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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Painting of dark mountains under stormy clouds, with bare twisted trees and rocks in the foreground of a gorge.

Mount Rolleston, Otira Gorge, West Coast, New Zealand

Petrus van der Velden, 1911

Oil portrait of a bearded elderly man in a dark suit holding a palette and brush, seated before a dark background.

Portrait of C.D. Barraud

James Nairn, 1897

Painting of men in 18th-century dress yawning and slumping around a table with wine bottles and dogs in a bare room.

A long story

Henry Bunbury, 1784

Painting of a seated woman in a blue dress and hat in a wicker chair, with a red room and fireplace behind her.

The artist's wife, Mornington Crescent

Spencer Gore, 1911

Loose oil sketch of a seated woman in a white blouse and pink skirt against a dark green background.

Figure of a woman

Charles Sims, 1905

Eighteenth-century interior with men in wigs and coats talking, a large punch bowl on a table, and a woman with a platter in

The country club

Henry Bunbury, 1788

Painting of a seated young woman with bobbed hair, orange dress and coral necklace against a golden background.

Youth

Painting of red tulips in a green vase on a checkered tablecloth, with purple shadows against a pale yellow wall.

Tulips

Raymond McIntyre, 1925

Painting of a wooded landscape with tall trees, a half-timbered cottage, small figures on a path, and clouds overhead.

Landscape with figures

Meindert Hobbema

Painting of a bare tree, flowering garden and town spire under a pink and green dusk sky with a pale moon.

Landscape

James Nairn, 1900

Small oil sketch of a sailing ship with green sails, red mast and dark hull against a pale sky and water.

Sketch of a sailing ship no. 2

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Painting of olive trees, a stone well and rocky hills under a pale sky in a sunlit Provençal-style landscape.

St. Rémy well

Roger Fry, 1931

Full-length portrait of a man in a blue and gold naval coat holding a red telescope, standing on a rocky shore under a cloudy

Portrait of Captain James Cook

John Webber, 1780

Full-length painted portrait of a woman in a white dress with pink bow and fan, standing in a dark room with red floor.

Beryl

Harley Griffiths Senior

Dusky evening painting of a girl in a white cap carrying a child beside a fence, with a lit cottage window behind trees.

An important task

William Lee-Hankey, 1907

Painting of pink silica terraces beside a lake, with steam rising from hills and small canoes on the water under cloudy skies

The Terraces

Charles Blomfield, 1885

Circular painting of a red-haired woman in a dark forest facing a crowd of goblins carrying baskets of fruit.

Goblin market

Frank Craig, 1911

Painting of a rural courtyard with sheds, a barrel and flowering shrubs, with a hillside beyond, in muted greens and ochres.

Purbeck courtyard, early afternoon

Frances Hodgkins, 1944

Oil painting of red, orange and pink zinnias in a vase beside a copper kettle on a dark background.

Zinnias

Dorothy Richmond, 1921

Loose oil seascape of churning green waves breaking over dark rocks under a stormy sky with rain on the right.

Biarritz

José Villegas Cordero

Painting of a haloed infant in snow beside a reclining figure, with dark trees and candles glowing under a night sky.

The death of the year

Charles Sims, 1910

Night view of an old waterway under a stone arch bridge, lamplight reflecting on water beside tall-chimneyed houses.

An old waterway

Hazy urban street scene with brick buildings, colorful murals, a railing in the foreground and a lamp post under a pale sky.

Hampstead Road, Camden Town

Spencer Gore, 1910

Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales

George Dawe, 1817

Elderly man in tweed coat examining a bottle in a cluttered workshop, with a spaniel on the table beside him.

The result of high living

Frederick Hall, 1892

Oil portrait of an older woman in black lace headdress, white ruffled collar and gold dress, holding a folded letter.

Portrait of Mrs W. Collins

Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1826

Oil painting of sunlit alpine peaks glowing pink at sunset above a shadowed valley with a river, in a gilt frame.

Alpine landscape

Nicholas Chevalier, 1861

Oil portrait of a young woman with bobbed dark hair in a red jacket and grey top, gazing to the side against a brown backgrou

Head of a girl

Raymond McIntyre, 1922

Oil painting of a snow-capped volcano above green pasture, with cattle grazing near a fence and a dirt road.

Untitled [Mt Taranaki/Egmont]

Oil portrait of an older bearded man in a red robe, dark coat with medals, and a gilded ceremonial sword, against a dark back

Portrait of Sir Walter Buller

Ethel Mortlock, 1903