Home Art Collection Works Collection Search Advanced search Works created 1940 or earlier (11,978) works on display (740) works with images (9,412) Filter by: Collection area Origin Media Date/period Artist A–Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sort by: artist surname oldest first (excludes undated works) newest first (excludes undated works) title image availability accession number Ohannes Kurkdjian Kelud volcano eruption no.7 (Bed of the 'keloet' river filled with pumice and boiling mud. This river was in a deep valley and was filled 80 yards deep with lava) 1901 279.2021 On display – Lower Asian gallery Ohannes Kurkdjian Kelud volcano eruption no.1 (Eruption of Kaloet. Island of Java. Half this mountain fell into crater and caused the eruption) 1901 273.2021 On display – Lower Asian gallery Ohannes Kurkdjian Kelud volcano eruption no.3 (A closer view of crater) 1901 275.2021 On display – Lower Asian gallery Kutch, Gujarat, India ‘Casual’ choli (blouse) worn by queen late 19th century 127.2010 On display – Lower Asian gallery Kyūichi Figure of a man with a hen and a rooster (okimono) 19th century 7159.23 On display – Upper Asian gallery Lai Nam Thong Jar 'toh prik' 69.1984.a-b On display – Lower Asian gallery George Lambert Across the black soil plains 1899 550 Winner - Wynne Prize 1899 On display – Grand Courts George Lambert Miss Thea Proctor 1903 OA12.1961 On display – Grand Courts George Lambert The three kimonos 1905 560 On display – Grand Courts George Lambert Holiday in Essex 1910 157.1981 On display – Grand Courts Charles Landelle Ismenie, Nymph of Diana 1878 639 On display – Grand Courts Henry Herbert La Thangue Cider apples circa 1899 742 On display – Grand Courts Gaston La Touche The first born 1887 716 On display – Grand Courts Fernand Léger The bicycle 1930 OO2.1966 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor) Lord Frederic Leighton Wedded 1882 784 On display – Grand Courts Lord Frederic Leighton Winding the skein circa 1878 1.1974 On display – Grand Courts Lord Frederic Leighton Colour study for 'Cymon and Iphigenia' 1884 274.1986 On display – Grand Courts Lord Frederic Leighton Cymon and Iphigenia 1884 210.1976 On display – Grand Courts Lord Frederic Leighton Lindos, Rhodes circa 1867 1305.1990 On display – Grand Courts Lord Frederic Leighton An athlete wrestling with a python 1888-1891 183.2017 On display – Entrance court Emily Leist Casket with gumnut and leaf and King beetles design 1910 2286 On display – Grand Courts Fred Leist Landscape 1895 285.1982 On display – Grand Courts Fred Leist Woy Woy 1896 OA24.1969 On display – Grand Courts Sir Peter Lely Portrait of a lady circa 1660-circa 1665 110.2019 On display – Grand Courts Basile Lemeunier Portrait of Édouard Detaille 1891 139.2014 On display – Grand Courts Stanislas Lepine Washerwomen circa 1875 563.1987 On display – Grand Courts Thérèse Lessore Men and women with baskets early 20th century 8284 On display – Grand Courts Thérèse Lessore Three women seated early 20th century 8286 On display – Grand Courts Thérèse Lessore Theatre audience early 20th century 8287 On display – Grand Courts Thérèse Lessore Old woman early 20th century 8288 On display – Grand Courts Aletta Lewis Factories on the Yarra 1928 10.2017 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor) Percy Wyndham Lewis Figure composition (Man and woman with two bulldogs) 1912-1913 226.1983 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor) Lhasa, Tibet Kalachakra and Vishvamata 14th century-15th century 7.2005 On display – Lower Asian gallery André Lhote Maison à Tunis 1929 11.2020 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor) Sir James Dromgole Linton Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew mid 1890s WB1.1968 On display – Grand Courts W Lister Lister The ever restless sea 1892 865 On display – Grand Courts Edwin Long A Dorcas meeting in the 6th century 1873-1877 812 On display – Grand Courts Sydney Long By tranquil waters 1894 689 On display – Grand Courts Sydney Long Midday 1896 6102 On display – Grand Courts Sydney Long Pan 1898 9017 On display – Grand Courts Sydney Long Fantasy circa 1916-circa 1917 50.1971 On display – Grand Courts Claude Lorrain Pastoral landscape 1636-1637 208.1992 On display – Grand Courts Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg A shipwreck off a rocky coast 1760s 11.2002 On display – Grand Courts Mildred Lovett Vase with pastoral design of nude figures with swans 1909 2214 On display – Grand Courts Mildred Lovett Vase with pastoral design of dancing figures by Sydney Long 1909 2223 On display – Grand Courts James G S Lucas The last day of Pompeii circa 1835 409.2009 On display – Grand Courts Ludwigsburg Female dancer circa 1760-1765 L2012.197 On display – Grand Courts Ludwigsburg Putto as hussar circa 1770 L2012.198 On display – Grand Courts Ludwigsburg Male dancer circa 1760-1765 L2012.196 On display – Grand Courts Évariste Vital Luminais The sons of Clovis II 1880 712 On display – Grand Courts Albert Lynch The portrait sitting circa 1894 1135 On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Lyric poetry 1888 104.1972 On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Sarah Bernhardt circa 1892-circa 1893 7432 On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Truth 1894 65.1974 On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Madonna circa 1906 767 On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Circe circa 1902-circa 1904 SA7.1970 On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Lady Diana Duff Cooper (Lady Diana Manners) 1909-circa 1918 7156 On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Salome circa 1895 198.1991.a-b On display – Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Daphne 1897 98.2014 On display – Grand Courts Madhya Pradesh, India Krishna playing the flute among the gopis while the demon Madhu sits on the riverbank circa 1690 96.2021 On display – Lower Asian gallery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
