Manet’s The Funeral offers a powerful image of mourning and remembrance, making it especially fitting for messages of sympathy. A veiled procession moves through the gray streets of Paris, rendered with loose, spectral brushwork that blurs the line between life and death, ceremony and solitude.

Currently held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, courtesy of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909.