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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,596 works

Ink sketch of an elderly man in a dark cap and robe walking right, carrying a broom, with a small red seal.

Painting - Shibata Zeshin

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Ink painting of the seated god Jurōjin with long white beard on a hanging scroll with gold brocade mount.

Painting of Jurōjin

Kanō Tsunenobu, late 17th-early 18th century

Seated woman in a pink dress with lace collar, resting her head on her hand beside a carved chair and a red rose.

A Rose

Thomas Anshutz, 1907

Bust-length oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark coat and white cravat before green drapery.

George Washington

Gilbert Stuart, begun 1795

Three figures pluck turkeys at a table in a snowy farmyard beside a barn, with birds hanging on the wall and a pot over a fir

Preparing for Christmas (Plucking Turkeys)

Francis William Edmonds, 1851

Painting of a bearded man carrying a basket of eggs and vegetables and a chicken through a rainy street past posted notices.

Young Husband: First Marketing

Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854

Painting of blue Krishna on a riverbank holding clothes while gopis in water pray with raised hands, with cow and deer nearby

The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana

Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana, ca. 1560-65

Painting of a medieval court scene with figures in red and white robes, a wolfhound, and a crowd of courtiers in a carved hal

"King Lear," Act I, Scene I

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898

Reclining woman in a white gown with black ribbon on a dark sofa with red cushions, painted in 1895.

Repose

John White Alexander, 1895

Woman hoeing a cabbage garden beside a stone cabin, with a girl carrying a jug and a seated child nearby.

The Way They Live

Thomas Anshutz, 1879

Two men in a canoe on a misty river, one paddling and one reclining, with a black cat at the bow under a pale sky.

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

George Caleb Bingham, 1845

Painting of a candy vendor at a wooden cart surrounded by children and women in kimono on a busy Japanese street.

The Ameya

Robert Frederick Blum, by 1893

Full-length painting of a smiling female dancer in a gold and black costume, arms raised, with roses at her feet.

Carmencita

William Merritt Chase, 1890

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a blue silk gown and lace bonnet holding a cherry branch at a table.

Mrs. John Winthrop

John Singleton Copley, 1773

Painting of a bearded man in white shirt modeling a clay relief in a studio, with a plaster bust on the wall behind him.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Kenyon Cox, 1887, replica 1908

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a dark coat holding a walking stick against a warm brown background.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

William Merritt Chase, 1885

Woman in a blue dress reading in a chair beside a sleeping setter dog on a rug, with a yellow curtain behind her.

The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog

Thomas Eakins, ca. 1884-89

Portrait of a seated woman in pink dress with feathered hat, holding a fan, with a parrot, black cat and butterflies.

Molly Wales Fobes

Rufus Hathaway, 1790

Portrait of a woman in a yellow bonnet and black dress with green shawl, set against a cloudy landscape.

Euphemia White Van Rensselaer

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1842

Painting of two seated men playing chess while a standing man watches, in a dim wood-paneled room with a red carpet and a cat

The Chess Players

Thomas Eakins, 1876

Painting of a family gathered in a red-draped parlor, with adults seated and several children playing on the carpet.

The Hatch Family

Eastman Johnson, 1870-71

Oil painting of a group of Black figures with head bundles fleeing along a forest path toward a distant flag at dawn.

On to Liberty

Theodor Kaufmann, 1867

Painting of a rower in a yellow scull on a calm river with a red bridge and autumn trees behind him.

The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)

Thomas Eakins, 1871

Portrait of a young woman in a gold gown sketching in a large book on a red sofa, with a classical urn and sunset sky behind

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, ca. 1836-37

Farm scene of cider making with a thatched press, a horse-powered mill, barrels, workers, a woman in a red shawl and animals.

Cider Making

William Sidney Mount, 1840-41

Full-length portrait of a man in a dark suit with hands in pockets, head bowed, against a tan background, by Thomas Eakins.

The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton

Thomas Eakins, 1900

Full-length portrait of a man in blue uniform and yellow breeches leaning on a cannon, with a horse and flag under a dusky sk

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1779-81

Portrait of a woman in black with lace bonnet holding a young girl in a red dress with flowers against dark background.

Mrs. Mayer and Daughter

Ammi Phillips, 1835-40

Painting of a seated artist at an easel with four young students in a dim interior, one holding a palette and brushes.

The American School

Matthew Pratt, 1765

Portrait of a seated man in a red coat and gray wig, with a landscape of a tree and distant town behind him.

Francis Brinley

John Smibert, 1729