New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Paintings

125,534 works

Hanging scroll of a white rooster beside a bamboo stalk with ink-wash leaves on a pale ground.

Cock and bamboo

Kanō Tsunenobu

Six-panel gold-bordered screen with cranes among chrysanthemums on a misty green and ochre background.

Cranes and chrysanthemums

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Ink painting of a seated monk beside a bamboo stalk, with calligraphy and red seals on a hanging scroll.

The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment

Kano Tan'yu, 1635-45

Painting of a large pine tree with thick, twisting orange roots spreading over the forest floor, with birches behind.

Great Pine of Kotavuori

Pekka Halonen, 1916

Handscroll painting of robed officials and attendants in a courtyard beside a pavilion, pine tree, and carriage, with text.

Scenes from the Lives of Famous Men (part 2)

Pastel portrait of a woman in a feathered hat, blue neck bow and lace bodice against a soft blue and ochre background.

Countess Ulrika Charlotta Sprengtporten

Gustaf Lundberg

Miniature painting of a man climbing a rope past a palace at night, with a horse, cattle, and women on balconies.

Escapade at Night:

Chokha, ca. 1800-10

Horizontal handscroll of blue-green mountains, trees, and small pavilions along a winding path and river valley.

The Wangchuan Villa

Hanging scroll of a woman in a patterned kimono with a fan, seated on a bench by a winding river, with calligraphy.

Enjoying the Cool Breeze

Kaseki, early 18th century

Hanging scroll of geese swimming among reeds and grasses in muted ink and pale color on a brown ground.

Swimming geese

Lin Liang, 1500

Snowy winter landscape with a frozen stream, a wooden cabin at left, dark pines and bare trees on a hill under a pale sky.

Winter Landscape, Myllykylä

Pekka Halonen, 1896

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, bamboo, blossoming plum trees, thatched houses and two figures on a footbridge over a rive

Bamboo and Plum in Early Spring

Okada Hankō, 1843

Hanging scroll of ten robed arhats gathered under a large tree, examining a painting of White-Robed Kannon, ink and color on

Ten Rakan Examining a Painting of White-Robed Kannon

Katō Nobukiyo, 1788-92

Misty watercolor of a harbor with masted ships, a red-brown tower, and a boat with red sails on pale blue water.

Venice Harbor

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Painting of a bearded father holding a sleeping boy while a girl in an ochre shawl stands beside him against a stone wall.

A Father with His Two Childen from Subiaco

Severin Falkman, 1868

Six-panel screen of a snowy landscape with rocks, waterfall, misty river, red maples, deer and a pale moon.

Landscape: two of the four seasons; autumn and winter

Hishikawa Sori, 1810

Six-panel folding screen with two geese beside reeds and grasses, painted in ink and muted colors on pale paper.

Two geese and grasses 雁図屏風

Oval portrait of a smiling woman in a wide yellow straw hat with black feathers, green jacket and white ruffled collar.

Maria de Ron, née von Breda

Carl Frederik von Breda, 1785

Handscroll landscape with green and blue mountains, pavilions, and a red sunrise over a misty sea.

Ocean sky, rising sun

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

Nicholas Freese, c. 1795-1800

Watercolor of a calm sea with dark pilings, a sandy beach in the foreground, and a pale blue and pink sunset sky.

Southend-Sunset

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Loose watercolor of a woman in a dark dress seated at a piano, framed by brown curtains in a warm interior.

Bravura in Brown

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Painting of masted ships and a rowboat on a riverbank with ice patches, a man in a top hat, and factories in the hazy distanc

The Thames in Ice

James McNeill Whistler, 1860

Painting of rural workers resting during harvest on a grassy slope beside a lake, a man holding a scythe, a child by the wate

Break during Harvest

Fredrik Ahlstedt, 1884

Ink drawing of laughing Hotei with a pole beside a child acrobat in a feathered headdress, with calligraphy at upper left.

Hotei and Chinese Child Acrobats

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a tall woman in a floral kimono walking beside a young attendant in a green plum-blossom robe.

Yujo and her understudy (kamuro)

Ink sketch of a bearded man seated on a mat beside a large sword, wearing a loose robe and topknot.

A Man sitting with large sword

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a snow-covered pine tree and a berry-laden shrub against a gold background, with ink calligraphy.

Snow-laden pine and shrub

Signature of Ogata Kenzan, 1741

Interior of a Gothic church with ribbed vaulted ceiling, carved altarpiece at the far end, and wooden cabinets along the wall

Kirkon sisusta Fraueninselistä

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, 1870

Ink line drawing of a palace with pavilions, stairs, balustrades, a large central tree and small figures of women.

Palace Ladies of the Cinnamon Hall and Orchid Palace

Painting of a misty river landscape with red autumn trees, pines, sailing boats and Mount Fuji in the distance.

River landscape: red foliage and Mount Fuji

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, in a gold beaded frame.

Self-Portrait

Lorentz Lars Svensson Sparrgren