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Fox, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

A Stallion

Green Tara

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Hawk, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Belt clasp

Close to us, a bearded, balding man leads a donkey carrying a woman and child to our right against a hilly landscape in this horizontal painting. All three people have pale, peachy skin and halos. The man has a gray beard and hair, and wears a royal-blue tunic under a ruby-red robe. He leans on a walking stick and looks back at the donkey. The woman riding the donkey wears a blue and gold brocade-like cloak covering her head and body. She has a straight nose, small pink lips, and she looks toward the infant she holds close to her body. The baby wears a white garment and reaches for the woman’s face with one hand as he turns to look over his shoulder toward us. The path they walk on is lined with grass and detailed plants. A river runs parallel to the path a short distance away. The horizon line comes about two-thirds of the way up the painting is lined with green trees, blue mountains, and a few buildings to our left. Wispy white clouds sweep across an azure-blue sky streaked with peach near the horizon.

Fragment van een muurschildering

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Palampore

Two Rabbits, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Cloth with Procession of Figures

Saint Sebastian

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief

Blooming Plum Tree, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)

Tánggǔ (堂鼓)

Ram Mask (Bolo)

Courting flute (siyotanka)

Ennanga

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Hotei Smoking his Pipe, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Reclining mouflon

Raft Cup

A Philosopher Watching a Pair of Butterflies, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Lidded Bowl with Iguana

Water Ewer for Rituals (Kundika) with Incised Parrot Design

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Feast Ladle

Striding Pan

Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)

Bassoon

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Iris, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Goddess Riding a Dragon, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Cotton Roses and Sparrow, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

Vuursteen donderbus

Grapevine and Squirrels

Shiva Nataraja

Pendant in the form of a cock

Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design

Whistle

Oribe-Type Ewer

Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Lontslotmusket met vuursteenslot uit latere periode

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

The Merry Family

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Siermes

Fan painting with river landscape

Standing Buddha

Hanger met cachet met de Dood

Hilma af Klint - Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 9, 1915

Head of Shiva (lingakosha)

Morning Glories and Tree-frog, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

Memorial head (nsodie)

Spouted jar

Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana

Against a deep, hilly landscape, a young woman sits facing us on a rocky ledge with a small child in her lap in this square painting. The woman and child, Mary and Jesus, both have pale skin and blond hair. Mary wears a cobalt-blue gown over a coral-pink undergarment that peeks out from under the bottom hem and at her cuffs. A paler blue mantle is draped over the back of her head and falls to cover her shoulders and body. A sheer white veil covers her hair and forehead. Jesus wears a sheer white, loose, long-sleeved tunic. Both gaze downward to the bunch of green grapes Mary holds delicately in her left hand, to our right. Jesus reaches forward with both hands to pluck some fruit as Mary supports his body with her other hand. An oval shaped, woven basket with a lid sits on the ground next to Mary’s feet. The gray, rocky outcropping on which they sit is blanketed with straw-colored moss or other growth. A small clearing behind the pair is framed by trees on either side. The trees have tall, slender trunks speckled with light gray patches and canopies of olive and celery-green leaves. To our left and beyond the outcropping, a gray donkey stands behind a tree, nibbling on some grasses at the edge of the outcropping. To our right, in the middle distance, a pale-skinned, bearded man stands and arches back with a long stick raised overhead, as if about to strike the tree in front of him. Beyond him and about two-thirds of the way up the panel, a row of dark green shrubbery separates the clearing from rolling blue hills in the distance.

Head Fragment

A man stands, leaning on a staff used like a crutch, in a deep, rocky landscape in this round-topped vertical painting. The cleanshaven man has tanned skin and sparse gray hair. He is nude aside from a slate-gray cloth that wraps around his hips. The hand not bracing the crutch is held in a loose fist at his chest. A few plants grow and bloom along the bottom of the panel. The dirt path on which the man stands winds through low, grass-covered mounds to a cave opening at the base of a tall, steep cliff face. A lion stands on the path between the man and the cave. An owl perches in the bare, spike-like branches of a spindly tree growing to our right of the man.

Textile Fragment

Walbus met vuursteenslot

Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel

Big-Eared Brown Bat Vessel

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Dagger-axe

Unidentified Man

Bassoon

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Donderbus buitgemaakt op Lombok in 1894

Goqing

Center table

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Natural Trumpet in D

In front of a crumbling stone building, an older man kneels in front of a second man, smaller in scale, hanging from a tall, wooden cross, with a city in the background in this vertical painting. Both men have pale skin. At the lower center of the composition, the kneeling man, Saint Jerome, pulls his navy-blue robe to one side to expose his muscular but slender bare chest with a bloody mark at its center. With his other hand, he holds a rounded, gray stone touched with pink, also suggesting blood, by his side. He has long, silvery-gray hair and a long, pointed beard. His pink lips are parted, and we see his teeth. He raises gray eyes to look up at the man on the slender cross, which rises along the left edge of the composition. The man on the cross brown hair, a plate-like gold halo, and a white loincloth is draped across his hips. The shell-pink ground is littered with rocks. A red hat with a shallow brim and a tasseled chin cord sits near Saint Jerome’s sandaled feet. A miniature lion lies between Saint Jerome and the arched opening of the crumbling, terracotta-red structure along the right edge of the painting. Ivy grows up one side of the arch, and an hourglass and book with a red cover and gold-edged pages sit on a white cloth under the opening. An owl perches on a branch of an oak tree growing from the front face of the structure, and a hawk sits on a branch of the fruit tree growing from the stone courtyard, between Saint Jerome and the crucifix. A shrub with dark green leaves and clusters of three olive-green fruits fills in most of the space beneath the canopy of the fruit tree. To our right and in the distance, a man with a pointed black hat, a black jacket, and white pants rides away from us on a gray horse. To our left, the courtyard gives way to an amphitheater-like space. There, next to a donkey, a man with a long white beard hands a bundle of wood or planks to another man whose brown hair is cut into a ring encircling his head. Both men wear rose-pink garments over navy-blue togas. A town with white and pale pink stone buildings rises up a hill into the distance. The sky above deepens from honeydew green along the horizon to pale then peacock blue along the top edge of the composition. A few ice-blue, white, and light gray clouds float across the sky.

Cranes on snow-covered pine

Unidentified Man

Heavenly beauty

Sickle sword

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Tomb Guardian with Animal Head

Grapevine

Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry (Uso, shidarezakura), from an untitled series of flowers and birds

Makara-shaped Pendant

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Kamānche

Corsesca

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Unidentified Woman