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“The Old Man and His Grandson” — Domenico Ghirlandaio

Price: $395,000

The man’s disfigured nose, thought to show rhinophyma, is painted without idealization. At a time when portraits often flattered their subjects, Ghirlandaio’s honesty helped make this one of the Renaissance’s most human portraits.

The boy looks up at his grandfather with trust and tenderness, without fear or pity. Their quiet affection has moved viewers for centuries. To the child, his grandfather is the most beautiful person in the world.

Through the window, a path, mountains and trees are painted with Flemish precision—an unusual detail in a Florentine portrait, and perhaps a nod to the Netherlandish school’s influence on Italian art.

A persistent legend says the old man was painted from a death mask, explaining his unidealized face. There’s no firm evidence, but the story still arises at the Louvre, where the painting has been held since 1886.

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“Innocence,” 1899

Artist: Arthur Hacker
Oil on canvas
Private collection

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“Portrait of Nadezhda Mikhailovna Sapozhnikova” — Nikolai Feshin

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“A Courtesan for Sale” — Otto Greiner

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The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things — Hieronymus Bosch

Likely designed as a tabletop, the painting invites viewers to walk around it or look down at its scenes. King Philip II of Spain, a Bosch admirer, hung it in his private bedroom at El Escorial so contemplating the sinners might lead him to reflect on his failings before confession.

The composition resembles God’s eye: Christ rises from the tomb at its center, surrounded by the warning “Cave, cave, Dominus videt” (“Beware, beware, the Lord sees”). Seven sections depict wrath, envy, greed, gluttony, sloth, lust, and pride. The corners show death, the Last Judgment, hell, and heaven.

Its authenticity has been debated for over a century. A 2015 study suggested it may be by a pupil, but the Prado still attributes it to Bosch, citing its authentic signature.

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“Feeding the Ducks”

Artist: Carl von Bergen (1853–1933)
Oil on canvas; 79.5 × 58.5 cm
Private collection

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“An Evening in Antiquity,” 1908

Artist: Alphonse Osbert
Oil on canvas; 174 × 158 cm
Petit Palais, France

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“Princess from a Fairy Tale” — Torsten Wasastjerna

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“Dandelion”

Artist: Charles Edward Wilson (1853–1941)
Pencil, watercolor, and white on paper; 23 × 32.5 cm
Private collection

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“Family Member,” 1880

Artist: Frederic George Cotman
Oil on canvas, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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“Saint Nicholas of Bari” — Carlo Crivelli

By the mid-15th century, most Italian artists had replaced gold backgrounds with landscapes and skies. Crivelli kept the Gothic tradition, using gold leaf to evoke precious icons. His style blends flat, otherworldly forms with strikingly lifelike details.

Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra, was famed for generosity. Legend says he secretly gave a poor father three bags of gold for his daughters’ dowries, inspiring his traditional attribute: three golden spheres. His relics were brought to Bari in the 11th century. His image later inspired Santa Claus.

This panel is a fragment of a 1472 altarpiece, now dispersed among museums including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Met. Several pieces are lost, a common fate for Renaissance altarpieces dismantled and sold.

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“Early Snow” — Vasily Polenov

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“Fox in the Mountains”

Artist: Benno Adam (1812–1892)
Oil on canvas; 18.8 × 15 cm
Private collection

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“Chaos. The Creation of the World” — Ivan Aivazovsky

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“Garden Path,” 1906

Russian artist Nikolai Alexandrovich Sergeev (1855–1919)
Oil on canvas; 78 × 80 cm
Private collection

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“Children at Play”

Austrian artist Eduard Ameseder (1856–1938)
Oil on canvas; 108 × 146 cm
Private collection

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“Daughter of the Waters” — Herbert Draper

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“Odalisque and Slave” — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Price: $135,000

Though he never visited the Middle East, Ingres invented this scene—a hallmark of 19th-century French Orientalism, where the “East” often existed in Parisian artists’ imaginations. He painted it in Rome, while directing the French Academy, for longtime patron Charles Marcotte, whose portrait he had painted in 1810.

Ingres reused favorite ideas: the nude odalisque came from an earlier study, the musician posed in his studio, and the central figure’s pose echoes his lost 1809 painting “The Sleeping Neapolitan” and later “Jupiter and Antiope.”

In 1842, Ingres and his students, the Flandrin brothers, made a near-identical version, adding a park landscape inspired by Château de Dampierre. It is at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore; the 1839 original is at Harvard’s Fogg Museum.

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“Water Lilies”

Artist: Hans Zatzka (1859–1945)
Oil on canvas; 31.5 × 20.5
Private collection

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"Autumn", 1891

American artist: William St. John Harper (1851–1910)
Oil on canvas
Private collection

"Autumn Forest Clearing"

Austrian artist: Karl Vikas (1875–1934)
Canvas, oil; 65.5×83.5 cm
Private collection

"Distant Lands"

German artist: Wilhelm Amberg (1822–1899)
Oil on canvas; 84.5×63 cm
Private collection

"September", 1883

Norwegian artist: Erik Theodor Werenskiold (1855–1938)
Oil on canvas; 98×80 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

"Midday Warmth," 1910

American artist: Guy Orlando Rose (1867–1925)
Canvas, oil; 73.7×59.7 cm
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California

River landscape with a fisherman in autumn

Austrian artist: Adolf Kaufmann (1848–1916)
Panel, oil; 56×42 cm
Private collection

"Autumn in Crimea," 1891

Russian artist: Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky (1858–1911)
Canvas, oil; 66.7×47.8 cm
Private collection

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Study of a woman's head for the painting "Cadence of Autumn," 1905

English artist: Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)
Paper, pencil, graphite
Private collection

"Autumn Cadence", 1905

English artist: Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)
Canvas, oil; 39×75 cm
De Morgan Centre, Guildford

This painting is an allegory of human life portrayed through the changing seasons. On the left—youth and spring; in the center—maturity and harvest time; on the right—old age and the approach of life’s end.

Fruits and flowers symbolize the outcomes of a life lived, while the gradual shift from warm to cool hues reflects the passage of time.