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Johannes Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Edmonds, Francis W.: All Talk and No Work
Carousing Peasants in an Interior, oil painting by Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1638; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
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Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez
Spanish painter
Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch painter
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Peasant Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Elder shows villagers dancing, drinking, and socializing outdoors near rustic buildings, with musicians playing in the foreground.
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Flemish artist
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Grape and Melon Eaters
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish painter
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Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
Russian artist
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Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov
Russian painter
Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den: Group Portrait
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Dutch painter and poet
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Quentin Massys
Flemish artist
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
George Caleb Bingham: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham
American painter
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Gerard Terborch
Dutch painter
“The World Upside-down,” oil painting by Jan Steen, 1663; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Jan Steen
Dutch painter
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David Teniers, the Younger
Flemish painter
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Lilly Martin Spencer
American painter
Fabritius, Carel: Self-Portrait
Carel Fabritius
Dutch painter

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