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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,406 works

Medieval painting of Christ tied to a column with a crown of thorns while two flagellants with rods stand beside him on gold

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar, ca. 1400

Pastel portrait of a young man in a black tricorn hat, black lace, and blue fur-trimmed cloak against grey.

Gustavus Hamilton (1710-1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume

Rosalba Carriera, 1730-31

Man playing guitar in a sunlit room, gazing through an open window at a distant hilly landscape with cypress trees.

Léon Pallière (1787-1820) in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome

Jean Alaux, 1817

Full-length portrait of a woman in a white gown leaning on a table beside red urns, with a green sofa and draped curtain.

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761-1835)

François Gérard, ca. 1804

Pastel portrait of a man in a powdered grey wig and pale blue coat with silver braid, against a dark background.

Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697-1755)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca. 1750

Oil portrait of a woman in a white lace-trimmed gown leaning on a stone balustrade before trees and a distant dome.

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816-1850)

Théodore Chassériau, 1841

Oil portrait of a young man with curly auburn hair, white cravat and dark coat against a grey background.

François Gérard (1770-1837), later Baron Gérard

Antoine-Jean Gros, ca. 1790

Pastel portrait of a man with powdered gray hair, lace jabot, pink coat and a rose boutonniere against a gray-green backgroun

Olivier Journu (1724-1783)

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, 1756

Painting of a woman carrying firewood with a child beside her, walking under a dark stormy sky.

Retreat from the Storm

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1846

Three boys in blue suits with red collars stand and sit outdoors beside a tree, a small dog, and a stone ledge.

The Children of Martin Anton Heckscher: Johann Gustav Wilhelm Moritz (1797-1865), Carl Martin Adolph (1796-1850), and…

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1803

Painting of monks in a vaulted cloister arcade in Rome, with a crucifix on the wall and a fountain glimpsed through a far doo

Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome

François Marius Granet, 1808

Bearded friar in brown habit looks upward in a cave beside a crucifix, with a twilight landscape behind him.

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci, ca. 1600-1604

Painting of the Virgin Mary in blue seated and praying amid kneeling apostles in colorful robes in a colonnaded hall.

The Dormition of the Virgin

Carlo Saraceni, ca. 1612

Gilded panel painting of Saint George in ornate armor with a red and white lance, standing over a dragon.

Saint George

Carlo Crivelli, 1472

Painting of a seated woman in a white cap and dark shawl peeling with a knife, in dim interior with loose brushwork.

The Potato Peeler (reverse: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat)

Vincent van Gogh, 1885

Oval portrait of a young woman in a pink dress and flower wreath, with a river valley and blue sky behind her.

Faustine Léo (1832-1865)

Henri Lehmann, 1842

Painting of the Virgin holding a book with the Christ Child and several saints gathered in a dark setting.

Madonna and Child with Saints

Ludovico Carracci, 1607

Full-length painting of a young man in a black hat and majo costume holding an orange shawl and walking stick.

Young Man in the Costume of a Majo

Édouard Manet, 1863

Painting of Saint John the Baptist with a cross, banner and lamb beside him, against a dramatic sunset sky.

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Mattia Preti, ca. 1650

Painting of an elderly woman in a dark veil and white headcloth against a blue background, with an inscription at upper left.

Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Caritas Pirckheimer (1467-1532)

Albrecht Dürer

Painting of a cobbled Berlin street with townhouses, a distant church spire, copper pots, dogs and workers.

Parochialstrasse in Berlin

Eduard Gaertner, 1831

Painting of a dark stone and timber entrance half-covered by dense vines and shrubs under a pale blue sky.

An Overgrown Mineshaft

Carl Gustav Carus, ca. 1824

Dim vaulted stone passage with ivy-covered arches opening onto a sunlit landscape and pale sky beyond.

View in the Stables of the Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli

François Marius Granet, ca. 1805-10

Oil painting of Doric temple columns framing a distant ruined temple, hills, and blue sky, with grass in the foreground.

Columns of the Temple of Neptune at Paestum

Constantin Hansen, 1838

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

Full-length painting of an armored knight in red plumed hat holding a banner, with a sword, before a landscape with a castle.

Saint Maurice

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop, ca. 1520-25

Sketch of saints ascending on clouds amid angels and putti in a bright sky, by Franz Anton Maulbertsch.

The Glorification of the Royal Hungarian Saints

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, ca. 1772-73

Full-length portrait of a man in a white wig and black gown leaning on a book beside a draped table and armchair.

The Reverend Philip Cocks (1735-1797)

Johan Joseph Zoffany, late 1760s

Painting of a Gothic arched window in ruined stone walls framing blue sky, clouds, and distant hills with a small pine.

Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin

Carl Gustav Carus, ca. 1828

Study of a Boy in a Blue Jacket

Benedetto Luti, 1717