A Reading from Homer

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

1885

Oil on canvas

91.4 x 183.8 cms | 35 ^3/4 x 72 ^1/4 ins

George Burnham

Cecilia Beaux

1887

Oil on canvas

121.3 x 105.1 cms | 47 ^3/4 x 41 ^1/4 ins

Portrait of Cecil Kent Drinker

Cecilia Beaux

c. 1893

Oil on canvas

162.6 x 87.6 cms | 64 x 34 ^1/2 ins

Credit: Smithsonian Magazine

Portrait of Mrs. Alexander Biddle (née Julia Williams Rush)

Cecilia Beaux

1897

Oil on canvas

102.2 x 76.7 cms | 40 ^1/4 x 30 ins

Girl with a Parrot

Jan van Beers

1879

Oil on panel

Consuelo and Muriel Vanderbilt

Giovanni Boldini

1913

Oil on canvas

Portrait of Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt (née Virginia Graham Fair)

Giovanni Boldini

1905

Oil on canvas

The Great Road in the Villas Combes

Giovanni Boldini

1873

Oil on canvas

69.2 x 101.4 cms | 27 x 39 ^3/4 ins

Officer Writing a Letter, with a Trumpeter

Gerard ter Borch

1658-59

Oil on canvas

56.8 x 43.8 cms | 22 ^1/4 x 17 ins

The Dispatch

Gerard ter Borch

1658-1659

Oil on canvas

Credit: Michael Talibard

After the Storm

William Bradford

1861

Oil on canvas

50.8 x 76.2 cms | 20 x 30 ins

The Feast of Saint John

Jules-Adolphe Breton

1875

Oil on canvas

Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus

Agnolo Bronzino

1537-39

Oil on canvas

93.7 x 76.4 cms | 36 ^3/4 x 30 ins

The Pancake Baker

Adriaen Brouwer

c. 1625

Oil on wood

34 x 28 cms | 13 ^1/4 x 11 ins

Credit: Michael Talibard

Girl with a Pitcher

Frederick Brown

1883

Oil on canvas

The Governess

Alexandre Cabanel

c. 1870

Oil on canvas

Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin

Robert Campin

1424

Panel

Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin (detail)

Robert Campin

1424

Wood

Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin (detail)

Robert Campin

1424

Wood

A Woman and a Girl Driving

Mary Cassatt

1881

Oil on canvas

89.7 x 130 cms | 35 ^1/4 x 51 ins