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Painting of a yellow wintersweet branch with green leaves and buds, with black calligraphy and red seals on the left.

Wintersweet Blossom from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Album leaf painting of a plum branch with pink blossoms and red buds, with vertical calligraphy at the right.

Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Painting of yellow chrysanthemums with green leaves and buds, beside calligraphic inscription and red seals on pale paper.

Hibiscus from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Painting of an orange day-lily on a tall stem beside a grey rock, with green leaves and calligraphy in the upper left.

Day-Lily from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Ink and color painting of a gnarled plum branch with white blossoms and red buds, with calligraphy and red seals at upper lef

Blossoming plum from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Painting of a branch with yellow osmanthus blossoms and green leaves, with a signature and red seals at lower left.

Cassia Blossom from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Painting of a red cockscomb flower with green leaves and grasses, beside vertical calligraphy and red seal stamps.

Cock's-comb from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Painting of white pear blossoms and pale green leaves on drooping branches, with calligraphy and red seals at upper right.

Pear Blossom from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Painting of a pale yellow orchid with arching green leaves and red seal marks on a light background.

Epidendrum Blossom from a Flower Album of Ten Leaves

Xiang Shengmo, 1656

Unfinished portrait of a man with curly hair and mustache, white collar, coat only sketched, on tan ground.

Unfinished Portrait of Henry J. Brent, 1811-1850

Charles Loring Elliott, 1850

Night landscape painting of a full moon over a calm lake, framed by dark trees, with a small boat near the shore.

Moonlight Landscape

Elliott Daingerfield

Handscroll in a glass case showing robed Buddhist figures seated on clouds and beside animals, painted in ink and light color

The Eighteen Lohans

Ink painting on a fan leaf of bamboo leaves and a shaded rock, with calligraphy and red seals.

Bamboo and Rocks

Nukina Sūō, 1835

Ink landscape hanging scroll with a tall cliff, waterfall, pine trees, a pavilion on a rock, and autumn trees.

Autumn Thoughts on a Garden Landscape

Nukina Sūō, 1844

Hanging scroll of a snowy mountain landscape with a windblown pine, a waterfall, and a column of calligraphy at upper right.

Winter Landscape, after a Yuan Master

Nukina Sūō, 1838

Six men in two rowboats on calm water, one raising a fishing rod as a shark swims below; sailboats on the horizon.

A Fishing Party Off Long Island

Junius Brutus Stearns, 1860

Hanging scroll of lotus leaves, a pink bloom and a seed pod in soft ink wash on a pale ochre ground.

Lotus in the Rain

Keibun, 1832

Hanging scroll of a sparrow in flight above a spider dangling on a thread, with a signature and red seal.

Sparrow and Spider

Pale grey-blue painting of large taro leaves with veined surfaces and a small yellow flower on a light background.

Taro Plants

Painting of seven bearded lucky gods in a room, one dancing with a fan while others play flute and lute beside a low table.

Seven Lucky Gods

Hanging scroll of a seated robed man beside pine trees, a thatched hut and a full moon over misty mountains.

Semimaru

Reizei Tamechika

Ink drawing of a seated court lady in layered robes beside calligraphy, with two standing figures at a doorway in the upper l

Court Lady with paintings of Japanese Sages

Reizei Tamechika

Hanging scroll painting of a striped tiger with blue eyes turning its head, set against diagonal pale background lines.

Tiger

Kumashiro Yūhi, 1735

Ink painting of a gnarled pine tree with rock and a column of calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Pine, Rock, and Poem

Noguchi Shōhin

Painting of a seated woman in white and red robes leaning over a basin beside a patterned curtain.

Ono no Komachi Washing the Poem Paper

Tsukioka Settei, 1772

Ink painting of a carp swimming upward through rippling water, with scales and ripple lines drawn in dark strokes.

Swimming Carp [left of a pair of Carps]

Tsukioka Settei, 1777

Grey ink painting of an embracing couple beside large banana leaves and a patterned woven mat.

Erotic Scenes

Tsukioka Settei

Hanging scroll of red-haired shōjō figures in blue and green robes celebrating beneath a huge red sake cup, with pine branche

Shōjō Under a Sake Cup

Tsukioka Settei

Ink painting of a carp leaping upward through swirling waves and splashing water, with an inscription at the right.

Carp Leaping Out of Water [right of a pair of Carps]

Tsukioka Settei, 1777

Hanging scroll of a woman in a patterned kimono standing beside a willow branch on a gold background.

Prostitute Standing by Willow Tree

Tsukioka Settei, 1775