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

Guess the Painting's Year worksheet, Sat, October 3, 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: ○ the Low Countries (Netherlandish) ○ Switzerland ○ Austria ○ Italy

    Why do you think so?

  2. 2.Today's painting number 2

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ Russia ○ Belgium ○ France ○ the Netherlands (Dutch)

    Why do you think so?

  3. 3.Today's painting number 3

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ Korea ○ China ○ Tibet ○ Japan

    Why do you think so?

  4. 4.Today's painting number 4

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ Tibet ○ Korea ○ China ○ Japan

    Why do you think so?

  5. 5.Today's painting number 5

    Year made: about ________

    Country: ○ China ○ Korea ○ Tibet ○ 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: ca. 1460–70, Artist nationality: ItalianThe Burial of Saint MarthaSano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio), Tempera and gold on wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965. CC0.
  2. 2. Museum record: 1642, Artist nationality: DutchPortrait of a WomanFerdinand Bol, Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915. CC0.
  3. 3. Museum record: probably 1810s, Culture: JapanSpring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Genroku-style CourtesanUtagawa Kuninao, 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.
  4. 4. Museum record: late 16th century, Culture: TibetPortrait of Munchen Sangye Rinchen, the Eighth Abbot of Ngor MonasteryNot recorded, Distemper and gold on cloth. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1971. CC0.
  5. 5. Museum record: datable to 1645–55, Culture: ChinaSnowscape, from Album for Zhou LianggongYun Xiang, Double album leaf from a collective album of twelve paintings and facing pages of calligraphy; ink on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Julia and John Curtis, 2015. CC0.