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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Abstract pastel composition of pink and gray curving forms with an elongated animal-like figure and black outlines.

Sentimental Music

Arthur Dove, 1913

Painting of the Madonna holding the nude Christ child, with a pomegranate, red carnations and a walled town behind.

Madonna and Child

Bramantino, 1508

Painting of a standing male nude seen from behind, arms clasped at his back, against a dark background.

Male nude, seen from behind

Hippolyte Flandrin, 1849

Round fan painting of misty mountains, a winding shore, and a lone robed figure standing at lower right, in ink on silk.

南宋梁楷澤畔行吟圖團扇

Liang Kai, 1250

Painting of a woman in a plumed hat and fur-collared coat, seen from behind, with a black poodle and vines on a yellow ground

Woman Standing Beside Railing with Poodle

Paul Ranson, 1895

Hanging scroll of a blue-green mountain landscape with pine trees and a robed figure walking on a path.

明/清傳陳洪綬青綠山水圖軸

Chen Hongshou, 1633

Seated bearded man in gray robe on banana leaves beside a jar and book, with Chinese calligraphy on silk.

明/清陳洪綬、陳字雜畫冊絹本

Chen Hongshou, 1627

Hanging scroll painting of a white peony with green leaves, buds and a butterfly on a grey background.

Flowers

Hanging scroll of two white rabbits beneath a full moon, with dark leaves, grasses and a trailing vine on grey ground.

Rabbits

Painting of a flowering branch with white blossoms and grey-green leaves on a muted tan background, with grasses at lower rig

Blossoming Trees

Seated woman in yellow drapery and laurel wreath holds a book, looking up under ivy with a tree and cloudy sky behind.

The Muse of Painting

John La Farge, 1870

Monk in brown habit kneels on rock, raising a crucifix toward a light-filled sky, with a skull and book at his feet.

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650

Seated older woman with white hair holding paper, beside an easel with horse sketches and a palette in a studio.

Rosa Bonheur

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, 1898

Painting of Christ's body supported by mourners before a rocky cave, with three crosses on a hill behind.

The Entombment

Moretto da Brescia, 1554

Oil painting of a man in a top hat and yellow coat beside a woman in a pink tiered dress reading, under trees.

The Two Central Figures in "Derby Day

William Powell Frith

Head Study of a Fisherman from Capri

Lorenz Frølich, 1849

Portrait of a woman in pink embroidered gown and lace ruff, holding a small white dog, against a dark green background.

Portrait of a Woman

Alonso Sánchez Coello, 1551

Painting of a young woman in a black hat and red top pulling on a stocking while seated on a grey surface.

The Model

Boris Grigoriev, 1926

Painted portrait of a youth in a red shirt holding a book, with a golden village landscape of haystacks and a wooden house be

Sergei Esenin (1895-1925) as a Youth

Boris Grigoriev, 1923

Small oval self-portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and white shirt, set in a gilt frame and velvet case.

Self-portrait

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1853

Painting of robed figures and a donkey passing a lit lantern beside an arched doorway on a dim, blue-toned street at night.

Study for "Christ at the Home of Lazarus"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859

Painting of a woman holding an infant on a donkey in a moonlit arched street, with a lantern and a robed figure beside them.

Flight into Egypt

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1923

Painting of a young woman in a white dress seated before dark foliage, gazing to the side with clasped hands.

Young Woman

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1898

Villagers in Breton dress holding lit candles in a stone courtyard, with an elderly man and a kneeling woman in the foregroun

The Pardon in Brittany

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, 1886

Painting of a haloed Madonna in white veil and dark mantle holding a nude infant, with pink flowers in a vase at right.

Madonna of the Rose

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, 1885

Painting of the Virgin in blue mantle gazing down at the nude infant Christ, with a landscape of castle, bridge and mountains

Madonna Adoring the Child

Bartolomeo Montagna, 1479

Painting of a woman with a halo holding a green palm frond, wearing a green gown and pearl necklace against a dark background

Saint Justina of Padua

Bartolomeo Montagna, 1490

Painting of three horses on a sunlit dirt path beside a pale wall, with dense foliage and a building behind them.

Horses

Albert Besnard, 1894

Painting of a seated man in a dark suit holding a gray hat, with a pale curtain behind him and a yellow chair.

Georges de Miré

Roger de La Fresnaye, 1910

Portrait of a woman in a dark embroidered dress and large white ruff, with a red and gold coat of arms in the upper right.

Margaretha van Clootwijk (born about 1580/81, died 1662), Wife of Jacob van Dalen

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1639