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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,970 works

Painting of attendants bathing an infant in a basin beside a red bed, with a peacock and colonnade at left.

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley, ca. 1514-15

Oil sketch of a rider on a white horse fleeing past gesturing figures and fallen bodies under a stormy sky.

Scene from the Gallic Wars: The Gaul Littavicus, Betraying the Roman Cause, Flees to Gergovie to Support Vercingétorix

Théodore Chassériau, ca. 1838-40

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

Painting of elegantly dressed people seated on a beach at sunset, with parasols, a bathing hut, and calm sea.

On the Beach, Sunset

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1865

Painting of Roman soldiers attacking fleeing civilians before a colonnaded temple, with bodies on the ground and a raised axe

The Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans

François Joseph Heim, 1824

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

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

Painting of a man in a red coat helping a seated woman in a garden with an urn, bust and a watching figure at a window.

The Servant Justified

Nicolas Lancret, ca. 1740

Painting of two women with a pink parasol, a man in a red coat gesturing to a bearded monk beside a stone archway.

Brother Philippe's Geese

Nicolas Lancret, ca. 1736

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 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

Women and children relax on a sunlit lawn in a garden with flowerbeds, a parasol, and a brick wall behind them.

In Full Sunlight (En plein soleil)

James Tissot, ca. 1881

Small painting of a hunter with rifle and dog walking along a reedy lake shore toward distant hills at dusk.

An Evening beside Lake Arresø

Johan Thomas Lundbye, ca. 1837

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

Moonlit seascape of a mother and child on a rocky shore beside an anchor, with a sailboat on the water.

Mother and Child by the Sea

Johan Christian Dahl, 1830

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

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

Lone figure in a dark coat walks a stony path past a wall and bare tree under stormy grey clouds.

Wanderer in the Storm

Karl Julius von Leypold, 1835

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

Two men in coats look toward a waterfall at sunset, framed by tall spruce trees and a distant lake.

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl, 1823

Painting of a mountain lake landscape with a reclining figure, a dark horse, and robed people gathered near a tent.

Ovid among the Scythians

Eugène Delacroix, 1862