Art for the Library

A refined 17th-century double portrait celebrating intellectual life and domestic partnership.

This 1862 genre painting by Jean Baptiste Madou captures a charming and complex moment of social interaction in a rustic interior.

An atmospheric 18th-century depiction of dervishes in a quiet moment of communal dining and music.

An elegant seventeenth-century double portrait of two artists in their studio, rendered with scholarly refinement.

A masterfully lit scene of a dappled horse in a quiet stable, captured with the soft realism of the Dutch Golden Age.

A masterfully atmospheric 19th-century depiction of the famed cartographer Abraham Ortelius at work in his private study.

An exquisite 19th-century watercolor capturing the architectural splendor and art-filled walls of the Gothic Hall in The Hague.

A masterful maritime study of 17th-century Dutch shipbuilding by Ludolf Bakhuizen.

A regal and charming portrait of favorite pets by the preeminent Victorian animal painter, Sir Edwin Landseer.

A luminous 19th-century architectural study of the Arch of Titus, rendered in warm, earthy tones.

A poignant 1887 narrative painting by Albert Bettannier depicting a solemn geography lesson in a late 19th-century French classroom.

A dynamic scene of labor on the riverbank, capturing the rugged energy of seventeenth-century life under a sweeping, atmospheric sky.