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125,534 works

Painting of a boy riding a water buffalo beside gnarled trees, reaching up toward a bird on a hazy hillside.

Boy on a water buffalo

Qin Shunyou, 1800

Oil portrait of a bare-shouldered woman with curly dark hair turning her head, against a loose dark background.

Malliharjoitelma

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1880

Hanging scroll of figures gathering clams on a shore, with a wooden boat, a distant conical mountain and calm sea.

Landscape: clam-gatherers on the shore

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a woman in a black bamboo-patterned kimono standing on a wooden veranda beside a latticed screen.

Woman standing on a second-story balcony

Katsukawa Shunsui

Profile of a Woman (from memory)

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1932

Loose watercolor of a woman in a lilac gown reclining on a red sofa, holding a red fan, against a rose-toned drape.

Milly Finch

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Painting of a girl with bread and a pail at a butcher's counter, with hanging meat and a woman in an apron nearby.

Something for the Cat

Adolf von Becker, 1882

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine trees and a winding stream, with two small figures and calligraphy inscriptions.

Flowing water, wind in the pines

Traditionally attributed to Juran

Chinese landscape painting of a mountain gorge with a pavilion, figures, twisted trees, a bridge and a distant pagoda.

Landscape: houses and a brook in a mountain gorge

Zhang Hong, 1600

Painting of a seated man at a work table in a warm, curtained interior with a striped rug and stacked books.

Carl Gustaf Swan at his Work Table

Eero Järnefelt, 1889

Handscroll landscape of misty mountains, a river with boats, a pavilion on stilts, and pine and willow trees.

Snow clearing on mountains and rivers, after Wang Wei

Zhao Yuan, 1640

Hanging scroll of robed figures gathered before a tiled pavilion among pines, with celestial figures in the sky above.

The discourse of Vimalakirti and Manjusri

Zhou Fang, 1700

Ink landscape scroll of misty mountains, a waterfall, pine trees, a pavilion and a small boat on a river.

Autumn river in the rain and clouds

Half-length portrait of a man in a dark military coat with gold epaulettes, white sash and powdered hair against a dark backg

Colonel William Stephens Smith (1755-1816)

Gilbert Stuart, 1795

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a curving old street with tall gabled buildings and one small figure walking under a pale sky

A Street at Saverne

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Watercolor of a lowland landscape with trees, a fence, golden shrubs and a grey sky, signed Juho Mäkelä 1923.

Lowland Landscape

Juho Mäkelä, 1923

Gold-outlined monks in robes gather around an altar table on a deep blue ground, with a lion figure in the foreground.

Five hundred Luohan

Hanging scroll of blossoming cherry trees along a stream with thatched houses and a distant mountain in the background.

Landscape: flowering cherry trees along the banks of a stream

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Painted self-portrait of a man in a purple felt hat against a blue background, with a dark jacket and red collar.

Self-Portrait with a Hat

Väinö Kunnas, 1928

Painting on silk of a sheep grazing beside thorny shrubs and a tree, with two birds flying above a hillside.

Sheep and goats on the banks of a stream

Li Di, 1640

Oil portrait of a young woman with a braided hairstyle, gold earring and dark dress with green ribbon against a brown backgro

Young Woman

Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin, 1858

Six-panel screen of cherry trees and robed figures on gold ground, with women behind a veranda at right.

The Tale of Genji, Chapter 34; Kashiwagi catches sight of the Third Princess

Painting of a seated scholar with attendants, a basin, ink stone and scrolls on a brown silk ground with red seals.

Scholar and attendants

Lu Tanwei, 1640

Handscroll painting of melon vines with large melons, pink flowers, a grasshopper and moths on a brown silk ground.

Melon vines, flowers, and insects

Gold ink drawing on blue ground of a child figure with hands in prayer, wearing an ornate robe and jewelry, beside rocks.

The pilgrimage of Sudhana

Sui Chanshi, 1640

Painting of nude young women seated on a rocky shore by calm water, with a rowboat and tall grass in the foreground.

Girls Bathing in the Open Air (Out of Doors) ; Bathing Girls, Outside ; Outdoors

Anders Zorn, 1890

Miniature painting of a seated woman in a red shawl with a child holding an open book under a tree.

A Christian subject: The Madonna and Child

Probably by Farrukh Beg, 1610

Watercolor of a standing woman with a green shawl and hand on hip against pale yellow-green drapery.

A Note in Green

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Hanging scroll of a courtesan in a patterned kimono walking with two young attendants in floral kimono.

A yujo and two understudies (<em>kamuro</em>)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Round fan painting on gold ground showing a horse, a rider, a porter and a figure in blue among green and brown hills.

On one side Narihira and the pilgrim; on the other, chrysanthemums and a brook

Painting of a wooden porch railing and post overlooking a calm lake framed by pine trees under a pale sky.

The Kalela Porch

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1900

Ink sketch of three figures in loose brushwork, one wearing a grid-patterned garment, on a pale paper ground.

Three figures

Katsushika Hokusai