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A
15th Century »
Fra Angelico
Coronation of the Virgin
15th Century »
Antonello da Messina
St Jerome in his Study
B
20th Century »
Francis Bacon
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
16th Century »
Hans Baldung 'Grien'
The Holy Family in the Open
20th Century »
Giacomo Balla
The Hand of the Violinist
19th Century »
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Joan of Arc
20th Century »
Max Beckmann
Carnival
15th Century »
Henri Bellechose
Martyrdom of St Denis
15th Century »
Giovanni Bellini
Agony in the Garden
St Francis in the Desert
19th Century »
Arnold Böcklin
Island of the Dead
20th Century »
Pierre Bonnard
Coffee
Dining Room in the Country
Nude in the Bath
15th Century »
Hieronymus Bosch
Christ Mocked (the Crowning with Thorns)
Last Judgement
15th Century »
Sandro Botticelli
The Annunciation
Venus and Mars
18th Century »
François Boucher
A Lady on her Day Bed (Madame Boucher)
Diana Leaving the Bath
16th Century »
Agnolo Bronzino
Allegory with Venus and Cupid
Lodovico Capponi
16th Century »
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Harvesters
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
19th Century »
Edward Burne-Jones
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Le Chant d’Amour
C
19th Century »
Gustave Caillebotte
Paris Street, Rainy Day
15th Century »
Robert Campin
The Mérode Altarpiece
18th Century »
Canaletto
Old Walton Bridge
17th Century »
Caravaggio
Death of the Virgin
Supper at Emmaus
19th Century »
Mary Cassatt
Lady at the Tea Table
Young Girl in the Garden
19th Century »
Paul Cézanne
Château Noir
Lac d’Annecy
20th Century »
Marc Chagall
I and the Village
18th Century »
Jean Siméon Chardin
The Young Schoolmistress
20th Century »
Giorgio de Chirico
Premonitory Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire
The Song of Love
The Uncertainty of the Poet
15th Century »
Petrus Christus
St Eligius in his Workshop
19th Century »
Frederic Edwin Church
The Heart of the Andes
17th Century »
Claude Lorrain
Cleopatra Disembarking at Tarsus
Sermon on the Mount
The Enchanted Castle (Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid)
19th Century »
John Constable
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden
Sketch for Hadleigh Castle
19th Century »
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Boatman of Mortefontaine
16th Century »
Correggio
Jupiter and Io
The School of Love (Venus with Mercury and Cupid)
19th Century »
Gustave Courbet
The Artist’s Studio
Woman with a Parrot
16th Century »
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Adam and Eve
Judgement of Paris
15th Century »
Carlo Crivelli
Madonna and Child
The Annunciation with St Emidius
19th Century »
Henri Edmond Cross
The Evening Breeze
17th Century »
Aelbert Cuyp
View of Dordrecht
D
15th Century »
Gerard David
Virgin and Child with Four Angels
18th Century »
Jacques-Louis David
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife
Jacobus Blauw
19th Century »
Edgar Degas
Dance Class
In a Café (Absinthe)
The Bellelli Family
Two Dancers on the Stage
19th Century »
Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People, 28 July 1830
20th Century »
Charles Demuth
The Figure 5 in Gold
20th Century »
André Derain
The Houses of Parliament at Night
20th Century »
Otto Dix
The Businessman Max Roesberg
20th Century »
Raoul Dufy
La Fée Électricité (The Spirit of Electricity)
16th Century »
Albrecht Dürer
Self Portrait with a Thistle
17th Century »
Anthony van Dyck
Charles I, King of England
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
James, Seventh Earl of Derby, His Lady and Child
E
14th Century »
English or French School Anonymous
Wilton Diptych
19th Century »
Thomas Eakins
The Thinker, Portrait of Louis N. Kenton
20th Century »
Max Ernst
Celebes
15th Century »
Jan van Eyck
Ghent Altarpiece
Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait)
The Arnolfini Portrait
Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor
F
18th Century »
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Progress of Love: The Meeting
The Swing
19th Century »
Caspar David Friedrich
Winter Landscape
G
19th Century »
Théodore Géricault
The Raft of the Medusa
15th Century »
Gentile da Fabriano
Adoration of the Magi
18th Century »
Thomas Gainsborough
Mary, Countess Howe
The Mall in St James's Park
19th Century »
Paul Gauguin
Ia Orana Maria
La Belle Angèle
Nevermore
16th Century »
Giorgione
The Sunset (Il Tramonto)
The Three Philosophers
Young Woman (‘Laura’)
16th Century »
Jan Gossaert
Adoration of the Kings
18th Century »
Francisco de Goya
Duchess of Alba
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
16th Century »
el Greco
Christ driving the Traders from the Temple
Portrait of a Cardinal
20th Century »
George Grosz
Suicide
15th Century »
Giovanni di Paolo
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
19th Century »
Vincent van Gogh
Church at Auvers
Self Portrait
Starry Night on the Rhône
Sunflowers
The Starry Night
H
17th Century »
Frans Hals
The Laughing Cavalier
16th Century »
Nicholas Hilliard
Young Man leaning against a Tree among Roses
20th Century »
David Hockney
A Bigger Splash
18th Century »
William Hogarth
The Rake’s Progress III
16th Century »
Hans Holbein the Younger
Anne of Cleves
Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan
Sir Thomas More
The Ambassadors (Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve)
20th Century »
Edward Hopper
Early Sunday Morning
