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Library and Archives Canada has acquired through bequests, donations, and planned acquisition, over 350,000 works of art relating mostly to Canada. This search tool allows you to consult almost 175,000 entries that correspond to a lesser number of works of art, given that some works have more than one description. About 10,000 digitized images of artworks are in the public domain and may be consulted on-line. This number (revised September 2005) will gradually increase.

Descriptions are written mainly in the language of the creator-donor, with most descriptions in English.