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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,059 works

Misty landscape with flowering trees, pines, thatched houses and a boatman on a river beneath layered mountains.

Blossoms by a River

Kawabata Gyokushō, ca. 1887-92

Abstract drawing of a small bird and scratchy black line forms over a soft red wash, by Paul Klee, 1925.

Bird Landscape

Paul Klee, 1925

Ink painting of a snowy lake with a curving causeway, frosted pine trees, a small boat, and distant hills.

Lake and Causeway

Hashimoto Gahō, ca. 1885-89

Ink and colour album leaf showing a boatman and passengers on calm water beside rocky cliffs and pine trees.

River Scene with Rocky Hills in Background

Kawabata Gyokushō, ca. 1887-92

Abstract painting of geometric mountain forms in pastel pink, yellow, green and blue with black linear outlines.

Theater-Mountain-Construction

Paul Klee, 1920

Ink landscape of misty mountains, a traveler on a path approaching a wooden house beside a river valley.

Visiting a Friend

Seki Shūkō, 1892

Three hanging scrolls of a misty landscape with waterfall, pines, red maples, and white cherry blossoms, with figures seated

Nunobiki Waterfall, Mount Yoshino, and Tatsuta River

Kanō Tsunenobu, after 1709

Black-and-white landscape of a valley with fields and trees beneath rugged mountains and dramatic clouds.

Mountains of Calatayud

Ignacio Zuloaga, 1921

Winter landscape with snowy mountains, leafless trees, a rider on a bridge, and a misty lake in muted grey tones.

Winter Scene

Seki Shūkō, 1892

Hanging scroll of a misty ink landscape with pine trees, distant mountains and a faint rainbow arc.

Misty Landscape with Rainbow

Loose oil painting of a robed goatherd with dark goats on a sunlit grassy slope under tall palm trees.

Landscape with Goatherd

John Singer Sargent, 1890

Hanging scroll of a misty landscape with a pale moon, distant hills, reeds, trees and still water.

Landscape with the Moon

Shiokawa Bunrin, 19th century

Hanging scroll of a misty landscape with a pagoda, rocky cliffs, pine trees, a small boat, and distant mountains in brown ink

River Gorge with Waterfall

Watercolor of an alpine valley with a stream, pink sunlit peak, blue shadowed mountains and dark conifers on a green slope.

Mountain View at Bormio (from Switzerland 1869 Sketchbook)

John Singer Sargent, 1869

Pair of hanging scrolls with pink roses, white blossoms, green leaves and small birds on a pale background.

Roses and Field Sparrow (?)

Hasegawa Gyokuhō, 19th century

Two hanging scrolls: a crested bird perched on a plum tree stump, and a dark bird beside pine needles on a branch, in ink.

Crested Bird on Stump of Plum Tree

Loose oil sketch of a winding road, bare trees, and white village buildings on hills under a pale sky.

Spanish Landscape

John Singer Sargent, 1879

Fan-shaped album leaf of a snow-capped mountain with four birds flying across a pale sky, gold speckled mount.

Mountains with Birds

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Ink landscape hanging scroll with a tall misty mountain, riverside houses, trees and a small boat.

Landscape

Kushiro Unsen, second half 18th century

Watercolor of a rocky mountain stream with rushing white water and a seated nude figure on boulders at right.

Mountain Stream

John Singer Sargent, 1912

Hanging scroll of a moonlit river with glowing fireflies and dark reeds along the banks, rendered in soft ink tones.

Fireflies Over the Uji River by Moonlight

Hanging scroll of a spotted deer on a rocky slope beneath red autumn maple leaves, with a branch painted above.

Deer by Mountain Stream

Taki Katei, dated January 1896

Painting of reapers resting in a golden wheat field beside haystacks and dark trees under a pale sky.

Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field

John Singer Sargent, 1885

Hanging scroll of a snowy landscape with peaks, a pavilion, a bare tree, a bridge and a small walking figure.

Winter Landscape

Kanō Sansetsu, second quarter of the 17th century

Ink painting hanging scroll of a crested bird perched on a bare tree trunk, with sparse grasses below, in gold brocade mounti

Bird on Tree (Haha-chō)

Brown wash drawing of grazing sheep beneath large trees, with a flock and shepherds in the distant landscape.

Landscape with Sheep

Claude Lorrain, 1648

Ink and color painting of a duck on a snowy rock beside a drooping willow, with a pale moon behind.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bird and Willow in Snow

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Six-panel gold-ground screen showing a fishing village with moored boats, pine trees, distant islands and mountains.

Fishing Village

Andō Baiho, 19th century

Blue-toned drawing of the Holy Family resting by a river with an angel, a donkey, palm trees and a distant bridge and city.

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Claude Lorrain, 1645

Painting of a straw snow shelter wrapped around a tree, with a sparrow by a stream, reeds and green shoots in the foreground.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Snow Shelter for a Tree with Sparrow

Shibata Zeshin, 1882