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The Bedroom by Pieter de Hooch

A watercolor of a brilliantly-colored, sunny beach filled with women wearing long gowns and bonnets and men in tunics and pants. Beyond them is a cluster of cabanas and buildings. A dark blue sea dotted with sailboats fills the right side with a line of purple hills beyond and puffy clouds overhead. The scene is loosely painted and the people and boats are indistinct and featureless.

Beach at Saint-Malo by Maurice Prendergast

Fourteen men and women gather on a terrace shaded by a striped awning overlooking a river. The terrace is surrounded by leafy trees and they wear 19th-century clothing as they seem to converse.

The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Two men on horseback with their backs to us facing a young woman holding open a tall gate in a picket fence. All three have medium brown skin and black hair and wear richly colored clothes.

Callers by Walter Ufer

A young pale-skinned woman wearing a short blue jacket and mustard yellow skirt stands in front of a table holding a balance. She stands at a table scattered with jewels bathed in light coming from a window to our left.

Encore: Woman Holding a Balance by Johannes Vermeer

A peacock and two brown birds perch on a stable roof with men grooming horses inside. A dense colorfully dressed crowd surrounds the stable and two heads with halos are visible in lower right.

The Adoration of the Magi: Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi

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