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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,219 works

Hanging scroll of a plum tree with dark ink branches and white blossoms rising across a pale silk background.

Plum Blossoms

Yamamoto Baiitsu, dated 1851

Watercolor album leaf of tiered rice stacks hanging from a branch beside slender trees with red berries and a small bird, fra

Rice Stacks and Trees

Ink and wash drawing of two gnarled trees beside a diagonal stone stairway, with calligraphy and red seals at left.

Ten Sites Associated with Ruan Yuan

Wang Jun, dated 1883

Painting of Krishna in a tree above bathing women, with herders and cattle on a green hillside, framed in red.

"Krishna Steals the Clothing of the Gopis (Female Cowherds)", Folio from the Devotional Text of the Bhagavata Purana

The Early Master at the Court of Mandi, ca. 1640

Brown ink painting of a crow perched on a gnarled bare tree branch, with a red seal mark on the right.

Crow on Tree

Hanging scroll of two pine trees over rocks, with seated figures and a tea stove in a misty landscape.

Sampling Tea beneath the Wu Trees

Nakabayashi Chikutō, 1840

Hanging scroll of blossoming plum branches rising from an ink rock, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Plum Blossoms

Minagawa Kien, 18th-19th century

Hanging scroll of red maple branches above a kettle hanging over a fire, with smoke, dried fungi, and a rock.

Autumn Maple

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Japanese painting on gold leaf of courtiers seated on green platforms beside pine trees, a willow screen, and a flowering vin

“The Oak Tree”

Tosa Mitsuyoshi, late 16th-early 17th century

Six-panel folding screen showing a grey goose flying over water with reeds at lower right against a golden background.

Goose and Reeds; Willows in the Moonlight

Maruyama Ōkyo, right screen: 1774; left screen: 1793

Ink and color painting of a white egret perched on a dark tree stump on a fan-shaped album leaf with gold surround.

Egret on Tree Stump

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Hanging scroll of a courtesan and attendant walking beneath a flowering cherry tree, in patterned black and red kimono.

Courtesan and her Attendant under a Cherry Tree

Utagawa Toyoharu, early 19th century

Hanging scroll of a woman and small child beneath a blossoming cherry tree, in striped red robes and green clothing.

Woman and Child under a Cherry Tree

Utagawa Toyohiro, late 18th-early 19th century

Hanging scroll of Willow Kannon holding a willow sprig, with a green halo and jeweled robes against a gold ground.

Willow Kannon

Sakai Hōitsu, probably 1810s

Two-panel screen of a white crane with raised wing beside a rock, bamboo, orange blossoms and a gnarled pine on gold ground.

Crane, pine, and rock

Chen Zhaofeng, late 19th century

Hanging scroll of a plum tree in white bloom above two white waterfowl swimming in rippling water beside reeds.

Plum Tree and Waterfowl

Kano Masanobu, early 16th century

Six-panel gold screen with a twisted cherry tree in white blossom and drooping willow branches above green hillocks with smal

Cherry and Maple Trees

Sakai Hōitsu, early 1820s

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine trees, and a stream, with small figures beneath trees on the left.

Brewing Tea in the Shade of Trees

Aoki Mokubei, 1820s

Ink landscape of a misty mountain, bare trees, a small house and a footbridge, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Wintry Landscape with Trees

Urakami Shunkin, 1833

Hanging scroll pair: pink and white tree peonies on the left, black ink calligraphy poem on the right, blue brocade mounts.

Tree Peonies and Chinese Poem on Peonies

Keibun, ca. 1830s

Hanging scroll of green mountains, pines and red trees among white clouds, with a small pavilion and figures at the base.

White Clouds and Crimson Trees

Tanomura Chokunyū, 1888

Painting of a white horse grazing near a bare tree in a muted autumn meadow under a cloudy sky.

Autumn Meadows

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1912-17

Painting of a pine forest at dusk with a glowing red horizon and a dirt path winding through grass.

Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of autumn oak trees with red and gold leaves, grazing cattle in a meadow, and a stormy cloudy sky.

Autumn Oaks

George Inness, ca. 1878

Medieval painting of the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Jesus, an ox and donkey, shepherds, and angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi, 1374

Oil landscape of a Gothic cathedral with a tall spire, framed by trees, grazing cows and a pond in the meadow.

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable, ca. 1825

Portrait of a bearded man in a black hat and fur-trimmed coat holding a rosary, with a river landscape behind him.

Heinrich(?) vom Rhein zum Mohren (1477-1536)

Conrad Faber von Creuznach, late 1520s

Painting of a sunlit meadow at the edge of a wood, with tall trees on the left and clouds in a blue sky.

Edge of a Wood

Claude-Félix-Théodore Caruelle d' Aligny, ca. 1850

Dark, softly brushed landscape of a pasture at evening with a large tree, a grazing cow, and a winding path.

Pasture at Evening

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1912-32

Grayscale study of a gnarled tree trunk and branches with loose brushwork and a pale patch of ground below.

Study of a Tree

Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1864