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David Roberts (Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 1796 - London 1864); The Castle of Alcalà de Guadaìra, 1833, oil on canvas; Museo del Prado, Madrid
Antonín Slavíček (Prague, 1870 -1910); Road with Rowan Trees, 1908; oil on canvas, 78 x 78 cm; Prague, National Gallery
Johann Carl Loth (Munich 1632 - Venezia 1698); Eliezer and Rebecca at the well, 1670’s; oil on canvas, 159 x 123 cm; The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Camille Pissarro (Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies, now US Virgin Islands, 1830 - Paris 1903); Bathers, 1896; oil on canvas
Theodor Philipsen (Copenhagen, 1840 - 1920); Gebäude im Tiergarten nördlich von Kopenhagen, 1882; oil on canvas, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hannover
José de Ribera (also known as Jusepe; Jàtiva 1591 - Napoli 1652); The Duel between Women or The Duel of Isabella de Carazzi and Diambra de Pettinella, 1636; oil on canvas, 235 x 212 cm; Museo del Prado, Madrid
Joachim Wtewael (Utrecht, 1566 - 1638); Lot and his Daughters, c. 1600; oil on canvas, 212 x 163 cm; The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Joseph Mallord William Turner (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851); Ostend, 1844; oil on canvas, 123 x 93 cm; Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Hilma af Klint (Karlberg Palace 1862 - 1944 Danderyd); Alterbillede nr. 3, 1915; tempera on paper laid on canvas; Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Aschaffenburg 1880 - Davos 1938); Frankfurt Cathedral, 1916; oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm; private collection
Adriaen van de Velde (Amsterdam, 1636 - 1672); The beach of Scheveningen, 1670; oil on canvas; LACMA
Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino called il Moretto; Brescia 1498 - 1554); Saletta delle nobili dame (Hall of the noble ladies), 1543, fresco; Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia
Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640); Head of a franciscan friar, 1515-17; oil on wood, 44 x 52 cm; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Ivan Shishkin (Yelabuga 1832 - Saint Petersburg 1898); Among the open Valley, 1883; oil on canvas
Giambattista Tiepolo (Venezia 1696 - Madrid 1770); Mosè salvato dalle acque (The finding of Moses), c. 1740; oil on canvas, 339 x 200 cm; National Gallery of Scotland, Edimburgh
Jacob Maris (The Hague 1837 - Karlsbad 1899); The five windmills, 1878; oil on canvas; Cetraal Museum, Utrecht
Leon Wyczólkowski (1852, Huta Miastowska near Garwolin – 1936, Warsaw); Widok Grenady, 1905; pastel on paper, 61 x 51 cm; Muzeum Narodowe, Kraków
Gustave Moreau (Paris, 1826 - 1898); Le Christ au Jardin des Oliviers (Christ in the Garden of Olives), c. 1880; oil on canvas, 70 x 85 cm; Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Giovanni Cariani (Giovanni Busi called il Cariani; Fuipiano al Bembo, Bergamo 1485 - Venezia 1547); Resting maiden with a white dog in a landscape, c. 1510; oil on panel, 94 x 74 cm; Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin
Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht, 1571 - 1638); Portrait of an unknown woman aged 26, oil on canvas, 1632; cm 104 x 111; National Trust Collections, London
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari called Veronese; 1528 Verona - 1588 Venezia); La cena nella casa di Levi (the feast in the house of Levi), 1573; oil on canvas, 1280 x 555 cm; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venezia
Gustave van de Woestyne (also spelled Gustaaf van de Woestijne; Ghent 1881 - Ukkel 1947); Fuga, 1925; oil on canvas, 80,5 x 80; Museum voor schone Kunsten, Ghent
Hans von Aachen (Cologne 1552 - Prague 1615); The rape of Proserpina, 1587; oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm; Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu (Romania)
Károly Ferenczy (Vienna 1862 - Budapest 1917); The twins Béli and Noémi, 1908; oil on canvas
Gerrit van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592 - 1656); The merry company, 1623; oil on canvas, 157 x 125 cm; Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim
Hendrick Goltzius (Venlo 1558 - Haarlem 1617); Jupiter and Antiope, 1612; oil on canvas, 178 x 122 cm
Francisco de Zurbarán (Fuente de Cantos, Extremadura, 1598 - Madrid 1664); The defense of Cadiz against the English, 1634; oil on canvas, 323 x 302 cm; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Paul Cézanne (Aix-en-Provence, 1839 - 1906); Pastoral (Idyll), 1870; oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm; Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Eduardo Afonso Viana (Lisbon, 1881 - 1967); Pousada de Ciganos, 1923; oil on cardboard, 115 x 85 cm; Museu do Chiado, Lisbon
Paul Bril (Antwerp 1554 - Roma 1626); Navire en carénage, c. 1610-15; oil on canvas, 199 x 129 cm; private collection
