Anthony van Dyck. Rinaldo and Armida, 1634-5. Oil on wood, 57 x 41.5 cm. The National Gallery, London. Bought, 1871. © The National Gallery, London

Andrea Mantegna. The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome, 1505-6. Glue on linen, 76.5 x 273 cm. The National Gallery, London. Bought, 1873. © The National Gallery, London

Louis-Léopold Boilly. A Girl at a Window, after 1799. Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 45.7 cm. The National Gallery, London. Bequeathed by Emilie Yznaga, 1945. © The National Gallery, London

Peder Balke. The Tempest, about 1862. Oil on wood panel, 10.3 x 12.2 cm. The National Gallery, London. Presented by Danny and Gry Katz, 2010. © The National Gallery, London

Stained Glass Panel with Quarries and a Female Head, about 1320-4. Paris. Grisaille glass with silver stain, 59.5 x 39 cm. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 

Célestin Joseph Blanc. Head of a Girl, 1867. Oil on panel, 26.7 × 21.6 cm. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Gustave Le Gray. The Great Wave, Sète, about 1857. Albumen print from two collodion-on-glass negatives, 34.3 × 41.2 cm. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Hendrik Goltzius. Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Would Freeze, 1599. Chalk, ink and oil on paper, 43.5 × 32.1 cm. The British Museum, London. © The Trustees of The British Museum

Bernard Lépicié after Jean-Siméon Chardin. Back from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse), 1742. Etching and engraving, 37.5 × 25.9 cm. The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, with the aid of a contribution from the National Fund and from E.E. Baron, August 1940. © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jacob de Wit. Jupiter and Ganymede, 1739. Oil on canvas, 36.9 × 55.5 cm. © Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Museums

Eugène Carrière. Maternity (Suffering), about 1896-7. Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm. © Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru - National Museum of Wales

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and workshop. Odalisque in Grisaille, about 1824-34. Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 109.2 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1938, 38.65. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence

Bernardino Nocchi after Antonio Canova. Deposition, 1800. Oil on canvas, 88 × 65.5 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago. Restricted gift of Scott, Lynda, Jonathan, and Lindsey Canel, 2013.57. © The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource / Scala, Florence

Etienne Moulinneuf after Jean-Siméon Chardin. Back from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse), about 1770. Oil on canvas, 46 × 37.9 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, European Art Acquisition Fund, M.2007.24. © Museum Associates / LACMA

Albrecht Dürer. A Woman in Netherlandish Dress seen from behind (Drapery Study), 1521. Brush and black ink, heightened with white, background with brush and black ink, on grey-violet prepared paper, 28 × 21.1 cm. The Albertina Museum, Vienna. © Albertina, Vienna

Jan van Vliet after Rembrandt. Christ Before Pilate (Ecce Homo), 1635-6. Etching and engraving, 54.9 × 44.7 cm. The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

François Boucher. Vulcan's Forge (Vulcan presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas), 1756. Oil sketch on canvas, 38 × 43 cm. © Paris, Les Arts Décoratifs / Jean Tholance

Domenico Ghirlandaio or workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Drapery Study (possibly study for Saint Matthew and an Angel), about 1477. Brown and black wash heightened with white on brown linen, 26.2 x 17.1 cm. © Kupferstichkabinett. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: Jörg P. Anders

Francisco Bayeu y Subías. The Spanish Monarchy, 1794. Oil on canvas, 63 x 59 cm. © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Adriaen van der Werff. Samson and Delilah (?), about 1693. Oil on canvas, 35.7 x 28.7 cm. © Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris

Willem van de Velde The Elder. Departure of the Dutch Fleet the 9th of June 1645, about 1650. India ink on prepared panel, 74.3 × 105.4 cm. © Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Jan Brueghel the Elder. Visit to the Peasants, about 1597. Oil on panel, 30.5 × 46.5 cm. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. © www.lukasweb.be - Art in Flanders vzw, photo Hugo Maertens

Gustave Moreau. Diomedes devoured by his Horses, date unknown. Oil on canvas, 130 × 196 cm. Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris. © RMN-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda