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Painting of a grasshopper on a curling gourd vine with a white flower and two green gourds on a pale background.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Grasshopper on Gourd Vine

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Painting of broad bean plants with white flowers, green leaves, and butterflies on a golden silk background.

Broad bean flowers and butterflies

Ma Lin, 1500

Ceiling fresco of saints ascending through clouds with angels and trumpeters beneath gilded coffered panels.

Apotheosis of Saints Faustinus, Jovita, Benedict and Scholastica

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1754

Ink and color painting of a duck on a snowy rock beside a drooping willow, with a pale moon behind.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bird and Willow in Snow

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Six-panel screen with gold sky, stylized waves, and green and rust rocky islands topped with pine trees.

Waves at Matsushima 松島図屏風

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Painting of the Virgin presenting the infant Christ to a bearded high priest in a temple with columns and onlookers.

The Presentation in the Temple

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Watercolor of a crowded ceremonial procession in a grand basilica interior with columns, altar, and armoured guards.

Gustavus III Attending Christmas Mass in 1783, in St Peter's, Rome

Louis Jean Desprez

Painting of a straw snow shelter wrapped around a tree, with a sparrow by a stream, reeds and green shoots in the foreground.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Snow Shelter for a Tree with Sparrow

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Back view of a man in a blue robe and yellow trousers holding a cloth and carrying a broom at his waist.

Man with broom and cloth

Katsushika Hokusai

Handscroll painting of a dark horse with saddle led by a man in red robe, with calligraphy column on the right.

Horse and groom

Pojan profiili

Severin Falkman, 1860

Still life of a brown teapot, bamboo tea caddy with calligraphy label, gourd tray and green sprig on pale paper.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Sencha Tea Set

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Pale dragon with horns and claws among dark swirling clouds on a brown silk ground, with waves at lower left.

Dragon among clouds

Traditionally attributed to Chen Rong, 1640

Painting of tall sailing warships in a smoky naval battle under a stormy sky, with blue flags and crowded decks.

Swedish flagship Gustaf III after the Battle of Hogland 1788

Louis Jean Desprez, 1794

Painting of a decorated drum float with dragons and a seated figure beside a pine tree on a gold background.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Drum for Gagaku Dance

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Circular painting of a laughing boy with tousled hair and a wide open-mouthed smile against a dark background.

Laughing Boy, copy

Frans Hals, 1650

Painted landscape of a river with cows, sheep, a woman in red, a child, and a thatched cottage among tall trees.

Landscape in the Surroundings of Petersburg

Semyon Shchedrin

Axel von Fersen, the Younger

Painting of three seated rulers under a red canopy on gold thrones, with three standing attendants and birds in the sky.

Ancestral group of Mughal rulers

White peony in bloom beside a dark rock and peony buds on a gold-leaf background, painted in lacquer style.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Peonies

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

The School Girl II (Girl in Black)

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1908

Album leaf with a gold border showing many butterflies in ink and color on a pale ground, signed in the lower left.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies

Shibata Zeshin, dated 1881

Ink painting of a bearded rider on a dark horse beside a servant and a willow tree on a brown silk ground.

Mounted traveler and servant bearing a zither

Vertical columns of ink calligraphy in running script on paper with a patterned silk border and red seal.

Calligraphy Accompanying Xugu's Painting

Chen Xiuyu, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 1897

Hanging scroll with a large red rising sun over a pale ground, soft horizontal red bands, and a signature with red seal.

Rising Sun

Shibata Zeshin, second half of the 19th century

Ink painting on a hanging scroll of a standing figure in a grey robe and patterned kimono, holding a pink fan.

Young man

Katsushika Hokusai

Gold-ground screen with herons among reeds, a flying crane, and a gnarled willow tree with red blossoms.

Herons and Old WIllow

Ink painting of snowy Mount Fuji above a winter village with thatched roofs, pine trees and small figures in mist.

Mount. Fuji in Winter

Shibata Zeshin, dated 1890

Ink and light color painting of tall trees and feathery green foliage with a tiny figure in pink standing among rocks.

Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

Xugu, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 1895/96

Ink line drawing of a seated woman in a kimono holding a cat against her shoulder, on pale paper.

Lady Holding a Cat

Katsushika Hokusai, 1810

Muted watercolor of a Dutch canal at dusk with dark buildings, red shutters, church spires and reflections in water.

Nocturne: Black and Red-Back Canal, Holland

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Painted self-portrait of a man in a straw hat with a pipe, green shirt and red scarf, on a blue background.

Self-Portrait

Bror Andsten, 1945