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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,890 works

Ink drawing of a squirrel on a bamboo branch with dark leaves against a plain brown background.

Squirrel on Bamboo

Kano Tan'yu, ca. 1650

Three hanging scrolls of a misty landscape with waterfall, pines, red maples, and white cherry blossoms, with figures seated

Nunobiki Waterfall, Mount Yoshino, and Tatsuta River

Kanō Tsunenobu, after 1709

Painting of tall trees and a grassy clearing in a shaded forest, with a broken stump at left and dense green foliage behind.

Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Achille Etna Michallon, 1812

Painting of a kneeling woman about to be sacrificed, with a raised dagger, a brazier, armored soldiers and mourning onlookers

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

Four young musicians with a lute and violin, one with wings, around open sheet music, painted in warm tones.

The Musicians

Caravaggio, 1595

Small painting of men raising a timber frame beside a house on a dirt road, with a white horse and a tree at right.

House Raising

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Nude woman leaning over shallow lake water under a hazy golden sky with distant mountains, by Paul Émile Chabas.

September morning

Paul Émile Chabas, 1912

Painting of three women by a stream with a brown horse drinking, rocky background, and reflections in the water.

Portrait of Mlle Fiocre in the Ballet

Edgar Degas, 1867

Painting of a wooded landscape with a kissing couple beside goats, distant figures on a path, and a sea view.

The Three Ages of Man

Dosso Dossi, 1515

Miniature portrait of two men in a book-lined room with a piano, a greyhound, and an oval portrait on the wall.

Joseph and Karl August von Klein

Heinrich Franz Schalck, 1810

Double portrait of a man in a fur hat and a woman in a white headdress, with a landscape of river, church and mountains behin

Portrait of a Man and His Wife (Lorenz Kraffter and Honesta Merz?)

Ulrich Apt the Elder, 1512

Painting of Saint John the Baptist scenes: two women embrace under an arcade, a birth scene in a red-draped bed, and a distan

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Granacci, 1506

Triptych painting of the Crucifixion with Resurrection and Last Judgment scenes in side panels, gilded arched frames.

The Crucifixion

Francesco Granacci, 1510

Hanging scroll of a grapevine in grey ink with two large leaves, a cluster of grapes, and a red artist's seal.

Grapevine

Matsumura Goshun, after 1790

Oil painting of soldiers in red coats storming a rocky hill while officers in the foreground gesture beside a fallen soldier

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar

John Trumbull, 1789

Six-panel gold screen showing bugaku dancers in colorful costumes performing beneath a red and black patterned canopy.

Bugaku Dancers

Drawing of the Madonna and Child seated on a pedestal, with a standing bearded man at left and a kneeling nude figure at righ

Madonna and Child with Saints Roch and Sebastian

Michele da Verona, 1550

Botticelli painting of three miracles of Saint Zenobius: a bier, mourning crowd, kneeling figures and horse in a Renaissance

Three miracles of Saint Zenobius

Sandro Botticelli, 1500

Monet painting of a flowered garden terrace above the sea, with sailboats, steamships, flags and figures under parasols.

Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet, 1866

Painting of sailboats racing on turquoise water, with spectators on a pebble beach and a coastal town under cloudy sky.

Regatta at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet, 1867

Painting of a crowded riverside bathing spot with figures on a floating platform, boats, and sunlit water reflections.

La Grenouillère

Claude Monet, 1869

Fan-shaped album leaf of a snow-capped mountain with four birds flying across a pale sky, gold speckled mount.

Mountains with Birds

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Painting of two men in a canoe on a misty river at dawn, with a black cat at the bow and wooded shoreline behind.

Pelzhändler auf dem Missouri

George Caleb Bingham, 1845

Painted hanging scroll of a Noh Okina mask with hexagon pattern, crane design and cords on a pale background.

Mask for the Noh Play Okina

Shibata Zeshin, dated 1879

Votive plaque showing a bow-carrying armored warrior and a kneeling robed figure beside pine trees and misty mountains.

Ema (Votive Painting) of Empress Jingū, Her Minister Takenochi no Sukune, and an Infant (the Future Emperor Ōjin)

Nagano Yasunosuke, 1898

Ink painting of a sparrow perched on a plum branch beside a rock, mounted as a hanging scroll with gold brocade border.

Sparrow on Plum Branch (Ume ni Suzume)

Shōkadō Shōjō

Ink painting of snowy Mount Fuji above a winter village with thatched roofs, pine trees and small figures in mist.

Mount. Fuji in Winter

Shibata Zeshin, dated 1890

Painting of the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ, a kneeling shepherd, a boy with a dog, and a distant hilltop t

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Vincenzo Catena, 1520

Ink painting of two fishermen in a boat on misty water beside reeds, a rock and a bare tree, mounted as a hanging scroll.

Fisherman

Kano Tan'yu, 17th century

Painting of a seated court lady with long black hair in layered red, blue and patterned robes, on pale paper.

Court Lady

Katsushika Hokusai, 18th-19th century