Michel Wolgemut, German, 1434 – 1519, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, German, c. 1458 – 1494, and Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 – 1528, View of Nuremberg, 1493, hand-colored woodcut in Hartmann Schedel, Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle) (Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 1493), Paul Mellon Collection, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991

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Julius Caesar Ibbetson, British, 1759 – 1817, Skaters on the Serpentine in Hyde Park, 1786, watercolor with pen and ink. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Paul Mellon, 1987

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John Constable, British, 1776 – 1837, A Great Oak Tree, c. 1801, chalk with wash. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Paul Mellon, 1985

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French, 1780 – 1867, Self-Portrait, 1822, graphite. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995

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Édouard Manet, French, 1832 – 1883, The Balloon, 1862, lithograph. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995

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Winslow Homer, American, 1836 – 1910, On the Stile, 1878, watercolor and gouache over graphite. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1994

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Edgar Degas, French, 1834 – 1917, The Curtain, c. 1880, pastel over monotype. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2006

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Paul Cézanne, French, 1839 – 1906, Self-Portrait, 1880 /1882, graphite. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985

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James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 – 1903, Study in Black and Gold (Madge O’Donoghue), 1883/1884, watercolor and gouache. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991

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Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853 – 1890, Harvest — The Plain of La Crau, 1888, reed pen and ink over graphite. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1992

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Mary Cassatt, American, 1844 – 1926, The Black Hat, c. 1890, pastel. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985

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Pierre Bonnard, French, 1867 – 1947, A Promenade in Fancy Hats, 1891/1893, pen and brush with ink over graphite. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995

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Jacques Villon, French, 1875 – 1963, The Cards, 1903, color etching and aquatint. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985

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Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881 – 1973, The Death of Harlequin, 1905, gouache over charcoal. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1996

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Odilon Redon, French, 1840 – 1916, A Flight of Butterflies, c. 1912, watercolor. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985

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Georges Braque, French, 1882 – 1963, Aria de Bach, 1913 collage with charcoal and chalk. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1982

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George Bellows, American, 1882 – 1925, Dempsey and Firpo, 1923/1924, lithograph. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983

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Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879 – 1940, Dampfer und Segelböte (Steamboat and Sailboats), 1931, watercolor. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983

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