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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,431 works

Two-panel screen of an ink landscape with misty mountains, lakeside houses, pine trees, and a small boat on the water.

“At leisure in a lakeside grove in autumn”

Hine Taizan, 1850

Two girls in a sunlit room, one arranging wildflowers in a metal vase while the other holds a small bouquet.

Flowers of the Field

Francis Luis Mora, 1913

Two-panel screen of a white crane with raised wing beside a rock, bamboo, orange blossoms and a gnarled pine on gold ground.

Crane, pine, and rock

Chen Zhaofeng, late 19th century

Two hanging scrolls of ink cranes: one standing by a pine, the other beside a bamboo stalk on a misty shore.

Cranes

Soga Shōhaku, ca. 1760

Painting of a wooded bacchanal with nude revelers, a crowned man raising a gold cup, and a tambourine player.

A Bacchanal

Johan Danckerts, 1648

Three hanging scrolls with shellfish, plum blossoms, a red table, and small figures above, framed by handwritten calligraphy.

Shellfish and Apparitions of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1811

Three hanging scrolls showing seated court poets in robes against misty grey backgrounds, one holding a paper scroll.

Portraits of Three Famous Poets: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Lady Ise, and Ono no Komachi

Tosa Mitsuoki, 1691

Miniature portrait of a seated woman with curled light hair, white dress and rose corsage, beside a quill and inkstand.

Mrs. Richard Peters (Abigail Willing)

Walter Robertson, 1803

Two hanging scrolls of ink figures: one crouched with a broom seen from behind, one standing on a rock grinning with a scroll

Hanshan and Shide

Yosa Buson, early 1770s

Pair of hanging scrolls showing misty mountains, boats on a lake, and a blue-roofed pavilion beside pine trees on gold clouds

Yueyang Pavilion

Kanō Isen’in Naganobu, 1823

Oval-framed miniature portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a brown coat and white shirt, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Jean-Baptiste Sambat, 1780

Hanging scroll pair: pink and white tree peonies on the left, black ink calligraphy poem on the right, blue brocade mounts.

Tree Peonies and Chinese Poem on Peonies

Keibun, ca. 1830s

Album leaf of a mountain landscape with a rider on horseback, farmers in a field, a porter with baskets, and pine trees.

Odes of the State of Bin: The Seventh Month

Fei Qinghu, late 18th-early 19th century

Little Hope

Little Hope

Paul Klee, 1938

Painted album page showing a seated Buddha in a wooden pavilion, with monks in yellow robes praying and Burmese script below.

Scenes from Life of the Buddha

King Mindon, 1880s

Grayscale still life of white peonies in a dark vase with scattered petals below, against a shadowed background.

Peonies

Wilton Lockwood, ca. 1910

Miniature portrait of a young man in a black cap and grey cape holding a cane, in an ornate gilt frame.

Alfred Sully

Thomas Sully, ca. 1839

Miniature portrait of a woman in a straw bonnet and dark shawl, holding a flower basket before a pink sky and hills.

Portrait of a Woman

Vincent Bertrand, ca. 1810

Pastoral scene of shepherds, flowers, goats and cattle beside a stream and classical fountain under trees.

Shepherd's Idyll

François Boucher, 1768

Oval miniature portrait of an older bald man in a green fur-collared coat and white lace jabot, in a gilt frame.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), after a Painting by Greuze of 1777

Charles Paul Jérôme de Bréa, 1777

Miniature portrait of a dark-haired woman with bare shoulder, red shawl and pink rose, in a gilded oval frame.

Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773-1806)

Giovanni Battista Gigola

Painting of washerwomen working by a stream below a stone bridge, with a donkey, dog, and cow in a wooded landscape.

Washerwomen

François Boucher, 1768

Oval miniature portrait of a young woman with curled hair, maroon dress and white lace collar, in a gold frame.

Lola Montez (1818-1861)

Round portrait of a man in a red cap and red jacket with gold initials, against a teal background, in a gilded frame.

Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532-35

Twelve Heads

Flora

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1654

Circular grisaille painting of a classical portico with a tall column, elegant figures, arcades and towers in a courtyard.

A Renaissance Portico with Elegant Figures

Hendrick van Steenwijck II, ca. 1615

Painting of a mounted commander with an eagle standard leading soldiers in a battle before a smoking walled city.

The Capture of Carthage

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1725-29

Madame Ingouf

Vincent, ca. 1790

Circular painting of Roman ruins with brick towers, fallen columns, and small figures under a blue sky.

A Roman Landscape with Figures

Goffredo Wals, probably 1630s