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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Standing ruler with halo and prayer beads beside a lion and calf, with angels playing music in clouds above.

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan, verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530-50

Miniature painting of a seated ruler on a throne with courtiers, attendants, and a pink hilly landscape under a gold sky.

The House of Bijapur

Kamal Muhammad, ca. 1680

A Stallion

Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1601-6

Medieval painting of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary, the Christ Child, kneeling kings, and gilded haloes.

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi, ca. 1390

Two panels showing Christ carrying the cross with soldiers, and the risen Christ beside an open tomb with a sleeping soldier.

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David, ca. 1510

Interior scene with a woman in blue standing beside a table where children and a smoking man sit under gilt wall hangings.

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting

Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1663-65

Group portrait of a seated man, a woman in blue, several children, and a greyhound in an interior with a classical bust.

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun, ca. 1660

Night scene of a mounted rider and horses on a snowy slope, with two distant figures on a ridge under a teal sky.

A Reconnaissance

Frederic Remington, 1902

Gold-ground painting of the Crucifixion with three crosses, two angels, mounted soldiers, and grieving figures in the foregro

The Crucifixion

Andrea di Bartolo

Painting of the Nativity with kneeling Mary and Joseph, the infant Christ, an ox and donkey, angels, shepherds and a hilltown

The Nativity

Antoniazzo Romano, 1480s

Family group with a man pointing over a valley, a seated woman in red, several children and a dog on a forest path.

Family Group in a Landscape

Jacques d' Arthois, ca. 1645

Painting of a haloed saint kneeling by a fallen child in a pink city street, with a white horse and crowd of robed onlookers.

Saint Dominic Resuscitating Napoleone Orsini

Bartolomeo degli Erri, 1467-74

Painting of a seated woman drawing a bow as a winged Cupid kneels beside her, with hunting dogs and a wooded landscape behind

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni, 1761

Painting of a stone medieval city gate with round towers, figures on horseback and children on a grassy field, under a cloudy

Porte de la Reine at Aigues-Mortes

Jean-Frédéric Bazille, 1867

Pastoral painting of a seated woman with a child, a standing man, cattle, goats and sheep beneath large trees.

Rest

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1644

Full-length portrait of a young man in red embroidered coat beside a gilded table, classical bust, and a dog.

Portrait of a Young Man

Pompeo Batoni, ca. 1760-65

Painting of the Virgin in red with clasped hands, a sleeping infant on a cushion, two angels playing instruments, and a river

Madonna and Child with Angels

Bernardino da Genoa, 1515

Painting of several episodes from the Argonauts story: a ship, a golden procession, a rider crossing a bridge, and a city.

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Biagio d'Antonio

Painting of Israelites gathering at a rock as water flows out, with a woman raising a golden vessel and cattle nearby.

Moses Striking the Rock

Abraham Bloemaert, 1596

Painting of a mounted soldier on a bay horse before an ornate wooden door, with a broom-holding worker and a shop on a city s

The Dispatch-Bearer

Giovanni Boldini, ?1879

A Limier Briquet Hound

Rosa Bonheur, ca. 1856

Painting of a rider on a white horse at a stream, with two seated figures, tall trees, and a cloudy sky.

Roadside Halt

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1826

Painting of a reclining woman and a young man beside a tree, with a spaniel, sheep, and flower basket in a pastoral landscape

The Interrupted Sleep

François Boucher, 1750

Painting of a beach with fashionable figures, a horse-drawn bathing cart entering the sea, a dog, and a distant sailboat.

On the Beach at Trouville

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1863

Young couple on a balcony, a man in red leaning toward a woman in white, with a spinning wheel and sleeping cat nearby.

The Proposal

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1872

Oval painting of a shepherd boy in a straw hat sending off a white dove with a letter, beside a dog, sheep, and trees.

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher, 1765

Classical landscape with a fountain, stone steps, rearing horse statue, robed figures among trees, and goats in the foregroun

A Classical Landscape

Sébastien Bourdon, probably 1660s

Painted Renaissance hall with a seated ruler on a throne, courtiers, an armored guard, and dogs on a tiled floor.

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh

Jörg Breu the Younger, ca. 1534-47

Portrait of a woman in a blue gown with gold chains, holding a fur muff, beside a small dog on a red table.

Portrait of a Woman

Bernardino Campi, late 1560s

Two children tease a striped cat with a crayfish held over a table, the girl in pink smiling beside the boy in brown.

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci