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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Grey landscape of a windmill and wooden houses above a lake, with apple trees, a walking woman and a sailboat.

A Day in October, near Waxholm, Sweden

Alfred Wahlberg, 1873

Painting of costumed figures on a checkered floor under a classical arcade, with a man in embroidered silver costume at cente

The French Comedians

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1720

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

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 a stone arch bridge over a calm river with a figure on the rail, cows nearby, and large trees under cloudy sky.

An Old Bridge at Hendon, Middlesex

Frederick Waters Watts, ca. 1828

Painting of a red-haired seated woman in white blouse and gold drapery beside rocks, with a stormy mountain sky and a child f

Ariadne

George Frederic Watts, 1894

Landscape with a lake below a terrace, tall pines and cypresses, robed figures, a rowboat, and a distant hill under a pale sk

Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery

Richard Wilson, ca. 1756-57

Seated woman in a white silk gown with lavender trim holds a red book before a dense green garden backdrop.

Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835-1866)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1859

Group of women in silk drapery and jewelry gather by a forest stream, with a castle visible among trees behind them.

Florinda

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1853

Oil portrait of a woman in blue gown and red drape, seated before dark trees and a distant landscape with a building.

Portrait of a Woman

Willem Wissing, ca. 1687

Oval sketch of an allegorical scene with a helmeted female figure, putti, and clouds for a ceiling decoration.

Allegory of Government: Wisdom Defeating Discord

Grey monochrome painting of putti playing with a goat beside a tree, with a child in the foreground.

Children Playing with a Goat

Oval miniature portrait of a man with light hair in a dark coat and white cravat, turned to the side against a pale sky.

Portrait of a Man, Possibly William Abington (1770-1839)

William Wood, ca. 1798

Painting of a man and woman on horseback on a dirt road by a river, with bare trees and a cloudy sky.

A Man and a Woman on Horseback

Philips Wouwerman, ca. 1653-54

Seated woman in pink silk dress with pearls and sheer veil beside a gold curtain and small table with scissors.

Portrait of a Woman

Joseph Wright of Derby, ca. 1770

Painting of nude figures gathering fruit in lush trees, with cattle, sheep, cherubs and birds in a wooded landscape.

The Golden Age

Joachim Wtewael, 1605

Kitchen scene with a woman holding a plucked bird, a young man with eggs, hanging game and raw meat.

Kitchen Scene

Peter Wtewael, 1620s

Painting of a woman in a pink dress with puffed sleeves and sash, against a patterned backdrop, by Anders Zorn.

Frieda Schiff (1876-1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg

Anders Zorn, 1894

Oil portrait of a mustached man in a dark suit and white collar against a shadowed background, by Anders Zorn.

Edward R. Bacon (1846-1915)

Anders Zorn, 1897

Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress with a collie beside her, against a dark blue interior.

Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (Virginia Purdy Barker, 1862-1919)

Anders Zorn, 1897

Portrait of a seated woman in a black dress with clasped hands, a mandolin on the wall beside her.

Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842-1918)

Anders Zorn, ca. 1900

Painting of peasants with water jugs at a waterfall and stone arch, framed by trees, with a village and hills in the distance

Landscape with Peasants at a Fountain

Francesco Zuccarelli

Painting of the Virgin and Child in clouds above a cavalry battle with soldiers and a standard bearer in a forest landscape.

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán, ca. 1637-39

Painting of a bald monk in a black habit holding a white jug, with a rocky landscape and small kneeling figure behind him.

Saint Benedict

Francisco de Zurbarán, ca. 1640-45

Painting of a waterfall seen through a stone arch, with a figure on a rocky path and a hilltop town beyond.

Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli

François Marius Granet, ca. 1810-20

Two women in colorful robes rock a sleeping infant in a wooden cradle beneath a carved wooden ceiling.

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau, 1851

Painting of a stormy sea at sunset with a small boat near rocky cliffs, sunlight breaking through clouds above a silhouetted

Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily

Andreas Achenbach, 1853

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

Painting of a seated woman in green holding a twisted cord, before a floral patterned background with pink flowers.

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851-1930)

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Candlelit painting of an old bearded man gesturing beside a woman in a headscarf and a helmeted soldier in red.

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio, 1610