a little gallery

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Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio (1571-1610), 1599, oil on canvas

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Ophelia by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), 1910, oil on canvas

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Still-Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Plums by Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750), 1704, oil on canvas

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio (1571-1610), 1598, oil on canvas

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Odalisque at the Toilette by Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922), 1882, oil on canvas

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Anna von Waldberg by Hans Makart (1840-1884), 1883, oil on canvas

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The Toilet of Venus by François Boucher (1703-1770), 1751, oil on canvas

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Lady Charles Spencer by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), 1766, oil on canvas

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A Vase of Flowers by Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750), 1706, oil on canvas

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Song of the Angels by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), 1881, oil on canvas

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Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), 1887, oil on canvas

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Miranda by Frederick Sandys (1829-1904), 1868, oil on panel

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Psyche Carried off by the Zephyrs by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), 1808, oil on canvas

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Black Iris by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), 1926, oil on canvas

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I’ll paint what I see - what the flower is to me, but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”

- Georgia O’Keeffe

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Portrait of a Chambermaid by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), 1625, oil on canvas

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Bouquet of Sunflowers by Claude Monet (1840-1926), 1881, oil on canvas

In November 1888, Van Gogh wrote: "Gauguin was telling me the other day—that he’d seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine. But—he likes mine better. I’m not of that opinion." Critics had earlier praised the "brio and daring" of Monet’s technique when he showed this still life, depicting sunflowers that grew along the pathway to his garden at Vétheuil, at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition. [x]