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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Painting of a shepherd in a blue smock tending sheep and chickens in a barn lit by a barred doorway.

The Sheepfold

Charles Émile Jacque, 1857

Nativity scene with the Virgin, Joseph, kneeling angels and the Christ Child in a manger beneath a timber-roofed stable.

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Jan Joest of Kalkar

Painting of elegant figures on a classical arcaded terrace overlooking a river with St. Paul's Cathedral and boats.

Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge

Antonio Joli, ca. 1745

Figures in a brick courtyard with a checkered floor, a greyhound, a copper pot, and ivy on a house wall under clouds.

Scene in a Courtyard

Ludolf de Jongh, early 1660s

Painting of two sailing ships on a calm harbor with a town and church steeple under a hazy sky.

Honfleur

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1865

Painting of a stone arched bridge over a river with moored barges, washerwomen, and twin towers under a stormy sky.

The Pont Neuf

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1849-50

Half-length portrait of a man with wavy hair, dark jacket, white collar and cuffs, holding gloves against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen the Elder, 1648

Portrait of a seated woman in a black dress with lace cuffs, pearls, and a white feather, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Woman

Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen the Elder, 1648

Oil portrait of a man in black with white collar and dark cap, holding an open pocket watch on a blue ribbon.

Portrait of a Man with a Watch

Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen the Younger, 1657

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel in white and green gestures to the Virgin Mary reading in a tiled room with a dove abo

The Annunciation

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1525

Painting of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ beside an elderly woman with a scroll, with a still life of fruit and wine b

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1512-13

Painting of Christ in red robes above clouds, with trumpeting angels and nude figures rising from earth in the Last Judgment.

The Last Judgment

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1525-30

Painting of the Virgin Mary reading a book with the infant Christ holding a peach, beside a fruit still life and a landscape.

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1525

Portrait of a bearded man in a feathered cap and red doublet, holding a gold pendant against a green background.

Francis I (1494-1547), King of France

Virgin nursing the infant Christ beside Saint Joseph reading, with a lily, lemon, knife and cherries on a table.

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1525

Painting of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ beside a bearded man holding a candle, with a haloed figure and shepherd in

The Holy Family with Shepherds

Jacob Jordaens, 1616

Painting of the wedding feast at Cana with seated guests at a draped table and a servant pouring water into stone jars.

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes, ca. 1497

Gilded panel showing an angel in blue robes slaying a dragon beside a brown-robed saint raising his hands.

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes, ca. 1505-9

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, a kneeling king in red, and attendants in an interior.

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove, 1472-74

Family portrait of a woman in blue, a man in red, and a toddler with two spaniels in a classical interior.

Edward Smith Stanley (1752-1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753-…

Angelica Kauffmann, ca. 1776

Painting of a sorrowful young man in yellow seated among classical women serving fruit and water beneath a grapevine.

The Sorrow of Telemachus

Angelica Kauffmann, 1783

Classical painting of robed women and an elderly man with a young seated man, with flower garland and sunset sea behind them.

Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso

Angelica Kauffmann, 1782

Black-and-white image of tall cypress trees beside a sunlit garden path and a whitewashed house with shutters.

Italian Garden

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, 1894

Painting of crusaders on a hilltop before a distant city, with clergy carrying a reliquary beneath a glowing vision of Christ

Crusaders before Jerusalem

Wilhelm von Kaulbach

Young woman in yellow dress and white headscarf making lace with bobbins, a cat watching beside a wooden chair.

The Lacemaker

Bernhard Keil, ca. 1665

Painting of a mountain valley with a waterfall, rocky cliffs, dense trees, and sunbeams breaking through a cloudy sky.

A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall

Kerstiaen de Keuninck, ca. 1600

Painting of a musician with a lute and a young girl in black dress with lace collar, standing in a marble-floored room.

A Musician and His Daughter

Thomas de Keyser, 1629

Portrait of a young girl in a white bonnet and dress building a house of cards at a wooden table.

Girl Building a House of Cards

Thomas Frye (, mid-18th century

Full-length portrait of a young man in a green coat and red drape, hand on hip, with a tree and sky behind him.

Charles Beauclerk (1670-1726), Duke of St. Albans

Godfrey Kneller, ca. 1690-95

Oval half-length portrait of a young woman with upswept curled hair, wearing a green dress and white lace collar.

Lady Mary Berkeley

Godfrey Kneller, ca. 1700

Bust portrait of a young man with tousled dark hair in a dark uniform with gold buttons against a reddish-brown background.

Valdemar Hjartvar Købke (1813-1893), the Artist's Brother

Christen Købke, ca. 1838

Winter landscape with walkers on a snowy path, skaters on a frozen river, and brick houses beneath cloudy skies.

Winter Landscape, Holland

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, 1833

Landscape painting of a castle above a river at sunset, with trees, travelers on a road, and boats on the water.

