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125,534 works

Misty grey watercolor of sailing boats on calm water with faint distant shorelines under an overcast sky.

Grey and Silver-Liverpool

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Christ on the Cross

Christ on the Cross

El Greco, c. 1600-1610

Six-panel folding screen with floating painted fans, gold leaf sky, white lotus, green hill and pine branches on dark ground.

Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Six-panel gold screen with scattered painted fans showing birds, horsemen, flowers, pines and figures.

Screen with Scattered Fans 扇面散図屛風

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curled hair, red bodice, white lace collar and blue ribbons, in a metal pendant frame

Queen Ulrika Eleonora the younger

Johan Starbus, 1699

Seven women in patterned kimono walk and read scrolls among bamboo trees beside a misty stream.

Seven young women in a bamboo grove

Kawamata Tsunemasa

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, a kneeling king in gold robe, and a landscape with horsemen.

Adoration of the Magi

Jan van Scorel, c. 1519

Horizontal scroll painting of green mountains, islands, pavilions and boats on water under a brown silk ground.

Ocean sky, rising sun

Seated woman in white dress with dark hair bun, bending over a book against a teal green background, titled Maria.

Maria

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1909

Still life of glass bottles, a water carafe, books and a jar on a table, with a seated figure and brushes in a studio.

Still Life

Pekka Halonen, 1909

Two-panel screen: a red-robed priest beside a tree trunk, three women and a child walking under a pine on gold-flecked ground

A Shinto Priest, Three Women and a Child

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Watercolor portrait of a mustached man with dark curly hair in a red cloak, above a pencil sketch of a figure.

Italian Man, study

Albert Edelfelt

Hanging scroll of a reclining scholar in a pavilion beneath autumn trees, with an attendant, rocks, a moon and mountains.

Listening to the sound of autumn

Painting of a night deer hunt with torchbearers, archers and leaping deer, framed by a pink and gold floral border.

Deer-stalking at night

Watercolor of a Finnish farm estate with a red house and barns beside a lake, wooded hills behind, pencil sketch in foregroun

Outamon tila Lohjalla

Pehr Adolf Kruskopf

Gold leaf folding fan painted with white and blue balloon flowers in a woven basket, with black calligraphy at the right edge

Balloon Flowers in a Basket

Ogata Kenzan, 1700

Oil painting of a half-nude bearded man gazing upward while onlookers gesture around him in a dark landscape.

The sufferings of Job

Silvestro Chiesa, 1643

Ink drawing of a dragon with clawed limbs and scaly tail emerging from grey clouds on pale paper.

Dragon emerging from clouds

Katsushika Hokusai

Oval pastel portrait of a young woman wearing a pale veil and gray-blue shawl with a brooch, against a dark background.

Vestan neitsyeksi puetun neiti Charlotta Fredrika Sparren muotokuva, jäljennös Nonotten mukaan

Amanda Kjellberg, 1870

Two-panel gold screen with blossoming cherry trees, dark rocks and a small pavilion among trees.

Blossoming cherry trees

Handscroll painting of tigers, a leopard, a horse and a mythical lion beside willows, pines and rocky cliffs.

Bestiary of real and imaginary animals

Ink drawing of a long-haired hermit in flowing robes seated on a rock, turning to the left on beige paper.

Hermit resting on a rock

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a ferry boat with passengers crossing a misty river toward snow-capped Mount Fuji and a riverside village.

River landscape: ferry-boat and Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink drawing of two women reading books by a window, with a classical statue and moonlit night sky behind them.

Cover suggestion for the Ateneum magazine

Albert Edelfelt, 1898

Hanging scroll of Zhong Kui and demons crossing a bridge beneath a cliff, with pine and plum trees.

Zhong Kui and demons crossing a bridge

Two-panel gold-ground screen with court ladies under trees and cherry trees in blossom beside a golden fence.

Court Ladies among cherry trees (left); Cherry blossoms, a high fence and retainers (right)

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Loose painting of green and yellow pears in a white oval dish against a dark brown background.

Still Life in Green

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1930

Vertical scroll of white plum blossoms, red camellias and perched birds with a pheasant on a rock against dark teal.

Birds and flowers

Traditionally attributed to Huang Jucai, 1700

Ink drawing of an ox and cart with robed men beside a thatched shelter, with calligraphy colophon on the right.

Leaving the calf behind

Zhou Fang, 1500

Painting of a wooded hill with a church spire, a shepherd with sheep, and a stormy sky.

A wooded hill

Jacob van Ruisdael, 1645

Painting of a white peacock beside pink and white peonies and a red bud on a gold ground, with brocade mounting.

White peacock and peonies

Kanō Tsunenobu

Hanging scroll of a woman washing her long hair in a basin while an attendant stands beside her on a veranda.

Woman washing her hair with an attendant

Katsukawa Shunsui