Pondering

Araki Tômei

Pair of menuki in the form of a flight of geese

19th Century · Main material: shakudo; other metals: gold; gold fake signature plaque; decorative technique: uchidashi, takabori, zogan · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Frederic Edwin Church

Cayambe

1858 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Childe Hassam

Nocturne, Railway Crossing, Chicago

1893 · Opaque watercolor on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Odilon Redon

Large Green Vase with Mixed Flowers

1912 · Pastel on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Totoya Hokkei

No. 2 of a Triptych

1825 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Winslow Homer

An Afterglow

1883 · Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Totoya Hokkei

Cranes and Rising Sun

19th Century · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Totoya Hokkei

Sumida River

1832 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

French 13th Century

Pyx

13th Century · Champlevé enamel and gilding on copper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet

Ships in a Harbor

1873 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

William Morris Hunt

Sheep Shearing at Barbizon

1852 · Oil on panel · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet

Morning on the Seine, near Giverny

1897 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Japanese 12th Century

Fudô myôô, the Immovable One

12th Century · Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) with polychrome and gold; joined woodblock construction · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Maya Late Classic Period

Chamá-style cylinder vase

700-800 · Earthenware: red, brown, black, and white on orange slip paint · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

French 13th Century

Plaque with Beasts

1300 · Champlevé enamel on copper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Totoya Hokkei

Samurai

1820 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet

Grand Canal, Venice

1908 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Totoya Hokkei

In the Shell-matching Game, Some People Do Not Notice What Is in Front of Them But Look Around Instead

1832 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Totoya Hokkei

Waterfall Seen from Behind at Nikkô Mountain in Shimotsuke Province

1835 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet

Valley of the Creuse (Gray Day)

1889 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Peter Paul Rubens

The Crucifixion

1612 · Oil on panel · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Wedgwood Manufactory

Vase

1861 · Redware (red stoneware) with painted enamel and gilded decoration · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Martin Johnson Heade

Lotus Blossom

1900 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

German 18th Century

Crosier of Abbot Gerhard of Saint Mang

1706 · Silver, silver-gilt · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Camille Pissarro

Morning Sunlight on the Snow, Éragny-sur-Epte

1895 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Edward Steichen

Noel Coward, New York, 1932

1932 · Gelatin silver print · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Frits Thaulow

Farmyard in the Snow

1891 · Pastel on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Eastman Johnson

Self Portrait

1885 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Childe Hassam

A New York Blizzard

1890 · Pastel on wood pulp cardboard · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Japanese 19th Century

Golden Pheasant and Bamboo in Snow

1897 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

William Morris Hunt

Haying by Oxen

1876 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Petrus Raimundus

Planispheric astrolabe

1375 · Gilded brass · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

George Inness

Blue Niagara

1884 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Winslow Homer

Watch-Tower, Corner Of Spring And Varick Streets, New York (For Harper's Weekly, February 28, 1874, p. 196)

1874 · Wood engraving · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Ralph Curtis

Henley: The Regatta

1890 · Watercolor and gouache on paper · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Wedgwood Manufactory

Sugar bowl

1790 · Colored stoneware (jasperware) · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Fitz Henry Lane

View of Coffin's Beach

1862 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

William James Glackens

Flying Kites, Montmartre

1906 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet

Meadow with Haystacks near Giverny

1885 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Indian 8th Century

Walking Buddha

8th Century · Ivory · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet

Water Lilies

1907 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Luc Olivier Merson

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1879 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Albert Bierstadt

Wreck of the "Ancon" in Loring Bay, Alaska

1889 · Oil on paper mounted on Masonite · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Edward Steichen

Self Portrait with Photographic Paraphernalia, New York, 1929

1929 · Gelatin silver print · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Childe Hassam

Old Fairbanks House, Dedham, Massachusetts

1884 · Oil on paper mounted on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Jackson Pollock

Troubled Queen

1945 · Oil and alkyd (synthetic paint) on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Caleb Arnold Slade

Ponte della Canonica, Venice

1912 · Oil on canvas · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Paul Signac

Saint-Tropez I

1894 · Color lithograph, printed in blue, yellow, and red · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

William James Glackens

Italo-American Celebration, Washington Square

1912 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Albert Bierstadt

Interior of a Library

1886 · Oil on paper mounted on aluminum · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA