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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,875 works

Painting of a haloed saint in gold brocade holding a model ship, a palm frond and a book, before a hilly landscape.

Saint Vincent, Patron Saint of Lisbon

Renaissance painting of a loggia with women attending a newborn infant, classical reliefs above, and a city view at left.

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale, 1467

Full-length portrait of a woman in a black gown with lace collar, pearls and a fan, against an ochre background.

Mrs. William Astor (Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831-1908)

Carolus-Duran, 1890

Two children tease a striped cat with a crayfish held over a table, the girl in pink smiling beside the boy in brown.

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Soft-focus painting of a young girl in a white veil and dress against a dark background, hands clasped at her waist.

The First Communion

Eugène Carrière, ca. 1896

Painting of a sunlit rocky cliff with a dark cave opening, trees above, and green rolling hills under blue sky.

Landscape with a Cave

Claude-Félix-Théodore Caruelle d' Aligny

Painting of a mounted cavalier gesturing to a shepherd with a flock of sheep on a road under a cloudy sky.

Cavalier and Shepherd

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova

Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph and shepherds at a thatched stable, a hound, and a pastoral landscape beyond.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Catena, probably after 1520

Painting of a dirt road beside a farmhouse, with a woman carrying a pail, a horse, a cart and poplar trees under a cloudy sky

The Route Nationale at Samer

Jean-Charles Cazin

Gold-ground panel of a crowned enthroned woman with two haloed saints in red and two kneeling donors in white.

Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors

Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni, possibly ca. 1380

Portrait of a Venetian Senator

Catena, ca. 1525

Portrait of a smiling woman in a green bodice and white shawl holding a small tan and white dog against a dark background.

A Woman with a Dog

Giacomo Ceruti, 1740s

Painting of two clusters of apples in yellow, red and green on a blue-grey table, with soft shadows beneath them.

Apples

Paul Cézanne, 1878-79

Half-length portrait of a man in black velvet and white lace collar, holding a dated letter against a dark background.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683)

Philippe de Champaigne, 1655

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

Painting of nude bathers beside a river under trees and cypresses, with a white cloth at left and a blue sky.

Bathers

Paul Cézanne, 1874-75

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and white shirt, one hand resting at his chest, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Painting of a seated nude woman bathing her foot in a silver basin while two attendants assist her beside a classical pillar.

Bathsheba at Her Bath

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, ca. 1700

Painting of a bearded man in a white hood and habit with a wooden cross, hands folded, against a grey background.

Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk

Paul Cézanne, 1866

Painted panel of Christ with a crown of thorns and blood on his brow, set against dark blue with gold foliate ornament.

Head of Christ (Ecce Homo)

Petrus Christus, ca. 1445

Painting of the Nativity with the Christ child, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, angels holding a Gloria banner, and a crowned saint.

The Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Cigoli, 1599

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a cream jacket, dark vest, red cravat and blue cap against a gray background.

Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle

Paul Cézanne, 1866

Painting of the dead Christ on a white shroud, mourned by kneeling figures in a rocky landscape with a castle.

The Lamentation

Petrus Christus, ca. 1450

Painting of the Virgin and Child flanked by Saint Francis with a cross and Saint Clare against landscape backgrounds.

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, ca. 1510

Painting of a hilltop village with a bell tower, red tile roofs, and green hillside under a brushy blue sky.

Gardanne

Paul Cézanne, 1885-86

Angel Gabriel kneels in a garden before the Virgin Mary in a Gothic doorway as a dove and lily appear.

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus, ca. 1445

Still life painting of a skull, quill, inkwell, book, oil lamp and glass goblet on a table against a dark background.

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill

Pieter Claesz, 1628

Painting of a bearded man in a straw hat and dark coat, turned toward the viewer against a dark background.

Gustave Boyer (b. 1840) in a Straw Hat

Paul Cézanne, 1870-71

Landscape painting of a river with trees, figures on the bank, rowing boats and a distant stone bridge under a pale sky.

The Ford

Claude Lorrain, possibly 1636

Half-length portrait of a young man in a black velvet beret with a feather, white ruff, and fur-trimmed dark doublet.

Charles IX (1550-1574), King of France

François Clouet