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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,430 works

Painting of the Virgin Mary gazing down at the nude Christ Child on her lap, against an ornate gilded background with cherubs

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli, ca. 1505-7

Ink painting on a round silk fan of pine trees over rocky cliffs, with two seated scholars and a staff-carrying figure.

南宋佚名倣馬遠洞天論道圖團扇

Medieval painting of an executioner presenting a severed head on a platter to a richly dressed woman before a city wall.

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Spanish Painter

Oil painting of a chaotic cavalry battle with swords raised, a white horse, fallen soldiers, and a ruined fortress on the rig

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1725-29

Snowy urban square with bare trees, horse carriages, tram cars and hazy domed buildings under a grey winter sky.

Winter in Union Square

Childe Hassam, 1889

Medieval banquet scene with a crowned king, seated guests, a woman playing a viol, a servant with a cup, and a dog on a tiled

Salome Dancing before Herod

Spanish Painter

Oil sketch of Neptune with trident among clouds, winds and putti, with a sea landscape beyond, in warm ochre tones.

Neptune and the Winds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760s

Painting of an autumn forest on a hillside below a dark mountain ridge, with red and orange trees in the foreground under a c

Landscape No. 25

Marsden Hartley, 1908

Gilded panel of Saint Michael in red armor and wings stabbing a dragon with a sword against a gold background.

Saint Michael and the Dragon

Spanish Painter, ca. 1405

Circular drawing of a winged warrior with a sun shield and spear beside a seated woman and a putto on a cloud.

Allegorical Figures Representing Virtue and Abundance

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Small framed miniature portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a black coat and white cravat against a dark background.

Gilbert Stuart

Sarah Goodridge, 1825

Gold-ground Spanish altarpiece with a Crucifixion, enthroned Trinity, archangel and demons, and rows of saints.

The Trinity Adored by All Saints

Spanish Painter

Painting of a haloed figure in red and blue at a table with two companions, a bowl and fruit on a white cloth, dark backgroun

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez, 1622-23

Ink drawing of a garden with bamboo, a pavilion with seated figures, a covered walkway and a stream.

Garden of the Inept Administrator

Wen Zhengming, 1551

Circular painting of a man with a cane and a woman in blue silk beside a seated lute player under trees.

The Cascade

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns, bowed head and bare chest, surrounded by bearded onlookers in turbans and caps.

Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo)

Il Sodoma, ca. 1540-49

Ink landscape of misty mountains, pavilions, village houses and trees beside a river with a footbridge.

Eight Songs of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Wen Zhengming, 1470

Circular painting of a woman in grey gown and a dancing man in pink costume, with onlookers in a dark garden behind them.

The Country Dance

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Painting of elegantly dressed people on a sandy beach under cloudy skies, with a sailboat and pier by the sea.

On the Beach, Dieppe

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1864

Album leaf with calligraphy at left and a pine tree beside layered rocks in ink and light colour at right.

明/清陳洪綬山水人物花卉圖冊

Chen Hongshou, 1618

Still life of purple and white asters in a dark vase, with grapes, pears and apples on a wooden table.

Asters and Fruit on a Table

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1868

Gold-ground panel of a kneeling nun reaching toward the Virgin and Christ Child, with haloed saints gathered behind them.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena

Giovanni di Paolo

Round silk fan painting in ink showing pine trees, misty cliffs, a rocky shore, and small figures with a boat.

南宋傳夏珪澤畔疾風圖團扇

Painting of Roman soldiers attacking fleeing civilians before a colonnaded temple, with bodies on the ground and a raised axe

The Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans

François Joseph Heim, 1824

Painting of the Virgin Mary kneeling at a lectern as a winged angel with a lily approaches, with a dove and putti above.

The Annunciation

Philippe de Champaigne, ca. 1644

Painting of a shepherd in a red cap guiding sheep and a cow under a tree, with classical ruins in a distant hilly landscape.

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Two men in coats look toward a waterfall at sunset, framed by tall spruce trees and a distant lake.

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl, 1823

Painting of a red-robed cardinal leading a procession of men in black past a classical church under a blue sky.

A Cardinal's Procession

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1621

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black robe holding a paper, with an hourglass and a hilly landscape behind him.

Portrait of a Man

Moretto da Brescia, 1520

Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist and a lamb under trees, with a blue hilly landscape behind.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Orsola Maddalena Caccia, ca. 1645