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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,826 works

Painting of a sorceress pointing skyward beside a prone old man and a cauldron, with women and clouds in an arched setting.

Medea Rejuvenating Aeson

Corrado Giaquinto, ca. 1760

Self-portrait of a man in a dark jacket beside a tall window with grey interior walls, in muted tones.

Self-Portrait at Spurveskjul

Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1911

Woman in green dress examining a ring by a sunlit window, with a straw hat of roses on her lap.

The Ring

John White Alexander, 1911

Black and white photograph of an oval portrait of an elderly man with white hair, round spectacles, and a fur-collared coat.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

H. Sanford, 1776-1883

Vertical painting of an orange branch with ripe and green fruit, dark leaves and white blossoms against a pale background.

Orange Branch

John La Farge, ca. 1883

Black-and-white photo of a reverse-painted glass portrait of a man in a powdered wig and dark coat, labeled Washington, in a

Plaque of George Washington

Gilbert Stuart, 1776-1830

Dark, softly brushed landscape of a pasture at evening with a large tree, a grazing cow, and a winding path.

Pasture at Evening

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1912-32

Painting of a farm with barns, a white farmhouse, haystacks and an ox cart with workers under a cloudy sky.

Leete Farm, West Claremont, New Hampshire

Francis Alexander, ca. 1822

Painting of a seated woman in a green and black dress adjusting her bodice, looking downward, against a green curtain.

Study in Green and Black

John White Alexander, by 1906

Painting of an elderly bearded man with white hair in a dark coat, seated and resting his hands on a chair.

Walt Whitman

John White Alexander, 1889

Painting of a seated woman in a red velvet jacket and grey skirt before a hazy mountain landscape.

The Spanish Girl in Reverie

Washington Allston, 1831

Two lemmings, one cream and one reddish-brown, face each other on grass under a stormy sky with white flowers.

Hudson's Bay Lemming

John Woodhouse Audubon, 1846

Oval grayscale portrait of a man with curly hair, mustache, dark coat and bow tie against a shadowed background.

James Topham Brady

Joseph Alexander Ames, 1869

Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette

William P. Babcock, 1850-80

Portrait of a man in dark coat and ruffled white jabot holding a folded letter, against a dark background.

Philip Van Cortlandt

Ezra Ames, ca. 1810

Full-length portrait of a young boy in a grey coat holding a small bird, with a tree and cloudy sky behind him.

James Badger

Joseph Badger, 1760

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and black bow tie against a brown background.

John F. Kensett

George Augustus Baker Jr., 1875

Oval portrait of a woman with dark curls and red flowers in her hair, wearing a white blouse and blue bodice.

Mrs. William Loring Andrews

George Augustus Baker Jr., 1861-63

Painting of a shadowy rocky ravine with a wooden walkway beside a waterfall, trees overhead and light filtering down.

The Boulder and the Flume

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1878

Grayscale study of a gnarled tree trunk and branches with loose brushwork and a pale patch of ground below.

Study of a Tree

Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1864

Black and white painting of a bald eagle with spread wings on a scroll, surrounded by a laurel wreath and banners.

American Eagle on Red Scroll

W. H. Bean, 1860-1900

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet, dark velvet dress and white shawl, seated in a red chair.

Mrs. Benjamin Simons

Henry Benbridge, ca. 1771-76

Portrait of a seated man in gray suit with a quill pen at a desk, red curtain and window view behind him.

Samuel Cutts

Joseph Blackburn, ca. 1762-63

Painting of a battered shipwreck tilting in stormy seas, with survivors in a rowboat and sailboats nearby under heavy clouds.

Shipwreck off Nantucket (Wreck off Nantucket after a Storm)

William Bradford, ca. 1860-61

Painting of tepees, horses and figures beside large trees in an open landscape under a cloudy sky.

An Indian Encampment

Ralph Albert Blakelock, ca. 1880-1900

Night scene of figures husking corn beside a farmhouse and barn under a moonlit, cloudy sky.

Corn Husking

David Gilmour Blythe, ca. 1863-64

Painting of a leafy tree, iron fence and shrubs before a brick townhouse with green shutters, in soft impressionist brushwork

View from the Artist's Window, Grove Street

Robert Frederick Blum, ca. 1900

Painting of a misty woodland clearing with tall trees framing a pale hazy horizon and rocks in the foreground.

Landscape

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1885-95

Woman in striped blouse and apron sits in a chair in a kitchen, finger to her chin, looking upward thoughtfully.

Meditation

John George Brown, ca. 1900-1910

Painting of beached sailing boats on a pebbled shore below steep cliffs, with a large building at right and a calm bay beyond

View at Amalfi, Bay of Salerno

George Loring Brown, 1857