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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Oil still life of peaches, grapes and a melon in a glass compote on a white figurine stand, with ivy and grey backdrop.

Still Life

Oil painting of a dark rocky gorge with a stream, green shrubs, and a distant mountain under stormy grey clouds.

Otira Gorge

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Painting of a vase of mixed red and yellow flowers on a pink draped cloth against a brown background.

Mixed flowers on pink cloth

Roderic O'Conor, 1916

Young woman peeling green apples on a stone ledge, with a harbour of moored boats and hills behind her.

The fisherman's daughter

Harry Morley, 1926

Painting of a seated woman in red holding a naked toddler, with three children gathered around her in a room.

After the bath

Henry Tonks, 1910

Oxen pull a covered cart across a river while a woman sits inside and a man wades beside them, with a grazing cow in front.

The bullock cart

Francesco Zuccarelli, 1760

Oil still life of a pink rose, bowl of oranges, green grapes and a white pitcher on a table, with loose brushwork.

Still life

Samuel Peploe, 1930

Painting of a young man with reddish hair in a blue and cream jacket with black sleeves against a grey textured background.

The jockey

Christopher Wood, 1926

Seated woman in lilac robe and coral necklace beside a blue footed bowl, against a turquoise patterned wall.

Odette

Ruth Hollingsworth, 1915

Oil portrait of a young man with auburn hair, dark jacket, white collar and green tie, against a mottled blue background.

Edward McKnight Kauffer

Raymond McIntyre, 1915

Still life painting of zinnias in a black vase and cream pitcher with pink petunias on a white tablecloth.

Zinnias

William Nicholson, 1911

Seated woman in a green gown with pale skirt, hands clasped, beside a leafy branch and blue sky, with a feather at lower righ

Blue and gold

William Loudan, 1909

Oil portrait of an elderly man with grey hair and white beard, wearing a dark red jacket against a dark textured background.

Portrait of Louis John Steele

Charles F. Goldie, 1910

Painting of a homestead on a grassy hillside with shrubs, dry fields, distant blue mountains and a cloudy sky.

Homestead, Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, No.1

Claus Edvard Friström, 1905

Loose painted harbour scene with sailing boats, red-brick buildings and Gothic cathedral towers under a hazy sky.

Lincoln

Terrick Williams

Loose oil portrait of a woman with short brown hair in a dark dress and pink collar, against a pale curtained background.

The Countess of Strathcona

Lady of the Lilies

Dorothy Richmond, 1900

Dusk painting of a city skyline with spires silhouetted against orange light, with horses and a cart in the dark foreground.

Circular Quay, Sydney

Petrus van der Velden, 1902

Oil study of an elderly bearded man embracing a younger man seen from behind, against a pale background.

The prodigal's return

Oil painting of a sunlit arched courtyard with flowering shrubs and two girls seated on stone steps.

The court of the Oleanders

Oil portrait of a young girl with long auburn hair and a blue ribbon, gazing upward thoughtfully.

Thoughts

H. Linley Richardson, 1920

Untitled. [Portrait of a woman]

Elizabeth Berry, 1926

Oil portrait of a seated young man in white clothes and a dark beret in a wicker chair against a pink wall.

Man in white

Glyn Warren Philpot, 1933

Painting of a stone medieval gate tower beside a canal, with a raised drawbridge and a small boat on the water.

Old drawbridge, Bruges

Alexander Jamieson, 1931

Still life of cut melons, a red vase, a pale pitcher and a blue bowl on a patterned cloth beside a window.

Cut melons

Frances Hodgkins, 1931

Oil painting of a snowy winter path beside fence posts, bare trees and a sunlit mountain slope under a pale sky.

Peninsula, winter

Archibald Nicoll, 1932

Woman in black jacket

Raymond McIntyre, 1931

Painting of two seated figures side by side: a woman in a white and red top and a man in a red jacket against grey.

Double portrait No. 2 (Katharine and Anthony West)

Frances Hodgkins, 1937

Oil painting of a snowy farm with a barn and shed under a blue roof, bare trees, and tracks in the snow.

Mrs Middleton's shed

Archibald Nicoll, 1945

Painting of a sunlit green hillside with trees, fence posts and a dirt path below a shadowed rocky hilltop under pale sky.

The hilltop

Archibald Nicoll, 1943