At the Theater, 1879, Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt, an American painter and printmaker who was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France.

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Vase, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Title: Vase

Date: 16th century

Culture: Italian

Medium: Earthenware, tin-glaze

Dimensions: Overall: 12 3/8 x 10 11/16 in. (31.5 x 27.1 cm)

Classification: Ceramics

Credit Line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1924

Accession Number: 24.159.2

Source: metmuseum.org

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Woman in Peasant Dress, 1940, Paul Klee

Medium: paper

Paul Klee, a Swiss-German artist with Expressionist, Surrealist, and Cubist influences. 

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Bottle-Shaped Vase, 1661-1722, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese Art

Size: Overall: 12.1 cm (4 ¾ in.) Medium: porcelain

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Snow Effect: Winter in the Suburbs, 1883, Georges Seurat

Medium: oil, wood

Georges Seurat, a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman.

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The Grand Canal, 1875, Edouard Manet

Medium: oil, canvas

Edouard Manet, a French painter and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

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The Trinquetaille Bridge, 1888, Vincent van Gogh

Source: post-impress-art

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Lovers 2, 1905, Konstantin Somov

Konstantin Somov, a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva.

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by Sahibdin, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art

Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38027

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Jug, c. 1600-1450 BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Size: Diameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.); Overall: 9.5 cm (3 ¾ in.); Diameter of lid: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.) Medium: black-glazed earthenware

https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1992

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Before the snow, 1920, Paul Klee

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Park of idols, 1938, Paul Klee

Medium: watercolor, paper

Paul Klee, a Swiss-German artist with Expressionist, Surrealist, and Cubist influences.

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Young Lady In A Boat, 1870, James Tissot

Medium: oil, canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/james-tissot/young-lady-in-a-boat

James Tissot, a French genre painter and illustrator

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Illustration for the fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful”, 1900, Ivan Bilibin

Ivan Bilibin, a Russian illustrator and stage designer who was inspired by Slavic folklore.

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Still Life With Bottles, 1863, Claude Monet

Claude Monet, a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of movement’s philosophy.

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Portrait of a Lady, 1460, Rogier Van Der Weyden

Medium: oil, panel

Rogier van der Weyden, an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits.

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Venus and Adonis, 1559, Titian

Medium: oil,canvas

Titian, an Italian painter and the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.  

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The Dream, 1910, Henri Rousseau

Medium: oil,canvas

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Orana Maria (Hail Maria), 1894, Paul Gauguin

Medium: watercolor,paper

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Pathway in Monet’s Garden at Giverny, 1902, Claude Monet

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