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

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Results for "The Return Home"12 records

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Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Unrecorded maker

ca. 540 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Tao Yuanming's Return Home by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tao Yuanming's Return Home

Unrecorded maker

1300s · Painting, Handscroll; ink and slight color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

Unrecorded maker

ca. 430–420 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Farmer Returning Home in Autumn by Yosa Buson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Farmer Returning Home in Autumn

Yosa Buson (d. 1783)

1781 · Painting, Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Returning Home in a Driving Rain by Xia Gui, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Returning Home in a Driving Rain

Xia Gui (d. 1230)

early 13th century · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Geese Returning Home by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Geese Returning Home

Unrecorded maker

1600s · Painting, hanging scroll; ink on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Ode on Returning Home by Qian Xuan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ode on Returning Home

Qian Xuan (d. 1301)

14th–15th century · Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Landscape with Woodcutters Returning Home by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape with Woodcutters Returning Home

Unrecorded maker

1200s · Painting, hanging scroll, ink on silk

Cleared · CC0

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The Return Home by Edward Calvert, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Return Home

Edward Calvert (d. 1833)

1830 · Wood engraving; third state of three

Cleared · Public Domain

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Krishna returns with the cowherds to Braj, from a Bhagavata Purana by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Krishna returns with the cowherds to Braj, from a Bhagavata Purana

Unrecorded maker

c. 1830 · Painting, Gum tempera and ink on paper

Cleared · CC0

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"The Return" by Johannes Riepenhausen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The Return"

Johannes Riepenhausen (d. 1860)

late 18th–19th century · Graphite, red chalk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Returning Home by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Returning Home

Unrecorded maker

mid-1500s · Painting, hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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