Miles From Anyone
Lonely figures on wide, empty canvases — all that space and nobody in it.
Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1852–57
Woman with a Pink
Rembrandt · early 1660s
The Lovesick Maiden
Jan Steen · ca. 1660
Interior with a Young Couple
Pieter de Hooch · probably ca. 1662–65
Hendrickje Stoffels (1626–1663)
Rembrandt · mid-1650s
Seated Woman with a Spider's Web (Die Frau mit dem Spinnennnetz zwischen kahlen Baumen)
Christian Friedrich · Caspar David Friedrich · probably 1803
Woman with a Raven (Die Frau mit dem Raben am Abgrund)
Christian Friedrich · Caspar David Friedrich · probably 1803
Shepherdess Seated on a Rock
Jean-François Millet · 1856
George Sand's Garden at Nohant
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1842–43
Old Woman Cutting Her Nails
Rembrandt · ca. 1655–60
Jane Morris: Study for "Mariana"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · William Shakespeare · 1868
The Tears of Saint Peter
Jusepe de Ribera · ca. 1612–13
Study Head of a Young Woman
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618–20
Island of the Dead
Arnold Böcklin · 1880
The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin
Samuel van Hoogstraten · ca. 1670
Young Woman Peeling Apples
Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655
Untitled
Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496
The Head of a Woman in Profile Facing Left
Leonardo da Vinci · Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio · 1490–1500
Standing Girl, Back View
Egon Schiele · 1908
Crouching Nude in Shoes and Black Stockings, Back View
Egon Schiele · 1912
Hanako
Auguste Rodin · ca. 1906–1907
Édouard Manet, Seated, Turned to the Left
Edgar Degas · Edouard Manet · ca. 1868
Seated Gentleman
Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1810
Garroted Man
Francisco Goya · ca. 1775–78
A Boy with a Cat—Morning
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
Caricature of a Man Pointing
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1610–80
Embroidery; The Artist's Mother
Georges Seurat · 1882–83
Landscape (Tree-trunks near a River)
Berthe Morisot · 1888
Seated Nude Seen from Behind
Berthe Morisot · 1889
Study for "Young Girl in a Green Coat"
Berthe Morisot · ca. 1894
Reclining Nude Figure (recto); unidentifiable sketches (verso)
Jean-Antoine Watteau · n.d.
Malle Babbe
Frans Hals
Standing Savoyarde with a Marmot Box
Jean-Antoine Watteau · ca. 1715
A Fisherman Pulling a Net
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1774
Un enfant assis sur une motte de terre (An enfant seated on a clod of earth), after Le Petit Savoyard by François Boucher, from Suite d'estampes gravées par madame la marquise de Pompadour d'après les pierres gravées de Guay, graveur du Roi
Madame la Marquise de Pompadour · François Boucher · 1751
Seven Trees
Paula Modersohn-Becker · ca. 1900–1902
Study for "The Dream – Paolo and Francesca"
Umberto Boccioni · 1910
Study after Michelangelo's Giorno (recto and verso)
Jacopo Tintoretto · ca. 1550–55
Standing Nude model, Facing Left
Wilhelm Lehmbruck · 1911–12
Seated Nude Model, Facing Left
Wilhelm Lehmbruck · 1912
Trees
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi · ca. 1650
Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1755
Without a Cloud
Sophie Gengembre Anderson · after 1870
"If I do die before thee, pr'ythee shroud me in one of those same sheets": plate 8 from Othello (Act 4, Scene 3)
Théodore Chassériau · William Shakespeare · 1844
Portrait of Eline Marie Heger as a Child, Leaning on a Table, Looking at a Book
Johan Christian Dahl · 1818
Portrait of Juliane Sophie Heger as a Child, leaning on a Table
Johan Christian Dahl · ca. 1820 (?)
A Peasant Girl Knitting
Jules Breton · ca. 1870
Soap Bubbles
Thomas Couture · ca. 1859
Landscape with hidden silhouettes of Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France · Louis XVII · Anonymous · 1794–1815
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