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125,534 works

Six-panel gold folding screen with fan-shaped paintings of boats, trees, figures and flowers on a gilded ground.

Six fan papers: miscellaneous subjects

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Painting of a standing woman in a flowing white robe and sash, with an elaborate hair ornament, on a brown silk ground.

Portrait of a woman in white: Lu Meiniang 廬媚娘像

Painting of the Wedding at Cana with Christ seated at a banquet among guests, servants, a dog and a cat.

The Wedding at Cana

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, c. 1686

Ink painting of fishermen on a boat hauling a large net on a river beside rocks and shrubs.

Fishermen raising a net

Painting of red and pink flowers, thorny branches and insects including a praying mantis and butterflies on brown silk.

Flowers and insects

Qiu Yuqing, 1500

Nude Female Model

Pekka Halonen, 1891

Painting of a seated woman in a yellow robe beneath a twisted pine tree, with blue rocks and clouds on a gold ground.

Lady under a gnarled pine tree

Russian icon of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist, with an executioner in red raising a sword over the kneeling saint.

The Decapitation of St. John the Baptist, russian icon

tekijä ei tiedossa, 1500

Painting of nude Eve holding an apple beside a serpent in a tree, with a deer resting at her side.

Eve

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533-37

Painting of three women on a turquoise balcony with pink flowers, green awning, and a riverside town in the distance.

Variations in Flesh Colour and Green - The Balcony

James McNeill Whistler, 1860

Muted painting of beached boats on wet sand at low tide, with dark sheds and pale cottages behind them under grey sky.

Low Tide

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Woman in a purple kimono reads a print beside a gold screen, with pink roses in a blue vase and prints scattered on the floor

Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen

James McNeill Whistler, 1860

Twelve-panel gold folding screen with figures, a moon, river, trees and birds in misty landscape scenes.

Six Tama Rivers

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of seven women in kimono on a wooden veranda beside blossoming cherry and camellia branches and a bird.

Seven women walking near a football court

Katsukawa Shunshō

Loose oil sketch of a winding river, meadows, wooden farm buildings and a forested hill under a cloudy sky.

Kaislankokoojat

Fanny Churberg, 1877

Oil portrait of an older woman in a lace cap, blue velvet cloak with fur trim, and gold bow, against a brown background.

Portrait of a Lady

Unknown artist, 1725-50

Hanging scroll of pink and white flowering branches beside bundled straw, with a small bird perched among blossoms.

Pink and white flowers and straw coverings

Hanging scroll of two women in a traditional interior, one helping the other dress beside a blossoming plum branch and shoji

Interior: a woman helping a girl to dress

Katsukawa Shuncho

Young man in dark coat and wide-brimmed hat reading a book by a bed, with an open window showing a hillside.

Young Clergyman Reading

Martin Rørbye, 1836

Hanging scroll of a standing woman in a patterned kimono holding a red fan, set in blue patterned silk mounts.

Standing figure of a woman

Hishikawa Morofusa

Hanging scroll of a woman in a lavender kimono walking past a bamboo fence and blooming chrysanthemums.

Woman near a fenced-off flowering garden

Katsukawa Shunshō

Painting of a child confronting a tiger that lunges toward an older man beneath a pine tree.

Filial piety: Yang Hsiang saving his father from a tiger

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of a standing man with a staff and two women in patterned kimono against a tan background, in a brocade mount.

A man, possibly an actor, and two girls

Kawamata Tsuneyuki

Half-length portrait of a woman with curled hair, fur collar and dark background, turning her head toward the viewer.

Christina, Queen of Sweden

Misty nocturnal river scene in blue-green tones with dark sailing boats and a faint shoreline under a hazy sky.

Nocturne: Blue and Silver--Battersea Reach

James McNeill Whistler, 1870

Hanging scroll of towering layered mountains with small pavilions, travelers on a path, and bare trees in ochre and green ton

Bringing a lute to visit a friend

Pointillist painting of white chalk cliffs above a green grassy shore under a pale blue sky with streaked clouds.

The Cliffs of Dover; The Cliffs at South Foreland

Alfred William Finch, 1892

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, twisted pines and a small riverside pavilion with a seated figure, in ink on silk.

Listening to the pines in a riverside pavilion

Hanging scroll of misty lake landscape with trees, distant mountains, a small boat, and two figures in the foreground.

Awaiting the ferry

Oil painting of a classical palace scene with armoured warriors, a kneeling woman pleading, and women in white in a columned

Prinssi Meleager kieltäytyy taistelemasta maan vihollisia vastaan, kopio Jonas Åkerströmin mukaan

F. F. Sedmigradsky, 1804

Hanging scroll of a misty mountain landscape with pine branch, a scholar and attendant approaching a pavilion.

Scholar approaching secluded pavilion

Hanging scroll of a seated scholar with a zither beside a waterfall, under a large pine among misty mountains.

Stopping the zither to watch the waterfall