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van de Velde, Adriaen: River Landscape in the Late Afternoon

Giorgione: The Adoration of the Shepherds

Claude Lorrain: Pastoral Landscape with a Mill

Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with Bentheim Castle Beyond, Travellers on a Footbridge Nearby

Hobbema, Meindert: The Travelers

Cuyp, Aelbert: Landscape with Herdsmen

Watteau, Antoine: Fêtes Vénitiennes

Cozens, John Robert: Lake Nemi, Looking Towards Genzano

Constable, John: Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close

J.M.W. Turner: The Lauerzersee with Schwyz and the Mythen, Switzerland

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van de Velde, Adriaen: River Landscape in the Late Afternoon

Giorgione: The Adoration of the Shepherds

Claude Lorrain: Pastoral Landscape with a Mill

Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with Bentheim Castle Beyond, Travellers on a Footbridge Nearby

Hobbema, Meindert: The Travelers

Cuyp, Aelbert: Landscape with Herdsmen

Watteau, Antoine: Fêtes Vénitiennes

Cozens, John Robert: Lake Nemi, Looking Towards Genzano

Constable, John: Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close

J.M.W. Turner: The Lauerzersee with Schwyz and the Mythen, Switzerland

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