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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Painting of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, blood on forehead, against a dark blue background with gold foliage.

Head of Christ

Petrus Christus, 1445

Three-quarter portrait of a woman with dark hair, jeweled necklace, red velvet dress and folded hands against a dark backgrou

Portrait of Maria Madddalena Baroncelli (ca. 1465 -?), wife of Tommaso Portinari

Hans Memling, 1470

Painting of an elderly man with grey hair, dark clothing and clasped hands against a dark background.

Template:Portrait of an old Man

Hans Memling, 1475

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Filippo Lippi, 1440

Oil portrait of a young woman with upswept hair, green dress, white lace collar and red drape, in an oval frame.

Lady Mary Berkeley, Wife of Thomas Chambers

Godfrey Kneller, 1700

Medieval painting of a haloed preacher in a pulpit addressing a congregation, with Christ in a roundel above and a scribe at

Sermon of Saint Albertus Magnus

Friedrich Walther, 1430

Painting of a crowned, haloed bearded king seated and playing a golden harp against a gold background.

David

Lorenzo Monaco, 1408

Gold-ground panel showing a haloed bearded patriarch with a flaming knife beside a kneeling child in red.

Abraham

Lorenzo Monaco, 1408

Portrait of a man in a brown greatcoat and white cravat, with the Colosseum and stormy sky behind him.

Joseph-Antoine Moltedo

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1810

Oval portrait of a dark-haired man in a brown coat and white cravat, against a dark background, in a gilded star frame.

Portrait of a Man

Joseph Bordes, 1810

Oval portrait of an elderly man in a red coat with fur collar and white cravat, against a dark background.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, 1778

Painting of an angel kneeling before the Virgin Mary in an interior, with a dove of the Holy Spirit radiating light above.

The Annunciation

Peter Candid, 1585

Woman seated at a table near a window, playing a lute, with a wall map and checkered floor in a quiet interior.

Woman with a lute

Johannes Vermeer, 1662

Painting of a woman asleep at a carpeted table beside fruit and a pitcher, with an open door behind her.

A Woman Asleep -or- A Girl Asleep

Johannes Vermeer, 1657

Painting of a smiling young woman with a white shawl and a pearl earring against a dark background.

Study of a young woman.[1] Alternative title(s): Portrait of a Young Woman

Johannes Vermeer, 1665

Half-length portrait of a man in black cap and robe holding a quill over an open book against a blue background.

Portrait of Guillaume Budé

Jean Clouet, 1536

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)

John Singer Sargent, 1884

Half-length portrait of a young man with curly hair, white cravat and brown coat against a dark background.

Portrait of the Artist

John Vanderlyn, 1800

Miniature portrait of a young man in a powdered wig and blue velvet coat, set in an ornate gold frame with black enamel.

Portrait of a Young Man

Christian Friedrich Zincke, 1703

Black-and-white image of a seated Madonna in a dark veil and mantle holding the Christ Child, both with haloes, on an arched

Madonna and Child with Saints

Priamo della Quercia, 1442

Oval painting of putti on clouds holding a gilded medallion with a pale relief of a seated woman and child.

Putti with a Medallion

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1740

Black-and-white photo of a hanging scroll showing a palace by water, rocky peaks, a sailboat, and a column of inscribed text.

A Tang Palace

Hanging scroll of a woman in pale robes holding a fan beside tall bamboo and rocks on an ochre ground.

Lady in a Bamboo Grove

Painting of Christ crucified between a grieving Virgin Mary and Saint John, with a skull at the base of the cross.

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1625

Black-and-white image of a Madonna nursing the Christ Child, both with haloes, against a gilded background.

Madonna and Child

Antoniazzo Romano, 1452

Painting of a priest giving communion to a kneeling old man in a dark arched chapel with monks and altar boys.

The Last Communion of St Jerome

Sandro Botticelli, 1490

Gilded devotional panel of the Virgin and Child with saints and angels, with a predella of small religious roundels below.

Madonna and Child with the Dead Christ, Saints Agnes and Catherine of Alexandria, and Two Angels

Sano di Pietro, 1470

Gold-ground painting of the Madonna and Child with four saints and two angels in the arch above.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, Anthony of Padua and two angels

Sano di Pietro, 1469

Sano di Pietro's gold-ground panel of the Madonna and Child with saints and four angels above.

Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Jerome, Peter Martyr, and Bernardino and Four Angels

Sano di Pietro, 1425

Miniature portrait of an older man in a black coat and white cravat, holding a quill pen over paper, in a leather case.

Edward Livingston

Anson Dickinson, 1827