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La table servie

Jacques Villon (French, Damville 1875–1963 Puteaux)

Accession Number: 1975.1.753

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi (active 1340s)

Date: A.H. 741/A.D. 1340–41
Accession Number: 19.68.1

Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Date: ca. 1473–1458 B.C.
Accession Number: 36.3.252

Palette inscribed for Smendes, High Priest of Amun

Date: ca. 1045–992 B.C.
Accession Number: 47.123a–g

'Saz'-style Drawing of a Dragon amid Foliage

Shah Quli (active 1520–66)

Date: ca. 1540–50
Accession Number: 57.51.26

The Connoisseur

Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: ca. 1860–65
Accession Number: 29.100.200

"Khusrau Hunting", Folio from Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi

Date: dated A.H. 904/A.D. 1498–99
Accession Number: 69.27

Set of Fifty-Two Playing Cards

Date: ca. 1470–80
Accession Number: 1983.515.1–.52

Emperor Xuanzong's Flight to Shu

Unidentified Artist

Date: mid-12th century
Accession Number: 41.138

"The Eavesdropper", Folio from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami

Maulana Azhar (d. 1475/76)

Date: ca. 1430
Accession Number: 13.228.13.6

Dune Landscape with Oak Tree

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, Haarlem 1628/29–1682 Amsterdam)

Date: 1650–55
Accession Number: 1995.196

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)

Painting by Mustafa ibn Vali

Date: ca. 1595
Accession Number: 1994.141

Three Allegorical Figures and Studies of a Seated Man

Circle of Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?))

Date: ca. 1420
Accession Number: 1975.1.335

Cottage among Trees

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: ca. 1650
Accession Number: 29.100.939

Illuminated Gospel

Date: late 14th–early 15th century
Accession Number: 1998.66

Designs for a Nativity or Adoration of the Christ Child; Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Clos-Lucé)

Date: 1480–85
Accession Number: 17.142.1

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Painting by Govardhan (active ca. 1596–1645)

Date: verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50
Accession Number: 55.121.10.22

Old Trees, Level Distance

Guo Xi (Chinese, ca. 1000–ca. 1090)

Date: ca. 1080
Accession Number: 1981.276

Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin (French, Les Andelys 1594–1665 Rome)

Date: ca. 1635–36
Accession Number: 1998.225

Finches and Bamboo

Emperor Huizong (Chinese, 1082–1135; r. 1100–25)

Accession Number: 1981.278

Lucretia

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)

Date: 1483–1520
Accession Number: 1997.153

Ensemble

Jean Paul Gaultier (French, born 1952)

Date: 1994
Accession Number: 1994.578.3a, b

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)

Date: ca. 1740
Accession Number: 1975.1.443

The Block

Romare Bearden (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1911–1988 New York)

Date: 1971
Accession Number: 1978.61.1-.6

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Painting by Chitarman (active ca. 1627–70)

Date: recto: 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50
Accession Number: 55.121.10.24

Ecstatic Christ

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) (German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg (Strassburg))

Date: ca. 1510-11
Accession Number: 1975.1.855

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Date: ca. 1180
Accession Number: 29.160.24

Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)

Date: ca. 1555–60
Accession Number: 38.149.2

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Date: late 9th–early 10th century
Accession Number: 30.45

Rough Waves

Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716)

Date: ca. 1704–9
Accession Number: 26.117