vanni

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi, 1599
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Jan Cossiers

The Supper at Emmaus, ca. 1650
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Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont

A View of Paris from the Louvre, 1835
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Salomon van Ruysdael

The Ferry Boat, 1645
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Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp

The Resurrection of Christ, ca. 1640
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Angel of Fame, ca. 1750
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Francisco Collantes

Hagar and Ishmael, ca. 1640
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Guillaume Guillon, called Lethière

The Death of Camilla, 1785
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Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne

Portrait of Antoine-Georges-François de Chabaud-Latour and His Family, 1806
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Spanish, Spain

Crucifixion, ca. 1490
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Indian, India

Taj Mahal, Agra, 1800s
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Indian, India

Sri Harimandir Sahib (Golden Temple), Amritsar, 1800s
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Flemish French

Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus, ca. 1545
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Francesco Tironi

View of the Grand Canal, Venice, with Churches of the Scalzi and Santa Lucia, 1700s
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Italian, Rome

Micromosaic of St. Peter’s, mid-1800s
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Johann Joachim Kändler, designer

Turkish Woman with Basket, late 1700s
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Johann Joachim Kändler, designer

Turkish Man with Basket, late 1700s
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Italian, Venice Probably Italy

Casket, ca. 1500
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Indian

Headpiece, 1800s
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Attributed to Pierre Reymond, enameler

March Calendar Plate, ca. 1560
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English, Whieldon

Teapot, ca. 1760
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Attributed to Girolamo Campagna

Door Knocker, ca. 1570-1599
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Giuseppe Cesari

Perseus and Andromeda, ca. 1592
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Nicolas Poussin

Venus and Adonis, ca. 1628
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Studio of Baldessare degli Embriachi

Casket, ca. 1400
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Giambologna

River God (The Virile Age; The Euphrates), ca. 1575
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Guillaume Beneman, cabinetmaker

Drop-Front Secretary (Secrétaire à Abattant), ca. 1800-1810
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Francesco Guardi

Main Salon in the Ridotto, Venice, ca. 1765
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Francesco Colonna, author

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo’s Dream about the Strife of Love), 1499
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Italian, Rome

Micromosaic Tabletop with Nine Views of Rome, ca. 1830–1850
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Spanish

Pendant, 1700-1750
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Netherlandish

The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1510
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German, Germany north

Owl Beaker, 1556
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Italian

Pestle, 1680
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Italian

Brooch and Earrings, 1855
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Italian

Micromosaic Brooch and Earrings, ca. 1865-1870
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German, Germany, probably Augsburg

Writing Desk (Schreibtisch), ca. 1590
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Italian

Brooch, ca.1590
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Alessandro Abondio

Pendant, 1626
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Eugène Delacroix

Arabs Traveling, 1855
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Anton Raphael Mengs

Portrait of an English Gentleman, ca. 1754
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German English, London England

Tigerware Jug, 1579-1580
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Italian

Cup, 1550-1600
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Italian Florentine, Florence Italy

Pietra Dura Brooch, 1800s
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Andrea Previtali

Risen Christ, ca. 1510
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Chinese, China, for export to Portugal

Saldanha Platter, ca. 1760
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Chinese, China, for export to the Netherlands

Plate with Scholten Impaling Hogenberg Coat of Arms, ca. 1730-1740
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Francesco Guardi

Scuola di San Marco with Loggia Erected for Benediction of Pope Pius VI May 19, 1782, Campo San Zanipolo, ca. 1782
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Bohemian

Stemmed Cup with Cover, 1700-1720
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Domenico Gagini

Tabernacle, ca. 1460-1470
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Italian

Mortar, 1680
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Northern Italian

Apollo, ca. 1540
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Italian Venetian

Bowl, ca. 1600
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Domenico Fetti

Christ Ministered To by the Angels, ca. 1620
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Italian, Urbino Italy

Plate, ca. 1540-1550
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Paul de Lamerie

Coffeepot, 1745
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Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Charger, ca. 1745
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Chinese, China, for export to England

Plate with Colebrooke Impaling Hudson Coat of Arms, ca. 1737
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Chinese, China, for export to India

