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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,406 works

Painting of Cain raising a club over the fallen Abel beside a smoking fire, with a tree and blue mountain landscape behind.

Cain Slaying Abel

Pier Francesco Mola, ca. 1650-52

Painting of a toddler in a white turban and green vest kneeling with a ball, pretzel, and marionette doll beside a red bench.

Portrait of a Boy

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1805

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a brown cloak holding a small white dog against a dark background.

An Old Man with a Dog

Giacomo Ceruti, 1740s

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin in a jeweled crown holding the Christ Child, seated before painted Gothic architecture.

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Bohemian Painter, ca. 1345-50

Elderly man mending a fishing net in a plain room while an older woman watches from behind, with a clock and ship picture on

The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)

Christian Krohg, 1879

Portrait of a woman in a white shawl and beaded necklaces, gazing upward against a cloudy blue sky.

Joanna de Silva

William Wood, 1792

Loose oil sketch of a robed figure rising in a pink sky while a young woman in drapery reaches toward a dark tree.

The Return of Persephone

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1890-91

Painting of a bearded man in a hat and overcoat, pipe in mouth, seated before a pale window on a wooden panel.

A Man Seated and Asleep

Giuseppe Abbati, ca. 1865

Woman painter in blue dress holds palette beside flower bouquet, open book and pink rose on a stone ledge.

Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750)

Rachel Ruysch, 1692

Elderly scientist in a dark coat works at a crowded laboratory bench among glass flasks, a microscope, and colored chemicals.

In the Laboratory

Henry Alexander, ca. 1885-87

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a blue coat and red collar, set in a border of faceted gems.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Henry Benbridge, ca. 1780

Painting of Nevada Falls in Yosemite with rushing white water, tall pines, and small figures on a log in the foreground.

Nevada Falls, Yosemite

Albert Bierstadt, 1872 or 1873

Painting of the Matterhorn lit pink by sunrise above clouds, with dark pine trees in the foreground and a misty valley below.

Sunrise on the Matterhorn

Albert Bierstadt, after 1875

Miniature enamel portrait of a young boy with curly blond hair and a white collar against a dark background.

Brock Livingston Delaplaine

William Russell Birch, 1817

Portrait of a woman in green dress as a shepherdess, with a white lamb, crook and straw hat, against a dark landscape.

Mary Sylvester

Joseph Blackburn, 1754

Portrait of a woman in a white satin gown and pink shawl resting her arm on a stone ledge before a wooded landscape.

Mrs. Samuel Cutts

Joseph Blackburn, ca. 1762-63

Dark nocturnal landscape with a large silhouetted tree over a waterfall and moonlit river beneath a glowing sky.

A Waterfall, Moonlight

Ralph Albert Blakelock, by 1886

Oval portrait of a mustached man in a dark military uniform with gold epaulettes and a medal, against a brown background.

Luigi Palma di Cesnola

Jacob D. Blondel, 1865

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a brown dress and lace bonnet beside a potted rosebush and a striped cat.

Emma Homan

John Bradley, ca. 1844

Young man and woman playing clarinet and flute in a red-walled parlor beside a gilded harp.

The Music Lesson

John George Brown, 1870

Oval miniature of four children in blue and black jackets and a red dress at a stone balustrade before trees.

The Allen Children

John Carlin, 1847

Naive painting of a red brick house with green shutters, a woman in the doorway, and a man carrying a basket past a tall tree

Tea Rusk and Brick House

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Oil portrait of an elderly man in glasses, grey moustache, and dark suit against a dark brushed background.

Edward Guthrie Kennedy

William Merritt Chase, ca. 1895

Painting of a woman in a white dress sewing by a sunny window in a room with a pink chair and rug.

For the Little One

William Merritt Chase, ca. 1896

Painting of pink azalea blossoms in a blue and white Chinese vase beside a dark green dish on a brown table.

Pink Azalea - Chinese Vase

William Merritt Chase, 1880-90 (?)

Painting of a woman with red hair seen from behind, in a pale dress with green sash, against a dark background.

Seventeenth Century Lady

William Merritt Chase, ca. 1895

Portrait of a man in a blue coat and white waistcoat, leaning on a red chair with a powdered wig against a dark background.

Gulian Verplanck

John Singleton Copley, 1771

Portrait of a seated bald man in a brown patterned silk robe, red waistcoat and blue cap, arm resting on a red chair.

Joseph Sherburne

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1767-70

Oil portrait of a seated woman in white satin and red shawl holding a small spaniel before a dark landscape with trees.

Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1763

Portrait of a man in a white wig and black gown with white bands, hand on chest, beside a column and curtain.

Richard Dana

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1770