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Painting of a forest road with travelers, carts, horses, pigs and dogs winding toward a distant open landscape.

A Woodland Road with Travelers

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1607

Painting of two shepherds playing pipes beside sheep, cattle and a dog, with a river and distant town under a cloudy sky.

Piping Shepherds

Aelbert Cuyp, ca. 1643-44

Hanging scroll of a white cat beside chrysanthemums with fluttering butterflies and calligraphy in the upper right.

Cat and Butterfly

Xugu, 19th century

Ink wash hanging scroll of white herons with dark reeds in misty grey, signed with red seals at lower right.

White Herons

Maruyama Ōkyo, 1769

Painting of a child surrounded by lions, a leopard, oxen, and lambs in a wooded landscape with figures at left.

Peaceable Kingdom

Edward Hicks, ca. 1830-32

Painting of a snowy city street with bare trees, row houses, and a lone man in a long coat walking across the road.

City Watchman

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Bird's-eye painting of the walled hilltop city of Ranthambhor with palaces, lakes, gardens and surrounding river.

Fortified City of Ranthambhor

Bagta, ca. 1810-18

Painting of a white city perched on a dark rock with fires at its base and three pale birds flying against a blue sky.

A City on a Rock

Francisco Goya, 1800

Ink painting of willow trees along a misty river with three small boats and a wooden footbridge.

Painting - Bi Chang

Bi Chang, 18th-19th century

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

Hanging scroll of a long-tailed fenghuang phoenix perched on rocks beside bamboo, with a moon in the upper right.

Painting of Fenghuang

Lin Liang, 1416

Ink painting of the seated god Jurōjin with long white beard on a hanging scroll with gold brocade mount.

Painting of Jurōjin

Kanō Tsunenobu, late 17th-early 18th century

Hanging scroll of misty green mountains with cliffs, a waterfall, pine trees and small pavilions among blossoming trees.

Landscape

Nakabayashi Chikkei, 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

Seated woman in a pink dress with lace collar, resting her head on her hand beside a carved chair and a red rose.

A Rose

Thomas Anshutz, 1907

Bust-length oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark coat and white cravat before green drapery.

George Washington

Gilbert Stuart, begun 1795

Portrait of a boy with curly dark hair and a girl in a white blouse holding red velvet, seated before a dark background.

Michael Angelo and Emma Clara Peale

Rembrandt Peale, ca. 1826

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

Painting of a bearded man carrying a basket of eggs and vegetables and a chicken through a rainy street past posted notices.

Young Husband: First Marketing

Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854

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

Woman hoeing a cabbage garden beside a stone cabin, with a girl carrying a jug and a seated child nearby.

The Way They Live

Thomas Anshutz, 1879

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

Full-length painting of a smiling female dancer in a gold and black costume, arms raised, with roses at her feet.

Carmencita

William Merritt Chase, 1890