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Male figure in classical costume
Gustave Doré
1845–83
Two Monks in Contemplation in a Forest
Carl Baron von Vittinghoff
1809
Melencolia I
Albrecht Dürer
1514
An old bearded man resting his head on his right hand and looking upwards to the left, after Reni
Domenico Cunego
1775
Melencolia I (copy)
Jan (Johannes) Wierix
1602
Minor Poet
Carlos Anderson
1935–43
Pietro Aretino
Wenceslaus Hollar
1649
Study of Young Man in a Robe, Standing
John Singer Sargent
1895
I Dream of Her in the Crashing Waves
Théodore Gericault
1818
Iphigenia
Karl August Kräutle
1872
Lionel Tennyson, Freshwater
Julia Margaret Cameron
1869
Sigismunda
James Basire, the elder
May 5, 1790
The Thinker (Le Penseur)
Auguste Rodin
1904
(From Sketchbook)
Thomas Sully
1810–20
Portrait of Seated Man; Bust of Contemplative Dante; Child Leaning on a Woman's Lap (from Sketchbook)
Thomas Sully
1810–20
Half-Length Study of a Man
François Boucher
18th century
St Jerome kneeling before a crucifix, a skull in his left hand, a lion laying at the left
Marcantonio Raimondi
ca. 1500–27
The Poet (copy in reverse)
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)
ca. 1625–80
The Thoughtful Captain
Johann Gottfried Schadow
1822
Melencolia I
Albrecht Dürer
1514
Melencolia I
Albrecht Dürer
1514
Nova Iconologia
Cesare Ripa
1618
Edward Kaminski, Art Center School, Los Angeles, California
Ansel Easton Adams
1963
Jawaharlal Nehru
Yousuf Karsh
1956
Self-Portrait
Bernard Pfriem
1963
Crouching Woman
John Sloan
1906
Melencholia
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)
ca. 1645–46
Melancholy (Melancolia)
Theodor Matham
Alleyne
Mortimer Borne
1935–43
Column Surround with Pensive Woman
Indonesia (Java)
14th–15th century
Penitence (Poenitentia)
Enea Vico
ca. 1545–50
Saint Ambrose Seated in an Interior
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century
ca. 1520–40
Nicolai Orloff, Pianist
Johan Hagemeyer
1928
Positive and negative molds of a relief after Rodin's Thinker
Victor Peter
ca. 1900
Contemplations
Julia Margaret Cameron
1864
[Henry Geldzhaler in Gallery]
Bruce Davidson
1968
Il Trevisano
Edward Melcarth
Pensive bodhisattvas
Xie Zhiliu
datable to 1942–43
[Edward S. ? Kuntze]
John and Charles Watkins
1860s
The doctors of the church consulting books and documents and contemplating the Virgin who is shown above in heaven, flanked by angels, after Reni
William Sharp
1785