Monkeys in Art
Mischief and mirror: monkeys mimicking human vice in European satire, and observed with affection in Asian painting.
410 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
Ghanti (bell)
Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series
Manaku, ca. 1725
Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
Courtiers in a Rose Garden: A Lady and Two Gentlemen
Goa Stone and Gold Case
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat, 1884
Krishna Revels with the Gopis: Page from a Dispersed Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherds)
Monkeys
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎, March 1888
Monkey
Georges Seurat, 1884
Monkey Dandy, from Monkey-ana, or Men in Miniature
Thomas Landseer|Moon, Boys & Graves|Pieri Bernard, July 1828
Monkeys
Mori Yūsen, early 19th century
Netsuke of Woman and Monkey
Monkey
Johann Joachim Kändler|Meissen Manufactory, ca.1740, after a model of ca.1732
Piece
Netsuke of Monkey on a Mushroom
Ceremonial Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)
Umetada Motoshige, dated 1645
Plate 3: seated monkey, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)
Stefano della Bella|Pierre François Basan, ca. 1641
Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Title Border with Five Genii and a Monkey
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien), 1510
Monkey stamp
Monkey Pendant
Double-spout bottle with monkey
Paracas artist(s), 200 BCE–100 CE
Greyware Bowl with Incised Monkeys
Incised and Pyroengraved Bowl with Monkeys
Provisions from Nubia Stored in the Temple, Tomb of Rekhmire
Nina de Garis Davies, ca. 1479–1425 B.C.
Ointment Bowl with Two Monkeys in Relief
Monkey holding vessel
Figure of monkey
猿を襲う鷲図|Eagle Attacking a Monkey
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎, 1885
Netsuke of Three Monkeys on the Back of a Fish (Sanbiki Saru)
Netsuke
Netsuke of a Man Sleeping while Monkey Steals Contents of Basket
Netsuke of Octopus Fighting a Monkey
Monkeys within vase
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1755
Boy with Monkey
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1755–59
The Antiquarian
Jean Siméon Chardin|Pierre Louis Surugue, 1743
Eight Monkeys, a Dead Goose, and a Cormorant
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, mid-18th–early 19th century
Two Girls Looking at a Monkey on a Leash
Suzuki Harunobu
Pair of covered tureens
Vienna|Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period, ca. 1725
Snuff bottle with stopper
Monkey Mask, from Divers Masques
François Chauveau|Jacques Van Merlen, ca. 1635–45
Monkeys on Rocks and Trees
Sesson Shūkei, 17th century
"The Deposed Monkey King Drops Figs for the Tortoise and the Two Become Friends", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Stamp, Monkey
Le Singe et le chat
Félix Bracquemond|Gustave Moreau|Jean de La Fontaine|Boussod, Valadon and Co.|Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1886
Waterfall, Eagle and Monkey
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎, ca. 1887
A Giant Monkey in Uniform Holding up Pierrot and a Man with a Whip
Anonymous, French, Austrian or German, second decade19th century, after 1825