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The Virgin of the Chancellor Rolin (detail), 1436, Jan van Eyck

Jean-François de Troy, Before the Ball

The Stone Operation / The Extraction of the Stone Madness / The Cure of Folly, 1516, Hieronymus Bosch

Cameo: Head of Artemis, 100-200, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Size: Overall: 3.7 x 3.3 cm (1 7/16 x 1 5/16 in.) Medium: glass

Point Judith, Rhode Island, Martin Johnson Heade , 1867-1868, Cleveland Museum of Art: American Painting and Sculpture

During the 1860s and 1870s, many American painters shifted their interest from rendering clear-cut, well-lit scenes of recognizable places to capturing more ambiguous effects, such as the mystery of night. In Point Judith, Rhode Island, the barren, almost lunar landscape contains no figures, allowing moonlight and mystery to feature as the true subjects of the painting. Despite its seemingly generalized character, this work is based on a pencil sketch that identifies the scene’s location as Scarborough Beach, looking toward the tip of Point Judith on the right side of the painting. Although he depicts an actual place, Heade devotes more attention to intangible objects in the landscape. The ominous line of assembling storm clouds and the mysterious, glowing light cast by the moon suggest that perhaps these fluid, evasive elements are more powerful than the solid forms of the landscape. Size: Framed: 97 x 153.5 x 14 cm (38 3/16 x 60 7/16 x 5 ½ in.); Unframed: 72.3 x 128 cm (28 7/16 x 50 3/8 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

Procession of the Magus Caspar (detail), 1461, Benozzo Gozzoli

Portrait of Mrs. Abington, British Actress, 1773, Joshua Reynolds

Medium: oil,canvas

Vase of Flowers Draped with Garlands, French Painter, 18th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 Size: Overall: 28 1/8 × 17 ½ in. (71.4 × 44.5 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas