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workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)

CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris

The Fates by Paul Thumann

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

Jef Lambeaux

Eliseu Visconti. circa 1911.

Roman fresco detail of the Garden painting, 30-35 AD, House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompei.

William Josiah Redworth, 'Nib' - A Terrier (1901)

ink on laid paper, c. 1904 — source

Charles Kuwasseg (French, 1838-1904)

Before the Bath (1905) by Arthur Dampier May (British, 1857 – 1916), signed and dated 'A. Dampier May/1905.' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'Before the bath/by/***** Dampier May' (on an old label attached to the reverse), oil on canvas, 31 3/8 x 15 ¼ in. (79.7 x 38.7 cm.), Private Collection

Architectural Fantasy – Ruins of a Circular Temple Seen through a Natural Arch (Pierre-Adrien Pâris, c. 1785)

Mary Magdalene in a Grotto (Marie Madeleine dans la grotte), (1876) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (French, 1836 – 1911), oil on canvas, 71.5 cm (28.1 in) x 113.5 cm (44.6 in), Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

The painting depicts “Gretchen in Front of the Statue of the Virgin Mary” depicts a pivotal, tragic moment from Goethe’s Faust, where the seduced, pregnant Gretchen prays to the Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowful Mother) for help, identifying with Mary’s suffering as she faces shame, potential death, and losing her child.

Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen

Die Amazone / The Amazon – Karl Ludwig Hassmann (1900)

L'Étoile Perdue (The Lost Star or Lost Pleiad (1884) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 – 1905), oil on canvas, 195.5 cm (76.9 in) x 95 cm (37.4 in), Private Collection