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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,089 works

Group portrait of a family in an interior with men in military uniforms, a seated woman holding an infant, and a small dog.

Portrait of a Military Family

Unknown artist, ca. 1789-90

Paul Gauguin's painting of a nude woman seen from behind beside seated companions, with a red cloth and dark water in the bac

Tahitian Women Bathing

Paul Gauguin, 1892

Painting of two figures walking a shaded forest path between tall pine trees toward a sunlit hillside.

Fir Trees in Les Trembleaux, near Marlotte (Sapins aux Trembleaux à Marlotte)

Henri Harpignies, 1854

Painting of a bearded man in black touching the gold chain of a man in purple robe, in a cluttered artist's studio with easel

Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1848

Painting of field workers harvesting on a grassy hillside under poplar trees and a blue sky with clouds.

The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise)

Camille Pissarro, 1881

Small oil painting of a man in a white shirt mowing a golden wheat field with a scythe, dark trees behind.

The Mower

Georges Seurat, 1881-82

Small panel of the Lamentation: dead Christ held by the Virgin, mourning women, an angel, and a cross on a hill.

The Lamentation

Unknown artist, ca. 1550

Oil portrait of a young man with tousled dark hair, white cravat and dark coat with brass buttons against a brown background.

William Fraser of Reelig (1784-1835)

Henry Raeburn, 1801

Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress with blue ribbons, set against a wooded landscape with a cloudy sky.

Lady Lemon (1747-1823)

George Romney, mid- to late 1780s

Painting of a seated woman, a child, a man and a dog beneath trees in a loose, autumnal landscape.

Figures and a Dog in a Landscape

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1852

Painted panel of a bearded saint in a red mantle, with a gold background and patterned haloes.

Saint Matthew(?)

Ugolino di Nerio, late 1320s

Two haloed saints in blue and red robes stand under Gothic gilded arches, holding books, inscribed Matthias and Thomas.

Saints Matthias and Thomas

Bartolomeo Bulgarini, ca. 1370-75

Small gilded panel showing Christ as Man of Sorrows, haloed, arms crossed, within a pointed gabled frame.

Man of Sorrows

Unknown artist, first quarter of the 14th century

Gilded panel painting of a bearded bishop saint in a red cope holding a crozier and three gold balls, against gold leaf.

Saint Nicholas of Bari

Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio, mid-1430s

Medieval miniature of crowned virgins kneeling before Christ at a Gothic gate, with trumpeting angels above and seated women

The Holy Virgins Greeted by Christ as They Enter the Gates of Paradise

Simon Marmion, ca. 1467-70

Miniature of the Annunciation: kneeling Virgin Mary in blue robe beside red bed, angel Gabriel gesturing, dove of the Holy Sp

The Annunciation

Gerard David, ca. 1510

Painted Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, Mary and John at left, a crowd at right, and gold halos.

The Crucifixion

Housebook Master, 1481-82

Haloed saints gathered in a large illuminated initial O, with a praying Virgin in blue at center and ornate foliate borders.

All Saints in an Initial E or O

Osservanza Master, ca. 1430-40

Virgin and Child enthroned between two saints holding palm fronds, with a mountain landscape and hilltop town behind.

Virgin and Child Enthroned between Saints Cecilia and Catherine of Alexandria

Francesco Morone, ca. 1510-15

Illuminated initial D showing Saint Agatha's martyrdom, with executioner, soldier with SPQR shield, and seated judge.

Martyrdom of Saint Agatha in an Initial D

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1470-73

Illuminated initial C showing Christ above, an angel blowing a trumpet, and figures rising from tombs below, on gold leaf.

Last Judgment in an Initial C

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1406-7

Painted initial O with a turbaned figure in pink robes in a green landscape, framed by gold leaf and foliate ornament.

David with His Foot in a Noose in an Initial O

Domenico Morone, ca. 1500

Illuminated initial B with three haloed seated figures in blue above a group of angels, framed by gold foliage and prophets.

The Trinity in an Initial B

Master of the Codex Rossiano, Probably 1387

Illuminated manuscript cutting showing the Ascension of Christ in a gold initial V, with the Virgin and two apostles below.

Ascension in an Initial V

Niccolò di ser Sozzo, ca. 1342-50

Illuminated psalter initial B with a haloed kneeling king in prayer, an angel, and gold foliage on blue.

King David in Prayer in an Initial B

Zanobi Strozzi, ca. 1450

Illuminated initial M showing the angel Gabriel kneeling before the Virgin Mary in the Annunciation, with gold haloes and blu

Annunciation in an Initial M

Maestro Daddesco, ca. 1310-15

Friar in brown habit gesturing from a wooden pulpit against a blue background with a red border.

Saint Bernardino Preaching from a Pulpit

Francesco di Giorgio, ca. 1470-75

Two haloed saints stand before a gold Gothic arch while kneeling lay figures in red venerate them, framed by a floral border.

Saint Mark the Evangelist and Saint Sinibaldus Venerated by Members of a Lay Confraternity

Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1425-34

Monochrome hanging scroll of craggy mountains, a pavilion among trees, and figures on a bridge, with calligraphy at upper rig

Enjoying the Moon: Landscape in the Manner of Wang Meng

Gu Yide, dated 1628

Hanging scroll portrait of an elderly man in a blue robe and black cap, standing on a wooden stand against a brown background

Portrait of the artist’s great-granduncle Yizhai at the age of eighty-five

Ruan Zude, dated 1561 or 1621