The insistent lover, from an untitled series of erotic prints, c. 1684/98
Sugimura Jihei
Orchid and Bird, c. 1770
Isoda Koryusai
Young Couple Under an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1770
Isoda Koryusai
Rain in the Fifth Month (Samidare), c. 1755
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Recital on a verandah overlooking Sumida River, c. 1790/95
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Hamamuraya: Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Koman, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)", 1795
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Toraya: Arashi Ryuzo II as the monk Tojibo in the play "Hatsu Akebono Kaomise Soga," from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)", 1794
Utagawa Toyokuni I
The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Karashi Baba (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Sanshodayu (left), in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769, c. 1769
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Shepherd, 1644
Paulus Potter
Robert Nanteuil, n.d.
Gérard Edelinck
Catching Fireflies, c. 1796/97
Kitagawa Utamaro
Act Eleven from the series "The Chushingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties (Komei bijin mitate Chushingura Junimai Kuzuki)", c. 1794/95
Kitagawa Utamaro
Murasaki Shikibu: Bird, from the series "Famous Women and Their Poems on Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon (Meifu eika kacho fugetsu)", c. 1805
Kitagawa Utamaro
The Fourth Month (Shigatsu), from an untitled series of genre scenes in the twelve months, with kyoka poems, c. 1792/93
Kitagawa Utamaro
Sea Lane off Kazusa Province (Kazusa no kairo), from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33
Katsushika Hokusai
Misty Moonlight on the Shore at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima kaihen oborozuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)", c. 1835/38
Utagawa Hiroshige
Portrait of Bartolomaeus Spranger with an Allegory of the Death of His Wife, Christina Müller, 1600
Aegidius Sadeler, II
Science or The Love of Study, c. 1635
Guido Reni
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist (recto), and December Calendar (verso), from Book of Hours, 1496/97