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125,534 works

Loose watercolor sketch of a figure resting in bed beside a mantelpiece with fans, a top hat, and drapery.

Resting in Bed

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Hanging scroll of a dark carp swimming up a misty waterfall in soft gray ink on a tan silk ground.

Carp Ascending Waterfall

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Painting of a mounted huntsman in green robe on a white horse, leading a grey dog past rocks and a pine branch.

Mounted huntsman leading a dog

Seated woman in a gold silk gown holds a painter's palette and brushes, with an open book on her lap, against a dark backgrou

Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-93). Bloemenschilderes

Wallerant Vaillant, 1671

Hanging scroll of three goats beneath a flowering plum tree with willow fronds on a dark brown ground.

Three goats under a flowering plum tree

Painting of a peasant family in a dim kitchen, with a violinist, a singing man, a woman cooking and children near a fireplace

Zingende boerenfamilie

Pieter Jacobsz Duyfhuysen, 1640

Oil painting of an elderly woman in spectacles and a white cap with green headpiece, reading a book against a dark background

Old Woman Reading

Arvid Liljelund, 1883

Hanging scroll of a courtesan raising a blossoming branch, accompanied by a smaller attendant in a red kimono.

Courtesan and Attendant

Chobunsai Eishi, 18th-19th century

Hanging scroll of a seated courtly man in blue and red robes with a fan, beside folded paper, on a pale ground.

Six Immortals of Poetry: Ariwara no Narihira

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Ink painting on silk of a twisted pine, a pavilion with tiled roof, bamboo, and misty mountains beneath red seals.

Pavilion on the hillside

Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan, 1400

Ink painting of a young boy in a white robe riding a dark ox, holding a long stick, with a red seal in the upper right.

Boy on Ox

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Night river landscape with full moon, sailing boat, fishing net and silhouetted figure, by Anthonie van Borssom.

Landschap bij maneschijn

Anthonie van Borssom, 1640

Hanging scroll of a red-combed rooster beside tall ink bamboo stalks and small pale blossoms on a worn, pale ground.

A cock and bamboos

Emperor Huizong )

Painting of a white manor house on a green rise above a lake, with grazing cows, a large tree and clouds.

Kuljun kartano

Magnus von Wright, 1849

Painting of a ferret, snake, goldfinch and butterflies among mushrooms, leaves and a tree stump on a dark forest floor.

Dieren en planten

Anthonie van Borssom, 1650

Ink painting of two laughing figures in robes, one pointing upward, on a hanging scroll with a green brocade border.

Hanshan and Shide

Kenkō Shōkei, mid- to late 16th century

Painting of a green garden lawn with trees, shrubs and white stone statues, signed Albert Edelfelt 1878.

The Cluny Museum Garden in Paris

Albert Edelfelt, 1878

Hanging scroll of red maple branches above a kettle hanging over a fire, with smoke, dried fungi, and a rock.

Autumn Maple

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Round silk painting of pine trees, red pavilions on rocks, a small boat on water, and distant misty mountains.

Pure sanctuary with pine grown stairs

Yan Ciping, 1590

Painted panel of the Virgin and Child flanked by two haloed female saints against a gold background.

Virgin and Child with Saints Margaret and Catherine of Siena

Guidoccio Cozzarelli, 1490

Ink scroll painting of bare old trees, a small rock islet, and misty distant mountains over still water.

Old trees and cold crows, in the style of Zhao Danian

Winter landscape painting of figures skating on a frozen river beside bare trees and a snowy village with a church tower.

Riviergezicht bij winter

Aert van der Neer, 1630

Six-panel gold-ground screen with wild geese, some flying and some resting among soft ink clouds.

Wild geese

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Oil portrait of a woman in white with two boys, one seated on a stone ledge and one holding fruit, against a cloudy landscape

The Artist’s Stepmother Mariana Juliana Lauréus and Her Two Sons

Alexander Lauréus, 1806

Hanging scroll of a boy in blue kimono fishing from a willow branch, with swallows flying nearby.

Boy fishing from the limb of a tree

Katsushika Hokusai

Pair of gold-framed folding screens showing a snowy landscape with Mount Fuji, pine trees, a waterfall, and a moon over a sho

Landscape with Mount Fuji and Matsubara Pine Forest

Kano Tan'yu, 1669

Brown-toned rural landscape with a thatched farmhouse, a large tree, travelers on a road, and grazing cows.

Landschap met pleisterplaats

Aert van der Neer, 1639

Ink sketch of a bald peasant smoking a pipe on a mat, beside a noble figure in a patterned robe and black hat.

Peasant and noble

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of robed figures washing a large white elephant beside a basin, with a monk in red holding a staff.

Washing the elephant

Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan, 1700

Painted view of the Roman Forum with ancient columns, ruined brick walls, an arch and a domed church under a pale sky.

Forum Romanum

Eero Järnefelt, 1925

Black and white reproduction of a 19th-century half-length portrait of a moustached man in a dark overcoat against a dark bac

Portrait of a Man

Antonio María Esquivel, 1843

Walking figure of a courtesan

Katsushika Hokusai