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Gustave Courbet: The Painter's Studio The School of Athens Giorgio Vasari Nicolas Poussin: St. John on Patmos Peter Paul Rubens: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus François Boucher: The Toilet of Venus Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening John Ruskin Eugène Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapalus Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
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Gustave Courbet: The Painter's Studio
The School of Athens
Giorgio Vasari
Nicolas Poussin: St. John on Patmos
Peter Paul Rubens: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
François Boucher: The Toilet of Venus
Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening
John Ruskin
Eugène Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapalus
Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
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