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Feathers, wings and song

Birds

Birds in flight, at rest and on the table. Hiroshige's wild geese crossing a full moon, a kingfisher waiting on a branch, small birds in the autumn millet, a hawk on a rock at sunrise, Hokusai's rooster and hen, Oudry's ducks resting in the sun, and Fyt's partridges laid out after the hunt. In ink and gold from Japan, China and Korea, and in oil from Antwerp and Paris.

23 pictures, pick one to build

Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1833 Swans and Winter Landscape Unidentified artist Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter Kano Chikanobu, early 18th century Monk Zhaozhou and Dog, with Geese and Mynah Unkoku Tōeki, first half 17th century Birds and Flowers Unidentified artist, late 19th–early 20th century "The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds) Painting by Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1600 Ducks Resting in Sunshine Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1753 Landscape with Ducks Charles-François Daubigny, 1872 A Hare and Birds Jan Fyt Hummingbird and Passionflowers Martin Johnson Heade, ca. 1875–85 Geese and Ducks Hugh R. Hopgood, 1914–1916; original ca. 1473–1458 BCE Rooster, Hen and Chicken with Spiderwort Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1832 Wang Xizhi watching geese Qian Xuan, ca. 1295 Kingfisher Kano Tsunenobu Bird After Kenkō Shōkei Hawk at Sunrise Attributed to Jeong Hong-Rae 정홍래 鄭弘來, second half 18th century–first half 19th century Fox With Two Herons Frans Snyders, ca. 1630–40 Goose and Reeds; Willows in the Moonlight Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙, right screen: 1774; left screen: 1793 Kingfisher and Bamboo Formerly attributed to Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊, 19th century Golden Rooster and Hen Unidentified artist, 19th century A Basket and Birds Jan Fyt Autumn Millet and Small Birds Attributed to Kano Sanraku A Hare, Partridges, and Fruit Jan Fyt