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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,256 works

Horizontal panel with armored riders, hunting dogs, a fortified gate, rocky cliffs and a ship in a gilded frame.

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Jacopo di Arcangelo, ca. 1465

Painting of men fishing from a rowboat on a river, with an elegant couple and a dog at right and a rainbow above.

Fishing

Édouard Manet, ca. 1862-63

Oil painting of an English warship firing a gun in a calm harbor, with smoke, small boats and a hazy evening sky.

Harbor Scene: An English Ship with Sails Loosened Firing a Gun

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 moored barges and a steam tug on a river, with a standing figure and dense green trees along the far bank.

Barges at Pontoise

Camille Pissarro, 1876

Painting of a hazy Bay of Naples with sailboats, a waterfront promenade, figures, carts, and a distant volcanic mountain.

The Bay of Naples

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

Painting of figures and a horseback rider on a dune path under stormy clouds, with boats on the shore at left.

Market by the Seashore

Salomon van Ruysdael, 1637

Painting of a crowded stone bridge over a river in Rouen, with smoking chimneys, boats and an overcast sky.

Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1896

Painting of moored sailing boats on a river at dusk, with a glowing golden horizon and a church tower on the distant shore.

Night Scene on the Volga

Alexei Savrasov, 1871

Painting of a crowded ferry on a river beside a large tree, cottage and distant windmill under a cloudy sky.

Ferry near Gorinchem

Salomon van Ruysdael, 1646

Impressionist painting of steamboats and masts at a riverside quay, with white steam drifting over the water and waterfront b

Steamboats in the Port of Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1896

Painting of the Thames with an arched bridge under construction, a Gothic abbey on the right, boats and a timber crane in the

The Building of Westminster Bridge

River landscape with a church, windmill, tree, cattle in a rowboat, and a sailing boat under a cloudy sky.

View of the Town of Alkmaar

Salomon van Ruysdael

Painting of two figures in a rowboat on a rippling river beside a dark barge, with city buildings and a bridge behind.

View of the Seine

Georges Seurat, 1882-83

Painting of a suspension bridge over a sunlit river with rowboats, riverside houses, and a blue sky with clouds.

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Alfred Sisley, 1872

Hazy harbour scene with a timber building, figures on a quay, a red-sailed boat and a rowboat reflected in water.

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1811

Calm Dutch harbor with moored sailing boats, a tall ship, wading figures and a large cloudy sky.

Entrance to a Dutch Port

Willem van de Velde the Younger, ca. 1665

Painting of a brick tower beside a river with a small boat, figures on the bank, and a large tree under a cloudy sky.

The Pigeon House

Roelof Jansz van Vries

Painting of a man and woman on horseback on a dirt road by a river, with bare trees and a cloudy sky.

A Man and a Woman on Horseback

Philips Wouwerman, ca. 1653-54

Painting of a stormy sea at sunset with a small boat near rocky cliffs, sunlight breaking through clouds above a silhouetted

Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily

Andreas Achenbach, 1853

Pointillist painting of a river framed by trees, with a steamboat and rowboats under a pale overcast sky.

Gray Weather, Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat, ca. 1886-88

Canaletto painting of a busy Venetian canal with gondolas, a sailboat and palazzi under a pale blue sky.

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge

Canaletto, 1730s

Painting of the island of San Michele in Venice with a domed church, bell tower, gondolas and sailboats on the lagoon.

The Island of San Michele, Venice

Francesco Guardi, 1770s

Tiepolo painting of the Holy Family with a donkey and a kneeling winged angel beside a rocky cliff and sea.

The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1767-70

Canaletto view of the Grand Canal in Venice with gondolas, palazzi and a tall brick bell tower under a pale sky.

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right

Canaletto, 1730s

Painting of a black gondola leaving a stone landing where masked figures in pink and black gather near a classical arch.

The Departure of the Gondola

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, mid-1760s

Painting of a stormy beach with fishermen, beached boats, a sailing vessel, a horse cart on the dunes, and a distant windmill

A Beach with Fishing Boats

Jan van Goyen, probably 1653

Painting of brown-sailed fishing boats and rowing boats on a calm river under a cloudy sky, by Salomon van Ruysdael.

Fishing Boats on a River

Salomon van Ruysdael, early 1660s

Painting of a Seine quay with barges, a crane, horses, and a palace skyline under cloudy sky.

View from the Quai d'Orsay

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1854

Moonlit harbor scene with a brick tower, soldier with rifle, men on pier, and sailing boats on calm water.

View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight

Martinus Rørbye, 1839