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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,889 works

Painted town street with tall trees, a yellow shop building, a horse-drawn cart with baskets, and pedestrians and a dog.

The Baker's Wagon

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Woman in white dress and black hat resting in a dark rowboat on a reflective pond with brown and green banks.

Alice Gerson in Prospect Park

William Merritt Chase, 1886

Painting of the Parthenon temple in ruins on a rocky hilltop, with fallen stones in the foreground and a small figure.

The Parthenon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1871

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

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

Landscape of the Alhambra palace on a hill above Granada, with a procession crossing a stone bridge below.

The Hill of the Alhambra, Granada

Samuel Colman, 1865

Neptune in a chariot pulled by grey sea horses through waves, with tritons, putti and a flying cupid under a cloudy sky.

The Return of Neptune

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1754

Autumn valley with a winding river, golden meadows, distant hills and a hazy sun under a pale sky.

Pompton Plains, New Jersey

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1867

Landscape painting of a valley with a waterfall, grazing sheep, a shepherd, trees, and distant blue mountains under a pale sk

Landscape with Shepherd

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1852

Reclining nude woman asleep on red and white drapery in a wooded landscape with a distant sea at dusk.

Ariadne

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1831-35

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

Three nude young men in a green woodland clearing; one stands playing pan pipes while two recline on white cloth.

Arcadia

Thomas Eakins, ca. 1883

Men in a golden marsh with long poles and a rifle, a white sailboat on the distant water under a pale sky.

Pushing for Rail

Thomas Eakins, 1874

Elderly man in spectacles and dark suit carefully writing ornate script with a pen at a desk against a dark background.

The Writing Master

Thomas Eakins, 1882

Painting of a seated woman in green dress with an infant and four children before red drapery and a landscape.

Mrs. Noah Smith and Her Children

Ralph Earl, 1798

Four children in period dress stand in a room with a patterned carpet; one girl holds a hammer and another a cat.

The Alling Children

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, ca. 1839

Interior scene: a woman holds up a blue bonnet while an old man reads a letter, watched by a woman, a girl and a dog.

The New Bonnet

Francis William Edmonds, 1858

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

Hazy golden valley with a hilltop town, waterfalls, a winding stream, and a low sun, with figures on a path among trees.

Tivoli

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1870

Still life painting of books, a quill pen, inkwell, coins, an envelope and banknotes on a dark marble table.

The Banker's Table

William Harnett, 1877

Still life painting of a stoneware mug, folded newspaper, pipe, bread rolls and matches on a wooden table.

New York Daily News

William Harnett, 1888

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 calm river beside tall trees, grazing cows on the bank, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Scene at Napanoch

William Hart, 1883

Sunset over a Venetian lagoon with a domed church silhouetted against light, surrounded by boats with red sails.

Santa Maria della Salute, Sunset

William Stanley Haseltine, 1870-85

Painting of a hummingbird perched on a branch beside pink and white apple blossoms against a cloudy sky.

Hummingbird and Apple Blossoms

Martin Johnson Heade, 1875

Wide meadow with haystacks and small workers under a stormy sky, with sunlight streaming through clouds onto distant hills.

Newburyport Meadows

Martin Johnson Heade, ca. 1876-81

Three terriers hunt rats among barley sheaves and wooden barrels in a dim barn interior.

Rats amongst the Barley Sheaves

Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1851

Painting of the Schuylkill County Almshouse with brick buildings, horse-drawn carriages, rolling hills and a cloudy sky.

View of the Schuylkill County Almshouse Property

Charles C. Hofmann, 1876

Muted seascape of a beach at dusk with figures in red near the foreground, waves breaking, and a small boat on the horizon.

The Beach, Late Afternoon

Winslow Homer, 1869

Night scene of two figures beside a campfire and a stick lean-to shelter in a dark forest, with sparks rising.

Camp Fire

Winslow Homer, 1880