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120,178 works

Family group in an elegant room, with a manservant serving coffee from a silver tray beside a woman in a pink dress.

Portrait of a Venetian Family with a Manservant Serving Coffee

Pietro Longhi, c. 1752

Still life painting of a wine glass, silver tazza, walnuts, gold box and key on a green cloth.

Still Life with a Silver Tazza

Willem Claesz. Heda, 1630

Brown monochrome painting of muscular men battling centaurs, one wielding a club, with a bow drawn at upper right.

Hercules Slays the Centaurs (Jupiter Defeating the Centaurs)

Jacob van Campen, 1645

Oil painting of a bright Gothic church interior with white columns, tiled floor, small figures, and a dog in the foreground.

Interior of the Oude Kerk in Delft from the Choir toward the Portal

Cornelis de Man, 1660 - 1690

Brown wash study of a muscular nude man lifting an arm above a snarling dog, Cerberus, at lower left.

Triomf over het kwaad: Simson verscheurt de leeuw | Pluto en Cerberus

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1555

Woman in patterned kimono smoking a pipe on a bench beside a willow tree and river, painted on silk.

Landscape: a <em>yujo</em> sitting on a bench

Miyagawa Chôshun

Hanging scroll of a seated Buddha flanked by two bodhisattvas on lion and elephant, with guardian figures below.

Buddhist triad of Shakyamuni, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra

Kose Arishige （）, 1500

Ink drawing of fishermen in small boats beside a leaning pine tree and reeds on rippling water.

Landscape: figures fishing from boats

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging wisteria blossoms on curving branches against a grey-green ground, with a black seal at lower left.

Wisteria blossoms

Handscroll painting of small mounted horsemen and banners crossing pale grey rolling hills in soft ink wash.

Treaty at the Bian Bridge 《汴橋會盟圖》

Horizontal scroll painting of green mountains, islands, pavilions and boats on water under a brown silk ground.

Ocean sky, rising sun

Ink landscape of a small boat with figures on a river below misty cliffs, with a pine tree in the lower right.

Boating to Red Cliff

Painting on silk of a riverside pavilion with pine trees, a lake, rocky cliffs, and two small figures on a path.

Scholar arriving at a riverside pavilion

Painted scroll of robed figures in a willow-shaded courtyard garden with blue rocks and tiled pavilions.

Immortals playing weiqi on Penglai

Leng Qian, 1640

Handscroll painting of butterflies, moths and a praying mantis among flowers and leaves on a brown silk ground.

Flowers, butterflies and other insects

Handscroll landscape of rugged mountains, trees, pavilions and small travelers beside water, painted in muted ochre tones.

Traveling in snowy mountains

Hanging scroll of three women in robes beside rocks and a tall plant with red flower spikes on a gold ground.

Promenading ladies

Zhou Fang, 1300

Hanging scroll of fisher folk gathered on a moored boat under a willow tree, with sailboats on misty water.

Fisher folk moored under trees

Hanging scroll of seated Guanyin on a lotus throne, holding a red vase with a willow twig against a brown ground.

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with vase and willow twig

Ink handscroll of demons and warriors fighting beside pines and a waterfall on a rocky mountain slope.

Clearing out a mountain forest

Misty Chinese landscape painting with a pagoda on a cliff, pine trees, figures on a riverbank and a boat on the water.

Picnic on the Riverbank

Probably by Yuan Jiang, 1700

Chinese hanging scroll portrait of a seated man in a brown robe with a standing attendant, a bamboo plant and incense burner

Portrait of a man and his servant

Hanging scroll of eight dark birds among reeds and bamboo on a brown silk ground, some perched and some in flight.

Eight mynah birds with bamboo and orchids

Ink line drawing on silk showing a seated woman in a tent, attendants, a horse, and grazing sheep, with calligraphy.

The captivity of Cai Wenji

Traditionally attributed to Gong Kai

Hanging scroll of misty lake landscape with trees, distant mountains, a small boat, and two figures in the foreground.

Awaiting the ferry

Muted brown painting of gnarled pines beside a lattice-screened pavilion with tiled roofs in a courtyard setting.

Wind in the courtyard pines

Half-length oil portrait of a bearded man in a gray military coat with gold collar against a brown background.

Joseph Eggleston Johnston

Benjamin Franklin Reinhart, 1861

Oil portrait of an elderly clergyman in dark robes with a gold cross, gesturing before gold drapery and sky.

Jean Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus

Portrait of a seated woman in a brown dress, lace cap and blue ribbons, resting her arm on a table.

Anne Catharine Hoof Green

Charles Willson Peale, 1760

Painting of two women in a misty green meadow beneath a band of trees, one seated in blue and one standing in a dark dress.

The Hermit Thrush

Thomas Dewing, 1890