The 958 Artworks exhibited in United States Of America

Sesson Yūbai, one of the most accomplished literati Zen monks, was both proficient in calligraphy and learned in Chinese poetry. After studying with the Chinese émigré monk Yishan Yining (Japanese: Issan Ichinei, 1247–1317), he spent twenty-three years in China, and his calligraphy reveals the influ...

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Korean art has a rich tradition of portraying real locations in addition to utopian landscapes. Following the destructive Japanese and Manchu invasions of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, respectively, there arose a renewed awareness of Korea’s place in East Asia and the peninsula...

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Little is known of the career path of Venetian painter Giambattista Cimaroli, apart from a brief collaboration with Canaletto, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Giovanni Battista Pittoni. Cimaroli provided valuable records of scenes in Venice, the Veneto, and the region of Verona. This splendid view ...

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The center panel depicts the mystical mountain of Hōrai, the most popular of the auspicious symbols displayed on the New Year in Japan. Balanced on the back of a tortoise, a symbol of longevity, the isle supports other symbols of long life-a crane and pine tree-while plum flowers and the rising sun ...

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A group of boys have broken into play during their studies. Writing utensils—brushes, brush rests, inkstones, books, scrolls, and silk wrapping cloths—are scattered around the space. A child naps at center while the others form a circle around him, armed with ink-dipped brushes. One boy has already ...

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The popular devotional subject known as the 'Soul of Mary' visualizes the inner presence of the Holy Spirit and emphasizes the Virgin’s participation in the mystery of the incarnation. Mary is represented half-length, holding the infant Christ in her arms, with the dove of the Holy Spirit over her h...

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One of a set of panels (22.225.1–6) which probably formed a set of decoration for a room. Each panel represents two months of the year, depicting astrological signs and occupations appropriate to the seasons. January and February are represented by an old man and Harlequin warming themselves in fron...

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Probably painted about 1870–73, this landscape demonstrates Corot's continued attention to capturing naturalistic effects of light, even while rendering foliage in an abbreviated language of soft brushstrokes.

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Cézanne often painted abandoned sites near his studio outside Aix, but he depicted this house, with its sinister crevice, only once.

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In this unfinished portrait of 1878 or 1879, Manet depicts the Irish writer George Moore (1852–1933) at the popular Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes, a gathering place for artists and writers, where the two probably met.

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The model for this work may have been Emma Dobigny, who often sat for Corot at the end of his career. Corot painted four other Muses in the 1860s. All of them evoke a mood of melancholy.

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Corot painted fewer than fifty portraits. Most were made about 1830 and all depict his family and friends. Lemaistre, an architect, married Corot’s niece Blanche Sennegon (d. 1846) in 1832.

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Embraced by a smiling companion, the central figure indulges in the newfangled vice of smoking tobacco, a recent import from the New World that greatly troubled Dutch moralists. The loose brushwork on this octagonal panel—its original shape—captures the bustle of a tavern interior.

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Sargent arrived in Paris in 1874 and enrolled in the teaching studio of the portraitist Carolus-Duran, a friend of Edouard Manet and the Impressionists. Under Carolus's influence, Sargent participated in the prevailing Parisian enthusiasm for Spain and things Spanish. He probably made this softly re...

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Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, advanced the genre of Northern landscape painting beyond his paternal legacy. In this refined, well-preserved panel, the vast depth of the landscape is balanced by an attention to the humanity of the peasant s...

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Over a career that spanned more than six decades, Ruysch attracted royal patronage, high prices, and effusive praise for her still-life paintings. Here, she collaborated with Van Musscher, a portraitist, contributing an extravagant floral arrangement to his depiction of the painter in her studio. A ...

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In this closely observed and sympathetic portrayal of an old man, special attention is given to how light models the subject’s wrinkled, time-worn face. This objective realism is characteristic of the paintings of Hugo van der Goes, especially those of the early 1470s. However, Hugo’s works do not i...

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During the American Civil War, the United States warship Kearsarge made headlines after sinking the Confederate raider Alabama off the coast of France. Manet did not witness firsthand the widely-covered event but devoted two paintings to the subject: a scene of the naval battle (Philadelphia Museum ...

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The Southern Song artist, eschewing the Northern Song monumental landscape traditions of 'a hundred peaks and ten thousand trees,' viewed nature through the microcosm of a single pair of trees and one or two rocks suspended in an infinite void. In this scene of unbounded space, vigorous wet-ink line...

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