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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,970 works

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

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

Painting of two robed saints on temple steps pointing skyward while a lame man reaches toward them, with a crowd and classica

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

Nicolas Poussin, 1655

Painting of Pilate washing his hands at a table, with a servant, an armored soldier, a crowd and a cross in a dark landscape.

Pilate Washing His Hands

Mattia Preti, 1663

Crucifixion scene with kneeling mourners in the foreground, mounted soldiers and a walled city behind the cross.

The Crucifixion

Jan Provoost, ca. 1495

Painting of a seated woman embracing a child in a dim classical interior, with a kneeling woman and a standing man in red.

Andromache and Astyanax

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, ?1813-17; 1823-24?

Full-length portrait of a standing man in green coat and black breeches beside marble busts and a gilded chair.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754-1838), Prince de Talleyrand

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1817

Long horizontal painting of draped allegorical figures gathered in a forest glade with stone ruins at the edges, by Puvis de

The Allegory of the Sorbonne

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1889

Pastel-toned mural-style painting of figures in a garden with fruit trees, a stone fountain, arches and a river landscape bey

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1890-95

Horizontal painting of nude and draped figures in a rural landscape with a thatched hut, trees, and a pond.

Ludus pro patria (Patriotic Games)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1883-89

Painting of many sleeping figures on a grassy field under a tree and thatched hut, with a moon over the sea.

Sleep

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1867-70

Painting of a crowd in a classical town gathering around an altar with smoke rising, one man gesturing upward in a red cloak.

Paul and Barnabas at Lystra

Painting of merrymakers in an interior: a man raises a wine glass, a woman in gold silk leans back, and a red drape hangs at

A Party of Merrymakers

Pieter Jansz. Quast, ca. 1635-38

Portrait of a Man

Edme Quenedey, ca. 1780

Full-length portrait of a young man in green coat and red waistcoat beside a saddled brown horse under a tree.

George Harley Drummond (1783-1855)

Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808-9

Oil portrait of an older white-haired man in a blue coat and white cravat, seated with an open book.

James Johnston of Straiton (died 1841)

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a white dress and sash against a dark sunset landscape, by Henry Raeburn.

Janet Law

Oil portrait of a seated older man with white hair in a brown coat, with smoky landscape behind him.

John Gray (1731-1811) of Newholm

Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress and brown shawl, before a tree and landscape with distant hills.

Lady Maitland (Catherine Connor, died 1865)