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Cleveland Museum of Art

45 works

Brown-sailed boats on a choppy turquoise sea under a grey sky, with distant vessels along the horizon.

Boats at Berck-sur-Mer

Édouard Manet, 1873

Painting of fishing boats with billowing sails on calm water in a harbor, with a windmill and town buildings behind.

Fishing boats in a harbor

Allart van Everdingen, 1660

Ink landscape with misty mountains, bare trees, a house, a small boat and a bridge, with red seal stamps.

Miniature Album with Figures and Landscape (Landscape with Hill, House, Boat and Bridge)

Zeng Yandong, 1822

Elderly bearded man with glasses sits in a rustic workshop beside a sleeping dog, surrounded by tools and wood shavings.

A Builder of Boats

John George Brown, c. 1904

Hanging scroll of a woman in a blue kimono holding a fan on a boat beside a wooden pier on a misty river.

Beauty in a Boat on Sumida River

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1801-4

Painting of a covered pleasure boat on a river with a woman in grey kimono leaning over the side and blossoming trees.

Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

Teisai Hokuba, 1800s

Elderly bearded man seated in a rustic workshop with a sleeping dog, tools on the walls, and wood shavings on the floor.

Boat Builder

John George Brown, 1904

Figure Mooring a Boat

Figure Mooring a Boat

Kannan, mid-1500s

Ink landscape hanging scroll with a tall dark cliff, pines, distant mountains and small sailing boats on misty water.

Mountains and Distant Boats

Nagasawa Rosetsu

Woodblock print of women on a pleasure boat on a river, with a wooden bridge and riverbank houses behind them.

Leftmost Print from Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1792

Woodblock print of boatmen on a river under a full moon, with geese flying overhead and reed bundles on the bank.

Landscape with Ferry Boat, Geese and Full Moon

Totoya Hokkei, early 1830s

Woodblock print of a yellow rowboat beside a winding blue tidal channel on pale sand, with distant buoys and rocks.

The Derelict, or the Lost Boat

Arthur Wesley Dow, 1916

Three women in kimono relax on a covered pleasure boat, one smoking a pipe, above rippling water.

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1796-97

Woodblock print of Ryōgoku Bridge with boats on the river, riverside houses, and a crowded market below.

Sunset at Ryōgoku Bridge

Katsukawa Shunkō II, 1806-20

Woodblock print of travelers and a horse crossing a snowy boat bridge over a blue river, with a pine tree and thatched hut.

An Ancient Picture of the Boat Bridge at Sano in Kozuke Province from the series Curious Views of Famous Bridges in t…

Katsushika Hokusai, early 1830s

Woodblock print of a woman with a fishing rod and a man leaning over a boat, with his reflection in the water.

Couple in a Boat

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1799

Triptych woodblock print of women in kimono on a covered pleasure boat on a river, with trees and buildings on the far bank.

Women in a Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

Chobunsai Eishi, early 1790s

Japanese woodblock print of figures in a river ferry boat, with pine trees and a distant mountain in the background.

Passengers in a Ferry Boat on the Sumida River

Torii Kiyonaga, 1784

Pen drawing of a sailing ship with robed figures and haloed apostles, with angels above; verso shows two ship studies.

Navicella (recto); Two Drawings of Ships (verso)

Parri Spinelli, c. 1410s

Pencil and watercolor sketch of two sailboats with French flags on calm water, by Eugène Delacroix, 1854.

Two Boats at the Harbor of Dieppe

Eugène Delacroix, 1854

Etching of sailors on a deck gazing at distant ships on choppy water, with a large boom spar and coiled rope.

Salvage Men Approaching a Torpedoed Ship

Muirhead Bone, 1919

Monochrome drawing of sailboats moored in a harbor beside a castle with towers and a domed building.

Harbor Scene with Boats and Castle

Auguste Hervier, c. 1800s

Grey wash drawing of a rocky cove with a sailboat, figures, distant church towers and birds under a cloudy sky.

A Rocky Cove with Fishing Boats

Allart van Everdingen, late 1650s

Japanese-style drawing of lilies, peonies and carnations arranged along a dark diagonal stream on beige paper.

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Flower boat (Hanabune)

Kamisaka Sekka, 1909

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a masted boat in a harbor with a French flag, buildings, and clouds above the water.

Boat in Port

Paul Signac, c. 1929-1931

Etching of a narrow waterfront alley with ship rigging on the left, a brick building on the right, and a seated figure with a

Ship and Elevator

Otto H. Bacher, 1878

Woman in lavender kimono seated by a railing with hanging willow branches, painted in ink and colour on paper.

Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Asazuma in Her Boat (Asazuma-bune)

Kamisaka Sekka, 1909

Sepia etching of sailing ships tossed by rough waves beside a wooden pier under a stormy sky.

Liber Studiorum: Ships in a Breeze

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1808

Pointillist print of several grey-sailed ships on a calm, hazy yellow sea by Paul Signac.

Boats

Paul Signac, c. 1890s

Sepia lithograph of crowded boats on a wide river with pyramids on the far left under a pale sky.

Egypt and Nubia: Volume I - No. 4, Slave Boats on the Nile, View Looking Towards the Pyramids of Dashour and Saccara

Louis Haghe, 1838