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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Oil portrait of a woman with curled dark hair, wearing a black lace-trimmed dress and fur stole, against a dark background.

Madame Jacques-Louis-Étienne Reizet (Colette-Désirée-Thérèse Godefroy, 1782-1850)

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1823

Painting of rolling Kansas plains under a rain shower, with a red barn, farmhouse, dirt roads and distant mesas.

Spring Shower (Western Kansas Landscape)

John Steuart Curry, 1931

Black and cream painting of a family at a table in a log-walled room, a standing man leaning over as they say grace.

Family Supper (Saying Grace)

Horace Pippin, 1946

Painting of two children asleep under a striped blanket beside a black stove, with a lamp and a dark window.

Asleep

Horace Pippin, 1943

Oil landscape of wooded hills and rocky slopes overlooking a broad valley with distant blue mountains under a cloudy sky.

German Landscape with View towards a Broad Valley

Fritz Petzholdt, 1829

Painting of the Annunciation: a kneeling angel in red greets Mary in blue beside a Gothic doorway, with a dove and lilies.

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus, 1450

Painting of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, blood on forehead, against a dark blue background with gold foliage.

Head of Christ

Petrus Christus, 1445

Three-quarter portrait of a woman with dark hair, jeweled necklace, red velvet dress and folded hands against a dark backgrou

Portrait of Maria Madddalena Baroncelli (ca. 1465 -?), wife of Tommaso Portinari

Hans Memling, 1470

Painting of an elderly man with grey hair, dark clothing and clasped hands against a dark background.

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Hans Memling, 1475

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Filippo Lippi, 1440

Oil portrait of a young woman with upswept hair, green dress, white lace collar and red drape, in an oval frame.

Lady Mary Berkeley, Wife of Thomas Chambers

Godfrey Kneller, 1700

Painting of a shadowy forest interior with tall tree trunks, dense green foliage, and a small stream in the foreground.

Interior of a Wood at Pierrefitte

Robert Léopold Leprince, 1822

Triptych altarpiece with the Virgin and Child enthroned center, kneeling donors below, and saints in side panels.

The Le Cellier Altarpiece

Jehan Bellegambe, 1509

Medieval painting of a haloed preacher in a pulpit addressing a congregation, with Christ in a roundel above and a scribe at

Sermon of Saint Albertus Magnus

Friedrich Walther, 1430

Painting of a crowned, haloed bearded king seated and playing a golden harp against a gold background.

David

Lorenzo Monaco, 1408

Gold-ground panel showing a haloed bearded patriarch with a flaming knife beside a kneeling child in red.

Abraham

Lorenzo Monaco, 1408

Gold-ground panel of the Nativity: Mary kneels before the infant Christ in a manger, with an ox, ass, angel and shepherds.

Geburt Christi

Lorenzo Monaco, 1409

Portrait of a man in a brown greatcoat and white cravat, with the Colosseum and stormy sky behind him.

Joseph-Antoine Moltedo

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1810

Oval portrait of a dark-haired man in a brown coat and white cravat, against a dark background, in a gilded star frame.

Portrait of a Man

Joseph Bordes, 1810

Oval portrait of an elderly man in a red coat with fur collar and white cravat, against a dark background.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, 1778

Painting of an angel kneeling before the Virgin Mary in an interior, with a dove of the Holy Spirit radiating light above.

The Annunciation

Peter Candid, 1585

Woman seated at a table near a window, playing a lute, with a wall map and checkered floor in a quiet interior.

Woman with a lute

Johannes Vermeer, 1662

Painting of a woman asleep at a carpeted table beside fruit and a pitcher, with an open door behind her.

A Woman Asleep -or- A Girl Asleep

Johannes Vermeer, 1657

Painting of a smiling young woman with a white shawl and a pearl earring against a dark background.

Study of a young woman.[1] Alternative title(s): Portrait of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer, 1665

Miniature painting in a red case of a female torso with bare breasts resting on soft white drapery.

Beauty Revealed

Sarah Goodridge, 1828

Half-length portrait of a man in black cap and robe holding a quill over an open book against a blue background.

Portrait of Guillaume Budé

Jean Clouet, 1536

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)

John Singer Sargent, 1884

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns, head bowed, flanked by bearded men in turbans and red hats.

Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo)

Il Sodoma, 1540

Wide panoramic painting of formal palace gardens with a central fountain, clipped topiary, and a long tree-lined avenue.

Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles

John Vanderlyn, 1818

Painting of the sailing ship Franklin flying the American flag among many boats in a New York harbor under cloudy sky.

The U. S. Ship Franklin, with a View of the Bay of New York

Thomas Thompson, 1820