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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,826 works

Oil portrait of two men in a studio, one standing with brush and palette beside an easel, the other seated in a grey suit and

In the Studio (Gari Melchers and Hugo Reisinger)

Gari Melchers, 1912

Painting of a stone arched bridge over a still river, with trees and their reflections in the water.

The Bridge at Grez

Robert Vonnoh, 1907

Painting of a standing young woman in white with an older woman behind her and a seamstress sewing at a table.

The Trousseau

Charles Webster Hawthorne, 1910

Grayscale view of a castle tower and ruined walls beyond trees and a rocky shore under a cloudy sky.

Richmond Castle, Yorkshire

Philip Wilson Steer, 1903

Pencil sketchbook spread of a lake with mountains, a bell-tower village house, trees and a wooden drying rack.

Cloud Study; Lake [Maggiore?] and Village (verso, from sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Pencil sketch of a lake shoreline with steep mountains, a village at the water's edge, and distant peaks.

Lake Maggiore, May 11, 1869 (recto, from Sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Six-panel folding screen of ink mountains, pagodas and temple buildings above water with small boats on gold ground.

金山西湖図屏風

Kanō Sanraku, 1630

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

Seated poet in a blue gold-patterned robe with calligraphic poem columns beside him on a pale ground.

The Poet Mibu no Tadamine, from a set of album leaves illustrating The Thirty-six Poetic Immortals

Iwasa Matabē, 1600

Seated monk in patterned brown robe holding prayer beads, gazing upward, with calligraphic poem beside him in a silk-mounted

Archbishop Henjō (Sōjō Henjō zu), from the Dōon Version of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals

Iwasa Matabē, 1620

Hanging scroll of a seated nobleman on a veranda with armored warriors, a horse, a pine tree and a veiled woman above.

“Taira no Koremori’s Farewell,” from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari)

Iwasa Matabē, 1640

Hanging scroll of two quail beside white and red chrysanthemums and blue gentian flowers on an ochre ground.

Quail and Autumn Flowers

Tosa Mitsuoki, 1667

Three hanging scrolls showing seated court figures in robes beside ink landscapes, including a man with a writing box.

Portraits of Three Famous Poets: Hitomaro (M) ・Ise (R) ・Komachi (L)

Tosa Mitsuoki, 1691

Painting of a seated woman in a blue dress reading a book in a red armchair beside a palette on a table.

Woman Reading

Susan Macdowell Eakins, 1879

Circular ceramic plate with blue field, white winged birds, and a central turquoise peacock medallion within spiral borders.

Plate

William De Morgan, 1890

Miniature portrait of a young girl in a white nightgown holding a doll, standing on a patterned rug in a blue-walled room.

Clara B. Fuller

Lucia Fairchild Fuller, 1898

Ink and color painting of a seated white-robed arhat under a twisted pine, with a standing monk gesturing beside green rocks.

明吳彬十六羅漢圖卷

Wu Bin, 1591

Fan-shaped landscape painting of green cliffs, red maple trees, a small pavilion among pines, and rocky terrain on gold paper

Green Cliff with Red Maples

Wu Bin, 1603

Pointillist watercolor of a stone bridge with arches, leafy trees above, and small figures walking along the path.

Le Pont Neuf

Hippolyte Petitjean, 1912

Painting of a grieving mother holding a limp infant, with a servant, a frightened woman, a child, and soldiers in a classical

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez, 1824

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in a dark cap and black garment, turned left against a blue-green background.

Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490-1525)

Hans Maler zu Schwaz, 1525

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in a brown fur hat and black fur-trimmed coat against a teal background, with inscripti

Sebastian Andorfer (1469-1537)

Hans Maler zu Schwaz, 1517

Fan-shaped painting of a pink peony and green leaves on gold ground, with black calligraphy and red seals.

清趙之謙芍藥扇面

Zhao Zhiqian, 1862

Pair of hanging scrolls with bold black seal script calligraphy couplet and red seal stamps on pale paper.

清趙之謙篆書五言對聯

Zhao Zhiqian, 1867

Painting of women resting in an ornate harem interior with cushions, a lute player, a pool, and patterned tiles.

Harem Scene

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1884

Hanging scroll of a monkey offering a qin to a seated scholar among misty mountains and pine trees, 1833.

Monkey Offering a Qin to Scholar 異類酬徳図 (Irui hōtoku zu)

Tanomura Chikuden, 1833

Hanging scroll of orchids and ink bamboo leaves in a tall vase, with a calligraphic inscription above.

Orchid and Bamboo in a Vase 蘭竹同瓶図 (Ranchiku dōbin zu)

Tanomura Chikuden, 1823

Gold-ground devotional panel of the Man of Sorrows, Christ with crown of thorns and bleeding wounds, with a small haloed knee

The Man of Sorrows

Michele Giambono, 1430

Painting of a sunlit river with rocks, a stone bridge, trees and a red brick building on a wooded hillside.

The Bronx River

Ernest Lawson, 1910

Painting of a hillside village with red buildings, a winding river, a green boat, and white clouds over a turquoise sky.

Shadows, Spuyten Duyvil Hill

Ernest Lawson, 1910