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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,335 works

Oval memorial brooch with a miniature of a young woman by a weeping willow, an urn-topped plinth inscribed E S 1795.

Memorial Brooch

Anstiss Stone, ca. 1795

Painting of a blonde child asleep on a white pillow beside a pink rosebud, against a dark red background.

Child Asleep (The Rosebud)

Thomas Sully, 1841

Group portrait of four children in an interior with red drapery, a spaniel, and a girl in a white dress with coral beads.

The Knapp Children

Samuel Lovett Waldo, ca. 1833-34

Painted street scene of townspeople viewing circus posters on a wooden wall, with a boy, a dog, and a horned horse poster.

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before

Charles Caleb Ward, 1871

Arrangement in Black: Girl Reading

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1880-90

Oval miniature portrait of a young boy with curly hair in a dark jacket and white shirt, set in a gilt frame inside an open l

Joseph Stevens Buckminster Thacher

George Harvey, ca. 1829

Miniature portrait of a young boy in a dark jacket and blue bow tie, leaning on a column, in an open red case.

Portrait of a Young Man

John Henry Brown, 1854

Full-length painting of a young girl holding red balls on cords before a gold curtain, by James McNeill Whistler.

Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl - Connie Gilchrist

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1876-77

Painting of a family in an interior: a woman holds a baby while a man dangles cherries, with a red table and decanters beside

Conversation Piece

Lilly Martin Spencer, ca. 1851-52

Miniature portrait of a seated baby in a white dress with a coral necklace, holding a rattle beside a reaching brown dog.

Baby with Rattle and Dog

Mrs. Moses B. Russell, 1842

Painting of an old bearded man with a rifle surrounded by a crowd on a village street with wooden houses and a flag.

Rip Van Winkle

Albertis del Orient Browere, 1833

Oval miniature portrait of a young boy in a red coat with white lace jabot and black bow, set in a gold pendant frame.

William Middleton

Mary Roberts, ca. 1752-58

Miniature portrait of a boy in a dark jacket and white collar holding a hoop, with a fence and tree behind him.

Paul Joseph Revere

Margaret Bogardus, ca. 1840

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the crowned Christ Child, in a jeweled gold gown between red curtains.

Our Lady of Guápulo

Peruvian Painter, 18th century

Oval miniature portrait of a young child with short brown hair in a white lace-trimmed dress, set in a gold frame.

Thomas Middleton

Mary Roberts, ca. 1752-58

Three boys fishing by a creek under a large tree, with a distant house in a rural landscape.

Boys Fishing

Thomas Le Clear, 1846

Gilded Gothic diptych: left panel shows Madonna and Child with saints and angels, right panel shows the Crucifixion with mour

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints John the Baptist and James the Great and (above) the Annunciat…

Paolo di Giovanni Fei, ca. 1400-1410

Oval miniature portrait of a young girl in a white lace-trimmed dress, set in a gold pendant frame with a ring bail.

Henrietta Middleton

Mary Roberts, ca. 1752-58

Gothic panel painting of the Madonna and Child enthroned with two kneeling donors in prayer against a gold background.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Donors

Goodhart Ducciesque Master, ca. 1315-30

Gold-ground altarpiece of Madonna and Child enthroned among angels and saints, with Eve and serpent below, in a gilded frame.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria,…

Paolo di Giovanni Fei, 1390s

Tempera panel of the Virgin and Child flanked by an elderly saint in red holding a book and a saint with a lamb.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Agnes

Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1465-70

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, who leans against her cheek, in dark blue and orange robes.

Madonna and Child

Sano di Pietro, 1450s

Painting of the Madonna and Child flanked by Saint Francis and Saint Catherine against a gold background, in an arched frame.

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena

Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo, ca. 1476-80

Arched painting of the Madonna and Child with two saints against a gold ground, one holding an arrow.

Madonna and Child with Saints Mary Magdalen and Sebastian

Icilio Federico Ioni, 15th century style, made in the late 19th to early 20th century

Circular gold-ground painting of the Madonna in blue holding the Christ Child in red, who holds a small bird.

Madonna and Child

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1445-50

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin and Child enthroned, Mary in red and green with gold halos under a Gothic arch.

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Bernardo Daddi, ca. 1335-39

Gold-ground Nativity panel showing Mary over the Christ Child, Joseph kneeling, angels, shepherds, sheep and a dog in rocks.

The Nativity

Maestro Daddesco, ca. 1320-40

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin in blue seated on a throne holding the Christ Child, with winged cherubim behind her.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Cherubim

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1440

Painting of the Virgin kneeling in prayer beside the infant Christ on straw, with a stone ruin and walled town behind.

Madonna Adoring the Child

Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1490-95

Gold-ground panel of a kneeling haloed saint in pink, a standing Virgin in blue, and a child beside an open doorway.

The Vision of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, ca. 1365-70