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125,534 works

Ink sketch of a demon mask beneath a pine tree with two birds flying, with calligraphy and red seals beside it.

Album of Fifty-four Sketches

Watanabe Kazan, 19th century

Crowd of robed and wreathed figures gather around a garlanded white bull and altar before classical columns and torches.

Paulus en Barnabas in Lystra-Paul and Barnabas in Lystra

Pieter Lastman, 1617

Painting of a forest river with cattle fording, a loaded horse, figures on the bank, and an autumn tree at left.

Fording the river

Jacob van Ruisdael

Hanging scroll of misty mountains over a thatched village with small figures and bare trees in ink and pale color.

Spring Cleaning

Yokoi Kinkoku, late 18th-early 19th century

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in lace collar and studded armour against a dark background.

Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden

Jacob Hoefnagel, 1624

Painting of a stone arch bridge and brick wall beneath tall leafy trees, with a hill and cloudy sky behind.

Bridge Landscape from Germany

Victoria Åberg

Hanging scroll of three figures on a wooden platform with a pole, calligraphy at upper left, and a rooster vignette at right.

Setsubun Festival at Sensōji

Suzuki Kiitsu, 1857

Painting of the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt, with Mary on a donkey holding the infant Christ and Joseph walking beside a rui

De vlucht naar Egypte

Pieter Lastman, 1608

Hanging scroll of blossoming plum branches rising from an ink rock, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Plum Blossoms

Minagawa Kien, 18th-19th century

Painting of a man in a red cap and green sweater holding a cigarette, seated beside a window with yellow curtains.

Self-Portrait

Vilho Lampi, 1933

Fan-shaped album leaf with bush clover branches, green leaves and small white flowers, signed in black ink with a red seal.

Bush Clover

Suzuki Kiitsu, early 19th century

Painting of Saint Sebastian supported by two angels, pierced by arrows, against a dark background.

Saint Sebastian

Tanzio da Varallo, 1620

Crowded peasant festival with villagers drinking around a large barrel, a green flag, and a mounted rider on the right.

Sint Maartenskermis

Pieter Balten, 1540

Hanging scroll of insects marching in a procession past wildflowers, a wicker cage, and grain stalks on a pale ground.

Procession of Insects

Nishiyama Kan'ei, mid-19th century

Oil portrait of a young man in black clerical dress and cap, holding a small book, against a grey background.

Portret van een jonge geestelijke

Pieter Pourbus, 1535

Oil portrait of a woman in a white lace cap and dark embroidered shawl against a dark green background.

Portrait of Mrs. White

Hanging scroll of a woman in a blue kimono and an attendant beside a pine tree and plum blossoms, with butterflies on a gold

Courtesan and Attendant in Early Spring

Kakondō, early 18th century

Painting of the centaur Nessus carrying off the nude Deianira on his white back, with a bearded man in a wooded landscape.

Nessus and Deianira

Lambert Sustris, 1540

Painting of a sunlit hillside village with pink houses, terracotta roofs, olive trees, a walking figure and blue mountains.

Landscape

Meri Genetz, 1920

Hanging scroll of two Manzai performers in patterned kimono standing beside a pine tree on a pale background.

Manzai Performers

Kengetsudō, ca. 1720s-30s

Painting of a young woman in classical dress pouring water from a jug into a vase beside a tree and hills.

Woman with Jug

Lambert Sustris, 1540

Painting of a fantastical paradise garden with a central fountain, nude figures, animals and strange rock formations.

The Garden of Paradise

Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500-c. 1520

Hanging scroll of two Japanese figures on a veranda, one standing with a sword and one kneeling in a blue robe.

Kabuki Play Kusazuribiki from the Tales of Soga (Soga monogatari)

Okumura Masanobu, 18th century

Elderly woman lit by a candle in a dark arched interior, with a birdcage and basket behind her.

Vanha nainen ja kynttilä, kopio Gerrit Doun mukaan

Alexander Lauréus, 1806

Painting of a woman in a green dress holding a golden shield beside a tree, in a muted landscape.

Woman with Shield

Lambert Sustris, 1540

Painting of a Heian-style palace with a seated man, a kneeling woman, gold clouds, pine trees and a lattice screen.

“Mistflowers”

Tosa Mitsuyoshi, late 16th-early 17th century

Painting of a standing woman holding a writing tablet, with a tree and hilly landscape behind her.

Woman with Writing Table

Lambert Sustris, 1540

Painted portrait of a woman in an 18th-century style gown and powdered wig, holding a pink rose, seated in an ornate room.

Nainen 1700-luvun puvussa (Nainen ruusu kädessä)

Erik Johan Löfgren, 1884

Ink drawings of two figures, one in a conical straw hat and one in flowing robes, beside Japanese brush calligraphy on paper.

Pictures with Letters

Iwasa Matabei, 17th century

Elderly hunter in a cap examines his rifle in a dim wooden room, with dead ducks on the floor beside him.

Before the Chase

Adolf von Becker, 1880

Standing bearded saint with an axe rests a hand on a kneeling donor in white robes before a brick wall and gilded arch.

Saint Matthias (?) and a Donor (recto); Saint Andrew (verso)

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, c. 1520

Hanging scroll of the bodhisattva Monju seated on a lion, drawn in ink with a small red seal at lower right.

Monju on a Lion

Shūsei, late 15th century