New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Brown

115,747 works

Hanging scroll of two peacocks among pink, white and purple peonies on a rock, with a pale background.

Peacocks and Peonies

Tani Bunchō, 1820

Handscroll painting of riders performing acrobatic horsemanship on galloping horses with red and green saddle trappings.

Horsemanship demonstration

Zhao Yong, 19th century

Handscroll painting of wisteria, narcissus, peonies and pink blossoms scattered across a golden silk background.

The Hundred Flowers

Two spotted deer rest by a misty lake while two monkeys sit in a gnarled pine tree above, with mountains behind.

Deer and Monkeys

Kawanabe Kyōsai, ca. 1887

Ink painting of a tanuki raccoon dog peering down at its reflection in water on a hanging scroll.

Tanuki (Racoon Dog) Viewing Its Reflection in Water

Kawanabe Kyōsai, late 19th century

Hanging scroll of a dark carp swimming up a misty waterfall in soft gray ink on a tan silk ground.

Carp Ascending Waterfall

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Hanging scroll of townspeople and travelers sheltering under a covered porch, with a bullock, umbrella and flower vase.

Taking Shelter from the Rain

Teisai Hokuba, early to mid-19th century

Ink painting of the laughing deity Hotei carrying a sack and staff, with a calligraphic inscription above.

Hotei

Kanō Takanobu, 1616

Hanging scroll of figures in a blossoming garden with rocks, wooden bridges, a stream, and a pale moon overhead.

Fragrant Garden under a Hazy Moon

Nakabayashi Chikutō, 1843

Hanging scroll of a plum tree in white bloom above two white waterfowl swimming in rippling water beside reeds.

Plum Tree and Waterfowl

Kano Masanobu, early 16th century

Loose oil sketch of a family group outdoors: a standing man in red, a woman in white holding a child, and a seated girl.

Family Group

Thomas Couture, 1866

Oil portrait of a smiling man in a wide-brimmed hat holding carved bone clappers, seated beside a wooden box.

The Bone Player

William Sidney Mount, 1856

Painting of a shepherd seated among goats, sheep and a dog in a rocky wooded landscape with a distant ruin.

Landscape with a Shepherd and a Flock

Painting of travelers with horses, a pig and a child on a snowy road before misty ruins and arches.

Gypsies

Aleksander Kotsis

Large battle painting of a mounted commander and peasant soldiers with scythes, banners, a cannon, and wounded men.

Kościuszko at Racławice

Jan Matejko, 1888

Painting of a large brown and white cow in a pasture, with resting cows, a boy on a fence, and a distant windmill.

Cows in the pasture

Philibert-Benoît de La Rue

Oil painting of three mounted riders in embroidered 18th-century dress, with a white horse and a city view at right.

Duke Ernest Augustus II Constantine on horseback

Johann Friedrich Löber, 1756

Head of a woman in profile

Franciszek Żmurko, 1893

Painting of a village church spire and houses behind tall poplar trees under a blue sky.

Church in Stary Sącz

Szymon Buchbinder, 1880

Loose painting of a hospital ward with beds, a standing woman in blue, and hunched figures beside a window.

Hospital Ward

Edvard Munch, 1897

Loose expressive painting of a reclining nude woman seen from behind, against red and orange brushwork with a blue cushion.

Nude Female Back

Edvard Munch, 1917

Symbolic painting with women, a haloed figure and reclining body in red, orange and green washes.

Symbolic Study

Edvard Munch, 1893

Painting of a narrow ditch with reeds winding through green marshy meadow toward a distant horizon.

A Ditch

Lorenz Frølich, 1850

Painting of a sportsman in a top hat holding a game bird, with a gun, saddled horse and two dogs in a landscape.

J.G. Shaddick, the Celebrated Sportsman

Benjamin Marshall, 1806

Painting of dark rocks on a shoreline under a red, cloudy sky, with two small sailboats on the calm sea.

The Black Rocks at Trouville

Gustave Courbet, 1865/1866

Portrait of a man in a brown coat and white wig, leaning on a cane beside a stone column against a dark background.

Thomas Amory II

John Singleton Copley, c. 1770-1772

Painting of a shipwreck on a stormy sea with two men on the shore and dancing women in red drapes beside wooded hills.

Telemachus and Calypso

Benjamin West, c. 1809

Painting of a winding park path around an oval pond, tall trees, a white obelisk, and a couple in period dress.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Painting of a tepee village on a prairie at sunset, with figures, canoes on a river, and a glowing sky.

Sioux Village - Lac du Cygne

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Three men in painted hide robes and feathered headdresses stand and sit on open grassland under a pale sky.

Three Blackfoot Men

George Catlin, 1855/1869