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Vermeulen, Jan: Vanitas still life
Oosterwyck, Maria van: Still Life with Flowers
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre: Still Life
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Claesz, Pieter: still life with overturned jug, glass of beer, and food
Fyt, Jan: still life by the sea
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste: still life with musical instruments
Pablo Picasso: Still Life with Chair Caning
Harnett, William: Still Life with Ginger Jar
Paul Cézanne: Still Life with Ginger Jar, Sugar Bowl, and Oranges
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Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
Caravaggio
Italian painter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
Oil painting self-portrait by Paul Cezanne showing a balding man with a beard, wearing a dark coat, set against a patterned background.
Paul Cézanne
French artist
Painting by Claude Monet, Self-portrait in Beret, 1886, showing Monet with a full beard, dark beret, and coat against a light, textured background.
Claude Monet
French painter
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
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
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
To the Lighthouse
Vanessa Bell
British painter and designer
still life by Clara Peeters
Clara Peeters
Flemish painter
Frans Snyders: Interior of an Office
Frans Snyders
Flemish painter