New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

680 works

Painting of a seated crowned king in blue armor facing a mitred figure holding a serpent-entwined staff, with onlookers.

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory, 1537

Painted head of an older balding man in blue collar, with a hand at upper left and red drapery behind him.

Head of a Donor

Albert van Ouwater, ca. 1465-70

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

Portrait of a Man

Edme Quenedey, ca. 1780

Black-and-white reproduction of a painting of a seated judge on a throne with robed courtiers, soldiers, and children gathere

Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge

Peter Paul Rubens

Medieval painting of an executioner presenting a severed head on a platter to a richly dressed woman before a city wall.

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Spanish Painter

Painting of a haloed figure in red and blue at a table with two companions, a bowl and fruit on a white cloth, dark backgroun

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez, 1622-23

Circular painting of a man with a cane and a woman in blue silk beside a seated lute player under trees.

The Cascade

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Medieval banquet scene with a crowned king, seated guests, a woman playing a viol, a servant with a cup, and a dog on a tiled

Salome Dancing before Herod

Spanish Painter

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns, bowed head and bare chest, surrounded by bearded onlookers in turbans and caps.

Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo)

Il Sodoma, ca. 1540-49

Circular painting of a woman in grey gown and a dancing man in pink costume, with onlookers in a dark garden behind them.

The Country Dance

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Painting of elegantly dressed people on a sandy beach under cloudy skies, with a sailboat and pier by the sea.

On the Beach, Dieppe

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1864

Painting of Roman soldiers attacking fleeing civilians before a colonnaded temple, with bodies on the ground and a raised axe

The Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans

François Joseph Heim, 1824

Two men in coats look toward a waterfall at sunset, framed by tall spruce trees and a distant lake.

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl, 1823

Painting of a red-robed cardinal leading a procession of men in black past a classical church under a blue sky.

A Cardinal's Procession

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1621

Painted bust-length portrait study of a man with short curly hair and beard, gazing toward the viewer against a dark olive ba

Bust-Length Study of a Man

François-Auguste Biard, 1848

Miniature portrait of a man with dark hair in a blue coat, white cravat and yellow waistcoat, against a green background.

Benjamin Moore McVickar

Charles C. Ingham, ca. 1825

Oval portrait miniature of a woman with upswept dark hair, white feather, lavender dress, in an ornate gold frame.

Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer)

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1790

Oil head study of a man with curly reddish hair gazing upward against a warm brown background.

Washington Allston

Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1819-20

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set in a gold pendant frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

William M. S. Doyle, 1810

Two haloed saints playing lutes, one in red and one in dark robes, with lilies and wings against a blue sky.

Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua

Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, ca. 1670-90

Haloed friar in brown habit holding a blue panel with a golden sun and IHS monogram, on a gold background.

Saint Bernardino

Sano di Pietro, 1447?

Illuminated initial B with three haloed seated figures in blue above a group of angels, framed by gold foliage and prophets.

The Trinity in an Initial B

Master of the Codex Rossiano, Probably 1387

Illuminated manuscript cutting showing the Ascension of Christ in a gold initial V, with the Virgin and two apostles below.

Ascension in an Initial V

Niccolò di ser Sozzo, ca. 1342-50

Illuminated initial D showing Saint Agatha's martyrdom, with executioner, soldier with SPQR shield, and seated judge.

Martyrdom of Saint Agatha in an Initial D

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1470-73

Illuminated initial M showing the angel Gabriel kneeling before the Virgin Mary in the Annunciation, with gold haloes and blu

Annunciation in an Initial M

Maestro Daddesco, ca. 1310-15

Ink painting of a fisherman in a small boat beneath willow and bare trees, with distant mountains and birds in misty light.

Recluse Fisherman, Autumn Trees

Sheng Mao, dated 1349

Three hanging scrolls of ink landscapes with pines, mountains, and a central panel of a man with a staff and a seated woman i

Chinese Woman in a Boat and Figures in Landscapes

Kano Kōi, early 17th century

Two-panel screen with ink hawk on branch and robed sage with staff under pine, on gold leaf ground.

Daoist Sage and Hawk

Soga Nichokuan, mid-17th century

Pair of hanging scrolls: a woman beside peonies and a woman seated on a rock with orchids and writing implements.

Yanji with Orchids and Yang Guifei with Peonies

Gen Ki, 1785