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Lacquer mirror case with bird-and-flower motif, painting by Fathallah Shirazi, 1878. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

An 1880 oil on canvas, Woman at the Window (aka Interior), by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. A typical Caillebotte view showing a person connecting to the outside world through their window. The strong blue-grey...

Persian vanity box decorated with a rose-and-nightingale motif, by Muhammad Baqir, 1789. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

An 1880-82 oil on canvas, Still Life with Oysters, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Here there is a much looser use of brushstrokes than Caillebotte usually employed as he tackles the problem many impressionists...

An 1878 oil on canvas, Rue Halévy, Balcony View, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Here the artist gives an unusually elevated view of a Paris street and his canvas is square like photographs of the time which...

An 1876 oil on canvas, Portraits in the Country, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Members of the artist's family at Yerres, the family estate, the lady on the far right is Caillebotte's mother and the others...

An 1880 oil on canvas, View from a Balcony, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Here the artist takes his fascination with including ornate iron balcony railings in his paintings to the extreme and has the entire...

A c. 1883 oil on canvas, The Bridge at Argenteuil & the Seine, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Like several of the other impressionists, Caillebotte was interested in presenting the contrast between nature...

A c. 1878 oil on canvas, The Canoe Paddlers, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Full of the artist's trademark diagonals, the framing of this painting is inspired by the burgeoning art of photography. (Musée...

A c. 1880 oil on canvas, The Boulevard Seen from Above, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Influenced by photography, Caillebotte here shows a unique aerial view of a street scene as seen from a balcony above...