The Whole Village

Peasant scenes packed with people — everyone turned out and it's all happening.

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The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

Ferdinand Hodler · 1896

The Holy Family

Albrecht Dürer · 1512–13

The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1875

Bacchanal

Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1635–36

Satire on Art Criticism

Rembrandt · 1644

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer · n.d.

The Turkish Family

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1496

The Kermis at Hoboken

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Frans Hogenberg · ca. 1559

The Burial of Punchinello

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1800

The Child and the Bulldog

Jean Honoré Fragonard · Marguerite Gérard · 1778

東海道五十三次　大津 · Otsu

Utagawa Hiroshige · ca. 1840

The Rogues March

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher · Thomas Tegg · Joseph Bonaparte · Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Rowlandson · April 12, 1814

The Reconciliation (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)

Samuel Johnson · James Boswell · Samuel Collings · Elizabeth Jackson · Thomas Rowlandson · June 20, 1786

Christ Presented to the People

Rembrandt · 1655

The Good Samaritan

Rembrandt · 1633

The Board of Censors Moves Out

Eugène Delacroix · Charles Motte · 1822

An Election Entertainment, Plate I: Four Prints of an Election

William Hogarth · February 1755

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5

William Hogarth · September 30, 1747

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea (Industry and Idleness, plate 5)

William Hogarth · September 30, 1747

Gin Lane

William Hogarth · February 1, 1751

Presentation in the Temple

Peter Paul Rubens · n.d.

Known Characters in a Chop House

James Boswell · Anonymous, British, 19th century · Samuel Johnson · Henry William Bunbury · 1800–1820

Just imagine that there are people drinking absinthe..., from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, January 30, 1864

Honoré Daumier · January 30, 1864

Which shows that even cleanliness can be hazardous, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Journal pour Rire, December 3, 1864

Honoré Daumier · December 3, 1864

The Ass at School

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Pieter van der Heyden · Hieronymus Cock · 1557

A Charm for a Democracy, Reviewed, Analysed, & Destroyed Jan 1 1799 to the Confusion of its Affiliated Friends

Charles James Fox · Thomas Rowlandson · Henri Merke · James Whittle · Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre · George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · William Pitt · January 1, 1799

Bacchanal with Silenus

Andrea Mantegna · before 1475

Landscape with a milkmaid at right and a boy at left

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · Nicolò Boldrini · ca. 1535–40

Boxers

Théodore Géricault · 1818

女織蚕手業草　十 · The Making of Silk Floss

Kitagawa Utamaro · ca. 1790

Soldiers at Rest (Milites Requiescentes) from The Large Landscapes

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Johannes van Doetecum I · Lucas van Doetecum · Hieronymus Cock · ca. 1555–56

The Land of Cockaigne

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Pieter van der Heyden · after 1570?

This trunk belongs no one, so it must be ours!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, May 6, 1872

Henri comte de Chambord · Honoré Daumier · May 6, 1872

Three Horses Tended by Men; Stone Pavement (recto); Horses and Figures in a Landscape (verso)

Umberto Boccioni · 1910

歌川広重画　東海道五十三次之内　原　朝の富士 · Hara: Mount Fuji in the Morning (Hara, Asa no Fuji), from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō

Utagawa Hiroshige · ca. 1833–34