Prints on A4 portrait. Page one is the quiz, page two the answers and artwork details.

Guess the Painting's Year worksheet, Mon, September 28, 2026

Name: ______________________

Look at each painting. Write the year you think it was made. If there are options, circle a country.

  1. 1.Today's painting number 1

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ China ○ Tibet ○ Korea ○ Japan

    Why do you think so?

  2. 2.Today's painting number 2

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ the Low Countries (Netherlandish) ○ France ○ Britain ○ the Netherlands (Dutch)

    Why do you think so?

  3. 3.Today's painting number 3

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ Italy ○ Germany ○ France ○ Austria

    Why do you think so?

  4. 4.Today's painting number 4

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ Nepal ○ India ○ Türkiye ○ Italy

    Why do you think so?

  5. 5.Today's painting number 5

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ China ○ Tibet ○ Korea ○ Japan

    Why do you think so?

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Answers and artwork details

Dates and countries are The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own records. If the record is a range, any year inside it is correct.

  1. 1. Museum record: late 16th century, Culture: JapanMelonsYamada Dōan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015. CC0.
  2. 2. Museum record: 1773, Artist nationality: BritishSir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)William Grimaldi, Ivory. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962. CC0.
  3. 3. Museum record: 1337–38, Artist nationality: ItalianThe Assumption of the VirginBernardo Daddi, Tempera on wood, gold ground. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. CC0.
  4. 4. Museum record: 1845–46, Culture: Western India, Rajasthan, MewarMaharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize StallionTara, Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2001. CC0.
  5. 5. Museum record: ca. 1820, Culture: JapanSpring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Marsh-tits and Crab Apple FlowersTeisai Hokuba, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. CC0.