Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,134 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,762 of them are available online. There are 2,338 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 1836

Fratelli Alinari

P.e I.a N.o 2159 Firenze--Chiesa di S. Croce Cancello in ferro della Cappella in Sagrestia (1371)

Anthony Goicolea

Still life with Pig

Unknown Maker, Iranian

Portrait of a Man, Qajar Dynasty

Henry Horenstein

Maryland George Northampton Fair

Francesca Woodman

Charlie the Model #11 Providence, RI

Peter Lanyon

Black Mine

Antoine Coypel

Study for a Lunette - Figures Seated in Clouds

Francis Towne

A View of the Town and Lake of Lugano

A satirical watercolor of a wedding divided into two horizontal registers on the sheet. The bride and groom are in the middle surrounded by family. Illegible text accompanies each figure.

George Moutard Woodward

Study for Symptoms of Matrimony

A loosely drawn pen and ink sketch of Saint Jerome and Saint John. Jerome is with a lion and cherub and John, to his right, looks downward toward a lamb.

Donato Creti

Studies for Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

A pen and ink drawing of a smiling, bewigged French knight. In uniform, he stands facing left, one arm holding a tri-corner hat, the other held up in greeting.

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Le Chevalier de La Motte

Red, white, and black chalk roundel-shaped portrait of a white woman with blue eyes wearing a white cloth head covering. She is in three-quarter view, looking directly at the viewer.

Gérard de Lairesse

Portrait of a Woman Probably Marie Salme, the Artist’s Wife

Elizabeth McGowan

Hotel Room Washington, DC

Elizabeth McGowan

Self Portrait

A decorative drawing depicting the winged allegorical figures of Love, Friendship, and Time. The figures, architectural ruins, and landscape reference ancient Greece.

Jean-Jacques Karpff, called Casimir

L’amour et l’amitié (Love and Friendship; design for printed toile fabric)

Auguste Rodin

The Mermaid

A black bird with a teal head perched on flowering vines with pale orange blossoms and dark green foliage, accented by vertical calligraphy on a pale background.

Eishōsai Chōki 栄松斎長喜

Small Bird and Roses, Edo Period

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Crow on Snow-covered Plum Branch, Meiji

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

The Mitsui shop Suruga Edo (Edo suruga-chō Mitsui-mise ryakuzu), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Nihonbashi Edo (Edo nihonbashi), Edo (Japanese period)