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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,089 works

Painted gallery interior with columns, statues and framed views of Rome, with visitors seated and standing in the foreground.

Modern Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757

Painting of a sunlit mosque square with gilded domes, a minaret, market stalls, and figures in robes and on horseback.

A Mosque

Alberto Pasini, 1886

Oval miniature portrait of a man with white powdered hair in a pink coat, in a gilded frame with a ribbon bow.

Abbé Charles Bossut (1730-1814)

Pierre Pasquier, 1772

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in black with a white Maltese cross, holding a folded letter at a red table.

Portrait of a Knight of Malta, Probably Fra Jacopo Salviati

Mirabello Cavalori, 1566

Painting of elegant figures gathered under trees in a pastoral setting, with musicians, a seated woman in pink, and cherub sc

Concert Champêtre

Jean-Baptiste Pater, ca. 1734

Painting of an elegant crowd dancing and gathering at an outdoor fair under tall trees, with a stone tower behind.

The Fair at Bezons

Jean-Baptiste Pater, ca. 1733

Two young men in green hunting attire with a dead deer, white hound, and horse in a forest landscape, painted in 1603.

Henry Frederick (1594-1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592-1614), in the Hunting Field

Robert Peake the Elder, 1603

Full-length portrait of a young woman in an embroidered silver gown with pearls, lace ruff, and jeweled headdress against a d

Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662), Later Queen of Bohemia

Robert Peake the Elder, ca. 1606

Black-and-white image of an elderly bearded man with white hair, painted in loose brushwork, looking toward the viewer.

Head of a Man

Vasilii Grigorievich Perov, possibly ca. 1870-82

Painting of the risen Christ with a red banner atop a stone tomb, surrounded by sleeping and startled soldiers in a landscape

The Resurrection

Pietro Perugino

Painting of Saint John the Baptist in a niche, holding a tall cross-topped staff, wearing a brown garment and red mantle.

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy

Pietro Perugino

Painting of a monk in a cream habit writing with a quill at a green-covered desk with inkwell, knife and books.

Portrait of an Olivetan Monk

Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Painting of the Madonna and Child seated among six saints against a gold background, with a bishop and an armored saint at ri

Madonna and Child with Six Saints

Francesco Pesellino, late 1440s

Painting of horse-drawn carts and a woman with a basket at a market square before whitewashed buildings.

Market Scene

August von Pettenkofen

Group portrait of an eighteenth-century family in a green damask room with a fireplace, tea table, and card players.

The Strong Family

Charles Philips, 1732

Portrait of a bearded man in black with a white ruff, his hand resting on a painted celestial globe.

Man with a Celestial Globe

Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, 1624

Figures with satyrs and a centaur unload hunted animals onto boats on a shore beneath a stormy sky.

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494-1500

Painting of a helmeted warrior with a sword reaching toward a reclining woman, with a fallen figure in the foreground.

The Death of Harmonia

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, ca. 1740-41

Miniature portrait of a woman in an embroidered gown and lace ruff, with a white dog on a ledge behind her.

Portrait of a Moravian Woman

Pieter Pietersz the Younger

Gilded painting of the Madonna holding the sleeping Christ Child, with four angels, two playing lute and harp, on gold backgr

Madonna and Child with Angels

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano, 1420

Black-and-white painting of a Roman triumphal procession with a woman and child in white robes among warriors and crowds.

Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome

Karl von Piloty, ca. 1875

Gold-haloed figures in robes gather as the Virgin in blue presents the infant Christ to an elder in pink before a temple.

The Presentation in the Temple

Alvaro Pirez, ca. 1405-15

Seated woman in blue blouse and yellow headscarf against green background, painted in loose Impressionist brushwork.

Washerwoman, Study

Camille Pissarro, 1880

Two young peasant women in a sunlit orchard field, one in a patterned hat leaning on a staff, painted in soft dotted brushwor

Two Young Peasant Women

Camille Pissarro, 1891-92

Painting of a woman washing laundry in a tub in a sunny garden with flowering trees, in soft pointillist brushwork.

A Washerwoman at Eragny

Camille Pissarro, 1893

Portrait of a Woman

Piero del Pollaiuolo, ca. 1480

Oil portrait of a young woman in a white bonnet, lace ruff and black gown with gold chains, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Oil portrait of a young woman in an embroidered gown, lace ruff, jeweled headdress and pearls against a dark background.

Margherita Gonzaga (1591-1632), Princess of Mantua

Frans Pourbus the Younger

Two armored warriors fight a serpent and monster by a rocky cliff, with a woman watching from the left under a cloudy sky.

The Companions of Rinaldo

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1633

Painting of nude figures in a wooded riverside setting, one reclining with a leafy wreath and another bending to wash in a st

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1627