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Cleveland Museum of Art

6,365 works

Ink landscape scroll with misty peaks, pine trees, a waterfall, a small bridge with two figures, and a walled retreat.

Clouds Visiting a Mountain Retreat

Loose oil sketch of figures in dark dresses with red accents playing in surf on a sandy beach.

Beach Study (verso)

Edward Henry Potthast, c. 1910

Calligraphy page with Persian script in framed cartouches, gold borders and blue floral panels, on a blue and red mount.

Calligraphic exercises and verses of Hafiz (Persian, about 1325-1389) (verso)

Mahmud ibn Ishaq al-Shahabi, 1575-76

Painting of a woman in orange raising a golden vessel toward a sun above green hills and rocky peaks, with swans and lotuses

A girl worshipping the rising sun (Surya puja)

Chokha, c. 1810

Ten hand-coloured panels showing the ten avatars of Vishnu, including fish, tortoise, boar, and warrior figures.

Das Avataras, Ten Incarnations of Vishnu (verso), from a Kalighat album

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy, c. 1890

Folding screen of ten panels with ink paintings of bamboo stalks and leaves, with calligraphy and red seals.

Bamboos in Wind

Kim Jin-woo, 1934

Oval portrait miniature of a young woman with dark centre-parted hair, set in a brass frame, signed Martha S. Baker 1899.

An Art Student of Paris

Martha S. Baker, 1899

Medieval painted miniature of the Deposition: haloed figures lower a body from a cross against a gold background, with a knee

Miniature Excised from the "Potocki Psalter": The Deposition

Master of the Potocki Workshop, c. 1240-1250

Woman in red dress gestures toward a caged parrot on a tiled terrace, with Persian text beneath the painted scene.

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Tara 1, c. 1560

Miniature painting of a woman on a platform and two men near a doorway, with a sword, under striped domed pavilions.

A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband wh…

Gujarati, c. 1560

Miniature painting of courtly figures and swordsmen above Persian text, from a Tuti-nama manuscript page.

The prince sent back to the place of execution for the sixth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Suraju, c. 1560

Miniature painting of a man picking oranges for a woman beside a parrot cage, with onlookers and Persian text above.

The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a P…

Suraju, c. 1560

Gujarati miniature of a seated ruler, a woman, and a kneeling man facing an armed guard with sword and shield on green ground

The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a T…

Gujarati, c. 1560

Miniature painting of a green parrot on a man's hand, with seated courtiers on a gold background beneath Persian text.

The magic parrot of the merchant talks to the vizier’s son, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

Lalu, c. 1560

Portrait of a smiling man in a powdered wig, grey coat with gold buttons and white ruffled jabot, on tan paper.

Portrait of Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet, Governor-General of India

John Smart, 1787

Seated man in green coat at a candlelit desk with a microscope and writing tools, dark interior background.

A Scientist Seated at a Desk by Candlelight

Anna Dorothea Therbusch, 1755

Indian miniature: seated prince in a pavilion with attendants above, and a sword-bearing executioner with a kneeling figure b

The handmaiden appeals for justice and the prince is taken to the execution site for the fourth time, from a Tuti-nam…

Tara 2, c. 1560

Persian miniature: a carpenter carves, a woman holds a green parrot, and a man reclines on a carpet beneath Persian text.

The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made…

Lalu, c. 1560

Ink and gold painting of a robed rider on a dappled horse with two attendants on a gold-flecked background.

Crossing at Sano

Tawaraya Sotatsu, c. 1600-1640

Two illuminated choir book pages with musical notation, a saint in a gilded frame, and a funeral scene in an arched interior.

Pair of Graduals: Initial (M) with St. Andrew (recto) and Mass for the Dead (recto)

Jacopo Filippo d' Argenta, c. 1480

Ink painting of a tiger gazing upward with a second tiger beside it, diagonal wind streaks and calligraphy on a pale scroll.

Tiger in Wind

Painting of a seated woman in red with a floral wreath beside a nude winged youth, with a lyre and flowers under a tree.

Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry

Charles Meynier, 1800

Illuminated manuscript page with a Descent from the Cross miniature, gold foliage border, and Latin text.

Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 192r, Descent from the Cross

Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates, c. 1405

Illuminated manuscript page of the Presentation in the Temple with Mary and the infant Christ in a Gothic church, ornate gold

Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 82vr, Presentation in the Temple (Nones)

Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates, c. 1405

Manuscript page of the Crucifixion with mourners in blue and red, framed by a gold border of painted flowers and butterflies.

Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 72v, Crucifixion

Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian, c. 1500

Oval miniature portrait of a smiling woman in a white turban holding a blue vase of flowers, in a gilt frame.

Portrait of Anne Vallayer-Coster

François Dumont, 1804

Round portrait miniature of a man in a black cap, fur collar and gold chain, set in a gilded frame.

Sir Thomas More

Hans Holbein the Younger

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, terraced fields, a river, and a small fishing boat with a figure in the lower left.

Fishing in a Springtime Valley

Oil sketch of bearded prophets, a robed figure with a lion, and putti on clouds against a brown ground.

Sketch for "The Four Prophets of Israel" (for Il Gesù, Rome)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, c. 1675-1677

Ink landscape of a large gnarled tree on a hillside, with a stone well and three robed figures on a path.

The Fool's Spring, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou

Shen Zhou, after 1490