One painting from every year of the 19th century, in chronological order.
1801: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David
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1801: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David
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1802: Woman Drinking Wine by Kitagawa Utamaro
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1803: Self-portrait as Timanthes by James Barry
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1804: Vert-Vert by Fleury François Richard
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1805: The Death of Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini
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1806: Lovers Under the Moon by Shin Yun-bok
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1807: Abhisarika Nayika (The Heroine Going to Meet Her Lover at an Appointed Place) by Mola Ram
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1808: La Grande Baigneuse by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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1809: The Colossus by Francisco Goya
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1810:The Battle of Austerlitz by François Gérard
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1811: The Delhi Darbar by Ghulam Murtaza Khan
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1812: The Tournament by Pierre RΓ©voil
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1813: Gothic Cathedral by a River by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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1814: Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar by Mihr 'Ali
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1815: A View through Three of the North-Western Arches of the Third Storey of the Coliseum by C.W. Eckersburg
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1816: Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West
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1817: The Battle of Haldighati by Chokha
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1818: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
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1819: The Raft of the Medusa by ThΓ©odore GΓ©ricault
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1820: Ghost of a Flea by William Blake
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1821: Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees by Charles Bird King
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1822: The Oath of the Ancestors by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
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1823: The Eruption of Vesuvius by Johan Christian Dahl
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1824: The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel by Louis Daguerre
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1825: View from the Artist's Window by Martinus RΓΈrbye
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1826: The Bridge at Narni by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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1827: Still Life of Flowers (after Jan van Huysum) by MΓ©lanie de Comolera
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1828: The Vale of Dedham by John Constable
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1829: Portrait of Pauline HΓΌbner by Julius HΓΌbner
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1830: Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix
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1831: Self-Portrait by Mazhar Ali Khan
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1832: Fine Wind, Clear Morning by Hokusai
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1833: The Titan's Goblet by Thomas Cole
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1834: The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks
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1835: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons on 16th October 1834 by JMW Turner
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1836: Study (Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea) by Hippolyte Flandrin
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1837: The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner by Edwin Landseer
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1838: Autumn Morning on Lake Sortedam by Christen KΓΈbke
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1839: The Poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg
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1840: Five Bats by Ju Chao
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1841: An American Ship in Distress by Thomas Birch
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1842: Manfred on the Jungfrau by Ford Madox Brown
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1843: Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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1844: Desperation by Gustave Courbet
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1845: A Groom Holding Two Carriage Horses by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
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1846: The Forest in Winter at Sunset by ThΓ©odore Rousseau
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1847: Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel
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1848: Germania by Philipp Veit
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1849: Stormy Sea at Night by Ivan Aivazovsky
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1850: Self-Portrait by Ren Xiong
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1851: The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin
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1852: Ophelia by John Everett Millais
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1853: Gunjeopdo by Nam Gye-u
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1854: View of the Red Fort by Ghulam Ali Khan
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1855: Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna by Frederic Leighton
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1856: Portrait of Ardashir Mirza by Sani al Mulk
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1857: The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet
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1858: Past and Present (Triptych) by Augustus Egg
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1859: The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church
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1860: Ladies Dancing Around a Samovar by Isma'il Jalayir
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1861: Foreign Traders in Yokohama by Utagawa Satahide
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1862: StaΕczyk by Jan Matejko
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1863: Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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1864: The Third Class Carriage by HonorΓ© Daumier
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1865: Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud by Alfred Sisley
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1866: Dancing Fairies by August MalmstrΓΆm
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1867: Professional Sumo Wrestlers by Utigawa Kuniteru II
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1868: Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains by Albert Bierstadt
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1869: The Harbour at Lorient by Berthe Morisot
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1870: The Spanish Wedding by MariΓ Fortuny
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1871: The Woods at Marly by Camille Pissarro
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1872: The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo
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1873: Fray BartolomΓ© de las Casas by Felix Parra
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1874: Boating by Edouard Manet
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1875: Nocturne in Black and Gold β The Falling Rocket by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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1876: Dance at Le moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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1877: Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte
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1878: Knight at the Crossroads by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov
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1879: In the Luxembourg Garden by John Singer Sargent
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1880: Tea by Mary Cassatt
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1881: Crows Fly by Red Sky at Sunset by Shibata Zeshin
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1882: Portrait of a Hamal from Moush by Simon Agopyan
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1883: Maharani Lakshmi Bayi by Raja Ravi Varma
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1884: Bathers at Asnières by Georges Seurat
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1885: Two Dragons in Clouds by KanΕ HΕgai
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1886: Still Life with Cherries and Peaches by Paul CΓ©zanne
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1887: From an album by Watanabe ShΕtei
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1888: The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse
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1889: Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh
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1890: Reading the Koran by Osman Hamdi Bey
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1891: Tiger in a Tropical Storm or Surprised! by Henri Rousseau
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1892: Rouen Cathedral, Façade (sunset), Harmony in Gold and Blue by Claude Monet
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1893: The Scream by Edvard Munch
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1894: Over Eternal Peace by Isaac Levitan
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1895: Vicious Circle by Jacek Malczewski
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1896: Garden of Death by Hugo Simberg
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1897: Dragon Rising up to Heaven by Ogata Gekko
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1898: Helen of Troy by Evelyn de Morgan
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1899: The Doshan Tappeh Street by Kamal-ol-Molk
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1900: Le Moulin de la Galette by Pablo Picasso
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