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Works in National Gallery of Art

A Swiss Cottage
Richenda Cunningham

Boats on the Beach
Bernard Gaillot

Le portraict de tres-haut...Henry Le Grand (Henri IV on His Deathbed)
Isaac Briot

The Baptism of Christ
Johann Matthias Kager

Jupiter and Mercury Entertained by Philemon and Baucis
Nicolaes Lauwers

A Satyr Visiting a Peasant Family
Jacobus Neeffs

Face in repose
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Attention
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

A relaxed face (left); Profound attention (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

The muscle of attention (left); Eyebrow contraction due to bright light (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Attention (left); Reflection (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Plate 14: Designed to show a comparison between the maximal contraction of the superior part of m. orbicularis oculi and m. corrugator supercilii, in the same individual. On the left, very strong electrization of the superior part of m. orbicularis oculi: dissatisfaction, somber thoughts. On the right, electrization of m. corrugator supercilii.
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Expression of severity
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Attention (left); Severity, aggression (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Aggression, wickedness
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Spasm of m. corrugator supercilii under very strong light (left); A relaxed face (photographed in full sunshine) (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Painful recollection or painful thoughts
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Extreme pain, the head of Christ (left); Memory of love or ecstatic gaze (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Attention, attentive gaze (left); Painful attention (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Painful memories
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

A relaxed face (left); False joy or laughter (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

A false, incomplete expression of agreeable surprise, or admiration
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Slight lowering of the angle of the mouth due to depression (left); False laughter (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Scornful disgust (left); Scornful laughter (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

The attention attracted by an object that provokes lascivious ideas and desires
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

A portrait, seen in profile, of a man 42 years old, stupefied by the abuse of alcohol; his nose is aquiline
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Bad humor, malcontentment
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Gaiety expressed by the ideas of lustfulness, cynicism and lewdness
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

A relaxed expression (left); Disgust (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Pain and despair
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Weeping, tears of pity (left); Relaxed face (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Discontent, bad humor
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Surprise
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Astonishment, stupefaction, amazement
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

This contraction of m. platysma alone lacks expression
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Expression of terror
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Terror mixed with pain, torture
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Rapids and Cascades, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
Charles Bierstadt

Aŭf Staŭfá Brŭck
Otto Henry Bacher

Mill Pond at Windsor, Connecticut
Albert Fitch Bellows

Desert Sentinels, Apache Trail, Arizona
George Elbert Burr

New York State Militia, 1st Division, 9th Regiment, 3rd Brigade
Otto Boetticher

Loss of the Steamboat Swallow: While on Her Trip, from Albany to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845
Nathaniel Currier

Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington
Thomas Clarke

St. Thomas, New York
Childe Hassam

First Leaves—Spring in Washington, St. John's
Childe Hassam

The Writing Desk
Childe Hassam

Rainy Day, Williamsburg, Virginia
Childe Hassam

Self-Portrait
Childe Hassam

The Steps
Childe Hassam

Rain Drops and Surf
Childe Hassam

Devils Way, Algiers
Stephen James Ferris

Grey's Quick Step
W. Lydston Jr.

The Death of George Washington
E. Pember and S. Luzerder

Shanties on the Harlem
Charles A. Platt

St. Gervais, Paris
Charles A. Platt

Buried with Him by Baptism
Paul Revere

His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire
Joseph H. Seymour

Old Boat-House
Charles A. Platt

Ponte del Piovan
James McNeill Whistler