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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,955 works

Hanging scroll with a fan-shaped gold panel showing several Chinese boys in robes playing among books and toys.

Chinese Boys at Play

Kano Motonobu, first half 16th century

Handscroll painting of a seated man embracing a reclining woman in green kimono on a gold background.

Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes

Miyagawa Chôshun, early 18th century

Hand-colored scene of workers picking tea leaves under a thatched shelter, with others sorting leaves into boxes and baskets.

Illustrations of Uji Tea Production

Saitō Motonari, 1803

Panoramic painting of a snowy Andean peak over a waterfall, river and dense tropical forest with a cross on a path.

The Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church, 1859

Painting of the Virgin and Child receiving a kneeling king in red robes, with attendants and a gold vessel in a columned inte

The Adoration of the Magi

Justus van Gent, 1465

Painting of the Virgin Mary on clouds surrounded by angels, with kneeling saints and a bishop gazing up in a landscape.

The Virgin Adored by Saints

Scarsellino, 1609

Madonna and Child flanked by Saint Francis holding a cross and Saint Clare in a veil, against green and blue landscape.

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1510

Painting of a goddess on a golden chariot pulled by winged griffins, surrounded by a crowd of women in a hilly landscape.

Goddess of Chaste Love

Francesco di Giorgio, 1468

Grayscale view of soldiers and horses around a fallen rider beneath a shaft of light from the sky, in a hilly landscape.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Benozzo Gozzoli, 1440

Grisaille painting of a kneeling crowned king before a seated haloed monk, with soldiers and monks around a church.

Totila before Saint Benedict

Benozzo Gozzoli, 1440

Painting of harvesters cutting wheat in golden fields, with a resting group under a tree and a village in the distance.

The Harvesters

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565

Painting of a mythological procession with nude and gowned women, winged putti, and attendants under a dark teal sky.

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Andrea Schiavone, 1550

Painting of a bearded man in armor with two pages, one in a striped orange doublet, before a distant army.

Portrait of a man in armor with two pages

Paris Bordone, 1520

Painting of the Madonna in red and blue robes holding a nude infant, with trees and a distant landscape behind her.

Madonna and Child

Titian, 1508

Oil painting of green waves crashing over dark rocks on a pebbled shore, with a mossy cliff at left and gulls in a pale sky.

Maine Seascape

Constantin Westchiloff, 1930

Painted stage interior with yellow patterned walls, a sofa with a reclining figure, white columns and a doorway beyond.

Interior for Nikolai Gogol's Play Marriage

Constantin Westchiloff, 1944

Painting of an angel beside a kneeling youth holding a fish, with a dog, hills, a city and river landscape behind.

Tobias and the Angel

Davide Ghirlandaio, 1479

Painting of a funeral procession with clergy carrying a red-draped bier past a tree and mourners in colorful robes.

The Burial of Saint Zenobius

Davide Ghirlandaio, 1479

Panel painting of the Marriage of the Virgin with a priest joining hands of Mary and Joseph, watched by onlookers.

The Marriage of the Virgin

Davide Ghirlandaio, 1479

Pointillist painting of a circus sideshow with a tall trombone player on a platform, a child, musicians, and an audience.

Parade de cirque (Circus Sideshow)

Georges Seurat, 1887

Painting of a crowd around a bare-chested preacher on a mound, with Roman ruins and hills under a cloudy sky.

The Preaching of St John the Baptist

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1634

Painting of a calm lake framed by mountains, with trees and fields in the foreground under a pale sky.

Lake Fucino and the Abruzzi Mountains

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, 1789

Painting of an arched stone bridge over a river, a church with a bell tower on the left, and hills under an evening sky.

The Bridge at La Cava, Kingdom of Naples

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, 1778

Painting of rolling Kansas plains under a rain shower, with a red barn, farmhouse, dirt roads and distant mesas.

Spring Shower (Western Kansas Landscape)

John Steuart Curry, 1931

Black and cream painting of a family at a table in a log-walled room, a standing man leaning over as they say grace.

Family Supper (Saying Grace)

Horace Pippin, 1946

Painting of two children asleep under a striped blanket beside a black stove, with a lamp and a dark window.

Asleep

Horace Pippin, 1943

Oil landscape of wooded hills and rocky slopes overlooking a broad valley with distant blue mountains under a cloudy sky.

German Landscape with View towards a Broad Valley

Fritz Petzholdt, 1829

Painting of a shadowy forest interior with tall tree trunks, dense green foliage, and a small stream in the foreground.

Interior of a Wood at Pierrefitte

Robert Léopold Leprince, 1822

Gold-ground panel of the Nativity: Mary kneels before the infant Christ in a manger, with an ox, ass, angel and shepherds.

Geburt Christi

Lorenzo Monaco, 1409

Miniature painting in a red case of a female torso with bare breasts resting on soft white drapery.

Beauty Revealed

Sarah Goodridge, 1828