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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

313 works

Hanging scroll of a dark bird on a rock beside pink and yellow flowers, with blue-green leaves and calligraphy at upper left.

Flower and Bird

Zhang Xiong, dated 1878

Painting of Christ blessing loaves and fishes before a large crowd of richly dressed figures in a green landscape.

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1545

Two-panel folding screen with six small painted paper leaves showing flowers, a bird, pine and plum branches on grey ground.

Folding Screen for Tea Ceremony with Six Bird-and-Flower Paintings

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Painting of three miracles of Saint Zenobius showing mourners, clergy, a bier and a horse in a Renaissance city square.

Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius

Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1500

Ink painting on silk of several birds perched on branches, with soft grey washes and loose brushwork.

Birds in a lotus pond

Bada Shanren, 1690

Ink and color sketch of a striped tiger beside a rock, with a small fox at the right edge, on a handscroll.

Sketches of Birds and Animals

Kawanabe Kyōsai, late 19th century, before 1870

Painting of a medieval court scene with figures in red and white robes, a wolfhound, and a crowd of courtiers in a carved hal

"King Lear," Act I, Scene I

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898

Hanging scroll of two long-tailed birds on a blossoming plum branch with red camellias against a gold background.

Birds on a PlumTree

Kishi Ganku, 1767

Six-panel screen of ink gibbons climbing bare trees above rocks, waves and a pale moon on gold paper.

Gibbons in a Landscape

Sesson Shūkei, ca. 1570

Painting of nude men, centaurs and satyrs hunting wild animals in a forest, with fire and smoke in the distance.

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494-1500

Painting of the Nativity with kneeling Mary and Joseph, the infant Christ, an ox and donkey, angels, shepherds and a hilltown

The Nativity

Antoniazzo Romano, 1480s

Painting of several episodes from the Argonauts story: a ship, a golden procession, a rider crossing a bridge, and a city.

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Biagio d'Antonio

Painting of an angel and a young man kneeling with a fish, a white dog nearby, and a hilly landscape with a city behind.

Tobias and the Angel

Davide Ghirlandaio, ca. 1479

Painted panel of a horseback procession past a church, and a banquet of richly dressed figures under an arcade.

The Story of Esther

Marco del Buono Giamberti

Horizontal panel with armored riders, hunting dogs, a fortified gate, rocky cliffs and a ship in a gilded frame.

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Jacopo di Arcangelo, ca. 1465

Medieval panel of armored troops and horsemen with banners marching past tents, a walled harbor city, and ships.

The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo

Master of Charles of Durazzo, 1381-82

Gilded cassone panel showing a procession of carriages, camels and crowds passing walled cities across a hilly landscape.

King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Master of Lecceto

Painting of horse-drawn carts and a woman with a basket at a market square before whitewashed buildings.

Market Scene

August von Pettenkofen

Horizontal panel with three narrative scenes of horsemen, a Madonna and child, and a bed scene, framed by raised gilded borde

Scenes from a Legend; Coats of Arms

Master of Charles of Durazzo

Painting of a crumbling classical colonnade on a hillside, with a man reading a map, a pointing woman, a dog, and mountains b

A Colonnade in Ruins

Painting of a kneeling doge presented to the Redeemer by haloed saints, with a Venetian lagoon view behind.

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507-1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto, probably 1577

Painting of a richly robed rider on a white horse in a procession through a classical city with a crowd of onlookers.

The Triumph of Mordecai

Jean-François de Troy, ca. 1736

Painting of a woman in a fur-trimmed coat and feathered hat beside a balustrade with a black poodle on a yellow background.

Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle

Paul Ranson, ca. 1895

Painting of Christ blessing loaves and fishes before a crowd of richly dressed figures in a wide green landscape.

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

Jacopo Tintoretto, ca. 1545-50

Men in a golden marsh with long poles and a rifle, a white sailboat on the distant water under a pale sky.

Pushing for Rail

Thomas Eakins, 1874

Dark painting of a grounded two-masted ship beside a rocky cliff and cave, with small figures, a horse, and a hazy sea.

The Smugglers' Cove

Albert Pinkham Ryder, ca. 1880

Ink painting on a gold fan leaf of a bird perched among flowering branches with blossoms and leaves.

Bird on a flowering branch

Zhang Chong, late 16th or early 17th century

Hanging scroll of a black cat curled on rocks above white narcissus flowers, with calligraphy and red seals in the upper righ

Black Cat and Narcissus

Zhu Ling, 19th century

Gold-leaf screen with green hills, gold clouds, a palanquin procession, mounted riders and a boat on a river.

“An Imperial Excursion” (Miyuki), “A Boat Cast Adrift” (Ukifune), and “The Barrier Gate” (Sekiya)

Tosa Mitsuyoshi, mid-16th-early 17th century

Ink and colour painting of a robed horseback archer drawing a bow while galloping on a brown horse, with red seals.

Stag Hunt