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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Fan-shaped painting of rocky cliffs, pine trees and a small pavilion beside distant hills, with red seal marks.

Gazing at a Waterfall

Ink painting of the bearded sage Fukurokuju holding a staff, with calligraphy above, on a hanging scroll.

Fukurokuju

Katsukawa Shunshō

Hanging scroll of a woman in a black chrysanthemum kimono walking along a misty shoreline with stylized waves.

Beauty by the Shore

Kubo Shunman, late 18th century

Painting of a young actor in male costume holding a sword, wearing a flowered kimono and black headdress.

Young Actor in Male Role

Kaigetsudō, 19th century

Painting of a standing woman in a black kimono holding a letter, against a plain grey background.

Beauty with Letter

Kaigetsudō, 19th century

Ink and color painting of an old man and woman seated under a pine tree, with a child peeking from behind the trunk.

Old Man and Woman

Hanging scroll of a standing woman in a patterned kimono with a trailing sash, with calligraphy above her.

Girl Tying Sash

Ogawa Haritsu, 1740

Fan-shaped painting of a woman in a long robe beside a blossoming tree and garden rocks, with calligraphy at right.

Woman in a garden

Qian Huian, dated 1876

Standing robed figure with red staff inside a circular medallion framed by scalloped cloud motifs on brown silk.

Twelve Designs for Circular Mirror

Ink sketch of running children, a crowd of boys, and a boy with a stick beside a snake on a handscroll.

Frolicking Figures and Animals

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 19th century

Folding fan painting of two scholars standing beside a boy feeding a white goose under a pine tree.

Two Scholars and Boy with Goose

Sun Rong, 19th century

Ink and color landscape of two figures crossing a stone bridge toward a pavilion among bamboo and pines, with misty mountains

Landscape with Man Crossing Bridge

Xi Wang Mu with Feng Wang

Ink painting on a hanging scroll of a woman with a high hair bun and ornamental pin, with calligraphy above her.

Portrait of Lady

Kano Tanbi, probably late 19th century

Hanging scroll of a hooded robed figure with a staff above a crouching child and a standing woman in kimono.

Group

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Handscroll painting of mounted riders in red armor racing past a crowd on a wooden stand, with tiled rooftops below.

Horse Race at Kamo

Sumiyoshi Hiromori, 18th century

Hanging scroll of a woman in a floral kimono beside a puppeteer in black robes holding a white-faced puppet.

Puppeteer with Puppet

Tsukioka Sessai

Ink sketch of men relaxing in a boat under a thatched canopy, fishing, with calligraphy and a red seal beside.

After Ike no Taiga and Yosa Buson’s Ten Conveniences and Ten Pleasures

Totoki Baigai, 1800

Portrait of a bearded older man in gilded armor with a gilt helmet on a red table, against a dark background.

Alfonso II d'Este (1533-1597), Duke of Ferrara

Italian Painter, late 16th century

Oil sketch of two seated women in white robes beside a dark doorway with a glowing hanging lantern.

Two Arab Women

John Singer Sargent, 1905

Two altarpiece wings: Saint Paul with a kneeling donor on the left, and Christ appearing to the kneeling Virgin Mary on the r

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend, ca. 1485

Portrait of a Woman

Joshua Reynolds

Bay hunter horse with a seated groom and black dog beneath a large tree, with a rural landscape under clouds.

The Third Duke of Dorset's Hunter with a Groom and a Dog

George Stubbs, 1768

Monochrome brown painting of women sewing at a table, with soft, blurred figures and shadowy interior forms.

Women Sewing at a Table

Eugène Carrière, 1894

Man in top hat sawing firewood on a sawhorse in a paved yard, with a church spire and pigs in the background.

The Wood Sawyer

Charles E. Weir, 1842

Painting of a sleeping footman in yellow breeches and embroidered coat seated on a carved bench beneath a tapestry.

A Footman Sleeping

Charles Bargue, 1871

Painting of a man in a white turban and yellow vest beside a veiled woman in a pale shawl, on a brown background.

Study of Two Figures

Edwin Lord Weeks, ca. 1878

Suzanne Manet at Bellevue

Édouard Manet, 1880

Poster of a woman in black and a bearded man in a top hat before a piano, with the text Divan Japonais.

Divan Japonais

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892-93

Japanese print of two men in Western dress beside a red railing, under a pine tree with cherry blossoms.

Two Japanese Men in Western Dress

Shunko, ca. 1905