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A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

Friends of Krishna, folio 163 from a Bhakti Ratnavali of Vishnu Puri

Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion, from a copy of the Seven Hundred Verses (Sat Sai) of Bihari

Khambavati Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Queen Kaikeyi reminds King Dasharatha about the sacrifices of King Bali and King Shivi, folio 39 from the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana (Rama's Journey)

Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Heer Ranjha: Lady with Water Jug on her Head and Lady Holding out her Arms, Jodhpur school, India, c. mid-18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Folk Painting

A Procession Scene with Musicians, from a copy of the Padshanama

Krishna Fluting

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Pradyumna and Samvara fight with maces, from the "Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana"

Krishna with an Ascetic

The Infant Krishna Spirited Away by Vasudev, from a copy of the Dispersed Bhagavat Purana

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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

Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

This drawing, Walters manuscript leaf W.749, was executed in Safavid Iran, most probably in the late 10th century AH/AD 16th, in Qazvin or Isfahan. Above, a farmer plows; below, a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. On the rocks in the center foreground is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters in Iran in the 11th century AH/AD 17th, Riza 'Abbasi (active 1001-1044 AH/AD 1591-1592 to 1634). As the handwriting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza's work seems to have attributed the drawing to him. The execution and the bucolic subject matter of this drawing relate closely to the oeuvre of the Persian artist Muhammadi Haravi (active late 10th century AH/AD 16th), who worked in Qazvin. It is possible that this composition was conceived as a manuscript page.

Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

This illustration from Walters manuscript W.644 depicts Zulaykha in a blue-domed litter on a camel led by a cameleer. The retinue is entering the capital of Egypt.

This folio from Walters manuscript W.677 depicts Bahram Gur in a peasant's house.

Amir Khusrau Dedicates His Poem to Sultan Ala al-Din Khalji, page from the Quintet (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dehlavi

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album. Painters unknown, borders by Muhammad Sadiq. Top left: Nadir Shah, Iran, ca. 1740. Top right: Adil Shah, Iran, ca. 1748. Bottom left: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Bottom right: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Art Institute of Chicago 1919.952 recto

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Durga Slaying Mahisha

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)

Alauddin Khilji Conquering Ranthamore Fort, Kangra school, India, late 18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

The Greedy Dog

Thanka with Buddha

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

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

Green Tara

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Garden Gathering

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.604, King Qizil Arslan welcomes the poet Nizami.

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Tile Panel

This page from Walters manuscript W.674 bears 4 diplomas written within illuminated cartouches inscribed in ijazah script by the following master calligraphers: Yaziji zadah, Isma'il al-Zuhdi Katib al-Saray al-Sultani, Muhammad Hasib, and 'Ali al-Wasfi. The page is dated 1219 AH/AD 1804-1805.

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Peahen and hibiscus

This folio from Walters manuscript W.596 depicts the fall of Samarqand.

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Birds and Flowers

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)

Three Tahitian Women

The Call

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

The work of Carl Blechen, a pivotal ﬁgure in 19th-century German painting, marks a transition from Romanticism to a more realistic view of nature. Inspired in part by his encounter with the Italian landscape and light during a trip he made around 1828 or 1829, Blechen developed a ﬂuid technique that enabled him to capture ﬂeeting atmospheric effects. He often used his landscapes as settings for mysterious ﬁgures, reﬂecting his early contact with Romantic painting and theater.

A Young Prince on Horseback

A Stallion

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.653, a middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing.

Girl Arranging Flowers

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Buddhist Deities

慈眼大師像

Mt. Fuji through Pines

Peonies

Sceneries in the Tropical Land, by Imamura Shiko, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

Tathagata Buddha

Velvet Fragment with Design from Nizami of Ganja's Khusrau and Shirin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

An Artisan’s Shop, from the album The Mist of Sandara (Sandara kasumi)

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)

The Beach at Sumiyoshi from the Tales of Ise

Phoenixes and Paulownia

The top and bottom panels of this illuminated finispiece from Walters manuscript W.578 are inscribed with the basmalah and hamdalah in white Thuluth script. The Qur'anic verses in the central panel are written in Square Kufic.

This is the final illuminated page in the codex, Walters W.582. The last panel contains the colophon, written in Riqa' script, giving the name of the scribe as Habib Allah ibn Dust Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.

Floral Tent Panel

Peacocks and Bamboo

Portrait of the Great Master Yeongwoldang Eungjin

Silk Animal Carpet

Ema (Votive Painting) of a Chinese Lion and Peony Tree by Flowing Water

Hunting Scene

Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus