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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,956 works

Painting of a sandy beach curving along calm water toward a dark wooded bluff under a pale hazy sky.

Eaton's Neck, Long Island

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a wooded rocky headland beside calm teal water under a pale hazy sky with a distant horizon.

A Foggy Sky

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a calm teal lake with distant mountains, wooded shores, and a small rowboat under a hazy sky.

Lake George, Free Study

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a rocky headland with grassy slopes above a calm turquoise sea under a pale sky with pink clouds.

Newport Rocks

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a reddish autumn salt meadow with a tree line and calm grey water under a pale sky.

Salt Meadow in October

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a summer lake scene with tall trees, people picnicking on the grassy shore, and two rowboats on calm water.

Summer Day on Conesus Lake

John Frederick Kensett, 1870

Calm sea at sunset with a glowing sun near the horizon, pink clouds, and rocky shorelines in the foreground and right.

Sunset

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a sunset with pink-tinged clouds above a glowing golden horizon and a calm pale expanse of water below.

Sunset Sky

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a pine forest at dusk with a glowing red horizon and a dirt path winding through grass.

Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of a rowboat on calm water at sunset, with dark trees on the right and a distant sailboat under a rose-colored sky.

Twilight on the Sound, Darien, Connecticut

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of turbulent white surf breaking on dark rocks under a stormy grey sky with seagulls and a distant boat.

Surf on Rocks

William Trost Richards, 1890s

Woman in white dress beside a girl playing guitar on a green sofa in a sunlit room with sheer curtains.

Idle Hours

J. Alden Weir, 1888

Whaling ship among ice floes off Greenland, crew on the ice, icebergs and mountains under a pale sky.

Off Greenland - Whaler Seeking Open Water

William Bradford

Still life painting of grapes, peaches, melon, watermelon and wine glasses on a stone ledge with vine leaves.

Still Life: Fruit

Severin Roesen, 1855

Farmers pitch hay beside oxen in a green field under a dark, approaching storm sky with a distant farmhouse.

Approaching Storm

William Keith, 1880

Painting of misty mountains, a thatched cottage, and cattle beside a lake under a cloudy sky.

View in County Kerry

Alexander Helwig Wyant, ca. 1875

Painting of a forest clearing with a kneeling woman, a reclining figure, a wolf, a dog, and an armed man on a rock.

Leatherstocking's Rescue

John Quidor, 1832

Painting of a seated couple and a child with a flower by a stream, with a gabled Victorian house in a sunlit meadow.

Summer Flowers

Jerome Thompson, 1859

Miniature portrait of a young woman with ringlet curls, white dress and pink shawl, in an open green-lined case.

Mrs. Christopher Grant Perry (Frances Sargeant)

Richard Morrell Staigg, ca. 1840

Oval painting of a seated woman weaving a basket with a child reclining nearby, under trees with a cottage in the distance.

The Basket Maker

Louis Lang, 1853

Miniature portrait of a young woman with curly dark hair in a blue dress and lace collar, holding a green parasol, in a case.

Sarah Ann Beck

Anna Claypoole Peale, ca. 1818

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curled dark hair, spectacles and a cameo brooch, in a gilt frame and blue velvet case

Portrait of a Lady

Daniel F. Ames, ca. 1845

Painting of a riverside village with a barge on a canal, a rider on a dirt path under tall trees, and a hillside beyond.

Banks of the Loing

William Lamb Picknell, ca. 1894-97

Dark storm clouds over a still inlet with a sailboat, a rowboat, and a seated man with a dog on the shore.

Approaching Thunder Storm

Martin Johnson Heade, 1859

Painting of ragged prisoners standing before a Union officer in a cleared field, with rifles on the ground and horsemen behin

Prisoners from the Front

Winslow Homer, 1866

Painting of a village with a church steeple on a cliff above a lake with sailboats and distant mountains.

Lake George and the Village of Caldwell

Thomas Chambers, ca. 1850s

Painting of a man in a straw hat mowing golden wheat with a scythe under a bright blue sky.

The Veteran in a New Field

Winslow Homer, 1865

Painting of autumn oak trees with red and gold leaves, grazing cattle in a meadow, and a stormy cloudy sky.

Autumn Oaks

George Inness, ca. 1878

Two ink landscape hanging scrolls with misty mountains, a pavilion, willow trees, a rider on an ox and a footbridge.

Two Views from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Kantei, early 16th century

Painting of a standing commander holding an American flag in a crowded boat crossing an icy river, with soldiers rowing.

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1851