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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,981 works

Cypress fronds in grey and ochre tones spread across a pale sheet, with Japanese calligraphy columns beside them.

Waka Poem with Printed Gold-and-Silver Underpainting of Cypress Fronds

Hon'ami Koetsu, 1600

Still life painting of cabbage, eggplant, okra, tomatoes and split balsam apples on a wooden table.

Still Life: Balsam Apples and Vegetables

James Peale, 1820

Loose sketch of a wide river bending past a wooded hillside, with a distant town and a white sail under cloudy skies.

View of the Hudson River from the Catskills

Stanford White, 1870

Ink landscape of a river with willows, a fisherman, terraced fields and flying birds, by Wu Li, 1679.

Whiling Away the Summer

Wu Li, 1679

Interior of an artist's studio with a woman in a blue dress before a gilded painting and two visitors seated nearby.

Fair Critics

Charles Courtney Curran, 1887

Winter scene of skaters and sledges on a frozen canal before a church and village houses under a dark stormy sky.

Skating at Sloten, near Amsterdam

Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, 1642

Painting of a wide river with sailing boats, a crowded ferry, figures on the bank, a windmill and village houses under cloudy

River Scene with Boats

Adam Willaerts, 1643

Hanging scroll of two women in patterned kimono, one holding a fan, on a golden ground with brocade mounting.

Woman and Attendant

Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1700

Hanging scroll of a woman in a red kimono holding a kitten, with a shamisen and lacquer box beside her.

Beauty with a Kitten

Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1750

Ink drawing of a reclining woman and a seated man in Japanese court dress, with columns of calligraphy beside them.

三十六歌仙図

Sakai Hōitsu, 1824

Fan-shaped painting of craggy mountains and trees with red, green and blue foliage, signed with a red seal.

Autumnal Landscape

Ike Gyokuran, 1728

Painting of a town on a steep rock summit with three white birds in the sky and flames rising at the cliff base.

"A City on a Rock"

Lucas Velázquez, 1850

Grey wash view of a villa with arched doorways and pines beside a calm lake, with two small boats on the water.

Italian Lake Scene with Villa (from Cropsey Album)

Carl Werner, 1849

Ink painting of plum blossom branches with a gnarled trunk, calligraphic inscription and red seals on pale paper.

Plum Blossoms

Painting of a stone arched bridge over a still river, with trees and their reflections in the water.

The Bridge at Grez

Robert Vonnoh, 1907

Grayscale view of a castle tower and ruined walls beyond trees and a rocky shore under a cloudy sky.

Richmond Castle, Yorkshire

Philip Wilson Steer, 1903

Pencil sketchbook spread of a lake with mountains, a bell-tower village house, trees and a wooden drying rack.

Cloud Study; Lake [Maggiore?] and Village (verso, from sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Pencil sketch of a lake shoreline with steep mountains, a village at the water's edge, and distant peaks.

Lake Maggiore, May 11, 1869 (recto, from Sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Six-panel folding screen of ink mountains, pagodas and temple buildings above water with small boats on gold ground.

金山西湖図屏風

Kanō Sanraku, 1630

Seated poet in a blue gold-patterned robe with calligraphic poem columns beside him on a pale ground.

The Poet Mibu no Tadamine, from a set of album leaves illustrating The Thirty-six Poetic Immortals

Iwasa Matabē, 1600

Circular ceramic plate with blue field, white winged birds, and a central turquoise peacock medallion within spiral borders.

Plate

William De Morgan, 1890

Ink and color painting of a seated white-robed arhat under a twisted pine, with a standing monk gesturing beside green rocks.

明吳彬十六羅漢圖卷

Wu Bin, 1591

Fan-shaped landscape painting of green cliffs, red maple trees, a small pavilion among pines, and rocky terrain on gold paper

Green Cliff with Red Maples

Wu Bin, 1603

Painting of a grieving mother holding a limp infant, with a servant, a frightened woman, a child, and soldiers in a classical

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez, 1824

Fan-shaped painting of a pink peony and green leaves on gold ground, with black calligraphy and red seals.

清趙之謙芍藥扇面

Zhao Zhiqian, 1862

Painting of women resting in an ornate harem interior with cushions, a lute player, a pool, and patterned tiles.

Harem Scene

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1884

Painting of a sunlit river with rocks, a stone bridge, trees and a red brick building on a wooded hillside.

The Bronx River

Ernest Lawson, 1910

Painting of a hillside village with red buildings, a winding river, a green boat, and white clouds over a turquoise sky.

Shadows, Spuyten Duyvil Hill

Ernest Lawson, 1910

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

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)