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Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn showing a nude woman seated with her back to the viewer, holding an arrow upright in her right hand, drapery gathered beside her.
Charles Méryon: The Apse of Notre Dame
Rembrandt: The Three Trees
“The Woman with the Arrow,” etching by Rembrandt, 1661
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Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German 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
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
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Georges Rouault
French artist
Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice
Canaletto
Italian artist
Edward Gordon Craig, 1890.
Edward Gordon Craig
British actor and director
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt
American painter
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Lucas van Leyden
Dutch artist
Erfurth, Hugo: Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz
German artist
Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland
Emil Nolde
German artist

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