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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Oil portrait of a mustached man in a white floral turban, green shawl and red vest, holding an ornate dagger.

Portrait of a "Mamelouk"

Horace Vernet, 1810

Night harbor scene with a full moon over moored sailing ships, rowboats, warehouses and a church spire.

Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight

Johan Christian Dahl, 1846

Two men in coats look toward a waterfall at sunset, framed by tall spruce trees and a distant lake.

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl, 1823

Painting of a shaded forest edge with mossy rocks and leafy branches, opening onto a meadow and distant pale mountains.

At the Edge of the Forest

August Heinrich, ca. 1820

Painting of the dead Christ supported by grieving women, with an older man, cherubs, nails and a crown of thorns in the foreg

The Lamentation

Domenichino, 1603

Painting of a mountain lake landscape with a reclining figure, a dark horse, and robed people gathered near a tent.

Ovid among the Scythians

Eugène Delacroix, 1862

Painting of a double rainbow over a classical hillside city, with a shepherd piping beside seated women and grazing goats.

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch, 1824

Christ in a blue robe with a crown of thorns carries a heavy wooden cross past a walled city under a blue sky.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Jan Gossaert, ca. 1520-25

Painting of a beheading in a courtyard, with an executioner, a fallen figure, two women carrying a severed head on a platter,

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley, ca. 1514-15

Family group in a period interior: a woman in a gold gown and feathered hat, a seated man, and a girl offering flowers.

The Saithwaite Family

Francis Wheatley, ca. 1785

Woman with a yellow parasol stands on a lawn by a pond, with red flowers and a brick house in the garden.

Spring Morning

James Tissot, ca. 1875

Painting of an elderly man with a bald head, dark cap with red edge, and wrinkled face, turned to the right.

Portrait of an Old Man

Hugo van der Goes, ca. 1470-75

Head of a Bishop

Gaetano Gandolfi, ca. 1770

Painting of a kneeling haloed saint with a cord, white drapery, crucifix, flowers and hourglass in a dark interior.

Saint Dominic in Penitence

Filippo Tarchiani, ca. 1607

Gold-ground painting of the crucified Christ with angels above and four mourning figures standing below on rocky ground.

The Crucifixion

Ugolino di Nerio, ca. 1315-20

Head of an Old Woman

Orazio Borgianni, after 1610

Renaissance painting of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John, Christ holding a cherry and a bird.

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga, ca. 1524-26

Painting of a kneeling woman in a red cloak looking up at a winged angel in a yellow robe beside dark trees.

Hagar and the Angel

Francesco Maffei, ca. 1657

Oil painting of a woman in a white and blue turban and red robe, holding a green palm frond, gazing downward.

A Female Martyr Saint

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, ca. 1650

Angel Gabriel kneels on a cloud before the Virgin Mary in a pink dress, under a glowing dove and clouds.

The Annunciation

Peter Candid, ca. 1585

Painting of a man in white robes standing in a doorway between red Egyptian-style columns, with palms and cactus behind him.

An Egyptian in a Doorway

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1865

Painting of a chained tiger lying before a carpet hung on a tiled wall, with armed guards and brass minarets behind.

The Sultan's Tiger

Benjamin-Constant

Painting of a reclining woman on an ornate divan with a seated attendant, tiled wall and tiger skin rug.

Odalisque

Benjamin-Constant

Painting of a bearded man in turban and oriental robes reclining on cushions, holding a pipe, before green drapery.

Western Gentleman in Oriental Costume

British Painter

Painting of a Cairo bazaar with two minarets, a domed mosque, arched gateway, market awnings and figures in the street.

A Cairo Bazaar

Adrien Dauzats, 1839

Painting of the Great Pyramid at Giza with tiny robed figures climbing its stepped stones under a teal sky and crescent moon.

The Great Pyramid, Giza

Adrien Dauzats, 1830 or later

Caravan of camels and men resting at a stone well in a golden desert valley under a blue sky.

Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba (Beersheba) in the Desert South of Hebron

Charles de Coubertin, 1850

Oil painting of a seated bearded man in a white turban beside a saddled brown horse, leaning against a brick wall.

Seated Arab Man with Horse

Alfred Dedreux, possibly ca. 1850-58

Painting of a festive procession with riders, gunfire smoke and onlookers in a sunlit walled town street.

Wedding Procession

Victor Eeckhout

Oil painting of a bearded man in a red turban and fur-trimmed robe writing with a quill, looking upward.

The Arab Sage