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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Oil portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and ruff holding a small balance scale against a dark background.

Portrait of a Woman with a Balance

Thomas de Keyser, ca. 1625-26

Painting of brown-sailed fishing boats and rowing boats on a calm river under a cloudy sky, by Salomon van Ruysdael.

Fishing Boats on a River

Salomon van Ruysdael, early 1660s

Painting of a Seine quay with barges, a crane, horses, and a palace skyline under cloudy sky.

View from the Quai d'Orsay

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1854

Two panels: Saint John the Baptist with a lamb beside trees, and Saint Francis kneeling as a winged seraph appears above him.

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David, ca. 1485-90

Virgin Mary in blue and rose robes on clouds above kneeling saints and clergy adoring her in a dusky landscape.

The Virgin Adored by Saints

Scarsellino, ca. 1609

Portrait of a woman with curled dark hair, black lace dress and fur stole against a dark background.

Madame Jacques-Louis-Étienne Reizet (Colette-Désirée-Thérèse Godefroy, 1782-1850)

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1823

Painting of a man in a brown hat and red jacket holding a jug and glass, with a pipe on the table before him.

Man Holding a Jug

Michiel Sweerts, ca. 1660

Painting of the dead Christ on a white shroud, mourned by the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and two other figures.

The Lamentation

Ludovico Carracci, ca. 1582

Painting of the Virgin in red and green robes holding the nude Christ Child, with a landscape with trees behind them.

Madonna and Child

Francesco Granacci, ca. 1520

Triptych painting of the Crucifixion with grieving figures, a risen Christ and soldiers at a tomb, and a heavenly gathering.

The Crucifixion

Francesco Granacci, ca. 1510

Oil sketch of tall trees along a sunny path, with figures seated and a distant town with church spires beyond.

View near Rouen

Richard Parkes Bonington, ca. 1825

Painting of travelers on a woodland path with horses, a covered wagon, and tall trees under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path

Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1607

Medieval painting of Christ tied to a column with a crown of thorns while two flagellants with rods stand beside him on gold

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar, ca. 1400

Painting of attendants bathing an infant in a basin beside a red bed, with a peacock and colonnade at left.

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley, ca. 1514-15

Oil sketch of a rider on a white horse fleeing past gesturing figures and fallen bodies under a stormy sky.

Scene from the Gallic Wars: The Gaul Littavicus, Betraying the Roman Cause, Flees to Gergovie to Support Vercingétorix

Théodore Chassériau, ca. 1838-40

Still life painting of a nautilus shell, a cowrie shell, and an open oval chip-wood box on a table against a dark background.

Still Life with Shells and a Chip-Wood Box

Sebastian Stoskopff, late 1620s

Pastel portrait of a young man in a black tricorn hat, black lace, and blue fur-trimmed cloak against grey.

Gustavus Hamilton (1710-1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume

Rosalba Carriera, 1730-31

Man playing guitar in a sunlit room, gazing through an open window at a distant hilly landscape with cypress trees.

Léon Pallière (1787-1820) in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome

Jean Alaux, 1817

Full-length portrait of a woman in a white gown leaning on a table beside red urns, with a green sofa and draped curtain.

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761-1835)

François Gérard, ca. 1804

Painting of elegantly dressed people seated on a beach at sunset, with parasols, a bathing hut, and calm sea.

On the Beach, Sunset

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1865

Painting of Roman soldiers attacking fleeing civilians before a colonnaded temple, with bodies on the ground and a raised axe

The Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans

François Joseph Heim, 1824

Pastel portrait of a man in a powdered grey wig and pale blue coat with silver braid, against a dark background.

Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697-1755)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca. 1750

Oil portrait of a woman in a white lace-trimmed gown leaning on a stone balustrade before trees and a distant dome.

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816-1850)

Théodore Chassériau, 1841

Oil portrait of a young man with curly auburn hair, white cravat and dark coat against a grey background.

François Gérard (1770-1837), later Baron Gérard

Antoine-Jean Gros, ca. 1790

Pastel portrait of a man with powdered gray hair, lace jabot, pink coat and a rose boutonniere against a gray-green backgroun

Olivier Journu (1724-1783)

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, 1756

Painting of a woman carrying firewood with a child beside her, walking under a dark stormy sky.

Retreat from the Storm

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1846

Three boys in blue suits with red collars stand and sit outdoors beside a tree, a small dog, and a stone ledge.

The Children of Martin Anton Heckscher: Johann Gustav Wilhelm Moritz (1797-1865), Carl Martin Adolph (1796-1850), and…

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1803

Study of cumulus clouds in a blue sky with sunlit tops, grey shadows, pink evening light, and dark trees at the horizon.

Cloud Study (Early Evening)

Simon Denis, ca. 1786-1806

Painting of monks in a vaulted cloister arcade in Rome, with a crucifix on the wall and a fountain glimpsed through a far doo

Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome

François Marius Granet, 1808

Bearded friar in brown habit looks upward in a cave beside a crucifix, with a twilight landscape behind him.

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci, ca. 1600-1604