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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,970 works

Seated elderly man with white hair writing in a notebook, with a sunlit snowy mountain behind him.

Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Julius Schrader, 1859

Painting of mounted riders in robes and turbans crossing a dusky landscape, with a white horse in the foreground.

Arabs on the March

Black and white painting of turbaned horsemen with lances riding white horses across grassland under cloudy skies.

Battle Scene: Arabs Making a Detour

Half-length portrait of a man in a black hat and dark robe, hand on chest, with Latin inscription across the top.

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)

Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519

Painting of the Virgin and Child with saints and kneeling donors, the Christ Child asleep in the Virgin's lap.

Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors

Sebastiano del Piombo

Full-length portrait of a young man in green velvet and gold embroidery with a dog, before a tree and distant country house.

Sir James Dashwood (1715-1779)

Enoch Seeman the Younger, 1737

Painting of a bent-over gardener in a sunlit wooded garden, with trees and dappled green and yellow foliage.

The Gardener

Georges Seurat, 1882-83

Oil painting of a man in a tricorn hat riding a grey horse across a field, with a brown dog and a country house behind.

Portrait of a Horseman

Painting of Saint Bartholomew with a halo, holding a knife and a book against a gold background in an arched frame.

Saint Bartholomew

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19

Painting of Saint Matthias with a gold halo, red mantle and green book against a gold background in an arched frame.

Saint Matthias

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19

Gold-ground panel of Saint Thomas holding a red book and pointing upward, with a haloed head and teal cloak.

Saint Thomas

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19

Full-length portrait of a man in a black coat and lace collar leaning on a balustrade, with a garden and statues behind him.

Johan Hulshout (1623-1687)

Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingelandt, ca. 1670 or slightly later

Painting of soldiers resting and loading muskets along a rural road with horses, trees, and a thatched cottage.

Soldiers Bivouacking

Painting of a woman in a jeweled blue headdress holding a silver platter with a severed bearded head, against a black backgro

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Solario, ca. 1507-9

Painting of the Virgin's birth with a glowing infant, attendant women, a kneeling servant, and a brass ewer in an interior.

The Birth of the Virgin

Francesco Solimena, ca. 1690

Full-length portrait of a man in red robes and powdered wig beside a turbaned servant peering over a stone ledge.

Diego Pignatelli d'Aragona (1687-1750) and an Enslaved Servant

Francesco Solimena, probably 1731 or 1732

Interior of a kitchen with two women preparing food, copper pots, fish on the tiled floor, and a birdcage on the wall.

A Kitchen

Hendrick Sorgh, ca. 1643

Haloed cleric raises a chalice before a vision of Christ with Passion instruments, attended by two kneeling clerics in an arc

The Mass of Saint Gregory

Spanish Painter

Oil portrait of a man with short dark hair, pale collar and dark jacket against a dark background.

Head of a Man

Spanish Painter

Painting of a haloed youth teaching seated scholars with open books on a staircase, with two haloed figures watching in a Got

Christ among the Doctors

Spanish Painter

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

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 Judith in a yellow gown and blue mantle holding a sword, beside an old servant holding a cloth over a severed hea

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Massimo Stanzione, ca. 1640

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 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

Two women in ornate gowns in a lamplit interior, one bending to kiss the gloved hand of the other.

After the Ball

Alfred Stevens, 1874

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

Painting of a woman in a blue floral kimono viewed in a mirror, holding a white handbag before a red curtain.

The Japanese Robe

Alfred Stevens, ca. 1872

Candlelit painting of an elderly woman in a fur collar praying with a dark rosary, hands clasped at a table.

Old Woman Praying

Matthias Stom, late 1630s or early 1640s

Portrait of a woman in a patterned headdress and jewelry beside a window showing a lake, castle, and mountains.

Portrait of a Woman

Bernhard Strigel, ca. 1510-15