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Painting of a young bird beside white roses and buds, with a butterfly flying at upper left on grey silk.

Roses, Young Bird and a Butterfly

Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1887

Hanging scroll of butterflies above bamboo stalks, pink clover, and a patterned cushion on a pale silk ground.

Garden Scene

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Ink painting of the laughing monk Hotei carrying a sack over his shoulder, on a grey ground within a brocade mount.

Hotei, flanked by panels of birds

Kenkō Shōkei, late 15th century

Ink sketch of Krishna in a river beneath a coiled serpent, with a procession of robed musicians above.

Krishna Subdues the Serpent Kaliya in the Yamuna River: Illustration from a Bhagavata Purana Series

Nainsukh, ca. 1780

Hanging scroll with Heart Sutra calligraphy above an ink landscape of rocks and a blossoming tree.

Heart Sutra (Hannya Shingyō) and Landscape

Two hanging scrolls of ink cranes: one standing by a pine, the other beside a bamboo stalk on a misty shore.

Cranes

Soga Shōhaku, ca. 1760

Hanging scroll of two cranes calling beneath bamboo and a full moon, with ink and soft color on silk.

Pair of Cranes in Bamboo Grove

Tanomura Chikuden, ca. early 1830s

Painting of a seated woman, a standing man with dogs, a cupid and an elderly woman in a dark wooded setting.

Don Juan and Constance

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Framed painting of a male and female bufflehead duck swimming among reeds and lily pads under a cloudy sky.

Buffel Head Ducks

Painting of a marsh at sunset with a red sun, pink clouds, a creek and a wading heron in the foreground.

Sunset on Long Beach

Martin Johnson Heade

Painting of a bearded man in a skullcap and fur collar, looking upward against a dark green background.

Head of a Jew

Washington Allston, 1817

Mounted soldiers gallop past a twisted tree at dusk, one raising a saber while riflemen follow along a dusty road.

The Ride of General Marion's Men

Alonzo Chappel, 1850

Painted interior of a palace gallery with gilded frames, a marble statue, and mythological ceiling paintings.

Sala dell'Iliade in the Pitti Palace, Florence

Francesco Maestosi, 1870

Painting of peasants drinking and talking around a barrel in a dim, thatched-roof tavern with a glowing fireplace.

Peasants in the Tavern (In the Tavern)

Bartholomeus Molenaer

Painting of robed hermits resting in a wooded landscape near a wooden cross and skull, with a flying figure above.

Hermits (Anachorets)

Alessandro Magnasco, 1712

Oil portrait of a man in ermine-trimmed coronation robes, holding a sceptre beside a crown, before a classical column.

Portrait of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in Coronation Robes

Marcello Bacciarelli, 1790

Full-length portrait of an elderly bearded man in a blue velvet coat seated in an armchair before hanging weapons.

Portrait of Piotr Moszyński

Jan Matejko, 1874

Painting of a gilded altarpiece in a vaulted chapel, with a crucifix and a kneeling man praying on a stone floor.

Interior of a Chapel at the Parish Church in Krosno

Aleksander Gryglewski

Painting of a sunlit forest ravine with rock cliffs, a leaning tree, and two small figures resting on the slope.

Rocks

Henryk Grabiński, 1878

Oil painting of a rough log hut with a dark doorway among rocks and shrubs on a mountain slope under a stormy sky.

Hut in the Tatra Mountains

Aleksander Mroczkowski, 1899

Painting of a blue-clad youth with iridescent wings on a path, watched by a barefoot boy with a flute among sheep in a field.

Following the Angel - Triptych (Central Part)

Jacek Malczewski, 1901

Loose brushwork painting of a snowy backyard with a wooden fence, bare trees, a brick building and a cat in the snow.

Winter Landscape

Jacek Malczewski, 1902

Painting of a domed mosque with plain walls on a sandy plain, surrounded by cacti and trees under a cloudy sky.

Kairouan (The Mosque of the Sword)

Jan Ciągliński, 1911

Painting of pilgrims with crosses and staffs walking and kneeling among tall pine trees in a forest clearing.

Group of Pilgrims

Julian Fałat, 1912

Dim church interior with vaulted arches, hanging lamps, a kneeling monk reading, pilgrims, and icons on the walls.

Interior of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

Maxim Vorobiev, 1835

Painting of Gothic ruins opening to a pastoral scene with sheep, a horse rider, and a marble figure group.

Fantastic ruins with a pastoral

Jean-François Depelchin, 1800

Painting of crumbling classical columns and arches framing a calm bay with sailing boats and small figures in the foreground.

Sea bay

Leonardo Coccorante

Painting of a forest paradise with lions, leopards, a camel, horses and birds gathered peacefully under a stormy sky.

Paradise

Gillis d'Hondecoeter

Painting of a snowy city square at dusk with soldiers on horseback, cloaked figures, fallen men and horses beside a colonnade

Retreat of Napoleon's army

Oil sketch of a woman pouring water for horses at a waterhole beside a wooden shelter and trees.

Horses at the waterhole, sketch

Wacław Pawliszak, 1898