Art Timeline

Artwork images: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain). Dates follow the museum’s catalogue; “c.” means approximately. Some titles are shortened for the cards.

• The Harvesters — Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565
• Juan de Pareja — Diego Velázquez, 1650
• Self-Portrait — Rembrandt van Rijn, 1660
• The Death of Socrates — Jacques Louis David, 1787
• The Great Wave — Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830–32
• A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers — Edgar Degas, 1865
• Wheat Field with Cypresses — Vincent van Gogh, 1889
• Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses — Paul Cézanne, c. 1890