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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,889 works

Painting of nuns sewing and spinning in a dim convent room with a servant carrying a tray near a high window.

Nuns at Work

Alessandro Magnasco

Painting of a brown cow wading in water beside a wooden flood gate, with grazing cattle and a stormy sky in a meadow.

The Flood Gate

Émile van Marcke

Dark painting of a crowded boat with anguished figures and a standing red-hooded man, loosely brushed in browns and greens.

Copy after Delacroix's "Bark of Dante"

Édouard Manet, ca. 1859

Painted panel of a horseback procession past a church, and a banquet of richly dressed figures under an arcade.

The Story of Esther

Marco del Buono Giamberti

Painting of a canal quay with a horse, figures, moored boats, a brick building and a cloudy sky.

Canal Side

Painting of men fishing from a rowboat on a river, with an elegant couple and a dog at right and a rainbow above.

Fishing

Édouard Manet, ca. 1862-63

Horizontal panel with armored riders, hunting dogs, a fortified gate, rocky cliffs and a ship in a gilded frame.

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Jacopo di Arcangelo, ca. 1465

Painting of a well-dressed man in a black hat and cloak facing beggars, including a woman with a baby, under a stone archway.

Beggars at a Doorway

French or Master of the Béguins

Loose painting of a domed city on a hill with cypress trees, and a small funeral group with a carriage in the foreground.

The Funeral

Édouard Manet, ca. 1867

Medieval panel of armored troops and horsemen with banners marching past tents, a walled harbor city, and ships.

The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo

Master of Charles of Durazzo, 1381-82

Reclining nude woman with an infant and attendants in draped robes beside an ornate couch, in a dark interior.

The Birth of Cupid

Master of Flora

Loose sketch of a bearded man in a bowler hat leaning on a café table, with blue outlines on a pale beige canvas.

George Moore (1852-1933) at the Café

Édouard Manet, 1878 or 1879

Horizontal panel with three narrative scenes of horsemen, a Madonna and child, and a bed scene, framed by raised gilded borde

Scenes from a Legend; Coats of Arms

Master of Charles of Durazzo

Triptych of the Descent from the Cross with grieving figures around Christ's body, flanked by two saints in landscapes.

The Descent from the Cross

Master of the Holy Blood

Panoramic landscape with travelers and a donkey, red bridges over a river, a walled town, and a rocky peak under a luminous s

The Arrival in Bethlehem

Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew, ca. 1540-50

Gilded cassone panel showing a procession of carriages, camels and crowds passing walled cities across a hilly landscape.

King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Master of Lecceto

Multi-panel medieval altarpiece showing scenes of a feast, a church with angels, and figures in a town and landscape.

The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve

Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

Black and white reproduction of a religious painting showing the Virgin and Child enthroned between two haloed standing saint

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints James Minor and Lucy

Marco di Paolo Veneziano

Classical landscape with a stone arch, reclining figures, two dogs on a terrace, and rolling hills under a pale sky.

Classical Landscape with Figures

Henri Mauperché

Painting of a woman in a headscarf leading two cows along a wet muddy path across a flat grassy pasture under grey sky.

Changing Pasture

Anton Mauve, ca. 1880

Painting of a cavalry charge across a grassy field, with sabers raised and officers on horseback watching under cloudy skies.

1807, Friedland

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, ca. 1861-75

Painting of a waterfall cascading over rocks beside a gnarled tree, with goats and figures resting in a grassy forest clearin

Waterfall at Mont-Dore

Achille Etna Michallon, 1818

Painting of a shepherd with a dog leading a sheep flock along a muddy track beside a plowed field under a grey sky.

The Return to the Fold

Painting of a stormy plain with a plowed field, a large château at right, workers and animals, under heavy clouds.

Landscape with a Plowed Field and a Village

Georges Michel, probably after 1827

Painting of ragged townsfolk beside a bread cart with loaves, a seated woman, and boys before brick houses.

The Baker's Cart

Jean Michelin, 1656

Painting of a shepherdess carrying a lamb and leading sheep along a dirt road across a flat landscape at dusk.

A Shepherdess and Her Flock

Painting of a windmill and stone tower under a stormy sky, with a sunlit plain and distant town on the right.

The Mill of Montmartre

Georges Michel, probably ca. 1820

Dark pastoral landscape with tall trees, a rider on a white horse, sheep and figures, under a cloudy sky with mountains.

Landscape with a Battle between Two Rams

Jan Miel, ca. 1640

Painting of a wooded landscape with rocky mountains, a standing figure with staff pointing to a seated figure by water.

Mercury and Battus

Francisque Millet

Painting of a cloaked woman and turkeys in a bare autumn field, with a leafless tree and hay cart under a cloudy sky.

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys

Jean-François Millet, 1872-73