Subject
Lantern
Lantern is a subject in art. The gallery holds 42 works in this subject in art, including works by Eastman Johnson, John Singer Sargent and Hubert Robert.
A lantern is a source of lighting, often portable. It typically features a protective enclosure for the light source – historically usually a candle, a wick in oil, or a heated mesh, and often a battery-powered light in modern times – to make it easier to carry and hang up, and make it more reliable outdoors or in drafty interiors.
Key artists
Works
The New Bonnet
Vanitas Still Life
明/清 佚名 舊傳李公麟 法海靈山圖 冊|Procession of Arhats
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Praying hermit
Young Woman with a Candle
鈴木春信画 夜の梅|Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night
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Young Woman with a Lantern in a Window
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Diogenes in the barrel
喜多川歌麿画 「実競色乃美名家見 紙屋次兵衛 紀ノ国屋小春」|Jihei of Kamiya Eloping with the Geisha Koharu of Kinokuniya, from the series “True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love” (Jitsu kurabe iro no Minakami)
A Man Holding a Lantern in a Window
A Young Woman engaged at the Supper-table
The Captive King
The Pancake Maker
名所江戸百景 浅草金龍山|Kinryūsan Temple at Asakusa, from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"
Study for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose'
The Post
The young boy with the stable-lantern
諸國名橋奇覧 摂洲天満橋|Tenman Bridge at Settsu Province (Sesshū Tenmanbashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)
Piața Mare
百人一首 うはか縁説 清原深養父|Poem by Kiyohara no Fukayabu, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Mahala
浪花名所図会 今宮 十日恵比寿|Imamiya Toka Ebisu
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市川左小治 土左衛門伝吉|Ichikawa Sadanji as Dozaemon Denkichi in a Kabuki Play
実競色乃美名家見 紙屋次兵衛 紀ノ国屋小春|Jihei of Kamiya Eloping with Koharu of Kinokuniya
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お盆燈籠の火付|Lighting a Hanging Lantern for the Obon Festival
Aki|風俗四季歌仙 立秋|First Day of Autumn (Risshu)
江戸高名会亭尽 柳ばし夜景 万八|The Manpachi at Evening in Yanagibashi
Junigatsu|The Twelfth Month: December
「文齊側五行火 花街細見合」|Courtesan by a Lantern, “Fire,” from the series Five Elements for the Bunsai Poetry Group, a Guide to the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarters
Tesage andon|The Hand Lantern
春江斎北英画 二代目嵐璃寛 見立 「百物語」|Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa, on a Broken Lantern, Referring to Katsushika Hokusai’s Hyaku monogatari (One Hundred Ghost Stories)
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鈴木春信画 虚無僧・「風俗四季歌仙 卯月」|A Flute-Playing Monk (Komusō); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fūzoku shiki kasen)
Mastheads and a mast base
A man attending to a hanging lamp
Returned Family in a Moonlit Square
A Chinese Barber
Frequently asked questions
What is Lantern?
Lantern is a subject in art. A lantern is a source of lighting, often portable.
How many Lantern works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 42 public-domain Lantern works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Lantern artists?
Key Lantern artists in the collection include Eastman Johnson, John Singer Sargent and Hubert Robert.
Where can I see Lantern works?
Lantern works in the collection are held by Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum and Bucharest Municipality Museum.