Metropolitan Museum of Art - Selections From The Permanent Collection of Paintings

Selections From The Permanent Collection of Paintings

  • Jan van Eyck, Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych, c. 1430–40

  • Rogier van der Weyden, Polyptych with the Nativity, c. 1450

  • Paolo Uccello, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1450, Florence

  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565

  • Caravaggio, The Musicians, 1595

  • El Greco, View of Toledo, 1596

  • El Greco, The Opening of the Fifth Seal (1608–1614

  • Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Juan de Pareja, 1650

  • Rembrandt, Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, 1653

  • Johannes Vermeer, Woman with a Lute, 1662

  • Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

  • Marie-Denise Villers, Young Woman Drawing, 1801

  • Francisco Goya, Majas on a Balcony, 1835

  • J.M.W. Turner, The Grand Canal, 1835

  • Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836

  • George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, c. 1845

  • Eugène Delacroix, Christ Asleep during the Tempest, 1853

  • Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853-1855

  • Édouard Manet, The Dead Christ with Angels, 1864

  • Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, 1872

  • Édouard Manet, Boating 1874

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mme. Charpentier and Her Children, 1878

  • Jules Bastien-Lepage, Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), 1879

  • John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame X, 1884

  • Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887

  • Vincent van Gogh, Cypresses,1889

  • Paul Cézanne, The Card Players, 1890-1892

  • Claude Monet, The Four Trees, (Four Poplars on the Banks of the Epte River near Giverny), 1891

  • Paul Gauguin, The Midday Nap, 1894

  • Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899

  • Claude Monet, The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog), 1903–1904

  • Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906

  • Henri Matisse, The Young Sailor II, 1906

  • Henri Rousseau, The Repast of the Lion, c. 1907

  • Amedeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hebuterne, 1919

  • Charles Demuth, Figure 5 in Gold, 1928

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