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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Ink painting of a crane standing beside tall reeds at water's edge, in soft grey tones on pale silk.

Crane Among Reeds

Kawabata Gyokushō, 1887-92

Ink painting of a dark rooster with a long black tail beside a pale hen, both on a beige silk ground.

Cock and Hen

Kawabata Gyokushō, 1887-92

Four shrimp swim among wispy green seaweed on a soft grey silk background, with a signature in the upper right.

Shrimp (Ebi)

Seki Shūkō, ca. 1890-92

Small fish swim in a swirling current across a grey silk ground, with thin water plants along the bottom edge.

Small Fishes

Seki Shūkō, ca. 1890-92

Three otters swim in misty grey water, painted in soft ink on silk with a signature and red seals at right.

Otters Swimming

Seki Shūkō, ca. 1890-92

Three slender needlefish swim across a pale silk ground beside a pink branch and green leaves.

Three Fishes and a Branch

Seki Shūkō, ca. 1890-92

Two pale eels curl beside brown mushrooms and green grass on silk, with calligraphy and red seals at upper right.

Eels

Seki Shūkō, ca. 1890-92

Three hanging scrolls of a misty landscape with waterfall, pines, red maples, and white cherry blossoms, with figures seated

Nunobiki Waterfall, Mount Yoshino, and Tatsuta River

Kanō Tsunenobu, after 1709

Woman in blue silk dress and straw hat painting at an easel, with two young women watching beside her in a studio.

Self-portrait with two pupils

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1785

Painting of bound Christ in a crown of thorns presented before a man in red, with a Gothic town square behind.

Christ Shown to the People

Jan Mostaert, 1510-15

Oval portrait of a bearded man with graying hair in a black garment and white lace ruff against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632

Young woman with curled blonde hair sketching at a drawing board by a window, in a white dress, with two figures on a balcony

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes

Marie-Denise Villers, 1801

Half-length portrait of a man in a dark costume and metal breastplate, holding a red plume, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man with a Breastplate and Plumed Hat

Rembrandt van Rijn

Painting of tall trees and a grassy clearing in a shaded forest, with a broken stump at left and dense green foliage behind.

Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Achille Etna Michallon, 1812

Painting of a kneeling woman about to be sacrificed, with a raised dagger, a brazier, armored soldiers and mourning onlookers

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

Four young musicians with a lute and violin, one with wings, around open sheet music, painted in warm tones.

The Musicians

Caravaggio, 1595

Two bare-shouldered women in blue and purple cloth hold fruit and pink blossoms against a dense green background.

Two Tahitian women with mango flowers

Paul Gauguin, 1899

Painting of a woman in a red wrap carrying a child on her shoulders, with other women, fruit and tropical trees in the backgr

Hail Mary

Paul Gauguin, 1891

Small painting of men raising a timber frame beside a house on a dirt road, with a white horse and a tree at right.

House Raising

William P. Chappel, 1870s

Nude woman leaning over shallow lake water under a hazy golden sky with distant mountains, by Paul Émile Chabas.

September morning

Paul Émile Chabas, 1912

Full-length painting of a man in a dark coat and black hat holding a walking stick on a sunlit grassy path.

Portrait of the Painter

John La Farge, 1859

Four saints in a dark forest: a bald man with keys, a veiled woman beside a dragon, a woman with a chalice, and a bearded man

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Antonio da Correggio, 1515

Oval miniature portrait of a young woman with curly brown hair in a white dress, blue sash and red shawl, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Lady

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, 1805

Painting of three women by a stream with a brown horse drinking, rocky background, and reflections in the water.

Portrait of Mlle Fiocre in the Ballet

Edgar Degas, 1867

Full-length portrait of a young woman in a striped gold and silver gown beside a gilded chair and red drapery.

Maria Luisa of Parma (1751-1819), Later Queen of Spain

Laurent Pêcheux, 1765

Black and white view of a young woman in a white bonnet and ruff collar, wearing layered chains against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Pieter Pourbus, 1544

Pastel portrait of a man in a pink coat, lace jabot and powdered wig, with roses at his chest, against a grey-green backgroun

Portrait of Olivier Journu (1724-1764)

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, 1756

Painting of a wooded landscape with a kissing couple beside goats, distant figures on a path, and a sea view.

The Three Ages of Man

Dosso Dossi, 1515

Bearded friar in brown habit gazes upward beside a crucifix, with a dusky rocky landscape behind him.

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci, 1597

Miniature portrait of two men in a book-lined room with a piano, a greyhound, and an oval portrait on the wall.

Joseph and Karl August von Klein

Heinrich Franz Schalck, 1810