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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,567 works

Hazy nocturnal garden scene with elegantly dressed couples strolling under green trees and lanterns, painted in muted browns

Cremorne Gardens, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1870-80

Painting of children reaching for a bouquet in a crowded Victorian dining room with a woman seated beside a table.

The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room

Seymour Joseph Guy, 1866

Ink handscroll of gnarled bare trees, a pavilion on a hill, a small bridge with figures, and misty distant hills.

Old Trees, Level Distance

Guo Xi, ca. 1080

Ink handscroll of misty mountains, trees and sailing boats on a river, with calligraphy and red seals at upper right.

Summer Mountains

Qu Ding, ca. 1050

Two finches on bamboo branches beside a rock, painted on golden silk with red seal stamps around the edges.

Finches and bamboo

Emperor Huizong ), early 12th century

Six-panel screen of ink gibbons climbing bare trees above rocks, waves and a pale moon on gold paper.

Gibbons in a Landscape

Sesson Shūkei, ca. 1570

Four gold-leaf panels showing a gnarled plum tree in blossom above rocks, with an azalea at left.

Old Plum

Kanō Sansetsu, 1646

Two-panel screen with stylized green and gold waves curling into white foam against a gold leaf background.

Rough Waves

Ogata Kōrin, ca. 1704-9

Handscroll painting of a seated luohan under a twisted pine, with a standing monk in white robes gesturing nearby.

The Sixteen Luohans

Wu Bin, dated 1591

Handscroll of misty mountains, pines and waterfalls with a procession of figures and temple buildings below.

The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai

Wang Hui, datable to 1698

Courtly painting of a seated ruler under a canopy, with a decorated horse, armed guards, musicians and attendants.

Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize Stallion

Tara, 1845-46

Painted manuscript folio showing a seated Bodhisattva with a devotee and golden stupa, flanked by columns of black script.

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra M…

Mahavihara Master, early 12th century

Young woman in peasant dress stands in an orchard with outstretched arm, faint haloed figures appearing beside a stone cottag

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879

Harvesters rest and eat beneath a tree in a golden wheat field, with a village, church and bay in the distance.

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Painting of a woman playing an organ in a garden, with a seated armored man and a winged red-robed figure beside her.

The Love Song

Edward Burne-Jones, 1868-77

Painting of a sunlit Venetian piazza with a tall bell tower, a domed basilica, arcades and strolling crowds.

Piazza San Marco

Canaletto, late 1720s

Painting of four young musicians with a lute, violin and sheet music, one winged figure, against a dark background.

The Musicians

Caravaggio, 1597

Three male figures in a rocky landscape with a skull, crown of thorns, inscribed tablets, and a hilltop town behind.

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio, ca. 1490

Oil painting of the Virgin Mary crowned by two seated figures, with a dove above and musician angels on clouds below.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci, after 1595

Four men in hats play cards at a pale table, one standing and smoking, with pipes on the wall and a gold curtain at right.

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne, 1890-92

Painting of tall sailing ships with red pennants in a bay, with women in classical dress gathering on the shore.

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1643

Painting of a kneeling woman in a dark cloak and a child in a rocky landscape, with a winged angel in the sky above.

Hagar in the Wilderness

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1835

Cézanne still life: scattered apples on a white cloth beside a pot of pink primroses against a teal wall.

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1890

Reclining nude woman with curly hair reaches toward a parrot in a dark interior with patterned curtains.

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet, 1866

Painting of crowded third-class railway carriage with a mother nursing an infant and an older woman holding a basket.

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier, 1864

Painting of Socrates in a stone prison cell, raising a finger as a young man holds a cup while mourning companions gather.

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, 1787

Painting of a large bouquet of mixed flowers in a bowl beside a seated woman in a lace bonnet resting her chin on her hand.

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas, 1865

Painting of blue irises with green leaves in a white pitcher on a green table against a pale background.

Irises

Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Painting of a dejected young woman beside spilled eggs in a rustic room, with an older woman, a young man, and a child.

Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

Painting of a nude man seized by armored soldiers as a woman cuts his hair, with startled onlookers and a stormy sky.

Samson Captured by the Philistines