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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,431 works

Painting of a shepherd boy in a red cap guiding sheep and a cow beside a tree, with a distant Roman landscape and herd.

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, late 1640s

Round panel of a winged figure above a chariot surrounded by armored horsemen, with animals and 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, 1449

Painting of a young woman in a red turban leaning toward a chained, bearded old man in a dark interior with a shadowed figure

Roman Charity

Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1622

Painted bust-length portrait study of a man with short curly hair and beard, gazing toward the viewer against a dark olive ba

Bust-Length Study of a Man

François-Auguste Biard, 1848

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph in a dark forest, watched by a satyr with a staff, a shepherd nearby.

Nymph and Shepherd

Johann Liss, 1625

Miniature portrait of a man with dark hair in a blue coat, white cravat and yellow waistcoat, against a green background.

Benjamin Moore McVickar

Charles C. Ingham, ca. 1825

Oval portrait miniature of a woman with upswept dark hair, white feather, lavender dress, in an ornate gold frame.

Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer)

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1790

Seated woman in a shimmering gold gown on a bench beside a pale ceramic jar, against a soft neutral wall.

Green and Gold

Thomas Dewing, 1917

Dark nocturnal seascape with a glowing moon behind clouds, a silhouetted sailing ship, and craquelured paint surface.

Moonlight Marine

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870-90

Oil head study of a man with curly reddish hair gazing upward against a warm brown background.

Washington Allston

Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1819-20

Fresco of the Man of Sorrows: Christ rises from a tomb with arms outstretched inside a pointed arch, haloed, before a cross.

Man of Sorrows

Niccolò di Tommaso, 1370

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

Portrait of a Gentleman

William M. S. Doyle, 1810

Two haloed saints playing lutes, one in red and one in dark robes, with lilies and wings against a blue sky.

Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua

Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, ca. 1670-90

Painting of a red-robed cardinal leading a procession of dark-cloaked men past a classical church facade.

A Cardinal's Procession

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1621

Circular devotional badge with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception among angels, framed in tortoiseshell with silver fili

Nun’s Badge with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez, ca. 1710

Circular gold-ground painting of the Madonna in blue holding the Christ Child in red, who holds a small bird.

Madonna and Child

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1445-50

Brown-toned sketch of receding stone arches in a vaulted passage with a dirt path and grassy slope in the foreground.

Vaulted Interior

François Marius Granet, 1795

Gilded Gothic panel with the Madonna and Child in a garden, flanked by Annunciation, Nativity, and Pietà scenes.

The Madonna of Humility, the Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Pietà

Bartolomeo Vivarini, ca. 1465

Haloed friar in brown habit holding a blue panel with a golden sun and IHS monogram, on a gold background.

Saint Bernardino

Sano di Pietro, 1447?

Painting of Christ bearing the cross, crowned with thorns, pulled by soldiers in orange and yellow garments, with haloed onlo

Christ Carrying the Cross

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, 1510

Virgin nursing the Christ child beside Saint Joseph at a table with bread and bowls, with a village landscape in the window.

Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph

Unknown artist, second half 16th century

Painting of Saint Francis in a brown habit holding a red book, with a gilded halo against a gold background.

Saint Francis

Sano di Pietro, 1447?

Woman in white blouse and blue striped skirt looks into a hand mirror at a vanity beside a bouquet of flowers.

Woman with a Mirror (Femme qui se mire)

Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1911

Painting of a haloed man in blue robes fallen to the ground, surrounded by armored soldiers with spears under a fruiting tree

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Andrea Vanni, probably 1380s

Small gilded panel painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, both with haloes, in a gabled frame.

Madonna and Child

Unknown artist, first quarter the 14th century

Portrait of a young blonde girl in a white dress standing among blue delphiniums and pink roses, with a cherub statue in a ga

Betty Newell

Charles Courtney Curran, 1922

Illuminated initial D showing Saint Agatha's martyrdom, with executioner, soldier with SPQR shield, and seated judge.

Martyrdom of Saint Agatha in an Initial D

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1470-73

Illuminated initial B with three haloed seated figures in blue above a group of angels, framed by gold foliage and prophets.

The Trinity in an Initial B

Master of the Codex Rossiano, Probably 1387

Seated men in turbans rest in an ornate Moorish interior with hanging rifles, carpets, and a standing attendant in yellow.

The Opium Smokers

Georges Clairin, 1872

Illuminated manuscript cutting showing the Ascension of Christ in a gold initial V, with the Virgin and two apostles below.

Ascension in an Initial V

Niccolò di ser Sozzo, ca. 1342-50