Room to Play

Playful little scenes with acres of empty canvas — fun that keeps it minimal.

68 works

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Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Boy with a Lute

Frans Hals · ca. 1625

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

Francisco Goya · ca. 1810

The Stolen Kiss

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

The Smokers

Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636

After the Hunt

Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch · ca. 1660–62

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740

The Letter

Pietro Longhi · 1746

The Silver Tureen

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

Dancers, Pink and Green

Edgar Degas · ca. 1890

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Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1810

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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century

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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century

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Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century

Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin

Edgar Degas · ca. 1879

Théâtre Italien

Eugène Delacroix · Charles Motte · 1821

Standing Girl, Back View

Egon Schiele · 1908

May Belfort

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · May Belfort · 1895

At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and Her Sister

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · Edward Ancourt · Boussod, Valadon and Co. · 1892

Girl on a swing, a man with his arms raised; folio 21 (recto) from the Madrid Album 'B'

Francisco Goya · 1795–97

Un Coup de Vent non Prédit par Mathieu (de la Drôme), Plate 1 of Croquis d'Hiver, published in le Petit Journal pour rire

Honoré Daumier · Petit Journal pour rire · December 3, 1864

Winged Putti with Flowers

François Boucher · ca. 1750

Composition Study for "The Street Pavers"

Umberto Boccioni · 1914

Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro

James Gillray · Hannah Humphrey · Madame Rose Didelot · Rose Parisot · Charles-Louis Didelot · May 5, 1796

The Q A loaded with the spoils of India and Britain, March 6, 1788

Thomas Rowlandson · ca. 1788

The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes

Thomas Rowlandson · Elizabeth Darchery · Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire · April 12, 1784

Great Cry and Little Wool

Thomas Rowlandson · William Humphrey · Charles James Fox · December 22, 1783

Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at Football

Thomas Rowlandson · William Humphrey · William Pitt · Charles James Fox · February 7, 1784

All for Love or A Scene at Weymouth, An Unexpected Meeting

Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany · Thomas Rowlandson · Thomas Tegg · February 26, 1809

Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · Peter Perez Burdett · 1773

Tavern Scene

Gabriel Metsu

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Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1766

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Suzuki Harunobu · probably 1766

風流江戸八景　真乳山の暮雪 · Evening Snow on Matsuchi Hilll, from the series Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)

Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1765–70

Polichinelle

Edouard Manet · Théodore de Banville · Patrice de MacMahon · 1874

Five Nude Infants in Various Poses

Raphael · ca. 1500

Study of a Woman and Two Children

Joshua Reynolds · 18th century

Anteros Victorious

Annibale Carracci · 1560–1609

Concerto Coalitionale

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle · Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford · James Sayers · Thomas Cornell · Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford · Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby · John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich · William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland · William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland · The Right Honorable Edmund Burke · Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk · Charles James Fox · June 17, 1785

The Murders in the Rue Morgue, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley · Edgar Allan Poe · 1894

Sunday Evening

Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · Henry William Bunbury · May 21, 1803

A Long Story

Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · Henry William Bunbury · 1803 (reissued after 1821)

Polygamy, or Plurality of Wives

Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · February 1, 1803

A Grinning Match

Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · Henry William Bunbury · February 1, 1803

A Militia Meeting

Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · Henry William Bunbury · May 21, 1803

The Cameleopard, or a new hobby

William Heath ('Paul Pry') · George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland · Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham · 1827

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Kubo Shunman · 19th century

Free Negroes in Hayti (from Confederate War Etchings)

Adalbert J. Volck · 1861–63

元周東卿魚樂圖卷 · The Pleasures of Fishes

Zhou Dongqing · dated 1291