Works on Paper

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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

1330s

Oide Tōkō

Cat Watching a Spider

ca. 1888–92

Stefano della Bella

Stag at bay, from "Animal hunts" (Chasses à différents animaux)

ca. 1654

Edgar Degas

Landscape

ca. 1877–79

Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

1884

James Hamilton

Beach Scene

ca. 1865

Adriaen Collaert

Design for a Plate with Neptune in a Shell Drawn by Horses in a Medallion Bordered by Sea Monsters

ca. 1600

William Guy Wall

New York from the Heights near Brooklyn

ca. 1820–23

Emperor Huizong

Finches and bamboo

early 12th century

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Portrait of the consort of Maria Theresa, queen of Hungary and Bohemia, on horseback

18th century

Giulio Carpioni

Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits of the earth spread before her, a cupid with a torch approaches from the right, a stag and hound look toward Cybele from the left, from "The Elements"

1640–60

Unknown maker

"The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus", Folio from a Falnama (Book of Omens)

1550s

Edwaert Collier

Vanitas Still Life

1662

Thomas Rowlandson

The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)

August 1, 1814

Manohar

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

recto: ca. 1615–20; verso: ca. 1530–50

Unidentified artist

Portrait of Yun Dongseom (1710–1795)

ca. 1790–1805

Sakai Hōitsu

Blossoming Cherry Trees

ca. 1805

Lucas van Leyden

Abigail Before David

ca. 1507

Unidentified artists

Six Horses

First half of scroll, 13th century; second half of scroll, 14th century

Wybrand Hendriks

Hunting Still Life in a Forest

1784

Kiyohara Yukinobu

Waxwings, Cherry Blossoms, and Bamboo

late 17th century

Pierre Charles Canot

Dogs and Still Life

1778

Anonymous, 17th century

Saint John the Evangelist holding a goblet with a snake emerging from it, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

1600–40

Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Toilers of the Sea

ca. 1880–85