17th century public domain art
Artworks created between 1601 and 1700, drawn from every collection indexed here. Free to download, with colour palettes and print sizes measured from each file.
Works in 17th century public domain art

Herons and Old WIllow
Kano Sadanobu (1596-1623)

Chinese landscape: winter
Style of Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

A girl playing battledore and shuttlecock
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792)

Flowers, ducks, and other birds
Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Popular Deities, Sages, and Immortals
Hanabusa Itcho 英一蝶 (1652-1724)

Tiger lilies and grass
Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Quail and flowers
Formerly attributed to Zhao Boju (ca. 1120s-ca.1162)

Pastimes and occupations of the twelve months
Hanabusa Itcho 英一蝶 (1652-1724)

The palaces and gate towers of Penglai
Zhu Dan (mid- to late 17th century)

Chrysanthemums
Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Two birds swinging on a branch of bamboo
Formerly attributed to Zhao Boju (ca. 1120s-ca.1162)

A Puppet-show: <em>The Story of The Potted Trees</em>
Bunkaku

Flowers 花木図屏風
Watanabe Shiko 渡辺始興 (1683-1755)

Parody of a scene from The Tale of Genji
Kawamata Tsuneyuki 川又常行 (1676?-1741?)

Beauty reclining as visitors approach
Tamura Suio (active 1680-1730)

Spring festival on the river
Traditionally attributed to Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552)

Standing figure of a woman
Hishikawa Morofusa 菱川師房 (fl. 1685-1703)

Ariwara Narihira carrying his lover
Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753)

Landscape with Mount Fuji and Matsubara Pine Forest
Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

Yujo and her understudy (<em>kamuro</em>)
Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753)

Peasant and noble
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Yujo, understudy (<em>kamuro</em>) and man-servant
Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信 (1686-1764)

Standing man in a red coat
Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Birds
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Infant's first visit to a Shinto shrine
Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 (1671-1751)

A Private Puppet Performance
Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信 (1686-1764)

Woman near a fenced-off flowering garden
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792)

Hibiscus (part of a set, F1904.379-381)
Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Young man and a young woman on the seashore
Kawamata Tsuneyuki 川又常行 (1676?-1741?)

Three men gesticulating
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Low screen with design of textile fragments
Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747)

Rama and Lakshman with the sage Vishvamitra, from a <em>Ramayana</em>
Attributed to the Master of Style II of the ‘Shangri’ Ramayana

Two peasant girls beating cloth outside a house
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792)

Running water, autumn grasses and flowers
Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)

Houses on the river
School of Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Jahangir Giving Books to Shaykhs, from the St. Petersburg Album
Attributed to Lalchand

Mandarin ducks under smartweed
Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)

Matsukaze and Murasame
Kawamata Tsunemasa 川又常正 (fl. 1716-1748)

Woman stretching cloth to dry; two children at play
Hanabusa Itcho 英一蝶 (1652-1724)

Folding screens mounted with poems from the anthology, Shin kokinshu 新古今集和歌色紙貼付屏風 (一双、画像:左隻のみ)
Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Spring festival on the river
Formerly attributed to Zhang Zeduan (late 11th-early 12th century)

White peacock and peonies
Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

A Courtier
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Woman washing her hair with an attendant
Katsukawa Shunsui 勝川春水 (fl. 1744-1764)

Krishna approaches Radha, folio from a <em>Rasikpriya</em>
Nuruddin

Heron and lotus
Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

A hunting scene
Formerly attributed to Wang Meng 王蒙 (ca. 1308-1385)

Two kabuki actors in the roles of a courtesan on a water buffalo and a traveling priest
Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信 (1686-1764)

Landscape: a <em>yujo</em> sitting on a bench
Miyagawa Choshun 宮川長春 (1683-1753)

Hollyhocks
Formerly attributed to Xu Xi (active mid-10th century)

Landscape: Lake Biwa
Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙 (1733-1795)

Landscape: two figures
Ding Guanpeng (active 1726-after 1770)

Two girls standing, one holding an open book
Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政 (1739-1820)

Plum and bamboo
Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Bamboo stalks and leaves
Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Interior: a girl and a kitten
Katsukawa Shuncho 勝川春潮 (active ca. 1780-1795)

Yujo doing her hair
Hishikawa Moroyasu

Cock, hen and chick
Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙 (1733-1795)

Yujo on parade
Toyonobu Utagawa (active 1770-1780)

Plum blossoms
Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)