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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,218 works

Painting of tepees, horses and figures beside large trees in an open landscape under a cloudy sky.

An Indian Encampment

Ralph Albert Blakelock, ca. 1880-1900

Painting of a leafy tree, iron fence and shrubs before a brick townhouse with green shutters, in soft impressionist brushwork

View from the Artist's Window, Grove Street

Robert Frederick Blum, ca. 1900

Painting of a double rainbow over a calm sea, with ruins, a distant city, robed figures, and a dark cliff on the left.

The Aegean Sea

Frederic Edwin Church, ca. 1877

Painting of a misty woodland clearing with tall trees framing a pale hazy horizon and rocks in the foreground.

Landscape

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1885-95

Landscape painting of a rocky hillside with tall evergreens, grass, and a hazy distant valley under a pale sky.

Morning on the Mountain

Richard William Hubbard, 1856

Painting of a sandy bank under willow trees with two figures standing at the right edge beside a bright distant water view.

Sand Bank with Willows, Magnolia

William Morris Hunt, 1877

Painting of umbrella pines and olive trees with a shepherd and sheep in a hazy, golden landscape.

Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa

George Inness, 1876

Painting of a wooded clearing with tall trees, grazing cows, a dirt road and a small figure under a cloudy sky.

On the Unadilla, New York

David Johnson, 1884

Black and white landscape of leafless trees beside a reflective stream, with split-rail fences and a pale sky.

Spring

H. Bolton Jones, 1885-86

Painting of a windswept pine on a rocky cliff above a calm sea under a pale overcast sky.

The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a sunlit spring woodland with pale birch trees, a bare-branched tree, and a low stone wall in a clearing.

Spring Woods

Henry Ward Ranger, ca. 1895-1900

Painting of a trumpeter on horseback at a city gate, with a crowd, a large tree, and a tavern building in warm tones.

The Vigilant Stuyvesant's Wall Street Gate

John Quidor, 1863

Oil painting of pale birch trunks beside a lake under green, sunlit foliage, with a shadowed earthen path below.

Study of Beeches

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a bare-branched village lane with a small child in a red coat walking past a white picket fence.

Connecticut Village (Going to School)

J. Alden Weir, after 1891

Painting of a forest path with tall trees, a woodland stream, and warm evening light glowing through the canopy.

Evening in the Woods

Worthington Whittredge, 1876

Painting of a forest stream winding past birch trees and rocks beneath a cloudy sky.

An Old Clearing

Alexander Helwig Wyant, 1881

Oil portrait of a seated woman and a child on a wooden bench in a shaded woodland with a distant landscape.

Portrait of a Lady and Child

George W. Twibill Jr., 1833

Nude Venus in red hat stands by a tree as winged Cupid is stung by bees, with a Latin inscription and landscape behind.

Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Hanging scroll of two red-crowned cranes beside a peach tree, pink roses, bamboo, rock and a waterfall.

Cranes, peach tree, and China rose

Shen Quan, 18th century

Ink landscape on round silk fan: thatched house beside pine trees and a rocky cliff, with distant mountains in misty sky.

Returning Home in a Driving Rain

Xia Gui, early 13th century

Ink painting on silk of a weeping willow, bamboo, and a rock with grasses, with calligraphy in the upper left.

Bamboo, old tree, and rock

Wu Zhen, dated 1338

Hanging scroll landscape with a pavilion and figures among trees, misty mountains, a stream, and calligraphic inscription at

Living Aloft

Wen Zhengming, 1543

Triptych: angel announces to Mary in a domestic interior, donors kneel at left, a carpenter works in his shop at right.

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin, ca. 1427-32

Ink painting of a twisted pine tree beside rocks and grass on a brown silk hanging scroll, with calligraphy at left.

Crooked Pine

Wu Zhen, dated 1335

Hanging scroll of a plum branch with pink blossoms rising from dark rocks, with calligraphy and seals at upper left.

Wintry plum

Ni Jing, 14th century

Ink painting of gnarled plum branches under a pale moon, with two figures on rocks and misty mountains behind.

Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight

Ma Yuan, early 13th century

Ink landscape on silk with sparse trees, a thatched pavilion, and column of Chinese inscription with red seals.

Sparse trees and pavilion

Wang Meng, late 1350s

Folding screen showing two red-crowned cranes beneath a pine tree with azaleas, rocks, and stylized water at left.

Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo

Ogata Kōrin, early 18th century

Six-panel gold screen with green hills, blossoming trees, a thatched house, and small horsemen and attendants travelling thro

Royal Visit to Ōhara, from The Tale of the Heike

Tawaraya Sotatsu, first half of the 17th century

Six-panel screen with robed figures among pine branches, rocks, and misty mountains in ink and pale color.

Immortals

Hasegawa Sakon, ca. 1620s-30s