Quiet Mystery

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

北宋 徽宗 竹禽圖 卷 · Finches and bamboo

Emperor Huizong of Song · early 12th century

Woman with a Pink

Rembrandt · early 1660s

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Interior with a Young Couple

Pieter de Hooch · probably ca. 1662–65

An Evening School

Gerrit Dou · ca. 1655–57

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

清 石濤 (朱若極) 十六羅漢圖 卷 · The Sixteen Luohans

Shitao · dated 1667

Shepherdess Seated on a Rock

Jean-François Millet · 1856

George Sand's Garden at Nohant

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1842–43

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt · 1643

A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study")

Gustave Courbet · probably 1862

A Brook in the Forest

Gustave Courbet · ca. 1868–77

A Shaded Avenue

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1775

Portrait of a Woman, Probably Susanna Lunden (Susanna Fourment, 1599–1628)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1625–27

Dancers, Pink and Green

Edgar Degas · ca. 1890

Jane Morris: Study for "Mariana"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · William Shakespeare · 1868

Retreat from the Storm

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1846

Island of the Dead

Arnold Böcklin · 1880

明/清 陳洪綬 橅古圖 冊 · Miscellaneous Studies

Chen Hongshou · one leaf dated 1619

The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin

Samuel van Hoogstraten · ca. 1670

葛飾北斎筆 鶏と木材鶏図 · Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples

Katsushika Hokusai · 19th century

Plate 68 from "Los Caprichos": Pretty teacher! (Linda maestra!)

Francisco Goya · 1799

Standing Girl, Back View

Egon Schiele · 1908

Hanako

Auguste Rodin · ca. 1906–1907

Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Paris

Edgar Degas · Emélie Bécat · 1877–78

A Boy with a Cat—Morning

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Embroidery; The Artist's Mother

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Nocturne: Dance House

James McNeill Whistler · 1889

Untitled

Katsushika Hokusai · 1846

A Lane through the Trees

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · ca. 1870–73

Saint Benedict

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1640–45

Study for "The Dream – Paolo and Francesca"

Umberto Boccioni · 1910

The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse

Adolph von Menzel · 1851

Trees

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi · ca. 1650

Vanitas Still Life

Jacob de Gheyn II · 1603

Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · Peter Perez Burdett · 1773

Soap Bubbles

Thomas Couture · ca. 1859

南宋 馬麟 蘭花圖 冊頁 絹本 · Orchids

Ma Lin · second quarter of the 13th century

The Edge of the Woods

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz · 1872

A Vista through Trees: Fontainebleau

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz · 1873

The Forest of Fontainebleau

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz · 1874

The Shadow that Lies Floating on the Floor. Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Edouard Manet · Edgar Allan Poe · Stéphane Mallarmé · 1875

Faust: Part 1. Last Scene

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1846–48

Courbevoie: Factories by Moonlight

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Le Christ sortant du tombeau

Gustave Doré · 1850–83

Folly or Saintliness

Ethel Reed · Lamson Wolffe & Co. · 1895

The Murders in the Rue Morgue, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley · Edgar Allan Poe · 1894

수월관음도 고려 · 水月觀音圖 高麗 · Water-moon Avalokiteshvara

Unidentified artist · first half of the 14th century