Contemporary art Collection

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Landscapes in the Manner of Song and Yuan Masters 1667 Yun Shouping Chinese Yun Shouping was a member of the close circle of artists that made up the early Qing Orthodox movement

The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain 1858 Jerome B. Thompson Thompson earned a reputation for combining the breadth of Hudson River School landscape painting with the anecdotal appeal of

Tao Yuanming enjoying chrysanthemums Du Jin Chinese Du Jin, the son of an official, was a scholar and a poet, but after low placement in the metropolitan (jinshi)

The Tailor's Workshop. Tourists visiting the Netherlands during the 17th century marvelled at the many paintings
The Tailor's Workshop. Tourists visiting the Netherlands during the 17th century marvelled at the many paintings hanging in the homes of even the humblest of craftsmen

Study for a Triumphal Arch (recto); Alternate Study for a Triumphal Arch (verso) ca. 1800 Hubert Robert French This drawing was originally part of an album that contained 152 sketches made by Hubert

Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains ca. 1622-25 Dong Qichang Chinese Dong Qichang, the foremost landscape painter and theorist of the early seventeenth century, pursued artistic reform

Chinese Beauty 8th month, 1797 Yokoi Kinkoku ???? Yokoi Kinkoku was a Nanga artist famous for his Chinese-style landscapes

Allegory of America ca. 1587-89 Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish This drawing is preparatory for the first engraved plate in the series Nova Reperta

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille ca. 1485-95 Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) Italian This exquisite and enigmatic portrait and its pendant (1975.1.86)

Hunting and fishing scenes 1769 Manufactured by Robert Jones This furnishing fabric shows fashionably dressed ladies and gentlemen leisurely pursuing the pastimes of hunting

Christ Carrying the Cross ca. 1684 Pierre Mignard French After first training with the mannerist painter Jean Boucher de Bourges at the age of twelve

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers 1644-1732 Japan. ??????11?????????????????1?????????????????????????????????????????1?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap 1765-1768 England. Joseph Wright, a leading artist of the eighteenth century, spent most of his life in the central Midlands town of Derby

Flight of Geese 1279-1368 China. This landscape is precisely rendered in a detailed manner that blends the Song dynasty (960-1279) tradition with newer stylistic elements

Two Bulls Fighting 1645-1654 Holland. Paulus Potter enjoyed great popularity as an animal painter and etcher. Other contemporary artists, like Aelbert Cuyp, also specialized in animals

Old Tower at Avignon c 1875 United States. Old Tower at Avignon depicts a 14th-century fortress in southern France. A noted colorist for his use of saturated hues

Water Lilies 1906 France. iOne instant, one aspect of nature contains it all, i said Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces

Small Bird on a Crepe Myrtle Branch 19th century Tsubaki Chinzan Japanese At a time when the ukiyo-e tradition was emphasizing scenes of contemporary life in the urban world

Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei) ca. 1762-66 Soga Shōhaku Japanese Soga Shōhaku was a prominent, if eccentric, figure in Kyoto during the second half of the eighteenth century

Forest Scene Johann Hermann Carmiencke This drawing of broken and tangled trees is quite similar in style and subject to nature studies by Hudson River School draftsmen such as John F

A Classical Landscape probably 1660s Sebastien Bourdon French Bourdon's rigorously structured classical landscapes
A Classical Landscape probably 1660s Sebastien Bourdon French Bourdon's rigorously structured classical landscapes, such as this one, were modeled on those of Nicolas Poussin

The Grandmother Tree, near Middletown, Long Island 1858 William Rickarby Miller American, born England The English emigre Miller was one of the most prolific watercolorists in America prior to

Landscapes of Taiping Prefecture ca. 1650 Xiao Yuncong Chinese In 1648, the artist Xiao Yuncong designed a printed book of images that celebrate the mountain scenery of central Anhui Province

Beach Scene ca. 1865 James Hamilton American, born Ireland Several American landscape artists, from Frederic E. Church to William Trost Richards to James Hamilton

Scholar-recluse in blue-green landscape 1633 Chen Hongshou Chinese Between the ages of ten and twenty, Chen Hongshou studied painting in Hangzhou with the professional artist Lan Ying (1585-1664)

