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23,908 works

Tibetan thangka showing seated and standing arhats in a landscape with bamboo, mountains, a dragon, and waves.

Arhats (Elders) Angaja, Vanavasin, Vajriputra, and Kanakavatsa, from a Seven-Part Set Portraying the Sixteen Arhats

Unknown artist, 19th century

Tibetan painting on cloth of four seated arhats with haloes, a leopard, and birds in a mountain landscape with flowering tree

Arhats (Elders) Bakula, Chudapantaka, Pantaka, and Gopala, from a Seven-Part Set Portraying the Sixteen Arhats

Unknown artist, 19th century

Tibetan scroll painting of a robed figure with a tiger, Buddhist deities in clouds, and a seated Buddha in a landscape.

Upasaka Dharmatala, Lay Devotee to the Sixteen Arhats (Elders), from a Seven-Part Set

Unknown artist, 19th century

Tibetan scroll painting of a seated Buddhist master in red robes with a green halo, flowers and clouds behind, and attendants

Indian Buddhist Master Shantarakshita (725-788 CE), Included with a Seven-Part Set of the Sixteen Arhats (Elders)

Unknown artist, 19th century

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, a kneeling king in gold robe, and a landscape with horsemen.

Adoration of the Magi

Jan van Scorel, c. 1519

Painting of a sunlit, moss-covered rock outcrop rising among dark forest trees, with white wildflowers in the foreground.

Study of Rocks in Pearson's Ravine

Asher Brown Durand, Mid-1850s

Painting of veiled women in dark robes with jars gathering near a river bank under a rising moon and green fields.

Water Carriers on the Nile

John Singer Sargent, 1891

A Woman at the Élysée Montmartre (Femme à l’Élysée Montmartre)

Louis Anquetin, 1888

Painting of geese wading in shallow water with grazing horses on a distant grassy bank under a dusky sky.

Les Oies

Theodor Philipsen, 1897

Painted portrait of a woman in a white headscarf and blue dress, framed in a circular medallion on a red background.

Lucrezia di Lippo di Iacopo Guidi

Andrea del Sarto, 1525-28

Venus pours a healing light on the wounded Aeneas while Cupid and an older man attend him in a cloudy landscape.

Venus Healing Aeneas

Merry-Joseph Blondel, c. 1820

Paris

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, c. 1787

Half-length portrait of a red-haired woman with a white headband and golden shawl against a dark background.

Helen

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, c. 1787

Oval miniature portrait of a young man in a dark coat and blue waistcoat, with sailing ships in the background.

Portrait of Samuel Armitage

Thomas Birch, c. 1840

Dark painting of a white-shrouded figure carried by a man in a yellow sash, watched by a crowd of onlookers in shadow.

The Hanged Monk

Francisco Goya, c. 1810

Oval miniature portrait of a gentleman in a white wig, brown coat and orange waistcoat, in a gilt frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

J. Lacon, c. 1740

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curled hair, blue eyes and white dress against a pale blue background, in a gold fram

Portrait of a Woman in White Dress

Unknown artist, c. 1800

Painting of a fantastical paradise garden with a central fountain, nude figures, animals and strange rock formations.

The Garden of Paradise

Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500-c. 1520

Standing bearded saint with an axe rests a hand on a kneeling donor in white robes before a brick wall and gilded arch.

Saint Matthias (?) and a Donor (recto); Saint Andrew (verso)

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, c. 1520

Panel painting of Saint Peter with keys and book beside a veiled donor in black before a brick wall, c. 1520.

Saint Peter and a Donor (recto); Saint Thomas (verso)

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, c. 1520

Gold-framed medieval panel of Christ crucified with angels and kneeling figures in red and gold robes below.

Christ on the Living Cross

Follower of the Master of Saint Veronica, c. 1420

Fern fronds in grey and ochre wash beside vertical columns of black calligraphy on pale paper.

A Poem from the Shin Kokinshu with Design of Shinobugusa (Moss Fern)

Hon'ami Koetsu, 1605-10

Painting of a seated woman with a boy holding grapes, a dog and a white hen, and two men behind a rock ledge.

Pastoral Scene

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1740

Nude woman with arms raised, hair blending into a fiery sun, before a gold disc and blue starry sky, in a gilded shrine.

Ad Astra

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1894-96

Two men rest on the ground under tall cypress trees beside a blue sea, painted in loose, sunlit brushstrokes.

Under the Cypress Trees at Corfu

John Singer Sargent, 1909

Six-panel gold leaf folding screen with a large ink-painted tiger snarling across the central panels.

Dragon and Tiger

Kishi Ganku, dated 1835

Painting of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, with the young Saint John the Baptist kneeling beside them under citrus tree

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Antonio da Correggio, c. 1515

Miniature portrait of a woman with curled hair, pearls and a blue gown, set in an ornate gold oval brooch frame.

Portrait of Elizabeth Patterson (?)

After Bernhard de Guérard, 19th century

Two-panel folding screen of ink landscape with trees, mountains, thatched houses and small figures in scenes of daily life.

Monkey Trainers and Scenes of Chinese Life

Kanō Yasunobu, 17th century

Seated official in blue dragon robe and red hat before an ink landscape screen, Qing dynasty painting.

Portrait of an Official

Gu Jianlong, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 17th century