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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,430 works

Ink painting of a black crow perched on a pale branch beside feathery pine needles against an empty background.

Crow on a Tree

Painting of a white crane on rocks by waves, with peach branches and pink blossoms overhead beside a pine trunk.

Flowers and Birds

Taki Katei, 19th century

Hanging scroll of an eagle with spread wings diving toward a monkey, painted in ink and color on a tan ground.

Eagle Attacking a Monkey

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1885

Two red birds in flight beside dark jutting rocks and curving gold grass on a grey silver background.

Birds and Jutting Rocks

Ink painting of an eagle on rocks swooping toward a fleeing rabbit, with a misty mountain in the background.

Eagle Pursuing Rabbit

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1885

Hanging scroll of three crows in flight painted in ink and grey wash on pale silk, with a red seal at lower right.

Three Crows in Flight

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Folding screen with three flying crows on gold ground and two egrets perched on a branch under willow fronds.

Egrets and Crows

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Woodblock print of two women in kimono with a songbird cage on a wooden veranda beside a green shrub.

Japanese Bush Warbler

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1754-1806

Woodblock print of a green white-eye and a titmouse perched on a branch with red camellia flowers against a pale sky.

Japanese White-eye and Titmouse on a Camellia Branch

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1840

Two yellow-green white-eyes on a plum branch with blossoms and drooping willow, with calligraphy and a red seal.

Japanese White-eyes with Plum Tree and Willow, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 3)

Kubo Shunman, ca. 1810

Ink drawing on paper of birds perched on rocks and branches, with a drooping willow twig at upper left.

Japanese Drawing

Kanō Naonobu, early 19th century

Etching of a reclining allegorical man with trumpets, a herm bust, a winged putto, and animals in the foreground.

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-47 (published 1648)

Three green and yellow white-eye birds perch among pink peach blossoms on branches, with Japanese calligraphy beside them.

Japanese White-eyes on a Branch of Peach Tree,” from the Series An Array of Birds (Tori awase), from Spring Rain Suri…

Kubo Shunman, ca. 1805-10

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve by a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals including a cat, stag and parrot.

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer, 1504

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris with nude goddesses, a sun chariot, Jupiter and an eagle in the sky, and river gods.

The Judgment of Paris: he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above. In the upper…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-20

Painted manuscript page of an elephant clock with a mahout, a dragon, a bird on top, and figures in a canopied tower.

"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif, dated 715 AH/1315 CE

Persian miniature of birds gathered by a stream in a rocky landscape, with a peacock, cranes and a falcon under a tree.

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1600

Colorful folk-art Fraktur with two peacocks, two parrots, crowns, and stylized flowers in a symmetrical arrangement.

Fraktur

Johann Heinrich Otto, ca. 1770-1800

Pen and ink drawing of two birds and a cricket on branches, with a castle and town in the distant landscape.

Two Birds and a Cricket

Unknown artist, late 17th century

Brown wash drawing of Orpheus playing a lyre among nymphs, lions, sheep and a deer beside a stream.

Orpheus Charming the Nymphs, Dryads, and Animals

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1757

Brown ink and wash drawing of muscular bearded men with an angel, an eagle, and an ox among them.

The Four Evangelists

School of Cambiaso, late 16th century

A Falconer in Profile to the Right

Follower of Guercino, ca. 1640

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of the Baptism of Christ, with angels above and two ducks in the water at lower right.

The Baptism of Christ (with Two Ducks in the Water at Lower Right)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1770-90

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji behind green hills, with cranes wading in a pond and flying above stylized clouds.

“Umezawa Manor in Sagami Province,” from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei, Sōshū Umezawa…

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830-32

Woodblock print of a full moon over a willow, rooftops, and a palanquin carried along a road past a thatched house.

Shin Yoshiwara Emonzaka Aki no Tsuki

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1836

Brown ink and wash drawing of a blindfolded Cupid carried through the sky by seven winged putti, with birds.

Cupid Blindfolded, Carried Through the Sky by Seven Winged Putti

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1770-90

Woodblock print of a long-haired man in a floral kimono with a staff beside a thatched veranda, with birds flying above.

The Ninth Ichimura Uzaemon in the role of Shunkan

Katsukawa Shunshō, ca. 1778

Vertical Japanese print of a red and green phoenix flying beside a flowering paulownia branch and pine fronds.

Phoenix Flying Over a Paulownia Tree

Isoda Koryusai, ca. 1770

Ink and wash drawing of Leda, a nude woman embracing a swan, with drapery falling at her side.

Leda

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1747-1804

Woodblock print of a yellow wagtail perched among pink roses and green leaves, with calligraphy at upper left.

Eastern Grey Wagtail and Rose

Utagawa Hiroshige, early 1830s