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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,956 works

Two hanging scrolls: a tiger gazing upward beside bamboo on the left, and a dragon among grey ink clouds on the right.

Dragon and Tiger 龍虎図 (Ryūko zu)

Maruyama Ōkyo, 1770

Painting of a busy railway yard with steam locomotives, smoke plumes, and city buildings under hazy light.

Grand Central Station

Colin Campbell Cooper, 1909

Woman in white dress reclining on a sofa in a sunlit room with green shutters and a reflective wooden floor.

Across the Room

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1899

Painting of Venice's waterfront with the Doge's Palace, sailing ships, gondolas, crowds, and a domed church under a cloudy sk

The Molo, Venice, Looking West

Luca Carlevarijs, 1709

Painting of a crowded Venetian square with a tall campanile and domed basilica flanked by arcaded buildings.

Piazza San Marco, Venice

Luca Carlevarijs, 1709

Painting of two rowboats, green and white, with figures fishing on a lake under cloudy sky with a tree line.

Fishermen

George Luks, 1920

Watercolor of a railroad crossing with striped barrier arms, a yellow wooden house with blue shutters, and a standing man in

Railroad Crossing, The Berkshires

George Luks, 1925

Watercolor of a white stone gristmill beside a river with a footbridge, wooded hills and a yellow house nearby.

Old Gristmill, The Berkshires

George Luks, 1925

Grey wash sketch of a fallen log over a stream with rocks on the bank and leafy trees behind.

Moss-Covered Log

Hermann Ottomar Herzog, 1831

Carved gilded cassone with painted panel of a crowded battle scene before a walled harbor city with ships.

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1461

Dim painted landscape with a nude male figure seen from behind and a female figure in a flowing dress beneath trees.

Athlete and Dancer

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1895

Brown ink wash drawing of a wooded landscape with tall trees, wind-bent branches, and a dark grassy foreground.

Landscape: Black Trees II

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1862

Painting of a pale nude woman gazing upward on a grassy slope beside a dark tree, with clouds and water beyond.

A Measure of Dreams

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1908

Two pale nude male figures stand on dark rocks in a misty wooded landscape, with a small rider on horseback at left.

Adventure

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1914

Painting of a walled hill town above green slopes, with grazing white cattle in the foreground and blue mountains beyond.

Italian Hill Town

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1925

Gilded altarpiece panel with the Madonna and Child enthroned at center, flanked by five saints and angels under Gothic arches

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni di Paolo, 1454

Painting of God over a circular world, with Adam and Eve led from an orange garden by an angel with a flaming sword.

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo, 1445

Oval painting of a woman having her palm read by a fortune-teller while a gentleman watches, in an interior with a fireplace.

A Couple in an Interior with a Gypsy Fortune-Teller

Jacob Duck, 1632

Nativity scene at night: kneeling Virgin, Christ Child, ox and donkey, shepherds, and a glowing angel above a mountain landsc

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Girolamo da Carpi, 1535

Painting of seven draped women dancing under a swirling starry sky, holding glowing cords aloft.

The Pleiades

Elihu Vedder, 1885

Painting of draped Greek women dancing and waving scarves on a sandy beach by the sea under a cloudy sky.

Greek Girls Bathing

Elihu Vedder, 1872

Small sketch of a rider on a donkey climbing stone steps while companions gesture beside a wall.

The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey

Elihu Vedder, 1867

Painting of a dark sea serpent coiled over a grassy sand dune beside a turquoise ocean under a pale pink sky.

Lair of the Sea Serpent

Elihu Vedder, 1899

Painting of red poppies in a garden below a low wall, with dark cypress trees and a pale cloudy sky.

Cypress and Poppies

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Painting of a reclining nude woman and a seated woman in a dappled sunlit garden with green foliage.

Summer

Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1914

Handscroll with ink landscape of misty hills and rocks beside a column of Chinese calligraphy.

清王翬等康熙南巡圖（卷三: 濟南至泰山）卷

Pencil sketch of a rural landscape with trees along a field and distant buildings under open sky.

Aurora

James McDougal Hart, 1863

Painting of a river landscape with a lone tree on a grassy hill, a dirt path, a fallen trunk, and distant hills under clouds.

Paysage de rivière - Alexandre François Desportes

Alexandre François Desportes, 1690

Handscroll painting of women in colorful kimono walking past blossoming trees, with a man holding a parasol and a seated woma

三幅神吉原通い図巻「全盛季春遊戯」

Chobunsai Eishi, 1850

Handscroll fragment with brush calligraphy of a poem beside pale ochre wash plant forms on paper, framed by patterned brocade

小倉百人一首和歌巻断簡

Hon'ami Koetsu, 1615