Beauty Playing with Cat and Kitten, early 18th century

Children at Play (Furnishing Fabric), 1886/90

Merrimack Manufacturing Company

Busu, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Gyokusei

Act Eight: Bridal Journey, from the play "Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)", c. 1779/80

Katsukawa Shunsho

Four Children Playing, plate seven of Twelve Ornament Panels, c. 1505–15

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Actor Playing Seigen Doshin in the play Hana butai banjaku soga, 1802

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing His Flute in the Moonlight, About 1883

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

The Actors Sanjo Kantaro (right) and Fujimura Handayu (left) as musicians playing under wisteria, c. 1717/18

Dish with Two Lions Playing with a Brocade Ball, Encircled by Auspicious Animals, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Jiajing period (1522–66)

Les-Parents-Terribles series: A lovely play, always the same, 1853

Paul Gavarni

Lady Filmer in her Drawing Room, 1863–68

Mary Georgiana Caroline, Lady Filmer

Seated Figure Playing a Rasp, c. 100 CE

Nayarit

The Actor Nakamura Gentaro as a woman playing battledore and shuttlecock, c. 1704

Torii Kiyomasu I

Boshibari, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Kôgyo

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Hanjo in the play "Tsumagoi Sumidagawa," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1733, 1733

Torii Kiyomasu II

Bowl with Boys Playing amid Peony Blossoms, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th century

Boy Playing a Flute, c. 1860

John George Brown

Girl Playing with a Cat, c. 1769/70

Suzuki Harunobu

Woman, Amor, and Harlequin Playing the Guitar, 1918

Pablo Picasso

Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses, c. 1685

Wauters Workshop