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Stove

Attributed to the pottery of David II Pfau (1644–1702)

Date: ca. 1684–85
Accession Number: 06.968.2

Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio

Designed by Francesco di Giorgio Martini (Italian, Siena 1439–1501 Siena)

Date: ca. 1478–82
Accession Number: 39.153

Couple

Date: 17th–late 18th century
Accession Number: 2001.408

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Date: 6th–7th century
Accession Number: 42.50.1

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds)

Painting by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610)

Date: ca. 1600
Accession Number: 63.210.11

Linen Press

Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony (American, 1902–1915)

Date: ca. 1904
Accession Number: 1991.311.1

Being With (Être Avec)

Roberto Matta (Chilean, Santiago 1911–2002 Civtavecchia, Italy)

Date: 1946
Accession Number: 2003.270

Female Figure

Date: late 3rd millennium BCE
Accession Number: 1980.83.15

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Date: 610–595 B.C.
Accession Number: 30.8.93

Houses on the Achterzaan

Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)

Date: 1871
Accession Number: 1975.1.196

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)

Date: 1888, cast 1890
Accession Number: 17.104

Study for "Les Poseuses"

Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)

Date: 1886
Accession Number: 1975.1.704

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini (Italian, Siena, active by 1315–died 1344 Avignon)

Date: ca. 1326
Accession Number: 1975.1.12

Reflection in the Mirror

Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)

Date: early 1923
Accession Number: 1975.1.669

Dance Mask

Date: early 20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1120

Flight Into Egypt

Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1859–1937 Paris)

Date: 1923
Accession Number: 2001.402a

Elements of a Light-Cavalry Armor

Date: ca. 1510
Accession Number: 14.25.716

Academie de l'espee; ou se domonstrent par reigles mathématiques sur le fondement d'un cercle mystérieux, la théorie et pratique des vrais . . .

Author: Girard Thibault (Flemish, died ca. 1629)

Date: 1628
Accession Number: 240.7 T344 F

Sesando

Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.1489

Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and little girl with capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Date: ca. 530 B.C.
Accession Number: 11.185a–d, f, g, x

Cloister from Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

Date: late 12th century
Accession Number: 25.120.1-.134

Yataghan from the Court of Suleyman the Magnificent

Workshop of Ahmed Tekelü (possibly Iranian, active Istanbul, ca. 1520–30)

Date: ca. 1525
Accession Number: 1993.14

Guitar

Attributed to Matteo Sellas (German, Füssen ca. 1599–1654 Venice)

Date: ca. 1630–50
Accession Number: 1990.103

Encyclopedie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers

Author: Denis Diderot (French, 1713–1784)

Date: 1751–1765
Accession Number: 014 En15 Q

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Date: 1130–1140
Accession Number: 47.101.15

Musical Party in a Garden

Date: 1647
Accession Number: 64.101.1314

The Bridal Chamber of Herse, from a set of eight tapestries depicting the Story of Mercury and Herse.

Design attributed to Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona (Italian, active 1540–52)

Date: ca. 1550
Accession Number: 41.190.135

Morte d'Arthur

Author: Sir Thomas Malory (British, 15th century)

Date: 1893
Accession Number: 920.84 M292

Henri-Charles Maniglier

Unknown, French

Date: ca. 1850
Accession Number: 1994.83

Dizi

Date: late 18th–early 19th century
Accession Number: 65.149 a, b

Evening dress

Claire McCardell (American, 1905–1958)

Date: 1950
Accession Number: C.I.58.49.4a, b

Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’l-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi

Ja`far ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali

Date: dated A.H. 577/ A.D. 1181–82
Accession Number: 51.56

Charger

Thomas Toft (working before 1663–died 1689)

Date: ca. 1680
Accession Number: 24.241.2

Flintlock Rifle

Jacob Kuntz (American, Allentown, Pennsylvania 1780–1876 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date: ca. 1810–15
Accession Number: 42.22

Velvet with Figural Imagery

Date: mid-16th century
Accession Number: 52.20.11

Accordion

Alexandre Pere & Fils

Date: 1850–55
Accession Number: 1998.70

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Date: ca. 1575–90
Accession Number: 59.69.1

Corset

Maison Léoty (French)

Date: 1891
Accession Number: C.I.45.27a, b

Pierrot Laughing

Nadar (French, Paris 1820–1910 Paris)

Date: 1855
Accession Number: 1998.57

Ferdinando de' Medici (1663–1713), Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian, Florence 1652–1725 Florence)

Date: ca. 1680–82
Accession Number: 1993.332.2

Gravestone with funerary banquet

Date: ca. 2nd–3rd century A.D.
Accession Number: 02.29.1

Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

Ugo da Carpi (Carpi ca. 1480–1532 Bologna)

Date: ca. 1518 (?)
Accession Number: 20.24.76

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V

Peter Peck (German, Munich, 1503–1596)

Date: about 1540–45
Accession Number: 14.25.1425

Votive stela of Userhat

Date: ca. 1353–1323 B.C.
Accession Number: 05.4.2

[Female Nude in Studio]

Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes (French, 1831–after 1900)

Date: 1856–59
Accession Number: 1998.338

Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

Date: 1658
Accession Number: 1997.156

The Young Virgin

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, Fuente de Cantos 1598–1664 Madrid)

Date: ca. 1632–33
Accession Number: 27.137

The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)

Thomas Eakins (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date: 1871
Accession Number: 34.92

Blue Green Red

Ellsworth Kelly (American, born Newburgh, New York, 1923)

Date: 1963
Accession Number: 63.73

Versailles, France

Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris)

Date: 1923
Accession Number: 1992.5152