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Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain Boy playing the pipe circa 1750 L2012.131 On display – Grand Courts

Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain Girl playing the hurdy-gurdy circa 1750 L2012.132 On display – Grand Courts

Mortimer L Menpes Geisha musicians 1887-1888 2.2021 On display – Grand Courts

Mortimer L Menpes Burmese village 1889-1891 3.2021 On display – Grand Courts

Menri style Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru) 19th century 67.1999 On display – Lower Asian gallery

Emily Meston Study of grapes circa 1895 4441 On display – Grand Courts

Sir John Everett Millais The captive 1882 918 On display – Grand Courts

Godfrey Miller Street scene, London 1929 241.2004 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Claude Monet Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île 1887 8356 On display – Grand Courts

John D. Moore Sydney Harbour 1936 6382 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Giovanni Battista Moroni Portrait of a young man circa 1565-1570 234.2013 On display – Grand Courts

Charles Mottram
after John Martin The great day of his wrath 1857 407.2009 On display – Grand Courts

Arthur Murch Beach idyll 1930 57.1975 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Arthur Murch The idle hour 1933 873 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Arthur Murch Gosse's Bluff, Central Australia 1934 218.1975 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Arthur Murch Leda 1935-1939 199.1976 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Arthur Murch Mount Liebig 1934 124.2017 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Arthur Murch The aeroplane 1929-1930 512.2017 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Myanmar Seated Buddha 1926 71.2012 On display – Lower Asian gallery

Matthijs Naiveu Woman with garland of flowers circa 1670s 8947 On display – Grand Courts

Nakahara Nantenbō Calligraphy: "Transfer from poor life (iron) to rich life (gold) is smooth, transfer from rich life (gold) to poor life (iron) is rough." 1919 213.1995 On display – Lower Asian gallery

Jean-Marc Nattier Madame de La Porte 1754 119.1992 On display – Grand Courts

Girolamo Nerli Botanic Gardens, Sydney 1886 255.1989 On display – Grand Courts

C.R.W. Nevinson The Thames in black and silver 1940 7078 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Ada Ione Newman Jug with solanum design circa 1897 2229 On display – Grand Courts

Sir William Nicholson The blue shop 1913 785 On display – Grand Courts

Nishapur, khorasan, Iran Bowl 9th century CE-10th century CE EC11.1965 On display – 20th-century galleries (lower level 1)

Bess Norriss Tait Lydia (Mrs Russell of Chelsea) circa 1910 57 On display – Grand Courts

North Java, Java, Indonesia Cloth with Islamic calligraphy (kain kaligrafi) and image of Sumatran mosque early 20th century 138.2020 On display – Upper Asian gallery

NSW Academy of Art Silver medal for study in monochrome oils of cast 1878 ARC13.1.4 On display – Grand Courts

Ōba Gakusen
Satsuma ware Bowl 19th century 4066 On display – Upper Asian gallery

Dora Ohlfsen (Woman with bear skin) 1920 211.2019.a-b On display – Grand Courts

Onchi Kōshirō Study of Human Body No.7 1924 246.1998 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Maria van Oosterwijck Flowers and grapes hanging from a ring circa 1670-circa 1690 116.2020 On display – Grand Courts

Pagan, Myanmar Buddha calling the Earth to witness (bhumisparsha mudra) late 12th century 83.1997 On display – Lower Asian gallery

Alfred William Parsons Mowing time circa 1884 6032 On display – Grand Courts

Alberto Pasini Horse market, Syria 1893 896 On display – Grand Courts

Samuel John Peploe Douglas Hall, Dumfries 1918 9304 On display – Grand Courts

Samuel John Peploe Still life: apples and jar circa 1912-circa 1916 8049 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Adelaide Perry From Stanwell Park 1927 23.2019 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

WC Piguenit The flood in the Darling 1890 1895 6105 On display – Grand Courts

Camille Pissarro Peasants' houses, Éragny 1887 6326 On display – Grand Courts

A M Plante The road menders 1934 141.2021 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Ivan Pokhitonov Route to Torre del Greco circa 1892 1144 On display – Grand Courts

Jean-François Portaels Esther circa 1869 5721 On display – Grand Courts

Frans Pourbus Portrait of a man circa 1610-1620 OO1.1963 On display – Grand Courts

John Joseph Wardell Power Composition circa 1931 148.2020 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Sir Edward John Poynter Helen 1881 OB2.1968 On display – Grand Courts

Sir Edward John Poynter The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon 1881-1890 898 On display – Grand Courts

Margaret Preston Implement blue 1927 OA7.1960 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Margaret Preston Western Australian gum blossom 1928 93.1978 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Margaret Preston Self portrait 1930 937 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Margaret Preston The brown pot 1940 7223 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Margaret Preston Vase with abstract design 1917 C3.1963 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Margaret Preston Tea-pot with boiling billies and gumtree design circa 1917 C9.1967 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Giulio Cesare Procaccini The dead Christ on the cross with Saints Mary Magdalene, Augustine and Jerome, and angels circa 1618 249.2005 On display – Grand Courts

Thea Proctor The bathers circa 1925 WA9.1972 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Thea Proctor The bay 1927 4382 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor)

Adam Pynacker Landscape with enraged ox 1665-1670 130.2004 On display – Grand Courts

James Quinn Portrait of an old woman circa 1895 OA39.1970 On display – Grand Courts