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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,596 works

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

Portrait of a man in black cloak and lace collar, leaning on a chair beside a table with a globe and compass.

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1622

Painting of a seated man writing at a red-draped table beside a standing woman in white, with laboratory instruments nearby.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836)

Jacques-Louis David, 1788

Diptych: left panel shows the Crucifixion with mourners and soldiers; right panel shows the Last Judgment with Christ enthron

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck, ca. 1436-38

Oil portrait of a woman with pearl-studded powdered hair and a ruffled gown, holding a small white dog with a blue ribbon.

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716-1806) with a Dog

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1769

Circular painting of a winged figure atop a sphere, with armored horsemen and animals in a rocky landscape below.

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, ca. 1449

Painted self-portrait of a bearded man in a yellow straw hat and blue jacket, with short expressive brushstrokes.

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh, 1887

Seated cardinal in red robes and spectacles in a room with gilded damask, by El Greco.

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541-1609)

El Greco, ca. 1600

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

Painting of a woman in red lace-collared dress at a feast table with roasted birds, surrounded by laughing men in dark hats.

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

Frans Hals, ca. 1616-17

Portrait of a young man in a black cap and fur-trimmed coat, hands folded on a green table beside a book, blue background.

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532

Triptych with the Crucifixion in the center and saints in landscape settings on the side panels, gold frames.

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1520

Painting of an elderly fortune-teller reading the open palm of a young man in a gold-brown vest, with onlookers behind.

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour, probably 1630s

Full-length portrait of a woman in a white gown and fur-trimmed cloak, with grey curls, against a stormy landscape sky.

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Thomas Lawrence, 1790

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440

Seated man in black hat and white headscarf playing guitar on green bench, with jug and onions at right.

The Spanish Singer

Édouard Manet, 1860

Diptych portrait of a man with hands in prayer and a woman in a veil and jeweled necklace, dark backgrounds.

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428-1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling, ca. 1470

Painting of a nude man with a red staff embraced by a winged sphinx on a rocky cliff beneath a cloudy sky.

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau, 1864

Oil painting of a man in a straw boater and a woman in blue in a rowboat on turquoise water, by Edouard Manet.

Boating

Édouard Manet, 1874

Painting of nude men, centaurs and satyrs hunting wild animals in a forest, with fire and smoke in the distance.

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494-1500

Painting of soldiers seizing women amid a panicked crowd in a classical city square under a stormy sky.

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin, probably 1633-34

Full-length painting of a young woman in a pink dress beside a grey parrot on a wooden perch stand.

Young Lady in 1866

Édouard Manet, 1866

Painting of three figures by the sea with a shepherd and goats on a rocky cliff, under a pale blue sky.

The Shepherd's Song

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891

Bearded man in a gold chain resting his hand on a bust, against a dark background, in a Rembrandt painting.

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653

Painting of a young woman in a wicker chair by the sea, with cliffs and sailboats in the distance.

By the Seashore

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883

Full-length portrait of a young officer in a red coat leaning on a tree beside a brown horse.

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759-1801)

Joshua Reynolds, 1782

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel in brocade robes speaks to the Virgin Mary beside a lily and open book in a red-canopi

The Annunciation

Hans Memling, ca. 1465-70

Oil portrait of a man, a woman in black satin, and a small child beside a garden fountain with a parrot and roses.

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614-1673), and Their Son Frans (1633-1678)

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1635