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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,335 works

Black-and-white image of a Madonna and Child flanked by a bearded saint reading a book and a woman holding a vessel.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen

Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a black dress with a lace collar, beside a red chair and a small white dog.

María Teresa (1638-1683), Infanta of Spain

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, 1646

Virgin and Child enthroned under a canopy with two saints, two harp-playing angels, and a male figure in a garden landscape.

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling, early 1480s

Gilded panel of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, flanked by saints and angels under a Gothic pinnacle.

Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels

Lippo Memmi, ca. 1350

Interior scene with a nursing mother and infant, a visitor in black, a servant, and a small dog on a marble floor.

The Visit to the Nursery

Gabriel Metsu, 1661

Painting of ragged townsfolk beside a bread cart with loaves, a seated woman, and boys before brick houses.

The Baker's Cart

Jean Michelin, 1656

Madonna in a blue mantle gazes down at the nude Christ Child, who looks up at her, with a river landscape behind them.

Madonna Adoring the Child

Bartolomeo Montagna

Gothic altarpiece with a central Virgin and Child flanked by gilded scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of th

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Oval portrait of a young child in a lace cap and gold patterned garment with a white lace collar, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Boy

Paulus Moreelse

Painting of a woman holding a swaddled newborn in a richly furnished room with a canopied bed, a child, and an older woman.

The Newborn Baby

Matthijs Naiveu, 1675

Woman in white gown and blue wrap beside a young girl holding a jewelry box, seated before a gilt mirror and lace-draped tabl

Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter

Jean-Marc Nattier, 1749

Cutaway church interior with priests at an altar, a pulpit, and a crowd of poor people outside beside stonework and a town.

A Sermon on Charity (possibly the Conversion of Saint Anthony)

Netherlandish Painter

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ in a garden with two angels, a fountain, peacocks, and a distant castle.

Virgin and Child with Angels

Bernard van Orley, ca. 1518

Painting of three children in a shaded grove with a sleeping baby, while a girl in red holds wheat sheaves overhead.

The Grandchildren of Sir William Heathcote, 3rd Baronet

Gilded altarpiece of fifteen small Christian scenes above a central Virgin and Child with kneeling donors and saints.

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

Netherlandish Painter, ca. 1515-20

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child against a gold background, in a decorated gilt frame.

Madonna and Child

Paolo di Giovanni Fei, 1370s

Painting of elegant figures gathered under trees in a pastoral setting, with musicians, a seated woman in pink, and cherub sc

Concert Champêtre

Jean-Baptiste Pater, ca. 1734

Painting of the Madonna and Child seated among six saints against a gold background, with a bishop and an armored saint at ri

Madonna and Child with Six Saints

Francesco Pesellino, late 1440s

Group portrait of an eighteenth-century family in a green damask room with a fireplace, tea table, and card players.

The Strong Family

Charles Philips, 1732

Painting of children playing in a wooded clearing with a dog, a distant cottage, and a blue sky with clouds.

The Golden Age

Jean-Baptiste Pater

Painting of Saint Christopher in a red tunic looking up, carrying the infant Christ on his shoulder and holding a staff.

Saint Christopher Carrying the Infant Christ

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1730s

Gilded painting of the Madonna holding the sleeping Christ Child, with four angels, two playing lute and harp, on gold backgr

Madonna and Child with Angels

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano, 1420

Black-and-white painting of a Roman triumphal procession with a woman and child in white robes among warriors and crowds.

Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome

Karl von Piloty, ca. 1875

Painting of nude figures in a wooded riverside setting, one reclining with a leafy wreath and another bending to wash in a st

Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1627

Painting of a young woman with curly golden hair and a flower crown holding a bowl of cherries against a dark background.

Girl with Cherries

Marco d' Oggiono, ca. 1491-95

Black-and-white image of the Virgin and Child with gilded halos, the Virgin in a dark mantle over patterned brocade, on a gol

Madonna and Child with Saints

Priamo della Quercia, ca. 1442

Painting of the Madonna and Child with saints Francis and Dominic, surrounded by angels and putti, with lilies and roses.

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Dominic and Angels

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, ca. 1612

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ before a flowering hedge, while angels above hold a crown over her head.

Virgin and Child

Netherlandish Painter, ca. 1495-1500

Painting of a seated woman embracing a child in a dim classical interior, with a kneeling woman and a standing man in red.

Andromache and Astyanax

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, ?1813-17; 1823-24?

Pastel-toned mural-style painting of figures in a garden with fruit trees, a stone fountain, arches and a river landscape bey

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1890-95