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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,430 works

Oil portrait of a young peasant woman in a white headcloth and dark bodice, gazing downward against a grey background.

Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth

Wilhelm Leibl, 1885

Small painting of a wooded stream bank with a cow drinking at the water and figures on the grassy slope.

Banks of the Stream near the Corot Property, Ville d'Avray

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1823

Gold-ground altarpiece with an enthroned haloed saint, two standing saints and three kneeling donors in red and pink.

Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors

Filippo Lippi, 1440s

Monochrome brown painting of people gathering manna in a desert camp, with angels above and two bearded prophets in the upper

The Gathering of Manna

Painting of a mounted commander with an eagle standard beside soldiers and a fallen warrior, with a smoky battle at a city wa

Capture of Carthage bY GB Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1726

Octagonal panel of women around a fountain with hunters and hounds chasing deer through rocky hills under a dark sky.

Ameto's Discovery of the Nymphs

Master of, ca. 1410

Medieval panel of Madonna and Child with a bishop presenting a kneeling donor, with gold throne and flowers.

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z., ca. 1420-30

Painting of a violent cavalry battle with swordsmen, white horses, fallen soldiers, and a ruined tower under a stormy sky.

Battle of Vercellae by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1726

Octagonal panel with two shepherds at left and three women in red, pink and yellow robes among rocks and trees.

A Contest between the Shepherds Alcesto and Acaten

Master of, ca. 1410

Gilded triptych with Madonna and Child enthroned among angels and saints, flanked by scenes of the Passion.

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Master of Monte Oliveto, ca. 1315-20

Circular drawing of two allegorical figures on a cloud, one winged with a spear and sun shield, one holding a cornucopia.

Virtue and Abundance

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Two altarpiece wings showing a messenger before a crowned king and a queen bringing gifts, with kneeling donors below.

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation

Master of the Saint Barbara Legend, ca. 1480

Round painting of Joseph gesturing to fellow prisoners at a table, with dream vignettes of a basket of birds and a grape vine

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners

Master of the Story of Joseph

Painting of a young boy blowing a soap bubble from a pipe over a stone ledge, with a child peeking in behind him.

the soap-bubbles

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1733

Virgin and Child enthroned under a canopy with two saints, two harp-playing angels, and a male figure in a garden landscape.

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling, early 1480s

Interior scene with a nursing mother and infant, a visitor in black, a servant, and a small dog on a marble floor.

The Visit to the Nursery

Gabriel Metsu, 1661

Painting of the Madonna in a red dress holding the Christ Child against a gilded background with putti and medallions.

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli, 1505

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black robe holding a paper, with an hourglass and a landscape view behind him.

Portrait of a Man

Moretto da Brescia, ca. 1520-25

Painting of a seated crowned king in blue armor facing a mitred figure holding a serpent-entwined staff, with onlookers.

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory, 1537

Loose painting of figures in white dresses and parasols on a sunlit lawn beneath tall trees, with a pavilion in the backgroun

Tennis at Newport

George Bellows, 1919

Four panels in a gilded Gothic frame showing scenes of Christ's Passion: prayer, carrying the cross, crucifixion, and lamenta

Four Scenes from the Passion

Bernard van Orley

Painted head of an older balding man in blue collar, with a hand at upper left and red drapery behind him.

Head of a Donor

Albert van Ouwater, ca. 1465-70

Portrait of a seated woman in a red hat and red jacket against a dark background, by George Bellows.

Mrs. Chester Dale

George Bellows, 1919

Painting of Bacchus in a leaf wreath gesturing toward Ariadne, who looks up at him, with pink clouds and sea behind them.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1720s

Painting of the Madonna and Child seated among six saints against a gold background, with a bishop and an armored saint at ri

Madonna and Child with Six Saints

Francesco Pesellino, late 1440s

Painting of an elderly woman in a black hat and fur cape seated before patterned wallpaper and a mantelpiece.

Mrs. Atkinson

Gwen John, 1897

Portrait of a Man

Edme Quenedey, ca. 1780

Black-and-white reproduction of a painting of a seated judge on a throne with robed courtiers, soldiers, and children gathere

Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge

Peter Paul Rubens

Painting of a young woman in a headscarf leaning toward a shackled elderly man in red cloth, with a shadowed figure behind.

Caritas Romana: Cimon and Pero

Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1623

Russian icon showing Elijah ascending in a fiery chariot as Elisha reaches for his falling mantle, with an angel above.

Saint Elias's Fiery Ascension

Russian Painter