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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,705 works

Painting of Christ blessing loaves and fishes before a large crowd of richly dressed figures in a green landscape.

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1545

Small painting of militia drilling in an open field, with a mounted rider, brick building with flag, and distant city skyline

Militia Drilling

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a hummingbird perched on a branch beside pink and white apple blossoms against a cloudy sky.

Hummingbird and Apple Blossoms

Martin Johnson Heade, 1875

Two loose oil studies of a blue tit, one upside down with spread wings and one lying on its side, on a pale background.

Studies of a Dead Bird

John Singer Sargent, 1878

Painted street scene with a horse-drawn cart, wooden houses, cypress trees and two pedestrians on a town street.

The Sewer

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a hummingbird perched on a vine beside red passionflowers in a misty tropical forest under cloudy skies.

Hummingbird and Passionflowers

Martin Johnson Heade, ca. 1875-85

Expressive painting of green trees and a small standing figure in a hat beside dark trunks, in loose brushwork.

Man with Horse

Chaïm Soutine, 1920

Painting of a pedlar with a tray of baskets walking a street past cypress trees, a yellow house, and a long wooden building,

Strawberry Pedlar

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Three terriers hunt rats among barley sheaves and wooden barrels in a dim barn interior.

Rats amongst the Barley Sheaves

Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1851

Grayscale image of a smiling peasant man in a hat holding a bird at a table with a jug, village houses behind him.

A Peasant with a Bird

Adriaen Brouwer, 1626

Painting of a street with brick houses, a man leading a horse pulling a cart with a green water barrel.

Tea water pump

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of the Schuylkill County Almshouse with brick buildings, horse-drawn carriages, rolling hills and a cloudy sky.

View of the Schuylkill County Almshouse Property

Charles C. Hofmann, 1876

Oval painting of a peasant woman in a white headscarf picking fleas from a dog beside a bench and jug, with a village behind.

A Peasant Woman Picking Fleas off a Dog

Adriaen Brouwer, 1626

Winslow Homer beach scene: a girl wringing out her hair, a seated boy, a standing figure and a dog near breaking waves.

Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)

Winslow Homer, 1870

Mounted commander in a tricorn hat gestures toward lines of infantry and a cannon in a valley below distant mountains.

Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, Maryland

Frederick Kemmelmeyer, after 1795

Painting of a young woman in a dark dress holding a black cat in her lap, against a muted grey background.

Girl with a Cat

Gwen John, 1918

Four soldiers in rain capes warm themselves at a campfire in a muddy camp with white tents, a wagon, and mules.

Rainy Day in Camp

Winslow Homer, 1871

Full-length portrait of a man in blue military coat and yellow waistcoat beside a cannon, flag, and distant ships.

George Washington

James Peale, ca. 1782

Painting of a man, woman in pink dress, and child beneath trees with a spotted dog in the foreground.

Figures and a Dog in a Landscape

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1852

Two men talk in a barn beside a barrel and pumpkins, with a horse looking out from a stall behind them.

Talking It Over

Enoch Wood Perry, 1872

Painting of a village of tiled rooftops seen from above, with fields and bare trees fading into a hazy distance.

A Bird's-Eye View

Theodore Robinson, 1889

Ink painting on silk of several birds perched on branches, with soft grey washes and loose brushwork.

Birds in a lotus pond

Bada Shanren, 1690

Dark painting of a grounded two-masted ship beside a rocky cliff and cave, with small figures, a horse, and a hazy sea.

The Smugglers' Cove

Albert Pinkham Ryder, ca. 1880

Painting of a red brick railroad depot with an American flag, horse-drawn streetcars, pedestrians and a balloon over a cobble

The Third Avenue Railroad Depot

William H. Schenck, ca. 1859-60

Painting of a draped white figure on a cliff while several dogs bark and leap across a sunlit, ochre landscape by the sea.

Pallas Athena and the herdsman’s dogs

Briton Rivière, 1876

Painting of a rider with a pistol galloping a brown horse over snowy rocks, with cliffs and distant riders behind.

In Hot Pursuit

Charles Schreyvogel, After 1900

Officer in green uniform beside a grey horse, with a rider behind him and a smoky battlefield landscape at left.

Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles

Gilbert Stuart, 1798

Painting of three horses on a sunlit dirt path beside a pale wall, with dense foliage and a building behind them.

Horses

Albert Besnard, 1894

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

Painting of figures in period dress with horses and carriages gathered outside a brick church with a tall tower.

Old Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, in the Time of Lord Dunmore

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson, 1893