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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Painting of a woman as the muse Calliope, leaning on a marble pedestal, holding a scroll and a trumpet, in green and gold dra

Calliope

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Painting of a seated woman in white robes with a veil, holding a scroll beside a lyre against a dark background.

Polyhymnia

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Monochrome painting of a young woman in a sheer gown lifting a veil, labeled ΤΕΡΨΙΧΟΡΗ (Terpsichore) at upper left.

Terpsichore

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Monochrome painting of a young woman in a white gown holding flutes and resting a hand on a lyre, labeled Euterpe.

Euterpe

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Painting of a woman in a classical draped robe holding a sword, with a Greek inscription reading Melpomene at upper left.

Melpomene

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Black and white portrait of an older bald man in spectacles, dark coat and white cravat against a dark background.

Preston Hodges

Charles Loring Elliott, 1850

Monochrome painting of a woman with a flower wreath holding a lyre, beside a nude child holding a torch.

Erato

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Portrait of a man in a brown coat and powdered wig, with a landscape and cloudy sky behind him.

Tench Francis

Robert Feke, 1746

Painting of a columned hall with lamps, where mourners in robes kneel and weep around a bed with a dead figure.

The Death of the First Born

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1865-80

Seated portrait of a man with light tousled hair and mustache in a dark suit and bow tie against a black background.

Mark Twain

Charles Noel Flagg, 1890

Portrait of a man in a dark coat and white collar seated beside a desk with a book and inkstand.

Henry Clay

Oliver Frazer, ca. 1840

Half-length portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat, beside books and a scroll on a red background.

Christopher Colles

James Frothingham, ca. 1812-16

Dim painting of a woman in a long gown by a dark forest clearing, with a small group of figures at right.

And She Was a Witch

George Fuller, 1877-84

Painted interior with a coffered ceiling, draped curtains, and robed figures seated among children in a patterned room.

Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah)

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1865-80

Painting of a young man in a red headband gazing at a seated woman holding a lyre, under a tree by a sea landscape.

The Greek Lovers

Henry Peters Gray, 1846

Interior scene with a young woman in white, an older woman in orange, and an elderly man reading at a table beside a dog.

The Pride of the Village

Henry Peters Gray, 1858-59

Painting of a helmeted warrior, a fallen soldier, a woman and a child before a stone relief in a classical landscape.

The Wages of War

Henry Peters Gray, 1848

Portrait of a woman with curled dark hair in a dark off-shoulder dress and shawl, against a shadowed background.

Eunice Harriet Brigham

Chester Harding, ca. 1835

Portrait of a woman in a black feathered hat, gray cloak with fur collar, and yellow gloves against a dark background.

Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge

Chester Harding, ca. 1827

Monochrome portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, seated with one hand on his chest.

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Chester Harding, ca. 1828

Oil portrait of a man in a dark double-breasted coat and white collar, seated beside a red upholstered chair.

Moses Pond

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1832

Oil portrait of a young man with dark wavy hair in black coat and white cravat, gazing upward beside a red curtain.

Alexander Van Rensselaer

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1837

Half-length portrait of a man with dark wavy hair and mustache, wearing black with a white collar, against a dark background.

Portrait of the Artist

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1851

Oil painting of a boy with hunting dogs, a shotgun and dead rabbits beside a rock under a tree, with hills behind.

The Rabbit Hunters

Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1850

Painting of a stone church with a tall clock tower beside a brick building, with carriages and pedestrians on a cobbled stree

The North Dutch Church, Fulton and William Streets, New York

Edward Lamson Henry, 1869

Mrs. Thomas Hicks

Thomas Hicks, ca. 1884

Seated elderly man with white hair in a dark coat, beside a red-draped table with an open book and quill pen.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

William James Hubard, ca. 1830

Three men in a canoe shoot through white rapids on a dark river, with a wooded bank in the background.

Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River

Winslow Homer, 1905-10

Charles Sumner

William Morris Hunt, 1875

Seated older man with white beard in dark coat and carved chair, resting hand on an open book.

John David Wolfe

Daniel Huntington, 1871