Human-headed winged bull (lamassu)

stone-reliefs-inscribed highlighted in The MET collection

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The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David · 1787

View of Toledo

El Greco · 1596

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)

John Singer Sargent · 1884

The Harvesters

Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1565

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze · 1851

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt · 1653

Woman with a Water Jug

Johannes Vermeer · 1660

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Garden at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet · 1867

The Musicians

Caravaggio · 1595

The Woman in the Waves

Gustave Courbet · 1868

A Girl Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · 1657