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    360 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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Results for "First Steps"12 records

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The Virgin helping infant Christ Child take his first steps by Jacinto Enciso, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Virgin helping infant Christ Child take his first steps

Jacinto Enciso

19th century · Wood engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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First Steps by Jean-François Millet, The Cleveland Museum of Art

First Steps

Jean-François Millet (d. 1875)

c. 1859–66 · Drawing, black chalk and pastel on beige laid paper

Cleared · CC0

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First Steps by Franz Ludwig Catel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

First Steps

Franz Ludwig Catel (d. 1856)

ca. 1820–25 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Spanish Steps by Maurice Prendergast, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Spanish Steps

Maurice Prendergast (d. 1924)

1898–99 · Monotype, color monotype

Cleared · CC0

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First Steps, after Millet by Vincent van Gogh, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

First Steps, after Millet

Vincent van Gogh (d. 1890)

1890 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Eleven-Headed Guanyin by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Eleven-Headed Guanyin

Unrecorded maker

1100–1200 · Sculpture, wood with polychromy and cut gold

Cleared · CC0

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

First Steps, plate 5 from "Twelve Woodcuts in Black and Colors" (The First Portfolio)

Lucien Pissarro (d. 1944)

1890 · Color wood engraving

In copyright

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The Brahman comes upon a lion who has a deer and a gazelle as his viziers, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first Night by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Brahman comes upon a lion who has a deer and a gazelle as his viziers, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first Night

Unrecorded maker

c. 1560 · Painting, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

First Steps

Albert Sterner (d. 1946)

ca. 1896 · Black chalk on light tan wove paper

In copyright

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Low Tide, Oporto by Orville Houghton Peets, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Low Tide, Oporto

Orville Houghton Peets (d. 1968)

c. 1924 · Print, etching

Cleared · CC0

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

First steps, a mother bent over supporting a child

Jean Charlot (d. 1979)

1936 · Lithograph on stone

In copyright

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Stepped Pitcher by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Stepped Pitcher

Unrecorded maker

400–600 CE · Metalwork, silver

Cleared · CC0

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