Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,128 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,735 of them are available online. There are 2,312 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Jyoti Bhatt

Haryana Women Making “Sanjhi” at Craft Village New Delhi

Martin Munkacsi

Fashion photograph

Eugène Delacroix

Femmes d'Alger (Women from Algiers)

Allison Kyner

Sweeter Beauty

Unknown Maker, American

Portrait of Isabel Homer Pegram (1843-1892)

Bronze urn with leave-like handles that extend across its body. Below, a group of winged babies pull back a goat. Detailed carved lines surround the body and handles.

Unknown Maker, French

Classical Vase Wallpaper

Brown-toned landscape painting with a large pillared archway in front of a fenced lawn containing plants and several sitting and standing figures sprawled throughout, all against a blue background.

Unknown Maker, French

Gardens of the Palais Royal (Jardin du Palais Royal) Wallpaper

Weathered, dark blue wallpaper with repeating, pillared railing that circularly surrounds roosters standing on top and around a circular basket, and a yellow stone “housed” well below it.

Unknown Maker, French

Landscapes Enclosed in Ovals Wallpaper

Weathered, dark-brown rectangular painting of a decorative vase containing red flowers and large leaves, between two mythological winged figures, on a turquoise table with etched winged babies and gold embellishments.

Joseph-Laurent Malaine

Vase of Flowers Wallpaper

Weathered, long rectangular white panel with symmetrical accents above a small three-legged table, holding a blue and orange horizontally striped container, on top of a patterned black and red box.

Etienne de Lavallée

Design for a Wallpaper Panel

Large and extravagant arrangement of pink and blue flowers with foliage spilling out of a gold and teal-accented vase set on a gold-trimmed marble pedestal, set against a muted backdrop.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper with Bouquet of Flowers

Unknown Maker, American

Untitled

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎

Russia (Oroshia)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Doll on a Stand, Edo Period

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Nakahara (reclaimed fields) Sagami Province (Soshu Nakahara), Edo (Japanese period)

Woodblock print of several partially-nude figures standing beneath a waterfall amongst the clouds and descending from a hill with trees.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Rōben Falls at Mount Ōyama Sagami Province (相州大山ろうべんの滝 Sōshū Ōyama Rōben no taki), Edo Period

Woodblock print of yellow cliffs curving upwards to a swirling blue and white circle connecting to white streaks flowing downwards. Three figures sit at the edge of the left cliff.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

The Amida Falls on the Kiso road ( 木曾路ノ奥阿弥陀ヶ瀧 Kisoji no oku amida ga taki), Edo (Japanese period)

A woodblock print of a partially sunlit mountain against a cloudy blue sky. The mountain's blue shadowed base is forested whilst the red sunlit tip of the mountain is snowy.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Fine wind clear weather (凱風快晴 Gaifū kaisei), Edo Period

Print of a reddish-brown cloudy mountain side with wispy green trees and figures in uniform clothing and yellow hats climbing it, against a pale sky with a striking blue horizon.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Mountain climbers (諸人登山 Shojin tozan), Edo (Japanese period)

Triptych print of a brown volcano erupting into a smoky tan sky. Below is a green terrain with three houses and a river. The leftmost print features vertical scripture.

Inoue Yasuji 井上安治 (Tankei)

The Volcanic Eruption of Mount Bandai (磐梯山噴火の圖 Bandaisan funka no zu), Meiji Period