Plate with Elephant, ca. 1750
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Peter Archambo I

Cake Basket, 1736
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Charles Cressent

Commode, ca. 1725-1730
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Auguste Rodin

The Hand of God, designed ca. 1898; carving completed ca. 1917
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Théodore Rousseau

Valley of the Seine, ca. 1831-1832
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Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault

A Cart Loaded with Kegs, ca.1822-1823
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Banks of a River Dominated in the Distance by Hills, ca. 1871-1873
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Gustave Courbet

Jura Landscape, 1869
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Louis-Jules-Frédéric Villeneuve

View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli, 1827
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Jean-Victor Bertin

Tivoli, ca. 1835-1842
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Giovanni Paolo Pannini

The Colosseum, ca. 1750
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Charles François Daubigny

Landscape, 1871
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Charles Lock Eastlake

The Celian Hill from the Palatine, ca. 1823
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Claude Monet

The Seine at Giverny, 1885
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Pablo Picasso

Seated Woman with a Book (Femme assise au livre), ca. 1910
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Édouard Manet

Repose (Le Repos), ca. 1871
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Paul Cézanne

On the Banks of a River, ca. 1904-1905
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Paul Gauguin

Busagny Farm, Osny, 1883
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Claude Monet

The Basin at Argenteuil, 1874
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Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples, ca. 1878
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Georges Braque

Still Life, 1918
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Henri Matisse

The Green Pumpkin, ca. 1916
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Vincent van Gogh

View of Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890
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Camille Pissarro

Field and Mill at Osny, 1884
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Claude Monet

A Walk in the Meadows at Argenteuil, 1873
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Paul Cézanne

Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan, ca. 1886
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Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier

Mountaineers Attacked by Bears, 1910-1912
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Edgar Degas

La Savoisienne, ca. 1860
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Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

The Road Mender (Le Cantonnier), 1890
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Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Émile Durand)

Portrait of Édouard Manet, 1876
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Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Seated Woman, cast 1915
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Angelica Kauffmann

Praxiteles Giving Phryne his Statue of Cupid, 1794
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Young Woman Reading an Illustrated Journal, ca. 1880
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Mary Cassatt

Simone in a Blue Bonnet, ca. 1903
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Edo (African culture)

Head of a king (Oba), probably 1700s
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Camillo Pacetti, modeler

Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector around the Walls of Troy, ca. 1800
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Pablo Bronstein

Grande Pendule Coloniale, 2012
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Iké Udé

Sartorial Anarchy #5, 2013
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Jordan Seaberry

The Wanderer, 2015
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Jorge de la Vega

Historia de Vampiros (Vampire Story), 1963
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Donnamaria Bruton

Me and My Dad, 1996
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Jeanne Vergouwen

Portrait of Andries Rademaker, Notary, Displaying a Statuette, 1656
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Beauvais, France

Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, ca. 1290
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Swiss, Switzerland

Leaf from a Missal, ca. 1370
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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Hercules Capturing Cerberus, ca. 1526
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Léon Davent, etcher

Alexander Taming Bucephalus, ca. 1540s
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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

The Annunciation, ca. 1537
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Pietro Rotari

Apollo and Marsyas; Verso: studies of figures in graphite, mid 1700s
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Daniel Marot

Plate from New Book of Pendulum Clocks, Pocketwatch Cases, and other Things Necessary to Clockmakers (Nouveaux Livre de Boïtes de Pendules de Coqs . . . ), 1712
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Daniel Marot

Plates from New Book of Pendulum Clocks, Pocketwatch Cases, and other Things Necessary to Clockmakers (Nouveaux Livre de Boïtes de Pendules de Coqs . . . ), 1712
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Jeanne Deny

Plate 2, 1770
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Jeanne Deny

Plate 3, 1770
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Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault, printmaker

March in the Desert (Marche dans le désert), 1822
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Nicolas Henri Tardieu, printmaker

Portrait of Antoine Watteau and Jean de Jullienne, 1731
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Bartolomeo Pinelli

Neptune and Salacia, late 1700s - early 1800s

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