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Edgar Degas
French artist
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
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Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt
American painter
Vuillard, Édouard: Under the Trees
Édouard Vuillard
French 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
McMein, Neysa: United War Work Campaign poster
Neysa McMein
American artist
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
François Clouet
French painter
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
French painter
Mengs, Anton Raphael: Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano
Anton Raphael Mengs
Bohemian painter
Gustave Moreau: Orpheus
Gustave Moreau
French painter
Rosalba Carriera: A Young Lady with a Parrot
Rosalba Carriera
Italian painter
Barocci, Federico: Quintilia Fischieri
Federico Barocci
Italian painter
Saxe, detail of a portrait by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour; in the Staatliche Museum, Dresden, Ger.
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
French artist
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Henrietta Johnston
American artist
Self-Portrait, pastel by Jean-Étienne Liotard; in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Ger.
Jean-Étienne Liotard
Swiss painter