This Art Images dataset has 8577 samples. The dataset has five groups of art images, including Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Engraving, and Iconography, with 1229, 2270, 1929, 841, and 2308 samples, respectively. This dataset is derived from an open library of the Virtual Russian Museum (https://rusmuseumvrm.ru). The data were divided into three sets: a training set, a validation set, and a test set with 7293, 428, and 856 samples, respectively.