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Here is my submission link- https://on.contra.com/rQfmBg
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Here are the hyperlinks to the artworks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, matched to the images provided:
Ladscape.jpg: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt (1863)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10154
Protagonist.jpg: Repose by John White Alexander (1895)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10065
Wine pot.jpg: Pot (Edo period, 1820)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/47019
Elite man.jpg: Portrait of a Young Man by Bronzino (1530s)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435802
Elite woman.jpeg: Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent (1883–84)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12127
Home.jpg: Landscape with a Cottage by Pieter de Molijn (1629)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437102
Horse boy.jpg: Don Baltasar Carlos on horseback, after Velázquez by Francisco de Goya (1778)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397904
Intoxicated erotic statue.jpg: The Intoxication of Wine by Clodion (ca. 1780–90)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/192727
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