Sunset on the Rhine

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, 1853

Painting of a medieval interior with a woman and child on a bench, a painter at a red easel, a seated man and a dog.

Hugo van der Goes Making a Portrait of Mary of Burgundy

Wilhelm Koller, ca. 1872

Panoramic landscape with billowing clouds, a winding road, a river, farm buildings and a distant town under a broad sky.

A Panoramic Landscape with a Country Estate

Philips Koninck, ca. 1649

Wide landscape painting of a winding river, wooded bank, riders on a path, and billowing clouds over distant flat fields.

An Extensive Wooded Landscape

Philips Koninck, 1670s

Wide flat river landscape under a stormy sky, with a sailboat, distant city, farmhouses and grazing cattle.

Wide River Landscape

Philips Koninck, ca. 1648-49

Painting of a red sunset over a calm sea, with a large dark cloud above and small silhouetted figures in the foreground.

Red Sunset

Arkhyp Kuindzhi, 1905-8

Small panel portrait of a young man with reddish hair and a dark cap, looking upward against a black background.

Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland

Hans von Kulmbach, ca. 1508

Apostles and a kneeling woman gaze up at Christ's bare feet and red robe rising into clouds above them.

The Ascension of Christ

Hans von Kulmbach, 1513

Woman in red and orange robes playing a lute beside a harp, with sheet music, a recorder, and organ pipes around her.

Allegory of Music

Laurent de La Hyre, 1649

Painting of a shivering woman with a putto on a fountain, bare frosted trees and a pale red sun in a wintry landscape.

Allegory of Winter

Jacques de La Joue the Younger

Painting of a red-cloaked charioteer driving horses through clouds beside a woman scattering flowers from a basket.

Apollo and Aurora

Gérard de Lairesse, 1671

Painting of a hunt with riders, spearmen, and wolves and foxes fighting in the foreground under a cloudy sky.

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"

Edwin Landseer, ca. 1824-26

Seated woman in red satin dress with a macaw, fountain, and a servant with a small dog in a classical setting.

Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant

Nicolas de Largillière, 1696

Painting of a riverside village with a church tower, reflections in still water, grazing cow and small figures under a cloudy

The Village of La Celle-sous-Moret

Eugène Lavieille

Oval portrait of two young girls in white dresses embracing against a dark background, one raising her hand.

The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818-?1906, and Laura Anne, 1820-1894)

Thomas Lawrence, 1823

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a red fur-trimmed coat, resting his hand on a paper with spectacles, dark background.

John Julius Angerstein (1736-1823)

Thomas Lawrence

Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress with a spaniel dog, set against a dark wooded landscape.

Lady Maria Conyngham (died 1843)

Thomas Lawrence, ca. 1824-25

Oval miniature portrait of a woman in a white dress and veil against a dark wooded background, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Woman

Etienne Charles Le Guay, ca. 1800

Painting of a man raising a dagger as a woman in yellow grips his arm, with red drapery and a classical column behind them.

The Rape of Tamar

Eustache Le Sueur, probably ca. 1640

Painted rococo interior with tiered balconies and masked revelers in harlequin and courtly costumes around an arched door.

A Masked Ball in Bohemia

Andreas Altomonte, ca. 1748

Painting of a rocky coastal landscape with a whitewashed villa, a calm bay and snow-capped mountains beyond.

General Garibaldi's Residence at Caprera

Frederick Richard Lee, 1865

Young woman with a red flower in her hair mends a fishing net on a rocky ledge above the sea at dusk.

Graziella

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, 1878

Oil portrait of a young peasant woman in a white headcloth and dark bodice, gazing downward against a grey background.

Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth

Wilhelm Leibl, 1885

Lucia

Lord Leighton Frederic, possibly late 1870s

Woman in a dark robe leans against a classical column beside an urn and scattered leaves in a dusky garden.

Lachrymae

Lord Leighton Frederic, 1894-95

Painting of a seated man in a red cloak choosing game birds from a vendor in a white apron in a timber-framed courtyard.

Choosing the Dinner

Alexandre-Louis Leloir, 1872

Two women in satin gowns seated before a landscape and red drapery, one holding a small framed flower sketch.

Mary Capel (1630-1715), Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth (1633-1678), Countess of Carnarvon

Half-length painted portrait of a young woman with curly dark hair, bare shoulders, and a white lace neckline against a brown

Study for a Portrait of a Woman

Peter Lely, 1670s

Portrait of a young man with long hair in a satin coat and red cloak, resting his hand on a classical marble bust.

Sir Henry Capel (1638-1696)

Full-length seated portrait of a woman in silver satin and blue silk with pearls, beside a red curtain and stone steps.

