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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,567 works

Van Gogh painting of a golden wheat field with tall cypress trees, blue hills, and a swirling sky.

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

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

Reclining nude Venus on blue cloth with Cupid holding a laurel wreath over an incense burner, red curtain behind.

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto, 1520s

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

Mantegna's Adoration of the Shepherds: Mary kneels before the Christ Child as shepherds and a kneeling man gather in a rocky

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna, shortly after 1450

Still life painting of grapes, melon, apricots, bread and a wine bottle on a stone ledge, with a landscape behind.

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)

Luis Egidio Meléndez, ca. 1772

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

Sheep graze in an autumn field beside tall haystacks under a dark stormy sky, with a shepherd and cottages in the distance.

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet, ca. 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 a village on a green hillside with a woman in white on a dirt road, poplars, and clouds overhead.

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro, 1867

Painting of a blind giant with a bow carrying a guide on his shoulders through a forest, toward clouds and a distant sea.

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin, 1658

Painting of wheat fields under towering clouds, with a dirt road, small walking figures, trees and distant sailboats.

Wheat Fields

Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1670

Pointillist painting of a circus sideshow with a trombone player on a platform, musicians, a boy in a ruffled collar, and a c

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat, 1887-88

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

Painting of a bare-chested man with long hair being offered a white cloth by a figure in red satin and a fur hat.

Clothing the Naked

Michiel Sweerts, ca. 1661

Painting of Venus embracing Adonis, with a cupid, hunting dogs, and a rainbow over a dark forest landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Titian, 1550s

Turner's misty seascape of a sailing ship amid rough waves, with a dark whale and small boats in the foreground.

Whalers

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ca. 1845

Two men in cloaks stand on a rocky slope under a gnarled tree, watching a crescent moon in a dusky evening sky.

Two Men Contemplating the Moon

Caspar David Friedrich, ca. 1825-30

Painting of a seated woman in black with two girls in blue dresses and a dog in a richly decorated interior.

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848-1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872-1945) an…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1878

Dark painting of a dense winter forest of bare trees under a rust-colored sunset sky, with rocks in a clearing.

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846-67

Painting of three young women and a child in a rocky green valley with two cows and a dog, by Gustave Courbet.

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet, 1851-52

Painting of a lion feeding on prey in a lush jungle with yellow and blue flowers and a rising moon.

The Repast of the Lion

Henri Rousseau, ca. 1907

Moonlit landscape with a robed figure seated in a glowing stone niche beneath a cliff, steps and trees beside.

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1779

A Stallion

Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1601-6

Painting of a Great Indian fruit bat with wings fully spread, brown fur and dark membrane on a pale background.

Great Indian Fruit Bat

Bhawani Das, ca. 1777-82

Panel painting: God creates the round world in blue spheres, while an angel expels nude Adam and Eve from a garden of orange

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo, 1445

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin Mary seated in a mandorla, flanked by winged angels in pink, green, and blue robes.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi, 1337-38

Gilded panel painting of the Nativity with kneeling Mary, the infant Christ in a manger, ox, donkey, shepherds and an angel.

The Nativity

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1406-10

Painting of the Annunciation: a winged angel with a lily approaches a kneeling Virgin in a columned interior.

The Annunciation

Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1490