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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,431 works

Pastel of a blonde woman in a grey dress examining a straw hat with blue trim on a checkered sofa.

At the Milliner's

Edgar Degas, 1881

Painting of the Virgin Mary with a golden halo surrounded by robed apostles holding a candle, palm and book.

The Dormition of the Virgin; (reverse) Christ Carrying the Cross

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, ca. 1510

Painting of tepees, horses and figures beside large trees in an open landscape under a cloudy sky.

An Indian Encampment

Ralph Albert Blakelock, ca. 1880-1900

Painting of rough green sea waves breaking white against dark rocky cliffs under a grey overcast sky.

Cannon Rock

Winslow Homer, 1895

Painting of a crowned Virgin in red holding a child, flanked by two angels in dark gowns and two kneeling infants.

Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados (Our Lady of the Forsaken)

Spanish Painter, 18th century

Panel painting of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary, the Christ Child, kneeling kings, attendants and a star above.

Adoration of the Magi

Unknown artist, ca. 1470-90

Ink landscape on round silk fan: thatched house beside pine trees and a rocky cliff, with distant mountains in misty sky.

Returning Home in a Driving Rain

Xia Gui, early 13th century

Oval miniature portrait of a heavyset man in a grey coat and pink cravat, set in a silver pendant frame.

William Gale

Joseph Dunkerley, 1776

Oval miniature of three women with curled brown hair and ribbons against a turquoise background, in a gilt frame.

Madame Jerome Bonaparte (Elizabeth Patterson)

Thomas Sully, ca. 1805-10

Ink and light color landscape album leaf with steep mountain, pavilion by water, pines and distant blue hills.

Landscapes in the styles of ancient masters

Wang Jian, 17th century

Ink painting of gnarled plum branches under a pale moon, with two figures on rocks and misty mountains behind.

Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight

Ma Yuan, early 13th century

Heian-style painting of court ladies on a veranda and garden with a pond, ducks and snowy shrubs on gold ground.

The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)

Tosa Mitsusada, 17th century

Circular fan leaf painting of a toad beside red peonies, blue flowers and orchid leaves, with calligraphy and red seals.

Flower and Toad

Standing robed figure with red staff inside a circular medallion framed by scalloped cloud motifs on brown silk.

Twelve Designs for Circular Mirror

Ink landscape with twisted pine trees on a rocky cliff, two seated figures, and a distant misty mountain.

Landscapes in the styles of old masters

Ink landscape of bare trees on a riverbank, a small boat with three figures on still water, and misty mountains behind.

Landscapes after Tang-dynasty poems

Sheng Maoye, mid-17th century

Ink sketch of men relaxing in a boat under a thatched canopy, fishing, with calligraphy and a red seal beside.

After Ike no Taiga and Yosa Buson’s Ten Conveniences and Ten Pleasures

Totoki Baigai, 1800

Pair of hanging scrolls with blue irises, a kingfisher on a post on the left, and swallows over rocks on the right.

Irises

Suzuki Kiitsu, mid-1850s

Woodblock print of a biwa lute on a patterned cover with a red tassel, with cursive poem text above.

Biwa (Japanese Lute) with Cover

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Brown wash drawing of an armored rider on a rearing horse, with a fallen nude figure beneath the hooves.

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio del Pollaiuolo, 1480

Black-and-white Japanese print of two women in patterned kimono, one wearing a wide hat, with script along the border.

Leaf from One Hundred Japanese Women

Hishikawa Moronobu, ca. 1695

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one playing a biwa lute and the other a koto, with calligraphy above.

Two Ladies; One is Playing the Biwa (Japanese Lute) and the Other, the Koto (Japanese Harp)

Kubo Shunman, probably 1815

Grey wash drawing of a large oak tree on a sandy dune beside a winding road, with hills and a fence in the distance.

Dune Landscape with Oak Tree

Jacob van Ruisdael, 1650-55

Three Japanese women in patterned kimono and upswept hairstyles, drawn in black ink on a pale woodblock print page.

Leaf from a Book Entitled: Wakoku Hiaku-jo: One Hundred Japanese Women

Hishikawa Moronobu, 1625

Woodblock print of a koto harp draped in patterned silk beside a sho reed organ, with calligraphy above.

Koto (Japanese Harp) and Sho (Reed Organ)

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Pastel drawing of three ballet dancers in tutus preparing in a studio, one bending forward, one seated, by Edgar Degas.

Three Dancers Preparing for Class

Edgar Degas, after 1878

Pen and brown wash drawing of mourning figures in draped garments, one wearing a feathered headdress, beside bows and arrows.

Indians Lamenting the Approach of the White Man (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Frederick Stiles Agate, ca. 1830

Woman in a floral kimono beside a hagoita paddle and shuttlecock, with vertical calligraphy and red seals on a woodblock prin

Girl and a Hagoita (Japanese Battledore and Shuttlecock)

Kubo Shunman, probably 1815

Pastel drawing of a nude woman with red hair bending forward and drying her foot with a white towel.

Woman Drying Her Foot

Edgar Degas, 1885-86

Pencil sketch of a man seated backward on a chair beside a table with a bottle, with an overturned chair on the floor.

Study for Facing the Enemy (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Francis William Edmonds, ca. 1845