17th Century »
Pieter de Hooch
Family Before a House in Delft
Interior with a Woman drinking with Two Men
I
19th Century »
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Comtesse d’Haussonville
La Grand Odalisque
Madame Moitessier (1851)
Madame Moitessier (1856)
20th Century »
David Inshaw
The Badminton Game
K
20th Century »
Vasily Kandinsky
Landscape with Tower
Picture with an Archer
20th Century »
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Street, Dresden
20th Century »
Paul Klee
Twittering Machine
20th Century »
Gustave Klimt
Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Portrait of Hermine Gallia
20th Century »
Oskar Kokoschka
Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat
L
15th Century »
Leonardo da Vinci
The Virgin of the Rocks
19th Century »
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Washington Crossing the Delaware
15th Century »
Paul, Herman and Jan Limbourg
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
15th Century »
Fra Filippo Lippi
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
M
20th Century »
René Magritte
The Menaced Assassin
19th Century »
Édouard Manet
Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Boating
Déjeuner sur l’Herbe
Olympia
15th Century »
Andrea Mantegna
Agony in the Garden
St Sebastian
20th Century »
Franz Marc
Yellow Cow
19th Century »
John Martin
The Great Day of his Wrath
20th Century »
Henri Matisse
Portrait of André Derain
The Red Studio
15th Century »
Hans Memling
Portrait of an Old Woman
The Donne Triptych
Tommaso Portinari and his wife Maria
19th Century »
John Everett Millais
Ophelia
19th Century »
Jean-François Millet
The Gleaners
19th Century »
Claude Monet
Antibes
Impression, Sunrise
Nymphéas; Reflets vert (Waterlilies; Green Reflections)
Reflections of Clouds on the Water Lily Pond
19th Century »
Gustave Moreau
Jupiter and Semele
Oedipus and the Sphinx
O
20th Century »
Georgia O'Keefe
Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock – Hills
P
15th Century »
Piero della Francesca
Baptism of Christ
St John the Evangelist
15th Century »
Piero di Cosimo
A Hunting Scene
A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph
16th Century »
Parmigianino
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
20th Century »
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
The Three Dancers
15th Century »
Pisanello
Vision of St Eustace
19th Century »
Camille Pissarro
The Quays at Rouen
17th Century »
Nicolas Poussin
A Dance to the Music of Time
Shepherds in Arcadia
19th Century »
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Beheading of St John the Baptist
Young Girls by the Seashore
Q
15th Century »
Enguerrand Quarton
Pietà of Villeneuve-les-Avignon
R
16th Century »
Raphael
Madonna in the Meadow
Pope Julius II
19th Century »
Odilon Redon
The Buddha
17th Century »
Rembrandt
Bathsheba Bathing
Girl at a Window
Self Portrait
Self Portrait with Two Circles
19th Century »
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
La Loge (The Theatre Box)
La Promenade
Madame Georges Charpentier and her Children
18th Century »
Joshua Reynolds
General John Burgoyne
Nelly O’Brien
19th Century »
Dante Gabriele Rossetti
The Blue Bower
19th Century »
Henri Rousseau
The Dream
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
17th Century »
Peter Paul Rubens
Autumn Landscape with a view of Het Steen
Rubens, his wife Helena and their son
S
19th Century »
John Singer Sargent
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Madame X
19th Century »
Georges Seurat
A Sunday on the Island of the Grande Jatte
Bathers at Asnières
Circus Sideshow (La Parade)
Le Chahut
The Circus
19th Century »
Paul Signac
Palais des Papes, Avignon
Portrait of Félix Fénéon
The Dining Room
20th Century »
Stanley Spencer
Resurrection; Cookham
18th Century »
George Stubbs
Whistlejacket
T
17th Century »
Georges de la Tour
The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
The Fortune Teller
16th Century »
Jacopo Tintoretto
St George and the Dragon
The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
16th Century »
Titian
Bacchus and Ariadne
Concert Champetre
Gypsy Madonna
Pietro Aretino
Tarquinius and Lucretia
19th Century »
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
In the Private Room at the Rat Mort
19th Century »
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Norham Castle, Sunrise
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up
Venice from the Porch of the Madonna della Salute
U
15th Century »
Paolo Uccello
St George and the Dragon
The Battle of San Romano
V
17th Century »
Diego Velázquez
Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Gown
Juan de Pareja
The Rokeby Venus, (The Toilet of Venus)
17th Century »
Johannes Vermeer
A Young Woman standing at a Virginal
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
16th Century »
Paolo Veronese
The Choice Between Virtue and Vice
Wedding Feast at Cana
18th Century »
Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
20th Century »
Édouard Vuillard
Place Vintimille
The Chapel at the Château of Versailles
W
15th Century »
Rogier van der Weyden
Braque Family triptych
18th Century »
Antoine Watteau
Mezzetin
The Music Party
19th Century »
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Grey and Black no. 1, also called Portrait of the Artist’s Mother
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland
18th Century »
Joseph Wright (of Derby)
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
20th Century »
Andrew Wyeth
Christina’s World