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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Ink sketch of an elderly man in a dark cap and robe walking right, carrying a broom, with a small red seal.

Painting - Shibata Zeshin

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Ink drawing of a flowering branch with white blossoms, grey leaves and buds on a pale ground, with a red seal at lower left.

"Refined Elegance in the Four Seasons" (Shiji seiga), Album of Flower Paintings

Yamamoto Baiitsu, 1844

Oil landscape of cows wading in a stream beneath trees, with distant mountains, a lake and a sailboat under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Cows Watering in a Stream

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1871

Miniature painting of an eye with dark eyebrow and curled hair, set in a round gold ring.

Eye of Maria Miles Heyward

Edward Greene Malbone, ca. 1802

Three figures pluck turkeys at a table in a snowy farmyard beside a barn, with birds hanging on the wall and a pot over a fir

Preparing for Christmas (Plucking Turkeys)

Francis William Edmonds, 1851

Painted folio of a blue archer seated among monkeys and bears, with demons on a yellow fortress above and trees below.

Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series

Manaku, ca. 1725

Painting of blue Krishna on a riverbank holding clothes while gopis in water pray with raised hands, with cow and deer nearby

The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana

Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana, ca. 1560-65

Painting of a medieval court scene with figures in red and white robes, a wolfhound, and a crowd of courtiers in a carved hal

"King Lear," Act I, Scene I

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898

Reclining woman in a white gown with black ribbon on a dark sofa with red cushions, painted in 1895.

Repose

John White Alexander, 1895

Painting of snowy mountains above a valley with a waterfall, lake, and a camp of tepees and horses in the foreground.

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt, 1863

Two men in a canoe on a misty river, one paddling and one reclining, with a black cat at the bow under a pale sky.

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

George Caleb Bingham, 1845

Painting of a candy vendor at a wooden cart surrounded by children and women in kimono on a busy Japanese street.

The Ameya

Robert Frederick Blum, by 1893

Painting of a snow-capped Andean peak above a waterfall, river, and lush tropical trees, with a path and cross in the foregro

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church, 1859

Painting of a winding river oxbow through farmland beneath a storm on the left and sunlit clouds on the right.

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm - The Oxbow

Thomas Cole, 1836

Painting of a bearded man in white shirt modeling a clay relief in a studio, with a plaster bust on the wall behind him.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Kenyon Cox, 1887, replica 1908

Panoramic 1865 landscape of a river valley with farms, distant mountains, and cows resting under a large tree.

The Valley of Wyoming

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1865

Painting of a river valley with tall trees, figures on the riverbank, and distant mountains under a hazy sky.

View on the Catskill - Early Autumn

Thomas Cole, 1836-37

Painting of two seated men playing chess while a standing man watches, in a dim wood-paneled room with a red carpet and a cat

The Chess Players

Thomas Eakins, 1876

Painting of Niagara Falls framed by trees, with a beaver, deer and snake in the foreground and verses printed in the border.

The Falls of Niagara

Edward Hicks, ca. 1825

Painting of large waves crashing over dark rocks under a grey stormy sky, with white spray and teal water.

Northeaster

Winslow Homer, 1895; reworked by 1901

Painting of a rower in a yellow scull on a calm river with a red bridge and autumn trees behind him.

The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)

Thomas Eakins, 1871

Painting of a woman walking in a green meadow past white flowering spring trees under a pale blue sky with a moon.

Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey

George Inness, ca. 1891

Painting of a family gathered in a red-draped parlor, with adults seated and several children playing on the carpet.

The Hatch Family

Eastman Johnson, 1870-71

Oil painting of a group of Black figures with head bundles fleeing along a forest path toward a distant flag at dawn.

On to Liberty

Theodor Kaufmann, 1867

Hazy landscape of a calm lake with wooded islands, mountains, a small boat, and a cloudy sky.

Lake George

John Frederick Kensett, 1869

Calm harbor at sunset with sailboats, a rowboat on a pebble beach, rocky shore and a tall ship in the distance.

Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane, 1862

Farm scene of cider making with a thatched press, a horse-powered mill, barrels, workers, a woman in a red shawl and animals.

Cider Making

William Sidney Mount, 1840-41

Painting of a seated artist at an easel with four young students in a dim interior, one holding a palette and brushes.

The American School

Matthew Pratt, 1765

Soft, muted landscape of a river lined with reeds, flat green fields, distant trees, and a pale cloudy sky.

Arques-la-Bataille

John Henry Twachtman, 1885

Painting of a red iron bridge over a river, framed by trees with reflections in the water, by Julian Alden Weir.

The Red Bridge

J. Alden Weir, 1895