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    294 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    493 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "The Artist to His Friends, 1890"12 records

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The Arhat Vajraputra by Unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Arhat Vajraputra

Unidentified artist

15th century · Distemper on cotton

Cleared · Public Domain

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Tulip by William Morris, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tulip

William Morris (d. 1896)

1875 · Textile, roller printed cotton

Cleared · CC0

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Daoist immortal Li Tieguai receiving a visitor by Unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Daoist immortal Li Tieguai receiving a visitor

Unidentified artist

15th–16th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Guanyin the Bringer of Sons by Unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guanyin the Bringer of Sons

Unidentified artist

late 16th century · Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Eight Songs of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers by Unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eight Songs of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Unidentified artist

16th or 17th century · Album of eight leaves; ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Job Reproved by His Friends by James Barry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Job Reproved by His Friends

James Barry (d. 1806)

dated 1777; issued ca. 1790 · Etching over traces of aquatint; third state of five

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of Shaoyu in the guise of Liu Ling by unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Shaoyu in the guise of Liu Ling

unidentified artist

ca. 1795 · Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Map of the Grand Canal from Beijing to the Yangzi River by Unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Map of the Grand Canal from Beijing to the Yangzi River

Unidentified artist

late 18th or early 19th century · Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of the Artist by Charles Loring Elliott, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of the Artist

Charles Loring Elliott (d. 1868)

ca. 1850 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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[The Artist, His Mother, and Friends in Fishing Garb] by Olympe Aguado de las Marismas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[The Artist, His Mother, and Friends in Fishing Garb]

Olympe Aguado de las Marismas (d. 1894)

ca. 1860 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Artist to His Friends, 1890 by Louis-Oscar Roty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Artist to His Friends, 1890

Louis-Oscar Roty (d. 1911)

1890 · Bronze, struck, silvered

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Untitled (Friends)

Darrel Ellis (d. 1992)

ca. 1990 · Gelatin silver print

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