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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,962 works

Ink painting of a sparrow with a red crown perched on a branch beside dark leaves, with calligraphy and red seals.

清任頤動物花鳥冊頁八開

Ren Bonian, 1850

Fan painting of a boy riding a water buffalo through reeds in a stream, with rocks and calligraphy.

清任頤童子水牛扇面

Ren Bonian, 1890

Six-panel screen with ink monkeys on branches and rocks above waves, a pale moon, and a gold leaf background.

猿猴捉月図屏風

Sesson Shūkei, 1570

Impressionist garden painting with white and pink flowers, a sloping green lawn, a slender tree, and a pale house at right.

Un Jardin, Maison Baptiste

Theodore Earl Butler, 1895

Handscroll drawing of Tang court women in ink line with pale color, attending a mirror, carrying trays, and seated near a dog

Spring Morning in the Tang Court

Zhou Wenju, 1800

Painting of the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius smoking in the distance, a castle on an islet, and a figure on a path.

The Bay of Naples with Vesuvius and Castel dell'Ovo

Franz Ludwig Catel, 1818

Oil sketch of the brick arches and ruined walls of the Basilica of Constantine in Rome under a blue sky.

The Basilica of Constantine, Rome

Michael Neher, 1830

Woman reading a book to two girls in white dresses against a blue floral background with a gold halo shape.

Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle)

James Jebusa Shannon, 1895

Two men in 18th-century dress talk on a porch while women, children and dogs gather nearby, with a lawn and river beyond.

Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)

Louis Rémy Mignot, 1859

Two fusuma panels showing puppies playing on misty ground beside bamboo, a pine tree, and soft hills in ink.

雪狗子図襖

Nagasawa Rosetsu

Grayscale painting of a horse-drawn carriage with three riders on a country road, with two onlookers, a dog, and trees.

A Carriage Ride

Edward Lamson Henry, 1870

Painting of a steam train arriving at a wooden station, with crowds, horse carriages and autumn houses under a cloudy sky.

The 9:45 Accommodation

Edward Lamson Henry, 1867

Family in a cluttered room with a woman holding a baby, a man repairing an item, a boy, and a cat on a trunk.

Just Moved

Henry Mosler, 1870

Handscroll landscape of bare winter trees, misty hills, a thatched house with figures, and a stream with a wooden fence.

南宋傳劉松年倣高克明溪山雪意圖卷

Painting of a bare-shouldered woman asleep on a green sofa with a young child sleeping against her lap.

The Green Sofa

Anne Goldthwaite, 1930

Loose painted garden scene with a wrought-iron gate, tall trees, palm fronds, and a woman in a white dress on a path.

Garden Gate, Near Ascain #7

Anne Goldthwaite, 1912

Grayscale painting of two white mules pulling a cart with two riders across a steel truss bridge.

White Mules on a Bridge

Anne Goldthwaite, 1930

Oil landscape of rolling wooded hills under a cloudy sky with patches of blue, painted in muted olive and ochre tones.

August

Charles Harold Davis, 1908

Painting of a ship near an iceberg in Arctic waters, with a polar bear on broken ice under a dramatic storm sky.

An Arctic Summer: Boring though the Pack in Melville Bay

William Bradford, 1871

Painting of a flat, muddy meadow under a grey overcast sky with two grazing cows and bare trees near the horizon.

The Meadows

William Langson Lathrop, 1897

Night scene of a crowd gathered under a large white tent, with lit city buildings behind and children in the foreground.

The Mission Tent

Jerome Myers, 1906

Night scene of a crowd on a wooden pier beside a stone building, with a tall sailing ship and furled sails at right.

A North River Recreation Pier

Jerome Myers, 1905

Small oil study of the Giralda tower in Seville rising above whitewashed rooftops and crenellated walls under blue sky.

The Giralda, Seville

Adrien Dauzats, 1836

Ink painting on a fan leaf of a rooster standing among grasses, weeds and bamboo, with calligraphy and a red seal.

明（傳）程嘉燧金箋水墨公鷄圖扇頁

Cheng Jiasui, 1368

Open illuminated choir book with square musical notation, blackletter text, and colorful painted initials with gold leaf.

Benedictine Antiphonary

Belbello da Pavia, 1467

Painting of a man harrowing a field with an ox while rain falls under a dark storm sky beside a lone tree.

The Harrower

Horatio Walker, 1890

Ink and pink wash fan painting of a fluffy squirrel on a branch with autumn leaves and red seal stamps.

Squirrel on an Autumn Branch

Xu Gu, 1870

Ink and color landscape of a sailboat on a river with trees and rooftops on the far bank.

Sailing in Autumn

Xu Gu, 1893

Still life painting of a sliced melon, peaches, grapes and a glass vase of white and blue flowers on a stone ledge.

GrollierMelon

Charlotte Eustace Sophie de Fuligny-Damas, 1780

Painting of a seated woman and a wreathed man on a rocky shore, with bathers, chalk cliffs, and a sailboat at sea.

Consolation of Ariadne

Bryson Burroughs, 1915