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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,406 works

Pastel portrait of a young woman with blue ribbon in her hair, wearing red drapery and a gold earring, glancing sideways.

Study of a Girl in Red

Benedetto Luti, 1717

Painting of Christ with long hair and beard, raising his hand in blessing against a blue background in a gilded arched frame.

Christ Blessing

Gerard David, ca. 1500-1505

Oil portrait of a mustached man in a white floral turban, green shawl and red vest, holding an ornate dagger.

Portrait of a "Mamelouk"

Horace Vernet, 1810

Painting of the dead Christ supported by grieving women, with an older man, cherubs, nails and a crown of thorns in the foreg

The Lamentation

Domenichino, 1603

Painting of a double rainbow over a classical hillside city, with a shepherd piping beside seated women and grazing goats.

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch, 1824

Christ in a blue robe with a crown of thorns carries a heavy wooden cross past a walled city under a blue sky.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Jan Gossaert, ca. 1520-25

Woman with a yellow parasol stands on a lawn by a pond, with red flowers and a brick house in the garden.

Spring Morning

James Tissot, ca. 1875

Painting of an elderly man with a bald head, dark cap with red edge, and wrinkled face, turned to the right.

Portrait of an Old Man

Hugo van der Goes, ca. 1470-75

Head of a Bishop

Gaetano Gandolfi, ca. 1770

Painting of a kneeling haloed saint with a cord, white drapery, crucifix, flowers and hourglass in a dark interior.

Saint Dominic in Penitence

Filippo Tarchiani, ca. 1607

Gold-ground painting of the crucified Christ with angels above and four mourning figures standing below on rocky ground.

The Crucifixion

Ugolino di Nerio, ca. 1315-20

Head of an Old Woman

Orazio Borgianni, after 1610

Renaissance painting of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John, Christ holding a cherry and a bird.

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga, ca. 1524-26

Oil painting of a woman in a white and blue turban and red robe, holding a green palm frond, gazing downward.

A Female Martyr Saint

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, ca. 1650

Angel Gabriel kneels on a cloud before the Virgin Mary in a pink dress, under a glowing dove and clouds.

The Annunciation

Peter Candid, ca. 1585

Painting of a man in white robes standing in a doorway between red Egyptian-style columns, with palms and cactus behind him.

An Egyptian in a Doorway

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1865

Painting of a chained tiger lying before a carpet hung on a tiled wall, with armed guards and brass minarets behind.

The Sultan's Tiger

Benjamin-Constant

Painting of a Cairo bazaar with two minarets, a domed mosque, arched gateway, market awnings and figures in the street.

A Cairo Bazaar

Adrien Dauzats, 1839

Painting of the Great Pyramid at Giza with tiny robed figures climbing its stepped stones under a teal sky and crescent moon.

The Great Pyramid, Giza

Adrien Dauzats, 1830 or later

Oil painting of a seated bearded man in a white turban beside a saddled brown horse, leaning against a brick wall.

Seated Arab Man with Horse

Alfred Dedreux, possibly ca. 1850-58

Oil painting of a bearded man in a red turban and fur-trimmed robe writing with a quill, looking upward.

The Arab Sage

Arab Warrior

Horace Vernet, ca. 1817-22

Painting of the dead Christ supported by two angels against a dark background, with a glowing halo and white loincloth.

Dead Christ Supported by Angels

Francesco Trevisani, ca. 1710

Full-length seated portrait of a man in blue velvet coat with orders, beside a gilt desk and armchair in a dim interior.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754-1838), Prince de Bénévent

François Gérard, 1808

Painting of a bearded elderly man in an orange robe kneeling and gazing upward in tears beside golden keys.

The Tears of Saint Peter

Jusepe de Ribera, ca. 1612-13

Painting of a kneeling figure reaching toward an angel in clouds, with sleeping figures in the dark foreground below.

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin, 1626-27

Haloed monk in a dark habit holding a red book, with a robed figure and an angel above on a gold panel.

Saint Silvester Gozzolini

Segna di Buonaventura, 1320s

Gilded panel showing a bald bearded monk holding a red book, with an angel and a bearded saint in arched niches above.

Saint Benedict

Segna di Buonaventura, 1320s

Painting of a woman with a floral wreath led to a garlanded altar by armed warriors, with a golden urn in the foreground.

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Charles Le Brun, 1647

Painting of a woman in a fur-trimmed coat and feathered hat beside a balustrade with a black poodle on a yellow background.

Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle

Paul Ranson, ca. 1895