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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

631 works

Painting of a mountain valley with a waterfall, rocky cliffs, dense trees, and sunbeams breaking through a cloudy sky.

A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall

Kerstiaen de Keuninck, ca. 1600

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

Painting of Mont Sainte-Victoire with a blue angular mountain above a valley of green and ochre fields and houses.

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1902-6

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 lion, a big cat and a wolf in dark outline on a grey plain beside a bare tree and a mountain.

Holy Mountain IV

Horace Pippin, 1946

Painting of a pale yellow house among green trees on a hillside, with blue hills and a pale sky behind it.

View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph

Paul Cézanne, late 1880s

Painting of a hazy Bay of Naples with sailboats, a waterfront promenade, figures, carts, and a distant volcanic mountain.

The Bay of Naples

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

Landscape with a waterfall and rushing stream, a wooden footbridge with sheep, a cottage, and a mountain under clouds.

Mountain Torrent

Jacob van Ruisdael, 1670s

Tiepolo painting of the Holy Family with a donkey and a kneeling winged angel beside a rocky cliff and sea.

The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1767-70

Painting of Vesuvius erupting with smoke and lava flows, small figures and horses in foreground, bay and town at sunset.

An Eruption of Vesuvius

Johan Christian Dahl, 1824

Oil sketch of a deep valley with several waterfalls falling down steep brown cliffs under a partly cloudy sky.

Gudvangen

Thomas Fearnley, 1839

Painting of snow-capped Canadian Rockies rising above a turquoise lake with fallen logs and pine trees in the foreground.

Canadian Rockies (Lake Louise)

Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1889

Painting of a rider on a white horse crossing a river below a rocky cliff, with trees and distant hills under a glowing sky.

The Mountain Ford

Thomas Cole, 1846

Painting of a sunlit valley with cliffs, gnarled oaks, grazing goats and a distant river under a hazy sky.

Landscape - Scene from "Thanatopsis"

Asher Brown Durand, 1850

Painting of Yosemite Valley with granite cliffs, a calm river, pine trees, canoes and grazing horses under cloudy sky.

Merced River, Yosemite Valley

Albert Bierstadt, 1866

Landscape with ivy-covered Roman ruins, an arched aqueduct, small figures, and mountains under a cloudy sky.

A View near Tivoli (Morning)

Thomas Cole, 1832

Sunset over a calm lake with rocky mountains, an island with a palace and tower, and a small boat with figures.

Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1871

Painting of snow-capped mountains above a calm lake with wooded islands and birds in flight.

Mountain Scene

Albert Bierstadt, 1880-90

Painting of a mountain range lit pink by sunset, with dark trees and still water in the foreground under a teal sky.

Mountain Range

James McDougal Hart, 1850-55

Painting of a cliff ledge overlooking a deep valley with a tall waterfall, pine trees, and distant snowy peaks.

Yosemite Falls, from Glacier Point

William Keith, 1879

Painting of the Matterhorn lit pink by sunrise above clouds, with dark pine trees in the foreground and a misty valley below.

Sunrise on the Matterhorn

Albert Bierstadt, after 1875

Painting of a river valley with sailboats on calm water between wooded mountains, two small figures in the grassy foreground.

Hudson River Scene

John Frederick Kensett, 1857

Hikers rest on a rocky mountain ledge at sunset, overlooking a hazy valley, with a steep peak rising on the right.

The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain

Jerome Thompson, 1858

Hanging scroll of a riverside scene with pine trees, two boats with seated figures, and a white horse on a rocky bank.

Song of the Lute

Ding Yunpeng, 1585

Ink landscape on a fan-shaped gold leaf showing a pointed mountain, bamboo grove, and moored boats along a riverbank.

Riverscape with moored boats

Wu Shantao, late 17th or early 18th century

Monochrome hanging scroll of craggy mountains, a pavilion among trees, and figures on a bridge, with calligraphy at upper rig

Enjoying the Moon: Landscape in the Manner of Wang Meng

Gu Yide, dated 1628

Ink landscape handscroll with misty mountains, clustered trees, a riverbank, small buildings, and red seals.

Landscape in the Style of Mi Fu

Dong Qichang, dated 1611 and 1612

Album leaf of an autumn lake landscape with red-leafed trees, misty hills, and calligraphy inscriptions in the margins.

Autumn Landscape, leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Xiang Shengmo, ｄａｔｅｄ 1654

Ink landscape album leaf with a pavilion, arched bridge, pine trees, misty mountains, and calligraphy in the upper right.

Mountain Retreat, leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Shi Lin, datable to 1654-55

Hanging scroll of a misty mountain landscape with pines, seated scholars by a stream, and calligraphy at upper left.

Landscape dedicated to Xiang Yuanbian