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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,406 works

Painting of a woman with yellow hair in a buttoned jacket, set before loose green foliage and a pale garden path.

The Streetwalker

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ca. 1890-91

Painting of a haloed saint in a red robe holding a staff against an ornate gold background.

Saint Julian

Taddeo Gaddi, 1340s

Painting of a haloed saint in a black cloak exchanging a red heart with Christ appearing in gold above a rooftop.

Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ

Giovanni di Paolo

Oil painting of the Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, with putti picking fruit from a tree in a landscape.

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1627

Oval painting of Aurora on a chariot with white horses, cherubs and winged figures in a cloudy sky.

The Chariot of Aurora

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760s

Oval grisaille painting of a seated female allegorical figure on a cloud, gazing upward against a golden background.

A Female Allegorical Figure

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740-50

Gilded frame with Virgin and Child, an elderly man and an angel, and a lunette of the Man of Sorrows between two angels.

The Man of Sorrows with Two Angels

Francesco di Giorgio, ca. 1470

Oil study of a standing man in a red turban and gold and green robes holding a curved sword, with palm tree and hills.

Study for "Portrait of an Indian"

Anne-Louis Girodet, ca. 1807

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark cap and black coat with white collar, against an olive background.

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791-1824)

Horace Vernet, probably 1822 or 1823

Woman in a black hat seated at a table beside a silver tea service, with a harbor view through the window behind her.

Tea

James Tissot, 1872

Seated woman in white gown with a harp, lamp at left, and a veiled attendant in shadow beside a column.

Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)

Théodore Chassériau, 1849

Painting of a woman at an open window beside a wounded man on a bed, with chain mail and armor hanging in a stone chamber.

Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe

Eugène Delacroix, 1823

Painting of a woman in a dark riding habit and green-ribboned hat on a piebald horse under a stormy sky.

Horsewoman

Théodore Géricault, 1820 or later

Painting of a man leaning on a parapet beside a tree, with pale buildings and sunlit pavement behind him.

A Man Leaning on a Parapet

Georges Seurat, ca. 1881

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

Man in red coat kneels holding hand of seated woman in blue-embroidered silk gown beside a spaniel and gilded bed.

The Declaration of Love

Jean-François de Troy, ca. 1724

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

Painting of a young girl in a green dress and white headscarf looking into a red-framed mirror at her reflection.

Julie Le Brun (1780-1819) Looking in a Mirror

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787

Seated woman in silk gown holds a palm frond and looks up at a white dove in a dim prison interior.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison

Paolo Veronese, ca. 1585

Painting of the Madonna with the Christ Child and infant Saint John holding a lamb, in a rocky landscape.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Santi di Tito, early 1570s

Painting of a woman in a teal shawl beside two scarlet ibises on a balcony, with a city skyline behind under a rose sky.

Young Woman with Ibis

Edgar Degas, 1857-58; reworked 1860-62

Painting of a couple embracing on a forest swing, a man in red and a woman in white, with irises and butterflies nearby.

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1873

Painting of Salvator Mundi seated on clouds in blue and red robes, holding an orb and cross, surrounded by cherubs.

Salvator Mundi

Domenico Fetti, ca. 1622-23

Dark painting of mourners carrying the dead body of Christ at night, lit by a torch, with a kneeling woman in red at right.

The Burial of Christ

Annibale Carracci, 1595

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black hat and white ruff, holding a spiral seashell against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man with a Shell

Thomas de Keyser, ca. 1625-26

Oil portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and ruff holding a small balance scale against a dark background.

Portrait of a Woman with a Balance

Thomas de Keyser, ca. 1625-26

Two panels: Saint John the Baptist with a lamb beside trees, and Saint Francis kneeling as a winged seraph appears above him.

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David, ca. 1485-90

Portrait of a woman with curled dark hair, black lace dress and fur stole against a dark background.

Madame Jacques-Louis-Étienne Reizet (Colette-Désirée-Thérèse Godefroy, 1782-1850)

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1823

Painting of a man in a brown hat and red jacket holding a jug and glass, with a pipe on the table before him.

Man Holding a Jug

Michiel Sweerts, ca. 1660

Painting of the Virgin in red and green robes holding the nude Christ Child, with a landscape with trees behind them.

Madonna and Child

Francesco Granacci, ca. 1520