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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

506 works

Interior scene of a man in a red coat and feathered hat with a woman in a white headscarf beside a cart, straw, and a dog.

Paying the Hostess

Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1670

Painting of a crowded 1876 auction room with an auctioneer, seated bidders, ceramics on display, and a wooden staircase.

Auction Sale in Clinton Hall, New York, 1876

Ignacio de León y Escosura, 1876

Interior scene with a woman in pink seated among standing men, a seated nun, a kneeling servant in yellow, and a small dog.

The Visit

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Dark Dutch interior with a woman pouring wine, a seated couple at a table, and a framed portrait on the wall.

The Visit

Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1657

Woman in white cap making lace beside a toddler in a wooden high chair, in a Dutch-style interior with a red tablecloth.

The Lacemaker

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1656

Interior painting of women and a girl in a dim room with hanging linens, a man in a tricorn hat at right.

The Letter

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Painting of nuns sewing and spinning in a dim convent room with a servant carrying a tray near a high window.

Nuns at Work

Alessandro Magnasco

Young woman in red sleeves peels an apple by a window, with a basket of apples and a wooden bucket nearby.

Young Woman Peeling Apples

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1655

Oil painting of a genteel interior: a seated man at a laid tea table, a woman in black being approached by a servant, and an

The Temptation

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Dim painting of a woman in a green dress and brown shawl, head bowed, with flowers in her hair, beside a doorway.

Reverie

Matthys Maris, 1875

Multi-panel medieval altarpiece showing scenes of a feast, a church with angels, and figures in a town and landscape.

The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve

Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

Interior scene of a musical party with a woman in orange, a cellist, a man at a window, and a standing woman in an archway.

A Musical Party

Gabriel Metsu, 1659

Painting of an ornate parlor with women gathered around a grand piano, a man and child at a table, and a sleeping dog.

The Music Room

Mihály Munkácsy, 1878

Cutaway church interior with priests at an altar, a pulpit, and a crowd of poor people outside beside stonework and a town.

A Sermon on Charity (possibly the Conversion of Saint Anthony)

Netherlandish Painter

Four figures playing cards in an interior, with a woman in gold and a woman in red satin, and a small spaniel on a stool.

The Card Party

Caspar Netscher, ca. 1665

Woman in a satin gown reads a letter as an attendant styles her hair, with a spaniel and red rug beside her.

The Love Letter

Jacob Ochtervelt, early 1670s

Painted gallery interior with framed views of Roman ruins, marble statues, and gentlemen in 18th-century dress studying the w

Ancient Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757

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

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

Christ in a red robe gestures to a kneeling woman in blue in a Gothic interior with a landscape beyond the door.

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes, ca. 1496

Interior scene with a woman in red, a woman in striped dress, and a man in green robe reading beside a secretary desk.

Domestic Scene

Jan Steen genre scene of a disorderly household with a reclining woman, servant pouring wine, smoking man, and cat.

The Dissolute Household

Jan Steen, ca. 1663-64

Interior studio scene with three women, a canvas on an easel, a red sofa, fur rug and framed pictures on the wall.

In the Studio

Alfred Stevens, 1888

Men in early nineteenth-century dress play billiards in a room with a chandelier, arched doorway and a spaniel.

The Billiard Room

Nicolas Antoine Taunay, after 1810

Interior genre scene: a woman sits with her hand to her head as a man in a tall hat watches, a sleeping dog nearby.

The Lovesick Maiden

Jan Steen, ca. 1660

Seated woman in blue dress beside a table with a crucifix, chalice and book, before a crucifixion painting and tapestry.

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1670-72

Interior hall with wooden beamed ceiling and arched window, with figures in cloaks and 18th-century dress walking across the

The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio

Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765-68

Painting of a seated woman in a gold striped gown and a standing man in grey reaching toward her in a gilded rococo room.

The Garter

Jean-François de Troy, 1724

Painting of a young woman in a yellow jacket playing a lute by a window, with a wall map and checkered floor.

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662-63

Painting of attendants bathing an infant in a basin beside a red bed, with a peacock and colonnade at left.

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley, ca. 1514-15