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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,089 works

Oil painting of a gambling scene: a woman with a red dice cup, a leaning man, and a watching figure in a red cap at a table.

The Last Throw

Charles Robert Leslie, ca. 1840

Oil painting of a census taker recording a family's details in a farmhouse kitchen beside a fireplace.

Taking the Census

Francis William Edmonds, 1854

Painting of a funeral procession with black-clad pallbearers carrying a hearse along a street beside willow and cypress trees

Adult Funeral Procession

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a city square at dusk with trees behind a white picket fence, houses on both sides, and two pedestrians in the st

Baked Pears in Duane Park

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a shoreline baptism at sunset, with robed figures wading in water, a crowd on the beach, and boats.

Baptism

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of women wading into the sea at dusk beside a tree-lined shore, with strollers in period dress and a pale moon.

Bathing Party

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Naive painting of a city street with townhouses, a horse-drawn carriage, and a bootblack carrying a rack of boots.

The Boot Black

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a town street at dusk with riders on horseback, a red ox, townhouses, and a tavern sign.

Bull's Head Tavern

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Naive painting of a man pushing a wheelbarrow of milk cans past brick houses, with a dog and chickens in the street.

Buttermilk Pedlar

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painted street scene of red brick townhouses, shopfronts, a copper cart, two walking figures and street trees.

Chimney Sweeps

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a small town street with brick and wood houses, shops, a horse cart, and a man walking a dog in the foreground.

The Dog Killer

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of firefighters on ladders battling a burning building while a crowd gathers in a town street.

Fighting a Fire

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Naive painting of a town street with two fire engines spraying water, firemen working, onlookers, and rows of houses.

Firemen's Washing Day

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a busy street with a market building, brick townhouses, pedestrians and a railed bridge in the foreground.

Fly Market

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a dusk city street with a cupola building, a horse-drawn wagon, and two figures with a pail at left.

Hot Corn Seller

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painted street scene of a procession of white-clad figures and dark-clothed mourners passing houses and tall trees.

Infant Funeral Procession

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Night street scene with stepped-gable brick buildings, a crescent moon, and a lamplighter carrying a ladder beside a glowing

The Lamp Lighter

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painted street scene with a horse-drawn cart, wooden houses, cypress trees and two pedestrians on a town street.

The Sewer

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painting of a pedlar with a tray of baskets walking a street past cypress trees, a yellow house, and a long wooden building,

Strawberry Pedlar

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Folk-style street scene with girls in long dresses walking in a line past houses and a tree, and two boys running in the road

Tea Party

William P. Chappel, 1870s

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

Painting of a street with brick houses, a man leading a horse pulling a cart with a green water barrel.

Tea water pump

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Painted town street with tall trees, a yellow shop building, a horse-drawn cart with baskets, and pedestrians and a dog.

The Baker's Wagon

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

Woman in white dress and black hat resting in a dark rowboat on a reflective pond with brown and green banks.

Alice Gerson in Prospect Park

William Merritt Chase, 1886

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