Public domain art in sand

Artworks whose dominant colour is sand, measured from the image itself rather than from a curator's tag. Every work here is free to download and reuse.

Works in Public domain art in sand

The Bird's Nest Patriarch

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Tall Bamboo and Distant Mountains, after Wang Meng

Wang Hui

Winter and Summer Flowers

Kaihō Yūshō

Shamsa (sunburst) with portrait of Aurangzeb (1618–1707), from the Emperor's Album (the Kevorkian Album)

Bichitr

Portrait of An Qi

Wang Hui

View of Emmerich

Jan van Goyen

White-Robed Guanyin

Jueji Yongzhong

Chrysanthemums by a Stream

Ogata Kōrin

Herbaceous Peony

Yun Shouping

Hunting with falcons in a landscape (recto)

Abd al-Samad

Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602)

Dharam Das

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Watanabe Shikō

Mountain View and Blue Water

Tanomura Chikuden

Sketch of Ibaraki-dōji

Shibata Zeshin

Plum Blossoms and Peonies

Gao Fenghan

A mendicant bowing before a holy man, from the Prince Salim Album

Basavana

Beneath the Willow

Tsukioka Sessai

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Laozi Riding an Ox

Chen Hongshou

Shah Jahan holding a spinel and a long Deccan sword, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Hashim

Lady with a Parasol

Koikawa Harumasa

The monkey slain, his blood to be used as medicine for the ailing prince he has bitten, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Basawan​

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons

Watanabe Shikō

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (right screen)

Watanabe Shikō

Orchids and Rocks

Yi Ha-eung

The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Basavana

Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man

Hua Yan

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Lotus and Rocks

Chen Hongshou

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (left screen)

Watanabe Shikō

Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan

Chen Hongshou

Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)

Shravana

Hulagu Khan giving a feast and dispensing favor upon the amirs and princes, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)

Lal

Akbar supervising the capture of wild elephants at Malwa in 1564, painting 90 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian 1551–1602)

Farukh Chela

Court Lady Pouring Wine (recto)

Muhammad Rizavi Hindi

Court lady singing and playing the vina

Muhammad Rizavi Hindi

Weizheng Riding on an Ox

Yamaguchi Sekkei

Angels bring food to Jesus in the wilderness (folio 55 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Muhammad Sharif

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Daoist and Crane in Autumn Landscape

Chen Hongshou

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Mr. Five Willows (Wuliu), Tao Yuanming

Chen Hongshou

Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō

Kiyohara Yukinobu

Zulaykha in her palace and as an elderly woman with Joseph (recto), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492)

Mushfiq

The wounded monkey bites the hand of the prince, his chessmate, in the presence of guests, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Dasavanta

The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Shravana

The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Lalu

A marbled picture of Rustam catching Rakhsh

Shafi

The young prince recounts his experiences to his father, the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Suraju

The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

Lalu

The king of the Ocean, having assumed human form, arrives at the court of the Raja, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night

Ghulam 'Ali

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twelfth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Tara 1

Autumn in Takao

Kiyohara Yukinobu

Grapevine

Choe Seok-hwan

Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia": Job Visited by His Three Friends (above) and Gregory the Great and His Deacon Peter (below)

Abbot Frowin

Isfandiyar slays Arjasp, the king of Turan, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Haidar Kashmiri

Christ in Majesty with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist: Single Leaf from a Book of Rules

Master of the Washington Coronation

Flowers and Grasses

Kitagawa Sōsetsu

Summer Night; Winter Day

Maruyama Ōkyo

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Dasavanta

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects

Fan Qi

In the Surf (recto)

Edward H. Potthast

Zulaykha in her palace and as an old woman with Joseph, from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492); verso from a Panj Ganj of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492), with two masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)

Mushfiq