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The Tax Collectors
Marinus van Reymerswaele
A striking and highly detailed 16th-century Netherlandish scene depicting two tax collectors at work.
Scholarly, moody, and old-world works with gravity.
Moody palettes, old-world formality, and scholarly subjects give this style its literary charm and quiet intensity.

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Marinus van Reymerswaele
A striking and highly detailed 16th-century Netherlandish scene depicting two tax collectors at work.

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Hubert Robert
A masterfully atmospheric scene of artistic labor and architectural grandeur within the heart of Rome.

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Ernest Jean Delahaye
An atmospheric industrial scene capturing the grit and luminous steam of a 19th-century Parisian gasworks.

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
A striking 1918 expressionist study of the mythological Capricorn by Polish master Witkacy.

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Tony Robert-Fleury
This dramatic grisaille painting captures a tense moment of historical drama, rendered in sophisticated shades of gray.

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George Sturm
A dramatic 19th-century historical painting depicting a knight's heroic moment atop a medieval tower.

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Jean Barbault
A dramatic 18th-century landscape featuring the iconic Pyramid of Cestius amidst architectural ruins.

Contains disturbing content
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J. Le Cœur
A powerful and atmospheric 19th-century French painting depicting a solemn historical moment in Paris.

Contains disturbing content
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Victor Müller
A dramatic 19th-century portrayal of Shakespeare's Hamlet contemplating mortality in a somber churchyard.

Contains disturbing content
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James Ensor
A haunting and surreal Symbolist masterpiece featuring costumed skeletons locked in a dramatic, macabre conflict.

Contains disturbing content
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Louis Joseph Watteau
A powerful and dynamic depiction of 18th-century warfare attributed to Louis Joseph Watteau.

Contains nudity
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Thomas Eakins
A dramatic and meticulously detailed monochrome study of Thomas Eakins' famous medical masterpiece.
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