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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,999 works

Woman in a patterned kimono cooling herself with a fan on a bench by a stream, with irises and a leafy branch.

Woman Cooling Herself

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1800

Blue leaf with black Japanese calligraphy, gold grasses, clouds and faint wave lines beneath the text.

Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji

Tosa School, early 17th century

Hanging scroll of a long-haired ghostly woman in white beside moonflower vines under a full moon.

The Spirit of the Deceased Yūgao Entwined in Moonflower Vines, based on the print “The Lady of the Evening Faces,” fr…

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ca. 1892

Hanging scroll showing a courtesan in a patterned kimono seated on a white elephant, with calligraphy and seals.

Courtesan of Eguchi

Katsukawa Shunshō, painting:1770−80; inscription: 1820s-30s

Hanging scroll of figures in a blossoming garden with rocks, wooden bridges, a stream, and a pale moon overhead.

Fragrant Garden under a Hazy Moon

Nakabayashi Chikutō, 1843

Ink painting on a pair of screens showing robed sages in a misty landscape with an ox, waterfall and pine trees.

Chinese Sages

Kanō Sanraku, late 16th-early 17th century

Hanging scroll of two women in kimono, one lifting a hat overhead and one holding a bowl, on a gold ground.

Women Carrying Pots for the Tsukuma Festival

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll portrait of a seated man in red hakama holding a sword, with calligraphy above him and a brocade mount.

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Ōmezō I

Utagawa Kunisada, painting ca. 1833; inscription dated 1858

Monochrome painting of a woman with pinned hair embracing a young child who looks upward against a dark background.

Lady Dashwood and Her Son

Charles Howard Hodges, ca. 1785

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark coat beside a shadowed bronze sculpture against a dark olive background.

Auguste Rodin

Robert MacCameron, 1910

Painting of cavalry soldiers charging on horseback across golden plains, with raised rifles and dust clouds under a pale sky.

On the Southern Plains

Frederic Remington, 1907

Oil sketch of a seated woman in a black bodice and green striped skirt, looking downward against a muted background.

Study in Black and Green (Oil Sketch)

John White Alexander, ca. 1906

Full-length painting of a red-haired woman in a fur-trimmed purple robe before a stylized willow tree and checkered floor.

Mrs. Ethel Cushing

Howard Cushing, ca. 1912-14

Full-length portrait of a man in a dark suit with a mustache, holding a hat and red glove, against a muted gray background.

Edward Guthrie Kennedy

James McNeill Whistler, 1893-95

Painting of a bearded man on a rock gesturing toward light as winged angels in white and red robes surround him.

Moses Shown the Promised Land

Benjamin West, 1801

Miniature portrait of a young man in a black cap and grey cape holding a cane, in an ornate gilt frame.

Alfred Sully

Thomas Sully, ca. 1839

Portrait of a grey-haired man in a dark coat and yellow waistcoat, holding a folded letter, seated in a wooden chair.

Elie Williams

Charles Willson Peale, 1789

Oval portrait miniature of a man with powdered grey hair in a burgundy coat and white cravat, set in a gold frame.

Joseph Donaldson

Charles Willson Peale, 1776

Oval miniature portrait of a man with tousled light hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set in a gold frame.

Self-portrait

James Peale, 1789

Woman in white dress beside a girl playing guitar on a green sofa in a sunlit room with sheer curtains.

Idle Hours

J. Alden Weir, 1888

Oval miniature portrait of a man with brown hair in a black coat and white cravat, set in a gold pendant frame.

Peter Gilman Odlin

Raphaelle Peale, ca. 1805

Miniature portrait of a man with curly hair and spectacles in a burgundy fur-collared coat, in a gilt and black frame.

Frederick Gore King

Thomas Seir Cummings, ca. 1827

Oval miniature self-portrait of a young man with curly brown hair, fur-collared coat, and white cravat in a gilt frame.

Self-portrait

Thomas Seir Cummings, ca. 1825

Farmers pitch hay beside oxen in a green field under a dark, approaching storm sky with a distant farmhouse.

Approaching Storm

William Keith, 1880

Oval miniature portrait of a man with pale hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set in a gold frame.

James Stuart

Joseph Wood, 1800-1805

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, set in a gold frame.

Colonel James Elliott McPherson

Charles Fraser, 1819

Painting of a forest clearing with a kneeling woman, a reclining figure, a wolf, a dog, and an armed man on a rock.

Leatherstocking's Rescue

John Quidor, 1832

Oval miniature of a woman with curled hair, pearl headband and white dress against a pale blue background.

Mrs. Gabriel Manigault (Margaret Izard)

Walter Robertson, ca. 1795

Painting of a seated couple and a child with a flower by a stream, with a gabled Victorian house in a sunlit meadow.

Summer Flowers

Jerome Thompson, 1859

Miniature portrait of a young woman with ringlet curls, white dress and pink shawl, in an open green-lined case.

Mrs. Christopher Grant Perry (Frances Sargeant)

Richard Morrell Staigg, ca. 1840