"King Lear," Act I, Scene I

Edwin Austin Abbey

1898

Oil on canvas

137.8 x 323.2 cms | 54 ^1/4 x 127 ins

Dirge of the Three Queens

Edwin Austin Abbey

1895

Pastel

73.7 x 114.9 cms | 29 x 45 ^1/4 ins

Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily

Andreas Achenbach

1853

Oil on canvas

83.2 x 107.3 cms | 32 ^3/4 x 42 ins

The Tahitian Chief Otore (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Alfred Thomas Agate

1839

Graphite on wove paper

21.6 x 19.2 cms | 8 ^1/2 x 7 ^1/2 ins

Unidentified Gentleman

Alfred Thomas Agate

1835

Watercolor on ivory

6.4 cms | 2 ^1/2 ins

Léon Pallière (1787–1820) in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome

Jean Alaux

1817

Oil on canvas

58.1 x 45.4 cms | 22 ^3/4 x 17 ^3/4 ins

Leete Farm, West Claremont, New Hampshire

Francis Alexander

1822

Oil on canvas

In the Laboratory

Henry Alexander

c. 1885-1887

Oil on canvas

36 x 30 cms | 14 x 11 ^3/4 ins

Repose

John White Alexander

1895

Oil on canvas

132.7 x 161.6 cms | 52 x 63 ^1/2 ins

Credit: Fred Bridschge

The Judgment of Paris

Alessandro Allori

1583

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue paper

36.6 x 47.4 cms | 14 ^1/4 x 18 ^1/2 ins

An Egyptian at his Doorway in Memphis

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

1865

Oil on wood

Curtain

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

c. 1885

Silk

Settee

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

c. 1885

Ebony, box and sandalwood, cedar, ivory inlay, incrustations of mother-of-pearl and brass

90.2 x 148 x 71.1 cms | 35 ^1/2 x 58 ^1/4 x 27 ^3/4 ins

Maurice Levy

Ezra Ames

Watercolor on ivory

7.5 x 6 cms | 2 ^3/4 x 2 ^1/4 ins

Philip Van Cortlandt

Ezra Ames

1810

Oil on canvas

91.4 x 71.1 cms | 35 ^3/4 x 27 ^3/4 ins

The Children of Nathan Starr

Ambrose Andrews

1835

Oil on canvas

Vendéan Fusillé

Vendéan Shot

Clément-Auguste Andrieux

Black chalk and stumping

18.8 x 19.9 cms | 7 ^1/4 x 7 ^3/4 ins

A Rose

Thomas Pollock Anschutz

1908

Oil on canvas

147.3 x 111.4 cms | 58 x 43 ^3/4 ins

The Way They Live

Thomas Pollock Anschutz

1879

Oil on canvas

61 x 43.2 cms | 24 x 17 ins

Two Male Figures Wrestling

Thomas Pollock Anschutz

Charcoal on off-white laid paper

61.6 x 47.6 cms | 24 ^1/4 x 18 ^1/2 ins