Barbara Villiers (1640-1709), Duchess of Cleveland

Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912)

Franz von Lenbach, 1902

Painted copy of a family portrait: a man and woman in dark dress with a toddler and parrot on a garden terrace.

Copy after "Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614-1673), and Their Son Frans (1633-1678)"

Painting of a crowded 1876 auction room with an auctioneer, seated bidders, ceramics on display, and a wooden staircase.

Auction Sale in Clinton Hall, New York, 1876

Ignacio de León y Escosura, 1876

Interior scene of a woman with sheet music beside an organist, with seated listeners and bright arched architecture behind.

The Organ Rehearsal

Henry Lerolle, 1885

Painting of two figures playing chess at a table in an interior, with onlookers standing around and a landscape seen through

The Chess Players

Liberale da Verona, ca. 1475

Painting of a seated young man gesturing to standing companions, with a woman at an upper window beside a red brick building.

Scene from a Novella

Liberale da Verona

Seated woman in gold gown with pearls and a moneybag, a winged skeleton behind her, and two men fighting in the distance.

Allegory of Avarice

Peasants dancing and drinking before a rustic tavern, with a bagpiper, a bare tree and a donkey rider in the background.

Peasants Dancing

Johannes Lingelbach, 1651

Painting of a chaotic cavalry battle before a round stone tower under a stormy sky, with fallen soldiers and horses.

Battle Scene

Johannes Lingelbach, 1671

Painting of men burying a body among classical ruins, with a white-robed figure, a dog and onlookers on a wall.

Tobit Burying the Dead

Andrea di Lione, 1640s

Painting of Christ's body being lowered from the cross by men on ladders, with mourners and a skull in the foreground.

The Descent from the Cross

Filippino Lippi

Painting of the Virgin in a white veil and green mantle, hands clasped in prayer, with a faint gold halo.

The Virgin of the Nativity

Filippino Lippi, probably ca. 1500

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child on a marble throne, flanked by two angels in green robes against a gold-halo

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440

Gold-ground altarpiece with an enthroned haloed saint, two standing saints and three kneeling donors in red and pink.

Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors

Filippo Lippi, 1440s

Fresco-like painting of four haloed saints, a bishop with crozier and a kneeling bearded monk in dark robes.

Saints Augustine and Francis, a Bishop Saint, and Saint Benedict

Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation: kneeling angel Gabriel with red wings faces the Virgin in blue across a central column.

The Annunciation

Monochrome brown painting of people gathering manna in a desert camp, with angels above and two bearded prophets in the upper

The Gathering of Manna

Interior scene with a woman in pink seated among standing men, a seated nun, a kneeling servant in yellow, and a small dog.

The Visit

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Interior painting of women and a girl in a dim room with hanging linens, a man in a tricorn hat at right.

The Letter

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Painting of a seated woman in a yellow gown with an older man in a wig bending toward her, watched by masked figures in an in

The Meeting

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Oil painting of a genteel interior: a seated man at a laid tea table, a woman in black being approached by a servant, and an

The Temptation

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Portrait of a young woman in a black gown and veil, hands clasped, set before evergreen trees and a distant landscape.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Lorenzo di Credi, ca. 1490-1500

Gold-ground panel of bearded haloed patriarch in pink robe holding a flaming knife while a kneeling child in red leans agains

Abraham

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1408-10

Gold-ground painting of a crowned, bearded king seated and playing a gilded harp, wearing blue and green robes.

David

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1408-10

Seated bearded figure with halo holding two inscribed stone tablets against a gold background, in blue and pink robes.

Moses

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1408-10

Painting of bearded Noah in blue robe and red cloak, holding a small ark model, against a gold leaf background with halo.

Noah

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1408-10

Black-and-white view of a seated Madonna holding the Christ Child, with a scroll and patterned gold background under a Gothic

Madonna and Child

Luca di Tommè di Nuto, ca. 1360-65

Painting of a crowded city square with a crowned, nearly nude figure presented on a platform before soldiers and onlookers.

Christ Presented to the People

Lucas van Leyden

Oil portrait of a bearded man with a blue bow tie and red lapel flower against a green background.

Samuel P. Avery (1822-1904)

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, 1876

Two women at a window with green shutters, one in a white dress with blue ribbons, beside a potted pink-flowered plant.

Girls at a Window

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, ca. 1875

Oil painting of an elderly man in red gesturing while a barefoot woman in a red hat and a boy with a bow stand by a building.

Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael

Nicolaes Maes, 1653

Woman in white cap making lace beside a toddler in a wooden high chair, in a Dutch-style interior with a red tablecloth.

The Lacemaker

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1656

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black dress and white collar, holding a fan, with a landscape painting behind her.

Portrait of a Woman

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1665-70

Young woman in red sleeves peels an apple by a window, with a basket of apples and a wooden bucket nearby.

Young Woman Peeling Apples

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1655