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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,567 works

Painting of sandy dunes with a thatched cottage, trees and a stormy cloudy sky over a flat horizon.

Landscape with a Cottage

Pieter de Molijn, 1629

Oil painting of an English warship firing a gun in a calm harbor, with smoke, small boats and a hazy evening sky.

Harbor Scene: An English Ship with Sails Loosened Firing a Gun

Painting of a kneeling man, a woman and a child working in a garden beside thatched cottages and a large tree.

Garden Scene

Jean-François Millet, 1854

Miniature of a painter at an easel painting a heraldic shield, surrounded by framed pictures, sculptures, and shells in a cab

An Artist Painting a Heraldic Shield in a Cabinet of Curiosities

Monogrammist FA, 1664

Miniature of a crowd of costumed men in a street before a stone building, with a performer on a platform and dogs.

Traveling Players

Monogrammist JG, ca. 1630

Christ seated on a rock in a wilderness with angels above and animals and birds around him.

Christ in the Wilderness

Moretto da Brescia, ca. 1515-20

Painting of a woman in a straw hat knitting in a sunlit garden beside rose bushes and a wooden chair.

Young Woman Knitting

Berthe Morisot, ca. 1883

Painting of a thatched rural inn with a hanging bell sign, villagers outside, a haystack, a pig and a cloudy sky.

The Bell Inn

George Morland, late 1780s

Painting of an ornate parlor with women gathered around a grand piano, a man and child at a table, and a sleeping dog.

The Music Room

Mihály Munkácsy, 1878

Painting of a ruined brick tower on a hill under a dramatic stormy sky, with trees, a cottage and small figures.

The Old Castle

Painting of a woman holding a swaddled newborn in a richly furnished room with a canopied bed, a child, and an older woman.

The Newborn Baby

Matthijs Naiveu, 1675

Painting of an oak tree, fence and dirt path beside a pond, with rolling hills and a distant village under clouds.

Near Penshurst, Kent

Patrick Nasmyth, 1828

Night landscape with a farmhouse, horse, campfire and figures beside a river under a moonlit cloudy sky.

The Farrier

Aert van der Neer, early or mid-1650s

Painting of a seated Virgin and infant Christ resting in a landscape with a fountain, donkey, pond, and castle on a hill.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Netherlandish Painters

Painting of officers at an outdoor table on a village street as soldiers restrain a man; a cavalryman on horseback watches.

The Dispatch-Bearer

Alphonse Marie Adolphe de Neuville, 1880

Dusk river landscape with sailing boats, grazing cows, villagers on a path, and a pink-lit cloudy sky.

Landscape at Sunset

Aert van der Neer, 1650s

Triptych with the Last Supper in an interior center and outdoor scenes with soldiers and tents on the side panels.

The Last Supper

Netherlandish Painters, 1515-20

Painting of the Virgin, Joseph, and kneeling shepherds adoring the Christ Child on the grass, with a landscape and town behin

The Adoration of the Shepherds

L'Ortolano, late 1520s

Winter scene of figures skating and playing on a frozen river at sunset, with a town of snowy houses and a church spire behin

Sports on a Frozen River

Aert van der Neer, ca. 1660

Oil painting of ducks resting in a sunlit woodland clearing, with a mallard spreading its wings beside a large tree trunk.

Ducks Resting in Sunshine

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1753

Painting of three children in a shaded grove with a sleeping baby, while a girl in red holds wheat sheaves overhead.

The Grandchildren of Sir William Heathcote, 3rd Baronet

Painted gallery interior with framed views of Roman ruins, marble statues, and gentlemen in 18th-century dress studying the w

Ancient Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757

Painting of a sunlit mosque square with gilded domes, a minaret, market stalls, and figures in robes and on horseback.

A Mosque

Alberto Pasini, 1886

Painting of elegant figures gathered under trees in a pastoral setting, with musicians, a seated woman in pink, and cherub sc

Concert Champêtre

Jean-Baptiste Pater, ca. 1734

Painted gallery interior with columns, statues and framed views of Rome, with visitors seated and standing in the foreground.

Modern Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757

Snowy winter landscape at sunset with a thatched cottage, bare tree, frozen pond, and birds flying across a rosy sky.

January: Cernay, near Rambouillet

Léon-Germain Pelouse

Painting of an elegant crowd dancing and gathering at an outdoor fair under tall trees, with a stone tower behind.

The Fair at Bezons

Jean-Baptiste Pater, ca. 1733

Painting of the risen Christ with a red banner atop a stone tomb, surrounded by sleeping and startled soldiers in a landscape

The Resurrection

Pietro Perugino

Painting of horse-drawn carts and a woman with a basket at a market square before whitewashed buildings.

Market Scene

August von Pettenkofen

Painting of children playing in a wooded clearing with a dog, a distant cottage, and a blue sky with clouds.

The Golden Age

Jean-Baptiste Pater