A Peasant Leading his Horse on the Outskirts of a Wood 1761-1842 Pieter Barbiers II Dutch At the edge of a forest, a man is leading his horse towards a waterfront

Conversation in a cave 13th century Unidentified Although this painting bears the spurious signature of Xia Gui, the undisputed master of landscape painting in the Song Imperial Painting Academy

Wooded Landscape with a River, Castle, and Town Beyond 1611 Denijs van Alsloot Flemish The appeal of this elaborate landscape lies in its harmoniously balanced compositional structure

Fragrant Snow at Broken Bridge Wang Mian Chinese An ambitious scholar, Wang Mian was determined to fulfill his responsibilities as a man of talent despite the frustrations

Hilly Landscape with Three Figures 1675-1749 Aureliano Milani Italian Like his compatriot and exact contemporary Donato Creti the painter, draftsman

Portrait of a Man ca. 1645-50 Jacob Backer Dutch This sophisticated looking man is posing for a portrait. He leans back slightly

Landscape at Sunset 1650s Aert van der Neer Dutch A keen eye for effects of light distinguishes the landscape paintings of Aert van der Neer

The Curious Little Girl 1860-64 Camille Corot French Although Corot's celebrity rests on his landscapes
The Curious Little Girl 1860-64 Camille Corot French Although Corot's celebrity rests on his landscapes, his contemporaries were partial to his figure paintings

The Adoration of the Shepherds L'Ortolano (Giovanni Battista Benvenuti)
The Adoration of the Shepherds L'Ortolano (Giovanni Battista Benvenuti) Italian A larger variant of the present composition

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet ca. 1643 Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee) French Claude Lorrain's luminous skies and atmospheric effects are milestones in European painting

Allegory of the Months February and March 1579-1635 Joos de Momper the Younger Netherlandish This colorful landscape by Joos de Momper is an allegory of the months February and March

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck ca. 1485-95 Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) Italian This exquisite and enigmatic portrait and its pendant (1975.1.85)

The Crucifixion 1340s Pietro Lorenzetti Italian One of the great innovators of European painting, Pietro Lorenzetti imbued this familiar biblical subject with a new sense of pathos

The Drinkers by 1861 Honore Daumier French This painting, which was first exhibited in Paris in 1861, bears a resemblance to an illustration by Daumier's contemporary Paul Gavarni that was published

Tiger, Tigress and Cub 1892 Kishi Chikud? A regal, reclining tigress nurses her cub, while an adult male tiger--possibly her mate--stands poised to drink at a narrow mountain stream

General View of Inner Geumgang mid-19th century Sin Hak-gwon (artist name)
General View of Inner Geumgang mid-19th century Sin Hak-gwon (artist name: Doam) This panoramic landscape of the interior section of Geumgang, or the Diamond Mountains

Hills around the Bay of Moulin Huet, Guernsey 1883 Auguste Renoir French During his trip in late summer 1883 to the English Channel island of Guernsey

Landscape in the Style of Huang Gongwang 1581 Mo Shilong Chinese This large hanging scroll shows Mo Shilong struggling to achieve a strong sense of three-dimensional form

Christmas Time, from "Illustrated London News" December 19, 1857 Harvey Orrin Smith A boy wrapped against the cold carries a basket of holly, a sprig tucked into his hat

James Clarke Hook, RA 1884 Otto Theodore Leyde Leyde's etching reproduces Millais
James Clarke Hook, RA 1884 Otto Theodore Leyde Leyde's etching reproduces Millais's sensitive portrait of a fellow artist, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883 (now private collection)

Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right) ca. 1450-1500 Style of An Gyeon Korean 해질

[Landscape, Pride's Crossing] ca. 1856 Samuel Masury American Masury is known primarily as an early daguerreian
[Landscape, Pride's Crossing] ca. 1856 Samuel Masury American Masury is known primarily as an early daguerreian portraitist who learned his trade in 1842 at John Plumbe's Boston gallery

View of Vienne on the Rhone ca. 1587-89 Hendrick (Cornelisz) Vroom Netherlandish Hendrick Vroom is mostly known as the father of the Dutch seascape

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