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Ink painting of a sleeping bird on a plum branch with bamboo leaves and calligraphy on silk.

Bird Sleeping on a Plum Tree

Yang Ki-hun, early 1900s

Hanging scroll of sparrows and magpies among plum blossoms, bamboo and pine above a snowy rock.

Hundred Birds and the Three Friends

Bian Wenjin, 1400

Painting of a skeletal rider on a pale horse racing along a fenced track under a dark, stormy sky, with a serpent below.

The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)

Albert Pinkham Ryder, c. 1896-1908

Layla and Majnun sit beneath a tree in a rocky wilderness surrounded by deer, leopards, birds and hares, with a city in the d

Layla and Majnun in the wilderness with animals, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Sanwalah, c. 1590-1600

Six-panel screen with peacocks, peonies, pine, sparrows and ducks against a gold background.

Birds, Trees, and Flowers

Kanō Shōei, 1540

Painting of cattle drinking at a river edge with a herdsman, a ferry, a sailboat, and distant mountains under a pale sky.

A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle

Alvan Fisher, 1816

Oval landscape with a rider on a white horse on a path beside a pond, tall trees, and distant mountains under clouds.

Landscape with Rider on White Horse

Jean Achille Benouville, 1846

Ink painting of a gnarled tree with white plum blossoms, perched songbirds, bamboo, and a rock at the lower right.

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

Kano Motonobu, 1500s

Drawing of a mounted prince on a white horse hunting a roaring lion among rocks, with an attendant on foot below.

A Mounted Prince Hunting Lion in a Rocky Landscape

Khem Karan, c. 1600

Six-panel folding screen with pheasant, ducks, flying birds, peonies and reeds in a misty landscape.

Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons

Sesshū Tōyō, 1550-99

Hanging scroll of a winter mountain landscape with pine trees, bare branches, and small birds in ink on silk.

Birds in a Grove in a Mountainous Winter Landscape

Gao Tao, 1100s

Ink and color painting of a boy in a pale robe leading a grazing horse beside a bare willow tree, with calligraphy above.

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse

Six-panel screen of birds, lotus, peonies and irises over misty water and mountains in soft ink and muted colour.

Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons

Sesshū Tōyō, second half of the 1500s

Six-panel gold screen with peacocks on rocks, a pine tree, peonies, small birds and ducks among water plants.

Birds and Flowers

Kano Mitsunobu, late 1500s

Six-panel gold screen with falcons, a white crane, a pine and plum tree, peonies and irises, and mountains behind.

Birds and Flowers

Kanō Shōei, late 1500s

Painting of lions, a fox, deer and birds among animal skulls beside a rocky forest stream.

Lions and Fox in a Rugged Landscape

Roelant Savery, 1576-1637

Ink and color painting of a bird on a branch beside a large pink peony and blossoming leafy branches on silk.

Birds and Flowers

Sesshū Tōyō, mid-1400s-early 1500s

Painting of a small brown bird perched on a branch beside white peach blossoms and green leaves on silk.

Paintings after Ancient Masters: A Bird and Peach-Blossom Branch

Chen Hongshou, 1598-1652

Seated woman in black dress and white ruff beside a red-draped table, with a small white dog at her feet.

Portrait of a Woman with a Dog

Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot, c. 1635

Still life of dead birds, a wicker basket, and oysters in shells on a tiled floor against a dark background.

Still Life with Dead Birds and a Basket of Oysters

Germain Ribot, c. 1860-80

Dark wooden album cover with gilt Chinese characters, photographed standing on a grey background, showing its bound page edge

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings

Zhang Ruoai, 1700s

Hanging scroll of sparrows, magpies, plum blossoms and bamboo over rocks on a brown silk ground.

A Hundred Birds and the Three Friends

Bian Wenjin, 1400-1425

Persian calligraphy on gold panel framed by floral border with birds and deer on tan ground.

Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi, calligraphy: c. 1500-1540; border: c. 1630-40

Painting of a teal and yellow long-tailed bird perched on a branch of pink plum blossoms, with signature and red seals.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bird with Plum Blossoms)

Zhang Ruoai, 1700s

Two crested gray birds perch among white blossoms and pink buds on a branch, with a small insect near the lower right.

Flowers and Birds

Qian Xuan, first half of the 14th Century

Mounted rider in green robe beside brown horse, with antelopes, white bulls, rocky hills and turbaned attendants in a sandy l

Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar)

Sur Das Gujarati, 1605-07

Open album page with pink mallow flowers, yellow centers, green lobed leaves and buds on a pale background.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (mallow flowers)

Zhang Ruoai, 1700s

Ink painting of two sparrows on a blossoming plum branch above a rock, with a signature and red seal at right.

Sparrows on Blossoming Plum; A Sage with Tiger; Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Kano Tan'yu, 1661

Oval painting of a nude youth with a lyre riding a green sea horse over a gold patterned background.

Arion on a Sea Horse

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1855

Open album page with a climbing vine of blue flowers, green leaves and pods on a gray branch, watercolor on paper.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Climbing Blue Flowers)

Zhang Ruoai, 1700s