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Oil portrait of a young man in gilded black armor with a white ruff, holding a helmet and sword against a dark background.

The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena

Domenico Beccafumi, about 1513-1515

Painting of a bishop raising a wooden cross amid kneeling figures, soldiers with banners, and a dramatic cloudy sky.

Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

Pietro Paolini, about 1625-1630

Family group seated and standing around a dining table in a checkered-floor interior with a black cabinet and window.

Family Group in an Interior

Quirijn van Brekelenkam, about 1658-1660

Elderly bearded man in a patterned robe hands a jeweled sword to a young man in a feathered cap in a dim stone interior.

Ahimelech Giving the Sword of Goliath to David

Aert de Gelder, 1680s

Oil painting of a man in a red coat stretching and yawning widely against a dark background.

David with the Head of Goliath

Guido Cagnacci, about 1645-1650

Painting of a wild bacchanal with dancing satyrs and maenads among ruined classical columns and statues.

A View of the Maas at Dordrecht

Aelbert Cuyp, about 1645-1646

Painting of the Holy Family with Saints Catherine and Mary Magdalene, Virgin nursing infant, angels above.

Rinaldo's Conquest of the Enchanted Forest

Francesco Maffei, about 1650-1655

Painting of the Virgin with the infant Christ, a dove, and the young Saint John the Baptist with a cross staff and lamb.

Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Guido Reni, about 1640-1642

Painting of two women on a red sofa, one in black velvet and one in grey silk holding a letter, both wearing jeweled tiaras.

Portrait of the Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte

Jacques-Louis David, 1821

Oil painting of a seated woman having her foot dried by an attendant beside a fountain, with an elderly woman watching.

Market Scene in an Imaginary Oriental Port

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, about 1764

Oil study of billowing clouds at sunset with pink and golden light above a dark distant horizon with trees.

Study of Clouds with a Sunset near Rome

Simon Alexandre Clément Denis, 1786-1801

Painting of a kneeling penitent Magdalene in blue drapery with putti, a skull, and cherubs in clouds above a wooded landscape

Saint Francis and a Bishop Saint, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Dominic

Fra Angelico, late 1420s

Painting of a sunlit stone arched bridge, old houses with chimneys, trees and a hill under a blue sky.

Portrait of a Boy in Fancy Dress

Nicolas de Largillierre, about 1710-1714

Oil painting of Hercules playing a tambourine beside a reclining Omphale, with cupids, red drapery and classical columns.

Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel

Anthony van Dyck, about 1620-1621

Bust-length portrait of a clergyman in white surplice and black skullcap against a dark background, with an inscribed plaque.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Lelio Orsi, 1570s

Painting of an old woman holding fruit speaking to a young woman in red drapery beside a basket of apples.

A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy

Pieter de Hooch, about 1660-1663

Painting of a columned palace among trees, with classical figures on the steps and many wild animals in the foreground.

Ulysses at the Palace of Circe

Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, 1667

Panel painting of the Joseph story: an elderly man on a throne with his sons in an arcade, caravans, shepherds and a ship in

The Forum, Pompeii, with Vesuvius in the Distance

Christen Schjellerup Købke, 1841

Painting of the Virgin and infant Christ seated with an older man on a marble terrace, with columns, fountain, and landscape

Portrait of a Young Man in Military Costume

Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1650

Painting of the Virgin and Child with kneeling kings offering gifts, surrounded by a retinue in an arched Renaissance setting

A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn

Gérard ter Borch, about 1652-1654

Painting of Venus and Mars on a canopied bed as a nude figure bursts through green curtains and gods watch from above.

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan

Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael, 1604-1608

Archers in boats hunt water birds on a lagoon beside thatched huts and reeds, with flying birds and blue hills in the distanc

Hunting on the Lagoon (recto); Letter Rack (verso)

Vittore Carpaccio, about 1490-1495

Gold-ground panel painting of the Madonna in a blue mantle holding the Christ child, who reaches toward her chest.

Landscape at Louveciennes (Autumn)

Camille Pissarro, 1870

Young woman tenderly supports an emaciated old man beside prison bars in a dim interior, painted in oil.

Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity"

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, about 1767

Painting of Saint Matthew with halo writing with a quill while a winged child holds an inkwell beside him.

Saint Matthew Writing His Gospel

Carlo Dolci, 1640s

Mars in armor is disarmed by a nude Venus while cupids tug at his gear among scattered weapons in a vaulted arsenal.

The Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus

Peter Paul Rubens, about 1610-1612

Painting of a sleeping pope in a blue canopy bed visited by an angel with a mitre, beside a walled city and courtyard with pe

Madonna and Child with a Male Saint, Catherine of Alexandria and a Donor

Michelangelo di Pietro Membrini, about 1496

Painting of Venus embracing Adonis, a young hunter with hunting dogs, a cupid and bow in a forest setting.

About this museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles collects European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, as well as photographs. Its Open Content programme makes images of public domain works freely available. Artnap holds 2,294 works from the J. Paul Getty Museum, 593 of them paintings, shown first. The best-represented painters here are Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francesco di Giorgio and Titian. Each artwork page shows the museum's record, the date and the licence statement.

Questions

Can I use these images?

Yes. The works are in the public domain or released by their museums for open use, so you can use them in personal and commercial projects. Each artwork page shows the museum and its licence statement.

Are these all the works at the J. Paul Getty Museum?

No. These are the works that the J. Paul Getty Museum has published as public domain images and that Artnap holds; the museum's own collection is larger.

How large are the images?

Most are about 2,500 pixels on the long side, or the museum's own size when its file is smaller. Artnap Pro members can also download the museum's full-resolution master file where one exists.