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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,335 works

Oil sketch of a bearded friar levitating a boy above steps while kneeling and standing onlookers gesture in awe.

A Miracle of Saint Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663)

Placido Costanzi, 1750

Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist and a lamb under trees, with a blue hilly landscape behind.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Orsola Maddalena Caccia, ca. 1645

Seated woman nursing an infant with children nearby, sleeping boy in blue, dim landscape and hills behind, oil painting.

Charity

Carlo Cignani, ca. 1680

Painting of a toddler in a white turban and green vest kneeling with a ball, pretzel, and marionette doll beside a red bench.

Portrait of a Boy

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1805

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin in a jeweled crown holding the Christ Child, seated before painted Gothic architecture.

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Bohemian Painter, ca. 1345-50

Painting of children playing battledore and shuttlecock in a red-doored room, watched by a seated woman, with a harbor view t

The Children of Nathan Starr

Ambrose Andrews, 1835

Miniature enamel portrait of a young boy with curly blond hair and a white collar against a dark background.

Brock Livingston Delaplaine

William Russell Birch, 1817

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a brown dress and lace bonnet beside a potted rosebush and a striped cat.

Emma Homan

John Bradley, ca. 1844

Harbor street scene with sailors, a woman in a green dress, a fruit stand, children, and tall ships at dock.

After a Long Cruise

John Carlin, 1857

Oil painting of a census taker recording a family's details in a farmhouse kitchen beside a fireplace.

Taking the Census

Francis William Edmonds, 1854

Painted street scene of a procession of white-clad figures and dark-clothed mourners passing houses and tall trees.

Infant Funeral Procession

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Oval miniature of four children in blue and black jackets and a red dress at a stone balustrade before trees.

The Allen Children

John Carlin, 1847

Carmelita Requena

Thomas Eakins, 1869

Painting of a seated woman in green dress with an infant and four children before red drapery and a landscape.

Mrs. Noah Smith and Her Children

Ralph Earl, 1798

Four children in period dress stand in a room with a patterned carpet; one girl holds a hammer and another a cat.

The Alling Children

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, ca. 1839

Interior scene: a woman holds up a blue bonnet while an old man reads a letter, watched by a woman, a girl and a dog.

The New Bonnet

Francis William Edmonds, 1858

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a white dress with puffed sleeves, holding a book, standing on a patterned rug.

Girl of the Bangs-Phelps Family

Erastus Salisbury Field, ca. 1848

Painting of costumed figures in a rural yard with women in headwraps and children watching beside a wooden fence.

Dressing for the Carnival

Winslow Homer, 1877

Back view of a young woman in grey dress leaning on a stone wall beside a dark fountain basin, landscape beyond.

Girl at the Fountain

William Morris Hunt, 1852-54

Grayscale portrait of a young child in a dark jacket with a lace collar, holding a lantern and beside a fluffy white dog.

Nicoll Havens Dering

Daniel Huntington, 1871

Painting of boys in a chain running across a meadow toward a red schoolhouse under a cloudy sky.

Snap the Whip

Winslow Homer, 1872

Painting of a family in a wood-paneled parlor at Christmas, with a fireplace, tree, and children playing with a toy.

Christmas-Time, The Blodgett Family

Eastman Johnson, 1864

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a green lace gown holding a child in a white bonnet and dress with a rattle.

Mrs. Jacob Hurd and Child

William Johnston, ca. 1762

Oval 1852 painting of an elderly seated man with a cane and three children beside a marble table with a bust.

Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution - A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene

William Sidney Mount, 1852

Oil portrait of an older woman in a lace bonnet with a young girl in pink, seated together against a dark background.

Mrs. Samuel Mifflin and Her Granddaughter Rebecca Mifflin Francis

Charles Willson Peale, 1777-80

Double portrait of an elderly man in a white wig and a boy in a green jacket beside a table with a rolled paper.

Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey

Matthew Pratt, ca. 1772

Two standing men on a columned porch with seated women and children, with dogs and a lawn landscape beyond.

Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)

Thomas P. Rossiter, 1859

Portrait of two children, a girl in teal standing and a boy seated with an open book, against a dark background with a red cu

John and Louisa Stock

Joseph Whiting Stock, 1845

Painting of a seated woman in white and a standing boy in green with a spaniel, before a seaside view and stone urn.

Mother and Son

Thomas Sully, 1840

Family portrait of a seated woman, a standing man, and a young girl in white beside a toy dog, in a draped interior.

The Williamson Family

John Mix Stanley, ca. 1841-42