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A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) by Thomas Cole

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/50727-view-mountain-pass-called-notch-white-mountains-crawford-notch

Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
Newark, London, and Toronto, 1988: 219, 133, 144, repro. 220, as A View of the Mountain

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Madame Moitessier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/32696-madame-moitessier

When his friend Marcotte first suggested that Ingres paint Ines Moitessier, the wife of a financier and jurist, he demurred. Ingres changed his mind after being struck by her „terrible et belle tête“ (terrible and beautiful head.) The author Théophile Gautier described her as „Junolike,“ and Ingres presents her with the imposing remoteness of a Roman goddess.
Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, The Art Gallery of Toronto

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Lorenzo de‘ Medici by Florentine 16th Century

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/12189-lorenzo-de-medici

Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the brilliant, learned, and ruthless head of a wealthy banking family, ruled the Italian city-state of Florence in the Renaissance. This bust may copy a wax statue made to commemorate Lorenzo’s survival in 1478, when an assassination plot took the life of his younger brother.
Lexington, MA and Toronto, 1992: 257, repro. 1993 Toscani, Bernard, ed.

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Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson by Sir Anthony van Dyck

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/41651-queen-henrietta-maria-sir-jeffrey-hudson

In 1632 Anthony van Dyck was invited to England to work at the court of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. In Van Dyck, the royal couple and the English aristocracy found an artist whose gifts perfectly matched their artistic sensitivities as well as their political needs and aspirations.
Walker, Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector, Boston and Toronto

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The Dancer by Auguste Renoir

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1211-dancer

The Dancer was one of seven works that Renoir included in the first exhibition of the Société anonyme coopérative des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, etc., which opened in April 1874. In contrast to works by most of the other artists in the group—soon to be dubbed the impressionists—Renoir’s paintings were relatively well received.
Boston and Toronto, 1962:168. Gaunt, William. Renoir.

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