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Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
The Vision and Inspiration [Joan of Arc series (A)], 1911
oil and gold leaf on canvas
38 3/4 x 76 x 4 in. (98.4 x 193 x 10.2 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Jean Charles Cazin
Homestead by the Sea, n.d.
oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 43 x 5 1/4 in. (92.7 x 109.2 x 13.3 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Jean-Siméon Chardin
The Scullery Maid, 1738
oil on canvas
4 1/2 x 21 x 3 3/4 in. (62.2 x 53.3 x 9.5 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection; Frame: Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Repose, 1860, reworked c. 1865-1870
oil on canvas
33 x 50 1/8 x 4 3/4 in. (83.8 x 127.3 x 12.1 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Guiseppe Croff
The Veiled Nun, c. 1860
marble
3/4 x 11 x 9 1/2 in. (52.7 x 27.9 x 24.1 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

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Aelbert Cuyp
Landscape with Herdsmen, 1650-1652
oil on panel
30 1/4 x 43 5/8 x 5 in. (76.8 x 110.8 x 12.7 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Edgar Degas
The Dance Class (Ecole de Danse), c. 1873, 1873
oil on canvas
18 5/8 in. x 24 1/2 in. (47.24 cm x 62.23 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Edgar Degas
The Ballet, c. 1880
pastel on light tan laid paper mounted on board
20 x 17 in. (50.8 x 43.2 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Eugäne Delacroix
Tiger and Snake, 1862
oil on canvas
16 7/16 x 19 3/8 x 3 1/8 in. (41.8 x 49.2 x 7.9 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Charles Bird King
Poor Artist's Cupboard, c. 1815
oil on panel
37 1/4 x 35 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. (94.6 x 89.9 x 5.7 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum purchase, Gallery Fund and exchange)

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Jean-Francois Millet
Shepherd Showing Travellers Their Way, n.d.
pastel
14 x 19 1/2 in. (35.6 x 49.5 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Eadweard Muybridge
Plate Number 534, 1887
collotype
18 7/16 x 23 1/4 in. (46.8 x 59.1 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection

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Bruce Nauman
SWEET SUITE SUBSTITUTE, 1968 [fabricated 1982]
red, yellow and blue glass tubing, with clear glass tubing suspension frame
5 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (13.3 x 75.6 x 12.1 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs.Bernhard G. Bechhoefer, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Firestone, Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Folger, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Gerstin, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hall, Jr., Hon. and Mrs. H. John Heinz, III, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace F. Holladay, Mr.and Mrs. Freeborn G. Jewett, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Kinney, Mr.and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rea, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S.Salant, Dr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Sarnoff, Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II, Mr. and Mrs. Brainard H. Warner, Hon. and Mrs. Sidney R. Yates, and Museum purchase with funds from the William A. Clark Fund and the Mrs. Ethel B. Garrett Fund in honor of Jane Livingston)

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Rembrandt Peale
Washington before Yorktown, 1824; reworked 1825
oil on canvas
137 1/2 x 120 1/2 in. (349.3 x 306.1 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, Mount Vernon, Virginia)

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Camille Pissarro
The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather, 1900
oil on canvas
36 7/8 x 43 1/4 x 4 in. (93.7 x 109.9 x 10.2 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary WalkerCollection)

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Maurice Prendergast
Landscape with Figures, 1921
oil on canvas
37 x 47 x 2 1/4 in. (94 x 119.4 x 5.7 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum purchase, WilliamA. Clark Fund)

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Noah Purifoy
Untitled (Assemblage), 1967
mixed media
66 x 39 x 8 in. (167.6 x 99.1 x 20.3 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum purchase, WilliamA. Clark Fund and Gift of Dr. Samella Lewis)

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Betye Saar
Dat Ol' Black Magic, 1981
collage
13 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (34.9 x 34.3 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection,Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Boats Carrying Out Anchors to the Dutch Men of War, c. 1804
oil on canvas
48 1/2 x 59 5/16 x 3 1/2 in. (123.2 x 150.7 x 8.9 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Unknown
Dish with the Incarnation, c. 1520-1525
tin-glazed earthenware
3 5/8 x 16 in. (9.1 x 40.6 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Unknown
Fighting Erotes, 2nd century - 1st century B.C.
terracotta
3 1/2 x 3 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (8.9 x 7.9 x 3.8 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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Andrea Vanni
A Triptych: Agony in the Garden, The Crucifixion, and the Raising of the, c. 1332-after 1414
egg tempera and gold leaf on wood panel

National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

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iona ROZEAL brown
afro.died, T., 2011
acrylic, pen, ink, marker and graphite on birch plywood panel, Unframed: 60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum purchase with funds provided by the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

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Robert Colescott
Auvers-sur-Oise (Crow in the Wheat Field), 1981
acrylic on canvas, framed: 85 x 72 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (215.9 x 184.8 x 5.7 cm)
actual: 84 x 72 in. (213.4 x 182.9 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

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William Edmondson
Schoolteacher, 1935
limestone, Unframed: 14 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 8 in. (36.8 x 12.1 x 20.3 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of David and Renee McKee)

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Joshua Johnson
Grace Allison McCurdy (Mrs. Hugh McCurdy) and her Daughters, Mary Jane and Letitia Grace, c. 1806
oil on canvas, framed: 49 7/16 x 44 11/16 x 3 3/16 in. (125.6 x 113.5 x 8.1 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum purchase through the gifts of William Wilson Corcoran, Elizabeth Donner Norment, Francis Biddle, Erich Cohn, Hardinge Scholle and the William A. Clark Fund)

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Hughie Lee-Smith
Reflection, 1957
oil on particle board, framed: 26 7/8 x 38 7/8 x 1 3/4 in. (68.3 x 98.7 x 4.4
cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)

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Sister Gertrude Morgan
We Are Soldiers in the Army..., 1970s
paint
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Elizabeth Blair Jones)

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P. H. Polk
Lillian Evans Tibbs, 1937
gelatin silver print, image: 10 3/8 x 7 15/16 in. (26.4 x 20.2 cm)
sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 7/16 in. (34.3 x 26.5 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)

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Hale Woodruff
Landscape, 1936
oil on canvas, framed: 34 5/8 x 40 1/2 x 1 3/8 in. (87.9 x 102.9 x 3.5 cm)
Unframed: 30 1/2 x 36 in. (77.5 x 91.4 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)

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National Gallery of Art Announces Historic Acquisition of More Than 6,000 Works of Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Plus Upcoming Installations at the Gallery and the Corcoran

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