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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,596 works

Portrait of a young woman in a jeweled tiara and white gown, with jewelry sketches and handwritten notes beside her.

Queen Victoria

Thomas Sully, 1838

Oil portrait of a woman in blue silk holding a nude toddler, with an orange tree in a terracotta urn beside a window.

Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis

John Smibert, 1729

Seated woman in white gold-embroidered gown with feathered headdress, holding a fan beside a red table with books.

Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes

Gilbert Stuart, 1794

Full-length portrait of a man in a blue military coat beside a figure in a red turban, with a harbor and ships behind.

George Washington and William Lee (George Washington)

John Trumbull, 1780

Hazy nocturnal garden scene with elegantly dressed couples strolling under green trees and lanterns, painted in muted browns

Cremorne Gardens, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1870-80

Bearded man on crutches saluting in a doorway beneath a Provost Marshal Office sign, with a rifle hung on the wall.

A Bit of War History: The Veteran

Thomas Waterman Wood, 1866

Painting of children reaching for a bouquet in a crowded Victorian dining room with a woman seated beside a table.

The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room

Seymour Joseph Guy, 1866

Handscroll painting of a seated luohan under a twisted pine, with a standing monk in white robes gesturing nearby.

The Sixteen Luohans

Wu Bin, dated 1591

Man in worn clothing raising his hat beside a rifle, chair, and Provost Marshal Office sign in a doorway.

A Bit of War History: The Contraband

Thomas Waterman Wood, 1865

Courtly painting of a seated ruler under a canopy, with a decorated horse, armed guards, musicians and attendants.

Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize Stallion

Tara, 1845-46

Painting of a rider in yellow brocade on a rearing black horse, with a gold halo and an attendant walking beside.

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Stipple Master, ca. 1712

Painting of a bearded Black Union soldier with a rifle on his shoulder standing beside a Provost Marshal Office door.

A Bit of War History: The Recruit

Thomas Waterman Wood, 1866

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ in a blue mantle before red drapery, with a town and mountains at left.

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini, late 1480s

Portrait of a young man in a dark velvet doublet and cap, one hand resting on a gilded book beside a red pedestal.

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino, 1530s

Harvesters rest and eat beneath a tree in a golden wheat field, with a village, church and bay in the distance.

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Painting of a woman playing an organ in a garden, with a seated armored man and a winged red-robed figure beside her.

The Love Song

Edward Burne-Jones, 1868-77

Painting of four young musicians with a lute, violin and sheet music, one winged figure, against a dark background.

The Musicians

Caravaggio, 1597

Three male figures in a rocky landscape with a skull, crown of thorns, inscribed tablets, and a hilltop town behind.

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio, ca. 1490

Four men in hats play cards at a pale table, one standing and smoking, with pipes on the wall and a gold curtain at right.

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne, 1890-92

Painting of a boy blowing a soap bubble through a pipe at a stone ledge, with a child peeking from the right.

Soap Bubbles

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, ca. 1733-34

Half-length portrait of a bearded Carthusian monk in a white hooded habit against a glowing red background.

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus, 1446

Painting of a seated woman in a red dress holding fruit, with a patterned yellow chair and floral curtain behind her.

Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850-1922) in a Red Dress

Paul Cézanne, 1888-90

Painting of tall sailing ships with red pennants in a bay, with women in classical dress gathering on the shore.

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1643

Painting of a kneeling woman in a dark cloak and a child in a rocky landscape, with a winged angel in the sky above.

Hagar in the Wilderness

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1835

Reclining nude woman with curly hair reaches toward a parrot in a dark interior with patterned curtains.

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet, 1866

Painting of three nude women before an armored knight and a bearded man beneath an oak, with Cupid overhead and a castle land

The Judgment of Paris

Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca. 1528

Portrait of a woman in a white blouse and red bodice with a headdress, holding a red flower against a brown background.

Sibylle

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, ca. 1870

Painting of crowded third-class railway carriage with a mother nursing an infant and an older woman holding a basket.

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier, 1864

Painting of Socrates in a stone prison cell, raising a finger as a young man holds a cup while mourning companions gather.

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, 1787

Painting of a large bouquet of mixed flowers in a bowl beside a seated woman in a lace bonnet resting her chin on her hand.

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas, 1865