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La Dame à la licorne
Pre-Columbian tapestry
Chinese kesi
German tapestry
tapestry: The Unicorn Crosses a Stream
Devonshire Hunting Tapestries
Mazarin Tapestry
tapestry: The Unicorn Is Killed and Brought to the Castle
Bernard van Orley: The Capture of Francis I
tapestry with grotesques
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Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Charles Le Brun
French painter
Edward Burne-Jones: The Love Song
Edward Burne-Jones
British painter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Niccolò dell’Abate
Italian painter
“Eva Prima Pandora,” painting on panel by Jean Cousin the Elder, c. 1550; in the Louvre, Paris
Jean Cousin the Elder
French artist
Etching of a design for a table from his book, Ornamens Inventory, by Jean Berain the Elder, c. 1670–1700.
Jean Berain, the Elder
French designer and painter
“The Calling of the Hounds,” tapestry by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1742–45; in the Pitti Palace, Florence
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
French artist
Raoul Dufy
French painter
Graham Sutherland.
Graham Sutherland
British artist
Alexandre-François Desportes: Landscape with a Dog and Partridges
Alexandre-François Desportes
French painter
Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
American painter
Orley, Bernard van: Banquet of the Children of Job
Bernard van Orley
Flemish painter
Jean Lurçat
French painter
The Lion Hunt, oil on canvas by Jean-François de Troy, 1735; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 60 × 40.64 cm.
Jean-François de Troy
French painter
Adam Frans van der Meulen
Flemish painter
Pieter de Kempeneer
Flemish painter