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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Hanging scroll on gold ground: a figure in red robes holds a torch by a staircase while dark-robed attendants kneel below.

月次絵

Sakai Hōitsu, 1796

Ink painting of a pavilion with figures among bare trees, bamboo, a pine and tiled rooftops in a garden.

Drinking in the Bamboo Garden

Painting of a sunlit path beside a green fence covered in red roses, with dark evergreen trees and a blue sky behind.

Landscape

Wilhelm Trübner, 1910

Oil self-portrait of a man with a moustache holding a palette and brush, with a dark painting in a gilt frame behind him.

Self-portrait

Frederick William MacMonnies, 1904

Hanging scroll of a rider on a brown horse crossing a misty mountain path beneath a gnarled tree with red fruit.

Herb Gatherer in the Mountains

Matsumura Goshun, 1767

Portrait of Lady

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine trees and small pavilions with a calligraphy inscription at upper left.

清王原祁為瞻亭畫七發妙劑圖軸

Wang Yuanqi, 1710

Ink line drawing on silk of seated officials, attendants with trays, potted plants and kneeling figures beside calligraphy.

北宋李公麟孝經圖卷

Li Gonglin, 1085

Grayscale image of a Madonna and Child with two saints, one reading a book and one holding a jar, with gold halos.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen

Matteo di Giovanni, 1450

Arched panel painting of the Madonna and Child flanked by two saints against a gold background.

Madonna and child with Saints Francis and Catherine of Siena

Matteo di Giovanni, 1479

Oil portrait of a man in a white wig and brown coat holding a palette and brushes beside an easel.

Portrait of Jean-Marc Nattier

Louis Tocqué, 1740

Oil portrait of two men in a studio, one standing with brush and palette beside an easel, the other seated in a grey suit and

In the Studio (Gari Melchers and Hugo Reisinger)

Gari Melchers, 1912

Ink scroll painting of a mountain village with a dense crowd of horses below craggy peaks and pine trees.

After Ike Taiga’s “Horse Market in a Mountain Village”

Watanabe Kazan, 1800

Seated monk in patterned brown robe holding prayer beads, gazing upward, with calligraphic poem beside him in a silk-mounted

Archbishop Henjō (Sōjō Henjō zu), from the Dōon Version of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals

Iwasa Matabē, 1620

Hanging scroll of a seated nobleman on a veranda with armored warriors, a horse, a pine tree and a veiled woman above.

“Taira no Koremori’s Farewell,” from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari)

Iwasa Matabē, 1640

Hanging scroll of two quail beside white and red chrysanthemums and blue gentian flowers on an ochre ground.

Quail and Autumn Flowers

Tosa Mitsuoki, 1667

Painting of a seated woman in a blue dress reading a book in a red armchair beside a palette on a table.

Woman Reading

Susan Macdowell Eakins, 1879

Miniature portrait of a young girl in a white nightgown holding a doll, standing on a patterned rug in a blue-walled room.

Clara B. Fuller

Lucia Fairchild Fuller, 1898

Pointillist watercolor of a stone bridge with arches, leafy trees above, and small figures walking along the path.

Le Pont Neuf

Hippolyte Petitjean, 1912

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in a dark cap and black garment, turned left against a blue-green background.

Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490-1525)

Hans Maler zu Schwaz, 1525

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in a brown fur hat and black fur-trimmed coat against a teal background, with inscripti

Sebastian Andorfer (1469-1537)

Hans Maler zu Schwaz, 1517

Pair of hanging scrolls with bold black seal script calligraphy couplet and red seal stamps on pale paper.

清趙之謙篆書五言對聯

Zhao Zhiqian, 1867

Hanging scroll of a monkey offering a qin to a seated scholar among misty mountains and pine trees, 1833.

Monkey Offering a Qin to Scholar 異類酬徳図 (Irui hōtoku zu)

Tanomura Chikuden, 1833

Hanging scroll of orchids and ink bamboo leaves in a tall vase, with a calligraphic inscription above.

Orchid and Bamboo in a Vase 蘭竹同瓶図 (Ranchiku dōbin zu)

Tanomura Chikuden, 1823

Gold-ground devotional panel of the Man of Sorrows, Christ with crown of thorns and bleeding wounds, with a small haloed knee

The Man of Sorrows

Michele Giambono, 1430

Hanging scroll of a misty mountain landscape with a palace pavilion, boat on a river, and arched bridge.

Palace Landscape

Tani Bunchō, 1800

Hanging scroll of a snowy mountain with a small hut where two figures prepare tea beside trees and rocks.

Brewing Tea in a Snow-Covered Hut

Tani Bunchō, 1791

Hanging scroll of many small painted and calligraphic panels with flowers, insects, figures and red seals by Tani Bunchō.

Miscellaneous Paintings and Calligraphy for the Third Year of the Bunsei Era

Tani Bunchō, 1820

Hanging scroll portrait of an elderly bearded scholar in a white robe with green sash, with calligraphy above.

Portrait of Zhu Xi 朱熹像 (Shuki zō)

Tani Bunchō, 1796

Painting of two women at a tea table in a room with a folding screen, one pouring tea in a white dress, one in a blue hat.

Tea Leaves

William McGregor Paxton, 1909