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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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

Painted panel showing a gilded horseback procession past a church, and a courtly banquet under an arcaded loggia.

The Story of Esther

Marco del Buono, 1422

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

Hanging scroll with cursive black ink calligraphy of two poems on pale paper, green silk mounting, and a red seal at lower le

Two Poems from the Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems (Kokin wakashū)

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, rocky cliffs and autumn trees with a small house and waterfall, with calligraphy at upper

Autumn Landscape 秋景山水図 (Shūkei sansui zu)

Hanging scroll ink landscape with tall rocky peaks, a waterfall, trees, and calligraphy columns along the sides.

明陸治枚乘獨坐圖軸

Lu Zhi, 1495

Vertical Chinese hanging scroll of misty cliffs, a river valley, a small pavilion among bare trees, and calligraphy with red

明陸治種菊圖軸

Album leaf painting of two brown birds perched on a thorny branch beside pink roses and bamboo, with red seals and calligraph

清任頤冊頁

Ink painting of a sparrow with a red crown perched on a branch beside dark leaves, with calligraphy and red seals.

清任頤動物花鳥冊頁八開

Ren Bonian, 1850

Fan painting of a boy riding a water buffalo through reeds in a stream, with rocks and calligraphy.

清任頤童子水牛扇面

Ren Bonian, 1890

Hanging scroll of a standing figure in a white kimono patterned with bamboo, with calligraphy at upper right, in a dark frame

立姿遊女図

Kaigetsudō Ando, 1750

Monochrome painting of a woman in a dark robe and hair ornament holding a folded letter in one hand.

Beauty with Letter

Kaigetsudō Ando, 1800

Painting of a young actor in a floral kimono with a family crest, holding a sword against a plain background.

Young Actor in Male Role

Kaigetsudō Ando, 1800

Ink painting of laughing monk Hotei with staff and large belly, with vertical calligraphy above and red seals.

布袋図拄杖擊破三千界。彌勒撫掌笑呵呵，明月清風無。」

Kanō Takanobu, 1616

Ink painting on hanging scroll of a sparrow perched beside a bamboo stalk with grey wash leaves.

Japanese Drawing

Kanō Yasunobu, 1850

Six-panel screen with ink monkeys on branches and rocks above waves, a pale moon, and a gold leaf background.

猿猴捉月図屏風

Sesson Shūkei, 1570

Ink painting of robed figures playing music and dancing beneath tall bamboo, with a wooden fence and rock at the scene's edge

竹林七聖図

Sesson Shūkei, 1550

Ink painting of a Daoist master riding a rock through the sky, with a dragon rising from misty clouds below.

Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang with a Dragon

Sesson Shūkei, 1555

Impressionist garden painting with white and pink flowers, a sloping green lawn, a slender tree, and a pale house at right.

Un Jardin, Maison Baptiste

Theodore Earl Butler, 1895

Painting of a blue vase with yellow, orange and white lilies on a table beside a paint tube, against blue drapery.

Vase of Flowers

Preston Dickinson, 1926

Mezzotint portrait of a man with powdered hair holding a sword, with a stringed instrument and sheet music behind him.

Monsieur de St. George

Mather Brown, 1788

Hanging scroll of two quail beside tall millet stalks with golden seed heads on a pale ivory background.

粟に鶉図

Kiyohara Yukinobu

Hanging scroll of three waxwings among white blossoms, bamboo and a rock beside a stream, on a pale golden ground.

小川に連雀桜竹図

Kiyohara Yukinobu

Round miniature portrait of a man with grey powdered hair, black coat and white cravat in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Man

Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux, 1790

Half-length portrait of a woman in black veil and fur-trimmed sleeves holding a carnation over red brocade, in an arched fram

Jan (1438-1516), First Count of Egmond; Countess of Egmond (Magdalena van Werdenburg, 1464-1538)

Master of Alkmaar, 1510

Madonna and Child painting with gold halos and gold background, the Virgin embracing the infant Christ in a blue mantle.

Madonna and Child

Master of the Osservanza, 1460

Handscroll drawing of Tang court women in ink line with pale color, attending a mirror, carrying trays, and seated near a dog

Spring Morning in the Tang Court

Zhou Wenju, 1800