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Watercolor painting by Berthe Morisot showing Edma seated on a sofa in a floral dress with her young daughter Jeanne beside her, both facing slightly right.

Rembrandt: The Three Trees

limestone ostracon depicting a cat, a boy, and a mouse magistrate

Mary Cassatt: Mother Combing Sara's Hair (No. 1)

Morris Kantor: Untitled (Female Walking Nude)

Peter Paul Rubens: Portrait of a Young Woman

Rosalba Carriera: A Young Lady with a Parrot

Leonardo da Vinci: Adoration of the Magi

Watercolor by Maurice Prendergast showing crowds of people strolling and gathering under tall trees along The Mall in Central Park, with women and children in light dresses in the foreground.

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Key People

Rembrandt: Self-Portrait

Rembrandt

Dutch artist

Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist

Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Italian artist

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Spanish artist

Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch painter

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

French artist

Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish artist

Tintoretto: Last Supper

Tintoretto

Italian painter

Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)

Thomas Eakins

American painter

Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf

Nicolas Poussin

French painter

Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna

Raphael

Italian painter and architect

Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat

Albrecht Dürer

German artist

Honoré Daumier

Honoré Daumier

French artist

Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.

Henri Matisse

French artist

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

French painter

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Paul Klee

Swiss-German artist

van Dyck, Anthony

Anthony van Dyck

Flemish painter

J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838

J.M.W. Turner

English painter

Watteau, Antoine: Mezzetin

Antoine Watteau

French painter

Oil on canvas self-portrait by Edouard Manet, showing the artist in a brown coat and black hat, holding paintbrushes and a palette against a dark background.

Édouard Manet

French painter