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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,313 works

Portrait of a bearded man in a feathered cap and red doublet, holding a gold pendant against a green background.

Francis I (1494-1547), King of France

Virgin nursing the infant Christ beside Saint Joseph reading, with a lily, lemon, knife and cherries on a table.

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1525

Gilded panel showing an angel in blue robes slaying a dragon beside a brown-robed saint raising his hands.

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes, ca. 1505-9

Painting of a musician with a lute and a young girl in black dress with lace collar, standing in a marble-floored room.

A Musician and His Daughter

Thomas de Keyser, 1629

Portrait of a young girl in a white bonnet and dress building a house of cards at a wooden table.

Girl Building a House of Cards

Thomas Frye (, mid-18th century

Full-length portrait of a young man in a green coat and red drape, hand on hip, with a tree and sky behind him.

Charles Beauclerk (1670-1726), Duke of St. Albans

Godfrey Kneller, ca. 1690-95

Oval half-length portrait of a young woman with upswept curled hair, wearing a green dress and white lace collar.

Lady Mary Berkeley

Godfrey Kneller, ca. 1700

Bust portrait of a young man with tousled dark hair in a dark uniform with gold buttons against a reddish-brown background.

Valdemar Hjartvar Købke (1813-1893), the Artist's Brother

Christen Købke, ca. 1838

Small panel portrait of a young man with reddish hair and a dark cap, looking upward against a black background.

Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland

Hans von Kulmbach, ca. 1508

Apostles and a kneeling woman gaze up at Christ's bare feet and red robe rising into clouds above them.

The Ascension of Christ

Hans von Kulmbach, 1513

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

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a red fur-trimmed coat, resting his hand on a paper with spectacles, dark background.

John Julius Angerstein (1736-1823)

Thomas Lawrence

Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress with a spaniel dog, set against a dark wooded landscape.

Lady Maria Conyngham (died 1843)

Thomas Lawrence, ca. 1824-25

Painting of a man raising a dagger as a woman in yellow grips his arm, with red drapery and a classical column behind them.

The Rape of Tamar

Eustache Le Sueur, probably ca. 1640

Young woman with a red flower in her hair mends a fishing net on a rocky ledge above the sea at dusk.

Graziella

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, 1878

Lucia

Lord Leighton Frederic, possibly late 1870s

Woman in a dark robe leans against a classical column beside an urn and scattered leaves in a dusky garden.

Lachrymae

Lord Leighton Frederic, 1894-95

Half-length painted portrait of a young woman with curly dark hair, bare shoulders, and a white lace neckline against a brown

Study for a Portrait of a Woman

Peter Lely, 1670s

Portrait of a young man with long hair in a satin coat and red cloak, resting his hand on a classical marble bust.

Sir Henry Capel (1638-1696)

Full-length seated portrait of a woman in silver satin and blue silk with pearls, beside a red curtain and stone steps.

Barbara Villiers (1640-1709), Duchess of Cleveland

Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912)

Franz von Lenbach, 1902

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)"

Seated woman in gold gown with pearls and a moneybag, a winged skeleton behind her, and two men fighting in the distance.

Allegory of Avarice

Painting of Christ's body being lowered from the cross by men on ladders, with mourners and a skull in the foreground.

The Descent from the Cross

Filippino Lippi

Painting of the Virgin in a white veil and green mantle, hands clasped in prayer, with a faint gold halo.

The Virgin of the Nativity

Filippino Lippi, probably ca. 1500

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child on a marble throne, flanked by two angels in green robes against a gold-halo

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440

Fresco-like painting of four haloed saints, a bishop with crozier and a kneeling bearded monk in dark robes.

Saints Augustine and Francis, a Bishop Saint, and Saint Benedict

Interior scene with a woman in pink seated among standing men, a seated nun, a kneeling servant in yellow, and a small dog.

The Visit

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Interior painting of women and a girl in a dim room with hanging linens, a man in a tricorn hat at right.

The Letter

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Painting of a seated woman in a yellow gown with an older man in a wig bending toward her, watched by masked figures in an in

The Meeting

Pietro Longhi, 1746