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15 Paintings to See at the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Introduction
  • Bunch of Flowers with Calamus (17th century)
  • Khosrow Kills a Lion with His Bare Hands (1632)
  • Madame de Pompadour (1758)
  • Lion: A Newfoundland Dog (1824)
  • Brighton Beach, with Colliers (1824)
  • Crambe Beck Bridge, near Kirkham, Yorkshire (1805)
  • Portrait of Shah Jahān as a Prince (c. 1616)
  • The Witch Anqarut Ties Malik Iraj to a Tree (c. 1562–77)
  • Zebra (1621)
  • Shah Jahān with Birds of Paradise (c. 1640)
  • Vishnu as Vishvarupa (c. 1800–20)
  • Ancestor portrait (18th century)
  • Young Man Among Roses (c. 1587)
  • Akbar Rejoicing at the Birth of His Second Son, Murad (c. 1590–95)
  • The Deposition from the Cross (c. 1590–1600)
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Victoria and Albert Museum Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

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