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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,430 works

Dark fiery infernal landscape with demons, flames, ruined buildings and small tormented figures beside a river.

Christ's Descent into Hell

Hieronymus Bosch

Hanging scroll of two birds on a flowering branch with pink roses and white blossoms against a tan silk background.

Flowers and Birds

Shen Quan, 1750

Nude woman beside a swan with infants hatching from eggs in a wooded landscape with a distant building.

Leda and the Swan

Francesco Bacchiacca

Still life with a silver tureen, dead hare, game bird, fruit, and a cat watching from the lower left.

The Silver Tureen

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, ca. 1728-30

Hanging scroll of two long-tailed birds on a blossoming plum branch with red camellias against a gold background.

Birds on a PlumTree

Kishi Ganku, 1767

Painting of a hunter in a red coat holding up a dead fox as hounds look on, with dead game and a horn in a forest.

After the Hunt

Gustave Courbet, ca. 1859

Painting of the Virgin and Christ Child holding a bird, flanked by two haloed angels, with gold brocade and fruit above.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Vittore Crivelli, ca. 1481-82

Painting of a white crane on a rock in waves, beneath a branch of pink blossoms and peaches.

Flowers and Birds

Katei Taki, 1800

Group portrait of a family in fashionable 18th-century dress on a garden terrace beside a pond with swans.

Uvedale Tomkyns Price (1685-1764) and Members of His Family

Bartholomew Dandridge, possibly early 1730s

Painting of a calm river lined with trees, with two storks and a rowboat near the bank under a soft sky.

A River Landscape with Storks

Charles-François Daubigny, 1864

Paul Klee's 1939 painting of a stylized blue bird beside a blue round pumpkin shape on a brown ground with black outlines.

Blue-Bird-Pumpkin

Paul Klee, 1939

Horseman on a galloping bay horse holding up falcons, one flying overhead on a red line, under a stormy sky.

The Arab Falconer

Eugène Fromentin, 1864

Dead game birds and songbirds lie beside a tipped wicker basket and a rock ledge against a dark background.

A Basket and Birds

Monk in white habit with halo sits in bed pointing at revived birds on a platter, surrounded by monks and attendants in a roo

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving the Birds

Garofalo, ca. 1530

Reclining nude woman on a white bed with a man in a turban beside her and an eagle among clouds above.

Aegina Visited by Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1767-69

Painting of a dead hare with several small birds on the ground and two birds hanging against a dark background.

A Hare and Birds

Painting of a laughing woman in a white bonnet and ruffled collar, with a dark bird perched on her shoulder.

Barbara Claes (died 1663, called “Malle Babbe”)

Painting of Saint Anthony surrounded by demons, a nude woman, a burning city and grotesque creatures in a dark landscape.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Black and white reproduction of a still life with a hare, partridges, grapes, peaches, and hanging game beside a column.

A Hare, Partridges, and Fruit

Woman in red and orange robes playing a lute beside a harp, with sheet music, a recorder, and organ pipes around her.

Allegory of Music

Laurent de La Hyre, 1649

Seated woman in red satin dress with a macaw, fountain, and a servant with a small dog in a classical setting.

Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant

Nicolas de Largillière, 1696

Dead partridge and small songbirds with a bramble branch and berries against a dark mossy background.

A Partridge and Small Game Birds

Jan Fyt, 1650s

Painting of a seated man in a red cloak choosing game birds from a vendor in a white apron in a timber-framed courtyard.

Choosing the Dinner

Alexandre-Louis Leloir, 1872

Painted copy of a family portrait: a man and woman in dark dress with a toddler and parrot on a garden terrace.

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

Painting of a crowded tavern-like scene under a ruined arch, with a magpie perched on a barrel and a sea view beyond.

The Tame Magpie

Alessandro Magnasco, ca. 1707-8

Painting of the Marriage of the Virgin: Joseph offers a ring to Mary as suitors with rods gather beneath Gothic arches.

The Marriage of the Virgin

Michelino da Besozzo, ca. 1430

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

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

Oval sketch of an allegorical apotheosis with gods, putti, a seated queen, an eagle and a lion in soft clouds.

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760s

Portrait of a fair-haired boy in red and brown clothing holding a hooded falcon on his gloved hand against a dark background.

Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon

Wallerant Vaillant