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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,596 works

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

Gold-ground painting of a bearded saint in a pink robe holding a red book, with a haloed nimbus and gilded frame.

Saint Andrew

Simone Martini, ca. 1326

Merry company feasting and making music on a leafy terrace, with a child and spaniel, a songbird cage and a boy on a ladder.

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen, ca. 1670

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

Tiepolo sketch of mythological gods, putti, horses and a chariot in clouds, framed by painted figures and ornament.

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1752

Painting of a top-hatted man with a cane beside a woman in a pale dress at a café table, loose brushwork, warm brown ground.

The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861-1934) at the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892

Half-length portrait of a bearded man with dark curly hair and a white lace collar against a dark grey background.

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670)

Velázquez, 1650

Painting of a young woman with a faint smile, wearing a blue shawl, turned toward the viewer against a dark background.

Study of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1665-67

Portrait of a seated woman in white dress and black hat holding a red book, on a green sofa against a gray background.

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762-1848)

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1789

Oil portrait of a woman in a gold satin gown with lace collar, pearls and a pearl crown, against a dark background.

Queen Henrietta Maria

Anthony van Dyck, 1636

Woman in blue skirt and white headcloth pours from a pitcher by a leaded window, with a brass basin on a red-covered table.

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662

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 the Crucifixion with three crosses on gold ground, mourning women below and armored soldiers on horseback at righ

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti, 1340s

Painting of a woman being carried away on a grey horse by a turbaned rider, with a burning city and smoke behind.

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix, 1846

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

Painting of young ballet dancers in white tutus practicing in a green-walled studio, with a cellist and an older man with a c

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas, 1874

Portrait of a man in a brown coat and white cravat, with a stormy sky and the Colosseum behind him.

Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1810

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

Young man in a feathered hat playing a lute, with pink sleeves and an open book beside him against a dark background.

Lute Player

Valentin de Boulogne, ca. 1625-26

Painting of a young man in a striped turban and pink silk jacket, glancing over his shoulder, with a rifle and pistol.

Bashi-Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1868-69

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

Standing ruler with halo and prayer beads beside a lion and calf, with angels playing music in clouds above.

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan, verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530-50

Miniature painting of a ruler on a terrace in a pink robe, with a golden halo, angels above, and a river behind him.

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman, recto: dated 1627-28; verso: ca. 1530-50

Miniature painting of a seated ruler on a throne with courtiers, attendants, and a pink hilly landscape under a gold sky.

The House of Bijapur

Kamal Muhammad, ca. 1680

Medieval painting of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary, the Christ Child, kneeling kings, and gilded haloes.

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi, ca. 1390

Gold-ground panel of Christ crowning the Virgin Mary, surrounded by angels, with musician angels playing instruments below.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso, ca. 1380

Panel painting of an angel addressing an elderly priest at a temple altar, with onlookers and a domed Gothic building.

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1455-60

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

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto Veneziano, ca. 1485-95

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini

Maestro delle Storie del Pane, 1494(?)