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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

31,893 works

Circular painting of a winged figure atop a sphere, with armored horsemen and animals in a rocky landscape below.

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, ca. 1449

Painting of blue irises with green leaves in a white pitcher on a green table against a pale background.

Irises

Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Full-length portrait of a boy in red with a lace collar, holding a string to a magpie, with cats and a birdcage beside him.

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784-1792)

Francisco Goya, 1787-88

Seated cardinal in red robes and spectacles in a room with gilded damask, by El Greco.

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541-1609)

El Greco, ca. 1600

Painted self-portrait of a bearded man in a yellow straw hat and blue jacket, with short expressive brushstrokes.

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh, 1887

Painting of a dejected young woman beside spilled eggs in a rustic room, with an older woman, a young man, and a child.

Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

Painting of a stormy sky over the hilltop city of Toledo, with a stone bridge, river, and cathedral spire.

View of Toledo

El Greco, ca. 1599-1600

Van Gogh painting of a golden wheat field with tall cypress trees, blue hills, and a swirling sky.

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Painting of a nude man seized by armored soldiers as a woman cuts his hair, with startled onlookers and a stormy sky.

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Painting of a woman in red lace-collared dress at a feast table with roasted birds, surrounded by laughing men in dark hats.

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

Frans Hals, ca. 1616-17

Portrait of a young man in a black cap and fur-trimmed coat, hands folded on a green table beside a book, blue background.

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532

Triptych with the Crucifixion in the center and saints in landscape settings on the side panels, gold frames.

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1520

Young girl in a white tiered dress with rose garland stands before a lilac background with flowers and birds.

Mäda Primavesi (1903-2000)

Gustav Klimt, 1912-13

Painting of an elderly fortune-teller reading the open palm of a young man in a gold-brown vest, with onlookers behind.

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour, probably 1630s

Full-length portrait of a woman in a white gown and fur-trimmed cloak, with grey curls, against a stormy landscape sky.

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Thomas Lawrence, 1790

Virgin and Child with a reading infant beside a pomegranate, in an arched loggia overlooking a walled town.

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi, ca. 1483-84

Seated woman in white blouse and red skirt holds a skull beside candles and a gilded mirror in a dark interior.

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour, ca. 1640

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440

Reclining nude Venus on blue cloth with Cupid holding a laurel wreath over an incense burner, red curtain behind.

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto, 1520s

Seated man in black hat and white headscarf playing guitar on green bench, with jug and onions at right.

The Spanish Singer

Édouard Manet, 1860

Mantegna's Adoration of the Shepherds: Mary kneels before the Christ Child as shepherds and a kneeling man gather in a rocky

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna, shortly after 1450

Still life painting of grapes, melon, apricots, bread and a wine bottle on a stone ledge, with a landscape behind.

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)

Luis Egidio Meléndez, ca. 1772

Oil painting of a man in a straw boater and a woman in blue in a rowboat on turquoise water, by Edouard Manet.

Boating

Édouard Manet, 1874

Diptych portrait of a man with hands in prayer and a woman in a veil and jeweled necklace, dark backgrounds.

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428-1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling, ca. 1470

Sheep graze in an autumn field beside tall haystacks under a dark stormy sky, with a shepherd and cottages in the distance.

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1874

Full-length painting of a young woman in a pink dress beside a grey parrot on a wooden perch stand.

Young Lady in 1866

Édouard Manet, 1866

Painting of a nude man with a red staff embraced by a winged sphinx on a rocky cliff beneath a cloudy sky.

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau, 1864

Painting of nude men, centaurs and satyrs hunting wild animals in a forest, with fire and smoke in the distance.

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494-1500

Painting of a village on a green hillside with a woman in white on a dirt road, poplars, and clouds overhead.

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro, 1867

Painting of a blind giant with a bow carrying a guide on his shoulders through a forest, toward clouds and a distant sea.

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin, 1658