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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,705 works

Ink scroll painting of a mountain village with a dense crowd of horses below craggy peaks and pine trees.

After Ike Taiga’s “Horse Market in a Mountain Village”

Watanabe Kazan, 1800

Full-length portrait of a uniformed officer beside a horse, with a soldier, cannon and distant battle under a stormy sky.

George Washington before the Battle of Trenton

John Trumbull, ca. 1792-94

Landscape painting of Noah's Ark in the distance, with many animals and birds gathered in a forest clearing and figures at le

The Ark

Lodewijk Tieling, ca. 1700

Hanging scroll of two birds on a flowering branch with pink roses and white blossoms against a tan silk background.

Flowers and Birds

Shen Quan, 1750

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

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

Hanging scroll of two long-tailed birds on a blossoming plum branch with red camellias against a gold background.

Birds on a PlumTree

Kishi Ganku, 1767

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

Painting of a winged nude youth holding a torch and reins among a lion, horse, eagle, doves, and cherubs in a stormy sky.

Omnia Vincit Amor, or The Power of Love in the Three Elements

Benjamin West, 1809

Hanging scroll of a white cat beside chrysanthemums, with butterflies above and calligraphy at upper right.

Cat and Butterfly

Xu Gu, 1823

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 Christ touching the eyes of a kneeling blind man beneath a tree, with disciples, a dog, and a town at dusk.

Christ Healing the Blindman

Gerardus Duyckinck I, ca. 1725-30

Painting of a white crane on a rock in waves, beneath a branch of pink blossoms and peaches.

Flowers and Birds

Katei Taki, 1800

Panel painting showing horsemen, a brick palace, a canopied bed, and a woman in an open doorway in a Renaissance city scene.

Tarquin and Lucretia

Master of Marradi, ca. 1475-80

Gold-ground altarpiece of the Madonna and Child enthroned, with a goldfinch and two small kneeling donors, in a gilded Gothic

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Donors

Lorenzo Veneziano, ca. 1360-65

Horse, Fort Stanton, New Mexico

Peter Moran, 1841

Painting of a sunny canal town with a palazzo, a domed church, horsemen, a carriage, and boats on the water.

View of the Brenta, near Dolo

Giambattista Cimaroli, late 18th century

Gilded religious painting of a kneeling saint in white receiving a robe from the Virgin, with angels, demons, cats and nuns b

Santa Francesca Romana Clothed by the Virgin

Antonio da Viterbo the Elder, ca. 1445

Pencil sketch of a wooded valley with a tall pine on the left and distant mountain ridges under a pale sky.

Kauterskill Clove (from Sketchbook of Landscape and Animal Subjects)

Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1860

Nude Adam and Eve sit beneath a fruit tree with a serpent, leopard and wolf in a wooded landscape.

Adam and Eve in Paradise

David Teniers the Younger, 1650s

Interior scene of a couple playing cards at a table while a servant pours wine, sunlight through a window, small dog nearby.

A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman

Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1665-75

Paul Klee's 1939 painting of a stylized blue bird beside a blue round pumpkin shape on a brown ground with black outlines.

Blue-Bird-Pumpkin

Paul Klee, 1939

Group portrait of a family in an interior with men in military uniforms, a seated woman holding an infant, and a small dog.

Portrait of a Military Family

Unknown artist, ca. 1789-90

Oil landscape of cattle grazing in a meadow beneath large cumulus clouds, with tall trees on the right and a figure in white.

Landscape with Cattle at Limousin

Jules Dupré, 1837

Painting of a seated woman, a child, a man and a dog beneath trees in a loose, autumnal landscape.

Figures and a Dog in a Landscape

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1852

Painted Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, Mary and John at left, a crowd at right, and gold halos.

The Crucifixion

Housebook Master, 1481-82

Ink painting on a gold fan leaf of a bird perched among flowering branches with blossoms and leaves.

Bird on a flowering branch

Zhang Chong, late 16th or early 17th century

Hanging scroll of a white cockatoo upside down on a chain beneath pink blossoms, with a small bird below.

Cockatoo

Chen Shu, dated 1721

Hanging scroll of white hibiscus blossoms and green leaves with a white egret standing at the base on a brown ground.

Hibiscus and Egret

Jiang Tingxi, dated 1724

Bird

Ogawa Haritsu, 18th century