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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Oil painting of a hooded monk with a dimly lit face against a dark red brushstroked background.

Head of a monk

Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, 1904

Oil portrait of a young girl in a white dress with blue ribbons, lifting a sprig of flowers toward her face against a dark ba

The sense of smell

Philippe Mercier, 1750

Oil portrait of a young boy in a grey sweater, white collar and dark tie against a brown background.

Charlie

Alfred O'Keeffe, 1937

Woman in pink classical gown with carnations in her hair, leaning at a marble window ledge above a city view.

Asterié

Edward Poynter, 1st Baronet, 1904

Painting of rough sea waves breaking on a sandy beach with beached canoes, under stormy clouds and a distant headland.

Cook Strait, New Zealand

Nicholas Chevalier, 1884

Painting of breaking surf on rocks below a grassy cliff, with a small sailboat on the distant sea under a pale sky.

Silver sea, Irish coast

Misty harbour at dusk with a green rowing boat, steamships, masts and smoke over the water by James Kay.

Nocturne, River Clyde

James Kay, 1887

Oil painting of a rural lane with tall willows, grazing cattle, a rider, and a red-brick house with a flower garden.

The seven sisters of Tottenham

John Greenwood, 1790

Painting of a sunlit wildflower meadow with trees framing a cottage with a red roof under a pale blue sky.

In the trees

Painting of a two-masted brigantine entering a harbour past a lighthouse, with a rowing boat and grey stormy sky.

Brigantine going into Littlehampton Harbour

Oil portrait of a young Māori woman with facial moko, greenstone jewellery, and red flowers in her hair, against a dark backg

Portrait of a young Maori woman with moko

Louis John Steele, 1891

Painting of a bearded man with a spear, a grieving youth, and a reclining woman in gown beside hounds under a dark sky.

Imogen found in the cave of Belarius

George Dawe, 1808

Painting of cows wading in a flooded meadow beside willow trees, with reflections on the water and a pale cloudy sky.

Flooded meadows

Bertram Priestman

Painting of a ship exploding in a smoke cloud while a carved Māori war canoe with paddlers approaches across calm water.

The blowing up of the Boyd

Louis John Steele, 1889

Oil portrait of a man with a red mustache and blue eyes in a dark jacket, holding a cigar, against a brown background.

Dr Gray Hassell

Petrus van der Velden, 1906

Rural landscape with large trees, a brick house, a rider on horseback, cows and figures on a dirt road beside a pond.

A landscape and figures

John Greenwood Senior, 1790

Painting of a river valley with geothermal steam, a thatched whare, carved posts and seated figures in the foreground.

Orakei Korako on the Waikato

Charles Blomfield, 1885

Oil painting of a dark mountain range under a teal evening sky with glowing clouds and a bare tree in the foreground.

Mount Rolleston

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Loose oil painting of a cluster of white flowers with yellow centres and green leaves on a dark brown background.

Phantasy

Alfred O'Keeffe, 1940

Watercolour of a horseback rider on a trail through a deep mountain gorge, with snowy peaks under cloudy skies.

In the Southern Alps

John Gully, 1881

Painting of a young woman in a white blouse seated in a dark room beside a bowl of fruit and a grey cloth on a chair.

Girl at her toilet

Glyn Warren Philpot, 1910

Painting of a still lake below a snow-capped mountain with purple ridges, rocky shore and birds flying over water.

Lake and mountain

Oil still life of orange flowers in a cracked, mottled vase on a table beside a blue curtain against a dark background.

The broken vase

Alfred O'Keeffe, 1929

Oil portrait of a man with grey curled hair, dark coat and white cravat, gazing upward against a dark background.

Duke of Wellington

George Dawe, 1822

Oil sketch of a sailing ship with furled sails and rigging, its dark hull moored in green harbour water.

Sketch of a sailing ship no. 1

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Watercolour of a waterfall pouring over rock ledges into a gorge, with wooded hills and distant mountains beyond.

Te Reinga, Falls of the Wairoa. Hawke's Bay

James Crowe Richmond, 1867

Painting of a calm grey river lined with trees, a moored dark boat at left, and a distant barge under an overcast sky.

La Frette, Seine

Albert Marquet, 1935

Painting of a seated woman in a pink dress holding a yellow flower, against a red curtain and dark shawl.

Girl in a pink dress

Grace Joel, 1920

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit resting his chin on his hand, against a warm brown background.

Portrait of William Rolleston

Raymond McIntyre, 1903

Painting of a winding river through plains and fields, with a town and snow-capped mountains in the distance under a pale sky

Heathcote River and plains from hills at Mount Pleasant

Cecil Kelly, 1941