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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,997 works

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

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

Kneeling shepherd with a staff before rocky terrain, with a row of nude women with raised arms on the horizon above.

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

Ferdinand Hodler, 1896

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 young girl in a pink dress beside a glass goblet of cherries, with a green curtain and checkered floor.

Emma Van Name

Joshua Johnson, ca. 1805

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

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

Still life painting of a glass vase holding a dense bouquet of roses, tulips and irises on a dark background, with a butterfl

A Bouquet of Flowers

Clara Peeters, ca. 1612

Gold-ground altarpiece panels: a robed saint with crozier and deer at right, Christ and Satan above, apostles below.

Saint Giles with Christ Triumphant over Satan and the Mission of the Apostles

Miguel Alcañiz, ca. 1408

Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co

Henry Inman, 1832-33

Painting of Flora and Zephyr embracing in a garden with cupids scattering flowers beneath a stone urn.

Flora and Zephyr

Jacopo Amigoni, 1730s

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

Black-and-white image of a painted Madonna nursing the Christ Child, both with patterned haloes, on a cracked panel surface.

Madonna and Child

Antoniazzo Romano

Nude woman with two children in a landscape with palm trees, a parrot and a distant arched building under a cloudy sky.

Eve with Cain and Abel

Francesco Bacchiacca, 1520s

Seated elderly woman in black dress, white ruff and cap, hands resting on wooden armchair against dark background.

Old Woman in an Armchair

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Elderly bearded man in black with white ruff, holding spectacles and an open book with a botanical drawing.

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Botanist

David Bailly, 1641

Nude woman beside a swan with infants hatching from eggs in a wooded landscape with a distant building.

Leda and the Swan

Francesco Bacchiacca

Painting of an elderly woman in a black dress, white pleated ruff and cap, hands clasped, against a brown background.

Portrait of an Old Woman

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Oil painting of a seated man in a striped turban and yellow robe holding a hookah in a dim stone interior.

A Bashi-Bazouk

Charles Bargue, 1875

Painting of the Virgin with red robe and green mantle holding the nude Christ Child against a rocky background with roses.

Madonna and Child

Francesco Bacchiacca, possibly early 1520s

Gold-ground panel with eight painted scenes of Christ's life and saints, including a Coronation of the Virgin and an Ascensio

Scenes from the Life of Christ

Giovanni Baronzio, mid-1340s

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curly hair and white ruffled collar against a pale blue background.

Portrait of a Woman

John Barry, ca. 1790

Madonna holds the Christ Child before windows showing landscapes, with the young Saint John the Baptist at lower right.

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Fra' Bartolomeo, ca. 1497

Painting of Saint Thomas Aquinas in black habit beside Saints Peter and Paul at a lectern in a pink arcaded interior with boo

Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul

Bartolomeo degli Erri

Full-length portrait of a young man in red embroidered coat beside a gilded table, classical bust, and a dog.

Portrait of a Young Man

Pompeo Batoni, ca. 1760-65

Portrait of a man in a red cap and pink scarf before a landscape with trees and a castle.

Portrait of a Man

Fra' Bartolomeo, shortly after 1497

Oval miniature portrait of a man with a large white lace collar and dark doublet against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

David Baudringhien, 1627

Portrait of a seated man in a brown coat and white cravat, holding a pen over a sketchbook beside a classical bust.

Edward Miles (1752-1828)

William Beechey

Half-length portrait of a man in a red cap and gray robe with a white ruff, arms crossed, against a dark background.

Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480-1550)

Barthel Beham, 1527