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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,596 works

Medieval painting of a banquet where a severed head is served on a platter while guests watch and an executioner stands nearb

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio, ca. 1330-35

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto Veneziano, ca. 1485-95

Two bearded saints with gold halos stand against a gold background, one in a red patterned mantle holding a book.

Saints Bartholomew and Simon

Master of Saint Francis, ca. 1272

Painting of a goldsmith weighing coins at a counter beside a couple, with jewelry, silverware and a convex mirror in the shop

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus, 1449

Two panels showing Christ carrying the cross with soldiers, and the risen Christ beside an open tomb with a sleeping soldier.

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David, ca. 1510

Oil portrait of a seated man in a black hat and lace collar, one hand resting on an open book, dark background.

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1665-67

Full-length portrait of a standing man in black cloak and white collar beside a red draped table with a black hat.

Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613-1687)

Gérard ter Borch, ca. 1666-67

Interior scene with a woman in blue standing beside a table where children and a smoking man sit under gilt wall hangings.

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting

Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1663-65

Elderly bearded man in a red cloak with hands resting on an open book against a dark background.

Saint Jerome as Scholar

El Greco, ca. 1610

Full-length portrait of a standing woman in black dress and white collar, resting her hand on a red velvet armchair.

Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614-1676)

Gérard ter Borch, ca. 1666-67

Seated woman in pink silk gown holds a young girl in white dress on a turquoise sofa against a grey background.

Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina

Francisco Goya, 1787-88

Portrait of a seated woman in a blue satin gown with lace sleeves, pearls and gold jewelry, against a gray wall.

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825-1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1851-53

Painting of a baby in a white dress and bonnet held by a woman in green, set against a bright yellow background.

Madame Roulin and Her Baby

Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Medieval panel painting of the Last Supper with Christ and twelve apostles at a long table, gold haloes, red and green robes.

The Last Supper

Ugolino di Nerio, ca. 1325

Illuminated manuscript leaf of kneeling robed figures before a walled city, with a divine hand and light above and fleeing de

The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons

Jean Fouquet, ca. 1452-60

Illuminated scene of the Virgin and infant Christ with shepherds, angels, a stable arch and a star in a blue sky.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Francesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma, ca. 1500

Seated man in dark coat and plumed hat playing a guitar beside a music stand with sheet music, against a grey wall.

Portrait of Monsieur Aublet

Guillaume Voiriot, ca. 1782

Group portrait of a seated man, a woman in blue, several children, and a greyhound in an interior with a classical bust.

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun, ca. 1660

Painting of mourners lowering the body of Christ into a stone sarcophagus, with the Virgin Mary praying nearby.

The Entombment of Christ

Juan Rodríguez Juárez, ca. 1702

Painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe with golden rays, green star-patterned mantle, and four framed scenes of her apparitions

The Virgin of Guadalupe with the Four Apparitions

Nicolás Enríquez, 1773

Painting of a fish market with a fishmonger cutting salmon, women with baskets, and fish displayed on wooden trays.

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1568

Painting of dancers performing in a dim wooden roundhouse surrounded by seated spectators and women in patterned skirts.

Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California

Jules Tavernier, 1878

Allegorical white-robed woman beside books and arts objects, with figures in a landscape and scattered chains on a checkered

Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks

Samuel Jennings, ca. 1791-92

Painting of the Marriage of the Virgin with a bearded priest, a couple joining hands, angels with flowers, and onlookers unde

The Marriage of the Virgin

José Sánchez, ca. 1690

Painted panel of a royal assembly with a seated king under a canopy, kneeling attendants, pavilions and banana trees.

Royal processions, ceremonies and entertainments

or associated workshops Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, 1870s-1880s

Virgin Mary with crowned Christ child among clouds and angels, saints beside her, and souls burning in flames below.

The Virgin of Carmen and the Souls of Purgatory with St. Joseph and the Prophet Elijah

Juan Francisco de Aguilera, ca. 1720

Night scene of a mounted rider and horses on a snowy slope, with two distant figures on a ridge under a teal sky.

A Reconnaissance

Frederic Remington, 1902

Oil portrait of a woman in a red dress with beaded necklaces, braided hair, and shell earrings against a dark background.

Hayne Hudjihini, Eagle of Delight

Henry Inman, 1832-33

Gold-ground painting of the Crucifixion with three crosses, two angels, mounted soldiers, and grieving figures in the foregro

The Crucifixion

Andrea di Bartolo

Half-length portrait of a young man with curly red hair, dark cap and slight smile against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Man

Antonello da Messina, ca. 1470