Christen Købke (Copenhagen, 1810 - 1848); The garden steps leading to the artist’s studio near Blegdammen, 1845; oil on paper laid down on canvas, 33 x 22,5 cm; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867); Self portrait at the age of 78, 1858; oil on canvas, 51 x 62 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Nikolai Pimonenko (also spelled Mykola Pymonenko; Kiev 1862 - 1912); Ukrainian night, 1905; oil on canvas, 160 x 90 cm; The Alexander A. Deineka picture gallery of Kursk
Raffaello Sanzio (Urbino 1483 - Roma 1520); Estasi di Santa Cecilia (The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia), 1514; oil on panel transferred to canvas, 149 x 236 cm; Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Gerard ter Borch (or Terborch; Zwolle 1617 - Deventer 1681); Procession with Flagellants, c. 1636/40; oil on panel; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Franz Marc (Munich 1880 - Verdun 1916); Forest interior with deers, 1909; oil on canvas, 84 x 102 cm; Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Emil Nolde (Nolde, near Tondern, 1867 - Seebüll, Neukirchen, 1956); Canal - Copenhagen, 1902; oil on panel, 83 x 65,5 cm; Nolde Foundation Seebüll - Neukirchen
Ilya Repin (Chuguyev 1844 - Kuokkala, now Repino, 1930); Portrait of Vera Repina (the artist’s wife), 1892; oil on canvas, 65 x 111 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (called Raffaellino or Il Viterbese; Viterbo, 1610 - 1662); Galatea, n/d; oil on canvas, 298 x 198 cm
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris 1796 - Ville d'Avray 1875); Ronde de Nimphes - Effet du Matin (Circle of Nymphs - Morning Effect), c. 1857; oil on canvas, 58 x 37 cm
Francisco Goya (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes; Fuendetodos 1746 - Bordeaux 1828); Corral de Locos (Yard with Lunatics), 1793/94; oil on tin plated iron, 33 x 44 cm; Meadows Museum, Dallas
Yuri Pimenov (Moscow, 1903 - 1977); New Moscow, 1937; oil on canvas, 170 x 140 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Frans van Mieris (Leiden, 1635 - 1681); Brothel Scene, 1658; oil on panel, 33,3 x 42,8 cm; Mauritshuis, The Hague
John Twachtman (Cincinnati 1853 - Gloucester 1902); Gray Day, 1882; oil on canvas, 71 x 56 cm
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi called il Caravaggio; Milano 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610); L'incredulità di San Tommaso (The incredulity of St. Thomas), c. 1600-01; oil on canvas, 146 x 107 cm; Bildergalerie, Potsdam
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Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignone 1714 - Paris 1789); The rainbow - An Italianate coastal view with a rainbow, peasants at an inlet in the foreground, 1749; oil on canvas, 162,7 x 114,3 cm
Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (Kortrijk 1829 - Antwerp 1893); The afternoon visit, n/d; oil on panel, 100 x 80 cm; private collection
Jan Preisler (Popovice, Beroun, 1872 - Prague 1918); Cerné Jezero (The black lake), 1904
Jacob Esselens (Amsterdam, 1626 - 1687); De Omval bij Amsterdam, 1665-70; oil on canvas, 89 x 56 cm; Amsterdam Museum
John Frederick Kensett (Cheshire, Connecticut, 1816 - New York City 1872); Coastal scene with figures, 1869; oil on canvas, 153 x 92 cm; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford
Fra Bartolomeo (real name Baccio della Porta, Firenze 1473 - 1517); Apparizione della Vergine a San Bernardo (the Vision of St. Bernard); 1504; tempera on panel, 220 x 213 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Roderic O'Conor (Castleplunket, County Roscommon, 1860 - Nueil-sur-Layon 1940); The Wave, 1898; oil on canvas; York Museum Trust
Julius von Klever (Yulij Yuli'evich Klever; Dorpat 1850 - Leningrad 1924); Evening promenade by the shore, 1907; oil on canvas
Diego Velazquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660); Retrato del bufon Don Diego de Acedo “El Primo” (Portrait of the buffoon Don Diego de Acedo called ‘El Primo’), 1644; oil on canvas, 107 x 82
John Constable (East Bergholt, Suffolk, 1776 - London 1837); Fen Lane - East Bergholt, 1817 (?); oil on canvas, 92,5 x 69,2 cm; Tate Britain
Otto Freundlich (Stolp 1878 - Majdanek, Lublin, 1943); Kosmischen Auge (cosmic eye), 1921-22; pastel on cardboard, 65 x 81 cm
Roelandt Savery (1576 Courtrai - 1639 Utrecht); The Paradise, 1626; oil on panel, 137 x 80 cm; Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Jules Tavernier (Paris 1844 - Honolulu, Hawaii, 1889); Sausalito - California, 1881; oil on canvas, 30 x 24 cm; Saint Marys College of California, Moraga
Masaccio (Tommaso [Maso] di ser Giovanni [di Simone] Cassai; San Giovanni Valdarno 1401 - Roma 1428); Madonna Casini or “Madonna del Solletico” (“Tickling Madonna”), c. 1426; tempera and gold leaf on panel, 18,2 x 24,5 cm; Galleria