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Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk
China
Meditating Buddha with Alms Bowl Enthroned in a Foliated Niche
India (Bihar)
ca. late 10th–early 11th century
Alms box
China
Alms Box
South Netherlandish
15th century
Alms box
Dutch or German
late 18th–early 19th century
Swan Pond, Bellport, Long Island
William James Glackens
ca. 1914
Canadian Rockies (Lake Louise)
Albert Bierstadt
ca. 1889
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin)
Mary Cassatt
1900
Swan Pond, Bellport, Long Island
William James Glackens
ca. 1914
By't geeve bestaet ons leeve (Alms Support Our Life)
Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet
1632
Peddler, from "By't geeve bestaet ons leeve (Alms Support Our Life)"
Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet
1632
The Hurdy-Gurdy Player, from "By't geeve bestaet ons leeve (Alms Support Our Life)"
Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet
17th century
Miniature alms bowl
China
8th century
Belisarius Begging for Alms
Jacques Louis David
1779
Beggars asking for alms
Jacques Dassonville
ca. 1640–70
The Alms House
Joseph Cundall
1855
Belisarius Begging for Alms
Heinrich Friedrich Füger
mid-18th–early 19th century
Belisarius Begging for Alms
Heinrich Friedrich Füger
mid-18th–early 19th century
Buddhist Ceremonial Alms Bowl
Japan
Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)
Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)
ca. 3rd century
The Alms Gift of Dust
Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)
ca. 2nd century
Saint Johannes Nepomuk Distributing Alms
Leopold Kupelwieser
1828
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet
1851–52
Saint Louis giving alms to the poor
Giovanni Francesco Braccioli
1735
Alms given by a cart driver
Johann Christoph Erhard
1814
Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia Giving Alms
Karl Ballenberger
1833
Feeding the Hungry and Giving Alms
François Hutin
ca.1737–42
Thomas of Villanova, Archbishop of Valencia Distributing Alms to the Poor
Pedro Orrente
ca. 1620–45
Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
1648
Saint Elisabeth of Portugal Giving Alms to the Poor
Daniel Gran
1710–57
Nobleman Giving Alms to Beggar in Piazza near the Coliseum
Conrad Martin Metz
1813
Mihrab (Prayer Niche)
dated 755 AH/1354–55 CE
Saint Roch at right distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci
Anonymous
ca. 1600–40
Alms House Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens
1851
Saint Roch at left distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci
Francesco Brizio
ca. 1607
Saint Roch at left distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci
Francesco Brizio
ca. 1590–1600
Saint Roch at left distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him
Francesco Brizio
1590–1600
Saint Roch at right distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci
Anonymous
1590–1610
Saint Roch at right distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci
Francesco Brizio
1590–1610
"Sudden Rain"
Ryōkan Taigu
after 1816