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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Miniature oval portrait of a gentleman in a powdered wig and brown coat, framed by a border of seed pearls.

Portrait of a Gentleman

William Russell Birch, 1795

Half-length portrait of a man in a black beret and dark coat, pointing to the right beside a stone ledge.

Portrait of a Man

Tommaso Lunetti, 1521

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman in a feathered headdress holding a staff and plumes, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

America

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1747

Portrait of a woman in a pink dress with a feathered hat, flanked by a parrot, a black cat, a bird and butterflies.

Lady with Her Pets (Molly Wales Fobes)

Rufus Hathaway, 1790

Portrait of Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?-1823)

Thomas Gainsborough, 1778

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curly dark hair, white shawl and blue dress, in a gold pendant frame.

Portrait of a Lady

Lawrence Sully, 1795

Oval miniature portrait of a young girl with brown hair in a white dress with a blue sash, in a gold frame.

Miss Annis

Lawrence Sully, 1800

Botticelli's Annunciation: an angel with a lily kneels in a colonnade while Mary kneels in a curtained room on the right.

The Annunciation

Sandro Botticelli, 1485

Panel painting of a veiled woman in black kneeling before a priest in gold vestments, with Christ in glory above a Gothic int

The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena

Giovanni di Paolo, 1450

Gold-ground religious panel of a kneeling saint in black reaching toward the Virgin and Christ Child, with haloed saints behi

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena

Giovanni di Paolo, 1460

Nativity scene with infant Christ on straw, Mary, Joseph, angels with a banner, shepherds, an ox and donkey under a star.

The Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Cigoli, 1599

Seated woman in lace cap and floral dress with a parrot on a birdcage beside her, in a dark interior.

Portrait of a Woman

Johann Nikolaus Grooth, 1750

Monochrome painting of a woman with pinned hair embracing a young child who looks upward against a dark background.

Lady Dashwood and Her Son

Charles Howard Hodges, ca. 1785

Painted family portrait of a man, woman, and small child in a garden with a fountain, statue, and parrot.

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

Bernard Lens III, 1721

Black and white reproduction of a 1495 Annunciation: an angel with a scroll faces the Virgin beside a canopy and lily vase.

The Annunciation

Master of Budapest, 1495

Miniature watercolor of a young woman with a curled updo reading an open book, seated in a pink chair, in a gilt frame.

An Interesting Story (Miss Ray)

William Wood, 1806

Circular abstract painting of faceted blue, green and yellow shapes with tall dark tree-like forms and a figure.

Coney Island

Joseph Stella, 1914

Abstract landscape with orange hills, grey clouds, dark blue and brown rectangular forms, and a small red block below.

Landscape with Houses

Arthur Dove, 1930

Gothic gilded altarpiece with enthroned Madonna and Child at center, flanked by saints in arched niches.

Altar von San Domenico in Ascoli, Polyptychon, Gesamtansicht, Mitteltafel: Thronende Madonna, linke und rechte Tafeln…

Carlo Crivelli, 1476

Grayscale still life of white peonies in a dark vase with scattered petals below, against a shadowed background.

Peonies

Wilton Lockwood, ca. 1910

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark coat beside a shadowed bronze sculpture against a dark olive background.

Auguste Rodin

Robert MacCameron, 1910

Painting of an arched stone bridge over a river, with a city skyline, smoking chimneys, boats, and a tree-lined bank.

High Bridge, New York

Henry Ward Ranger, 1905

Painting of cavalry soldiers charging on horseback across golden plains, with raised rifles and dust clouds under a pale sky.

On the Southern Plains

Frederic Remington, 1907

Painting of green ocean waves breaking onto a sandy beach under a pale overcast sky.

New Jersey Beach

William Trost Richards, 1901

Painting of a white horse grazing near a bare tree in a muted autumn meadow under a cloudy sky.

Autumn Meadows

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1912-17

Oil sketch of a seated woman in a black bodice and green striped skirt, looking downward against a muted background.

Study in Black and Green (Oil Sketch)

John White Alexander, ca. 1906

Full-length painting of a red-haired woman in a fur-trimmed purple robe before a stylized willow tree and checkered floor.

Mrs. Ethel Cushing

Howard Cushing, ca. 1912-14

Full-length portrait of a man in a dark suit with a mustache, holding a hat and red glove, against a muted gray background.

Edward Guthrie Kennedy

James McNeill Whistler, 1893-95

Painting of a bearded man on a rock gesturing toward light as winged angels in white and red robes surround him.

Moses Shown the Promised Land

Benjamin West, 1801

Painting of a sandy beach curving along calm water toward a dark wooded bluff under a pale hazy sky.

Eaton's Neck, Long Island

John Frederick Kensett, 1872