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Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, showing pale lily pads and flowers floating among blue, green, and violet reflections.

Water Lilies

Claude Monet

Hokusai’s Great Wave woodblock print, with a towering blue wave above boats and a small Mount Fuji in the distance.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai

Georges Seurat’s park scene with many people, umbrellas, boats, animals, and small touches of color beside the River Seine.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884

Georges Seurat

Mary Cassatt’s The Child’s Bath, viewed from above as an adult supports a child’s leg beside a round washbasin.

The Child’s Bath

Mary Cassatt

Vincent van Gogh painting of a swirling blue night sky above a village and dark cypress tree.

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, showing Lisa Gherardini seated before a distant rocky landscape.

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, showing a young figure turning against a dark background in a blue and yellow head covering.

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer

Grant Wood’s American Gothic, showing a farmer holding a pitchfork beside his daughter in front of an Iowa house.

American Gothic

Grant Wood

Edgar Degas’s ballet class with a dancer performing for Jules Perrot while other students and their mothers wait around the room.

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas

Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci facing slightly toward the viewer before dark juniper leaves and a distant landscape.

Ginevra de’ Benci [obverse]

Leonardo da Vinci

Rosa Bonheur’s huge Horse Fair with powerful horses rearing and circling as handlers pull on ropes and reins.

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur

Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 Bedroom, with a bright bed, two chairs, a small table, pictures, and strongly colored walls.

The Bedroom

Vincent van Gogh

Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, showing a woman pouring milk beside bread and pottery in a sunlit room.

The Milkmaid

Johannes Vermeer

Velázquez’s Las Meninas, showing Infanta Margarita, court attendants, a dog, the artist at a large canvas, a mirror, and a bright doorway.

Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez

Hokusai’s Red Fuji woodblock print with a huge red-brown Mount Fuji, a snowy peak, dark trees, white clouds, and blue sky.

South Wind, Clear Sky (Red Fuji)

Katsushika Hokusai

Charles Demuth’s modern painting with a large golden number 5, repeated numbers, red circles, sharp lines, and fragments of words.

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

Charles Demuth

Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up with a young man and three boys balancing in a small sailboat on a choppy sea.

Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)

Winslow Homer

Hiroshige’s plum garden print with a huge dark tree trunk in front, small visitors, blossoming trees, fences, and a red sky.

The Plum Garden at Kameido Shrine

Utagawa Hiroshige

Gustav Klimt’s Baby (Cradle), with a baby’s face and hand peeking from white fabric above a colorful triangular mountain of patterned blankets.

Baby (Cradle)

Gustav Klimt

Mondrian’s square abstract painting divided by black horizontal and vertical lines into white, gray, red, yellow, and blue rectangles.

Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue

Piet Mondrian

Emperor Huizong’s handscroll detail with two carefully painted finches gripping a bending bamboo branch against open silk.

Finches and Bamboo

Emperor Huizong

early 12th century

Shen Zhou’s narrow ink hanging scroll with a moored boat, dark trees, pale water, soft mountains, mist, and calligraphy above.

Anchorage on a Rainy Night

Shen Zhou

Bada Shanren’s ink hanging scroll with seven small fish swimming through blank paper beneath two large dark rocks.

Fish and Rocks

Bada Shanren (Zhu Da)

Gan Ku’s tall Japanese hanging scroll with a striped tiger curving through the picture and turning its alert face toward the viewer.

Tiger

Gan Ku

early 19th century

Edvard Munch’s 1893 Scream with a curving figure on a diagonal bridge beneath a twisting red-orange sky and blue-black landscape.

The Scream

Edvard Munch

Henri Rousseau’s moonlit painting of a sleeping traveler beside an instrument and jar while a lion stands close in an empty landscape.

The Sleeping Gypsy

Henri Rousseau

Osman Hamdi Bey’s Tortoise Trainer with an elderly figure in a red robe bending over five tortoises in a tiled mosque room.

The Tortoise Trainer

Osman Hamdi Bey

Tom Roberts’s busy shearing shed with workers bending over sheep, helpers moving through the room, tools, sunlight, dust, and piles of wool.

Shearing the Rams

Tom Roberts