Genre
Furniture & Household Objects
The everyday object grounds a scene in a real room. A polished table, a brass jug, a chair turned at an angle: the Dutch interior painters trusted these things to do the storytelling, letting the furniture report on the household more honestly than any figure could.
Key artists
Works
Venus with a Mirror
The Dancing Class
The Penitent Magdalen
The Organ Rehearsal
The Repentant Magdalen
Archery Contest
Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Two Women at a Window
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
The Artist's Studio
Annunciation
Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes
A Windmill on a Polder Waterway, Known as ‘In the Month of July’
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
A Cosey Corner
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)
Emma Van Name
Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery
Isabella Brant
Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis
L'Arlésienne
The Terrace at Vernonnet
Woman with a Sunflower
Tea
Portrait of Jan van Nes (1631-80). Vice admiral of Holland and West-Friesland
A Girl Asleep
Portrait of a Lady
The Milkmaid
Molly Wales Fobes
Mother and Child with a Rose Scarf
The Card Players
The Experts
Portrait of a Flemish Lady
Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate
Still Life with Fruit and Nuts
Cutting the Stone
Prospekt af hovedgården Lykkesholm på Fyn. Vinter
The Family of Mr. Westfal in the Conservatory
David and Bathsheba
Bathsheba at her bath
The Love Letter
Sir Anthony Mildmay, Knight of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire
Laid Table with Ham and a Roll
Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman
An Old Lady with a Book
Woman with a Water Jug
Woman Holding a Balance
Strawberries and Cream
A Young Woman and a Cavalier
Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain
Las Meninas
Portrait of a Woman with a Dog
Mary Magdalene
Paradiesgärtlein
Susanna and the Elders
Portrait of a Man
Woman Reading
Woman with a Lute
Young Mother Sewing
Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit
The Strawberry Girl
Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes
Portrait of a Woman
Young Woman Knitting
Woman before a Mirror
Still Life: A Banqueting Scene
The Choir of the Capuchin Church in Rome
宋/明? 佚名 仿王齊翰 挑耳圖 卷|Library Scene
Lilacs in a Window
A Woman Seated at a Window
Francis Brinley
Louis Guillaume
By the Seashore
Girl Building a House of Cards
Tea Leaves
The Chess Players
Bouquet of Small Chrysanthemums
Roses and Lilies
Self-Portrait
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth
María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain
Vanitas still life
The Green Lacquer Room, Museo Correr, Venice
Portrait of a Woman
Still life with a salt cellar
Dance at Bougival
Portrait of a Woman
Vanitas still life
Vanitas still life
François Ier du Saint-Empire et sa collection d'histoire naturelle
A Group of Danish Artists in Rome
The Three O'Clock Sitting
The Studio of the Haarlem Painter Pieter Frederik van Os
南宋 佚名 舊傳五代周文矩 琉璃堂人物圖 卷|Scholars of the Liuli Hall
明 傳謝環 杏園雅集圖 卷|Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
The Dancing Glade at Sorgenfri
Julie Le Brun (1780–1819) Looking in a Mirror
Still Life with Pig's Head, Trotters and Sausage
A North Carolina Mountain Woman
Jo, the beautiful Irish Girl
Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as 'Two kinds of games'
Still Life with Fish
Mrs. Beckington
Portrait of a Young Man
Still Life
Figures on the Beach
Merrymaking at a Wayside Inn
Venus of Urbino
A Month's Darning
The Laundress
Untitled
Woman Painting a Vase
Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614–1676)
Untitled
Victorian Interior II
Untitled
Untitled
Christ in the house of the Pharisee Simon
Vanitas Still Life
Boy with Blond Hair
Before the Mirror
金處士筆 十王図の内|Ten Kings of Hell
Old Woman in an Armchair
Speakeasy
Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance" I
Whitewashing the Old House
Temptation of St. Anthony
A Child Visiting his Grandparents on a Sunday
Plucking the Geese
Ruins of the Oybin
Old English House by Moonlight
Isabella
Vanitas Still Life with a Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Dutch Books, a Writing Set, an Astrological and a Terrestial Globe and an Hourglass, All on a Draped Table
Madonna and Child with Saints Dorothy and George
Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus
Allegory of Sight and Smell
Portrait of Louis of France
Garlanding the Statuette of Cupid
Bedroom in Arles
The Dancing Lesson
The Regents of the Leper's house in Amsterdam in 1649
Old Woman Saying Grace, Known as ‘The Prayer without End’
Benois Madonna
金處士筆 十王図の内|Ten Kings of Hell
Girl by a Window
Tyrolese Interior
The Sciences and Arts
The Green Bodice
Green and Gold
The Japanese Robe
The Sense of Sight
Woman with a Mirror (Femme qui se mire)
Carpenter Making a Chair, Tomb of Rekhmire
Untitled
Untitled
A Window at Night
Project for a Room for King Ludwig II (1854–1886) of Bavaria
Untitled
Denise at Her Dressing Table
Carey's Backyard
Untitled
金處士筆 十王図の内|Ten Kings of Hell
A Young Artist (Ditlev Blunck) Examining a Sketch in a Mirror
Man at His Bath
Christian II i fængslet på Sønderborg Slot
The Decapitation of St John the Baptist
Outside the Tavern
Nude with Apple
The Odalisque
The Terrace
Country Feast
Game piece with poultry
Portrait of Maria van Strijp
Still life with glass, flask, pipe and tobacco packet
Five ladies in an interior
A Young Italian Woman being Adorned by her Mother
The Young Louis XIV
Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair
The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Virgins
A Funeral
Leonora Christina in Prison
A Woman Playing the Bandora
Et frokostbord
Portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
The Luncheon
Fray Diego de Deza y Tavera arzobispo de Sevilla
Death and the Miser (outer doors); St. Nicolas with donor and St. Godelieve with donor (inner doors)
White House at Night
A Bedroom in Bernstorff Palace near Copenhagen
Mother and Child
清 沙馥 桃李芳園圖 摺扇|The Peach and Plum Garden
View from the Artist's Window
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musical party
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Frequently asked questions
What is Furniture & Household Objects?
Furniture & Household Objects is a motif in painting. The everyday object grounds a scene in a real room.
How many Furniture & Household Objects works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 667 public-domain Furniture & Household Objects works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Furniture & Household Objects artists?
Key Furniture & Household Objects artists in the collection include Titian, Thomas Eakins and Gustave Courbet.