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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Miniature portrait of a boy in a dark jacket and white collar holding a hoop, with a fence and tree behind him.

Paul Joseph Revere

Margaret Bogardus, ca. 1840

Oil sketch of a winding river through a valley with wooded hills, clouds, and a woman with a parasol on rocks.

Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)

Thomas Cole, 1836

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a powdered wig, red coat with blue facings, and white cravat, in a gold frame.

John St. Clair

John Singleton Copley, 1758

Decorative ceiling design with rose garlands, a central medallion, and gilded leaf borders on a taupe ground.

Frieze and ceiling

Virgilio Tojetti, 1881-82

Study of a towering cumulus cloud lit white on one side, rising over a dark treeline under a pale pink and blue sky.

Clouds

Thomas Cole, ca. 1838

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the crowned Christ Child, in a jeweled gold gown between red curtains.

Our Lady of Guápulo

Peruvian Painter, 18th century

Painting of John the Baptist pouring water on Christ in a river, with God the Father and a dove in clouds above.

The Baptism of Christ

Nicolás Enríquez, 1773

Painting of the Holy Family walking a road, with the Virgin and Joseph holding a child's hands beneath a dove and God in clou

The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt

Nicolás Enríquez, 1773

Painting of the Virgin of El Camino with Christ Child, angels with candles, and bishops St. Fermín and St. Saturnino below.

The Virgin of El Camino with St. Fermín and St. Saturnino

Nicolás Enríquez, 1773

Virgin and Christ Child on a pillar above kneeling figures, with angels in clouds and a distant landscape.

The Apparition of the Virgin of El Pilar to St. James

Nicolás Enríquez, 1773

Painting of Christ touching the eyes of a kneeling blind man beneath a tree, with disciples, a dog, and a town at dusk.

Christ Healing the Blindman

Gerardus Duyckinck I, ca. 1725-30

Three boys fishing by a creek under a large tree, with a distant house in a rural landscape.

Boys Fishing

Thomas Le Clear, 1846

Two haloed saints playing lutes, one in red and one in dark robes, with lilies and wings against a blue sky.

Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua

Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, ca. 1670-90

Oil study of billowing white clouds over blue sky, with wind-bent palm trees and green shrubs along the horizon.

Sky - Northern Cuba

Charles Dewolf Brownell, ca. 1853-66

Painting of a flat green plain with palm trees, cloudy sky, and a small white figure walking a path at right.

Ingenio, San Martín, Cuba

Charles Dewolf Brownell, ca. 1853-66

Open wooden paint box with a loose oil study of a reclining nude on the lid and a heavily used palette below.

Paint box with nude study

Helena de Kay, ca. 1871

Painting of a small wooden shelter on stilts beside calm water, framed by tall trees and sunlit grass.

Summer Woodlands

Julie Hart Beers, ca. 1870s

Oil portrait of a nun in a golden crown and blue mantle, holding a small figure of the Christ Child against a dark background

Portrait of Sor Juana de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

Domingo Ortiz, 1797

Circular devotional badge with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception among angels, framed in tortoiseshell with silver fili

Nun’s Badge with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez, ca. 1710

Painting of Saint Ansanus with a gold halo, red cloak, green tunic, and a spear with a banner, on gold ground.

Saint Ansanus

Simone Martini, ca. 1326

Gilded Gothic panel of a veiled, haloed woman in red holding a jar, with angels in roundels above.

Saint Mary Magdalen

Lippo Memmi, 1350s

Gilded gothic panel of a bearded saint in blue and brown robes holding golden keys and a red book, with angels above.

Saint Peter

Lippo Memmi, 1350s

Painted fragment of a female head in full face with red hair, black hair band, and gilded halo edge on plaster.

Head of an Angel in Full Face

Taddeo di Bartolo, ca. 1415-18

Painted fragment of a woman's head with a dark veil, pink-toned face, and dark eyes, showing cracks and paint loss.

Head of the Virgin

Taddeo di Bartolo, ca. 1415-18

Head of an Angel in Left Profile

Taddeo di Bartolo, ca. 1415-18

Gilded panel of the dead Christ mourned by haloed figures before a cross and rocky hill, under a Gothic arch.

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Niccolò di Buonaccorso, ca. 1380

Gilded Gothic diptych: left panel shows Madonna and Child with saints and angels, right panel shows the Crucifixion with mour

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints John the Baptist and James the Great and (above) the Annunciat…

Paolo di Giovanni Fei, ca. 1400-1410

Gold-ground altarpiece of Madonna and Child enthroned among angels and saints, with Eve and serpent below, in a gilded frame.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria,…

Paolo di Giovanni Fei, 1390s

Gothic panel painting of the Madonna and Child enthroned with two kneeling donors in prayer against a gold background.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Donors

Goodhart Ducciesque Master, ca. 1315-30

Gilded painted crucifix with Christ at center and small saints in red and green robes at the ends of the cross arms.

Crucifix

Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro, ca. 1450