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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,956 works

Painting of a calm river at sunset with large trees on the right and cattle grazing and wading on the bank.

Summer Afternoon

Asher Brown Durand, 1865

Grayscale landscape of a distant city across water, with rocky hills, trees and grazing cattle in the foreground under clouds

View of New York from New Jersey

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1850

Winter countryside with a red schoolhouse, children playing in the snow, and a horse-drawn sleigh in the foreground.

Red School House (Country Scene)

George Henry Durrie, 1858

Painting of several tall sailing ships and a steamship with black smokestack on choppy water, flying American flags.

The Tow Boat Conqueror

James Guy Evans, 1852

Painting of a columned hall with lamps, where mourners in robes kneel and weep around a bed with a dead figure.

The Death of the First Born

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1865-80

Black and white still life of grapes, peaches, a split watermelon, a wicker basket, and a glass on a table.

Still Life with Fruit

John F. Francis, ca. 1857

Dim painting of a woman in a long gown by a dark forest clearing, with a small group of figures at right.

And She Was a Witch

George Fuller, 1877-84

Painted interior with a coffered ceiling, draped curtains, and robed figures seated among children in a patterned room.

Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah)

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1865-80

Painting of a wide golden wheat field under cloudy skies, with a stream, a distant farmhouse, trees, and telegraph poles.

Broad Acres

Edward Gay, 1887

Painting of a windswept landscape with leaning trees, dense shrubs, a distant strip of water, and a heavy cloudy sky.

Near the Coast

Robert Swain Gifford, ca. 1885

Painting of a young man in a red headband gazing at a seated woman holding a lyre, under a tree by a sea landscape.

The Greek Lovers

Henry Peters Gray, 1846

Painting of a helmeted warrior, a fallen soldier, a woman and a child before a stone relief in a classical landscape.

The Wages of War

Henry Peters Gray, 1848

Black and white still life of a candle, sheet music, clarinet, books and a ceramic pitcher on a draped table.

Still Life

William Harnett, 1888

Grayscale view of a rocky coast with cliffs, a wrecked boat on the sand, two figures, and a distant sailboat.

Seashore, Morning

William Hart, 1866

Painting of a harbor bay with a distant city skyline, steamboats, sailboats, and a foreground of trees and walkers.

View of the Bay and City of New York from Weehawken

Robert Havell Jr., 1840

Oil painting of a boy with hunting dogs, a shotgun and dead rabbits beside a rock under a tree, with hills behind.

The Rabbit Hunters

Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1850

Painted panoramic view of a village street with white houses, a church steeple, carriages, and rolling wooded hills.

View of Poestenkill, New York

Joseph H. Hidley, ca. 1870

Night scene of a cannon on a fortress wall with a sentry box, a searchlight beam over the harbor, and a crescent moon.

Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba

Winslow Homer, 1902

Painting of Yosemite Valley with granite cliffs, a waterfall on the right, a river with rapids, and a fisherman.

View of Yosemite Valley

Thomas Hill, 1885

Painting of a harvest meadow with a hay wagon, oxen, workers and a leaning tree under dappled sunlight.

Harvest Scene

Winslow Homer, ca. 1873

Dark saddled horse standing in a farm yard beside trees, with a rider and a small bird, under a pale sky.

Saddle Horse in Farm Yard

Winslow Homer, ca. 1870-75

Three men in a canoe shoot through white rapids on a dark river, with a wooded bank in the background.

Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River

Winslow Homer, 1905-10

Painting of a sandy bank under willow trees with two figures standing at the right edge beside a bright distant water view.

Sand Bank with Willows, Magnolia

William Morris Hunt, 1877

Painting of umbrella pines and olive trees with a shepherd and sheep in a hazy, golden landscape.

Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa

George Inness, 1876

Painting of villagers husking corn among haystacks in an open field, with a farmhouse and trees behind them under an overcast

Corn Husking at Nantucket

Eastman Johnson, ca. 1875

Painting of a large tree on a grassy bank, a seated man, and a rowboat on calm water under cloudy skies.

Bayside, New Rochelle, New York

David Johnson, 1886

Painting of a hazy valley with a lake, rolling mountains, a dirt road, figures, and large trees under a cloudy sky.

Near Squam Lake, New Hampshire

David Johnson, 1856

Two bearded men in dark suits talk in a dim, richly furnished interior with an upholstered chair and patterned rug.

The Funding Bill

Eastman Johnson, 1881

Painting of a wooded clearing with tall trees, grazing cows, a dirt road and a small figure under a cloudy sky.

On the Unadilla, New York

David Johnson, 1884

Oil painting of a calm lake with wooded hills and distant mountains under a pale cloudy sky, with a branch at right.

Lake George, 1872

John Frederick Kensett, 1872