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Seated Guanyin in blue and green robes holds a willow branch, with red ribbons and a jeweled crown on a brown ground.

Willow-branch Guanyin

He Liu daizhao, 1600

Hanging scroll of a seated courtier in a green patterned robe and black hat, with a red sword hilt, on a pale ground.

Six Immortals of Poetry: Fun'ya no Yasuhide

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Two tall sailing ships on rough sea with a rowboat in front, a fortress on the left shore, and dramatic clouds overhead.

Venäläisiä purjelaivoja Helsingørin sataman suulla

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1826

Still life of a tea kettle on a brazier beside a dark tea bowl and red lacquer stand, against a gold leaf background.

Tea Ceremony Apparatus

Painting of a dancing figure in patterned blue trousers and brown robe holding a fan, beside a tree and red pillar on gold.

Popular Deities, Sages, and Immortals

Hanabusa Itchō

Hanging scroll of a standing courtesan in a black blossom-patterned kimono with a red sash, head bowed.

Courtesan

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ, a kneeling shepherd, a boy with a dog, and a distant hilltop t

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Vincenzo Catena, 1520

Round miniature portrait of a man in a blue coat with red collar and star badge, surrounded by four small child portraits in

King George IV of England (1762-1830)

Le Chevalier de Chateaubourg, 1778

Virgin and Child with two saints in a painted interior with blue cloak, pink gown, green and orange garments.

Madonna and child with saints John the baptist en Joseph

Vincenzo Catena, 1520

Gold-ground album leaf of three men with topknots looking at a framed ink landscape with rocks and a bridge.

Three Men Looking at Framed Lacquer Drawing

Hanging scroll of bamboo with slender branches and green leaves arching across a pale background, with a red seal at lower ri

Bamboo stems with branches and foliage

Kishi Ganku, 1800

Album leaf with striped spinning tops, a whip, and a red figure on a pedestal against a grey textured background.

Tops

Ink line drawing of a standing man in layered Japanese robes and trousers, with a topknot, on tan textured paper.

Standing figure of a man

Katsushika Hokusai

Handscroll landscape with blue-green mountains, pine trees, and small travelers on horseback crossing footbridges under golde

Travelers on the road to Shu

Winter landscape with skaters on a frozen river, houses, moored boats and a windmill under a cloudy sky.

Winter landscape with houses

Aert van der Neer, 1635

Ink landscape with bare trees, a small pavilion, a tiny standing figure, rocky cliffs on the right, and grey distant hills.

Landscape and Figure, from an album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

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

Painting of a river landscape at sunset with boats, a distant church tower, silhouetted trees and a golden sky.

River Landscape

Aert van der Neer, 1650

Moonlit river landscape with sailing boats, a windmill, a church spire and cattle in the foreground under a dark sky.

River Landscape at Sunset

Aert van der Neer, 1650

Watercolor of a woman in a pink blouse shelling peas while seated in a doorway with garden foliage behind her.

Pink Note-Shelling Peas

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Vertical columns of black ink running-script calligraphy on pale paper with a red seal, framed in patterned silk brocade.

Calligraphy Acompanying Xugu's Painting for Liu Songfu

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

Ink and color sketch of a seated man in a green robe painting characters on a pink panel beside an inkstone.

The Calligrapher

Katsushika Hokusai

Watercolor album leaf of tiered rice stacks hanging from a branch beside slender trees with red berries and a small bird, fra

Rice Stacks and Trees

Painting of boats on a wide river with a church tower, windmills and large clouds under a blue sky.

View of the Merwede off Dordrecht

Jeronymus van Diest II, 1660

Horizontal scroll with small figures in kimono along wooden shops, pine trees, and a pagoda in soft gray washes.

Pastimes and occupations of the twelve months

Hanabusa Itchō

Painting of chrysanthemums, red and pink flowers, grasshoppers and rocks by a stream on a golden silk ground.

Flowers, plants, and insects

Daniel Hjort

Painting of women in a garden gathered around a wicker basket holding a sleeping infant, with a classical villa behind.

La Découverte d'Érichthonios par les filles de Cécrops

Willem van Herp, 1650

Album leaf showing a fox at left beside swirling pale flames and grey smoke rising from sticks, on a gold-bordered mount.

Fox by Mystic Fire

Grey ink painting of a bearded man in a tall hat leading a saddled horse past a gnarled tree and rocks.

A horse and rider

Pastel study of a robed figure raising his arms in a stormy boat while rowers look up at churning waves.

Christ Calms the Storm, study for the altarpiece in Raahe church

Eero Järnefelt, 1925

Brown ink painting of a crow perched on a gnarled bare tree branch, with a red seal mark on the right.

Crow on Tree

Ink painting of three robed figures in a landscape: a seated elder with a staff, a bowing scholar, and a standing attendant.

Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao

Sun Zhiwei, 1500