Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,089 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,821 of them are available online. There are 2,332 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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showing 20 works out of 1588

Katsukawa Shunshō

The actor Nakamura Riko (Nakamura Riko), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The fall of Takadachi Castle, Edo (Japanese period)

Torii Kiyonaga 鳥居清長

The beloved wife: chapter 10[man playing Sugeroku in a teahouse] (Koi nyobo judanme), Edo Period

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Komagome, Edo (Japanese period)

Ippitsusai Bunchō

Ichikawa Yaozo II, Edo (Japanese period)

Japanese print of a crouched woman, next to an open chest, wearing a blue patterned robe, facing away but looking at a small drawing of someone wearing a similar robe.

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Ono no Komachi at Sekidera (関寺小町 Sekidera komachi), Edo Period

A woodblock print showing a vast, narrow, snow-covered, gorge with a small person hiking a steep path on the right side. There is a flowing river below and a starry sky above.

Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重

Snow in the Kiso Gorge Shinano Province (信州木曽の雪 Shinshū Kiso no yuki), Edo Period

Utagawa School

Ichikawa Sadanji as Yagyu Sajima no kami; Ichikawa Udanji as Yagyu Matajuro; Ichikawa Kodanji as Chugen Jirosuke, Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Gathering Shells (Shiohigari), Edo (Japanese period)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Actor in a female role (Onnagata), Edo (Japanese period)

A thin gold top layer with leafy arches sitting upon a wider blue floral section interspersed with diagonal gold bands and gold emblems with florals.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Border

Decorative border featuring curling red foliage and scrollwork on a black background. The red paint shows aging and there is white chipping in the center.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Border

Tan, aged wallpaper of winding olive brown thorny branches and leaves with blue flowers and tiny light and dark blue dots throughout.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper

A horizontal decorative gray border with a repeating leaf pattern flanked by circular floral motifs with green centers, and a row of small dots along the top.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Border

Black decorative design strip on a neutral backdrop. Features a central cluster of white flowers surrounded by symmetrical swirling florals in orange and feathered teal shapes with orange accents.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Fragment

A large gold star with a central floral design and ornamented points at the center of a white circle with interspersed gray flowers.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Fragment

Katie Baldwin

Islands

Takenouchi Magohachi 竹内孫八

Yui: Satta Peak (Yui satta mine), Edo (Japanese period)

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信

Abe no Nakamaro and a Chinese, Edo Period

Gyodai

Plum (Ume), Edo Period