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Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Our Lady of Valvanera
Unknown
ca. 1770–80
Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
Ugo da Carpi
ca. 1520–27
Mirror-bearer
Maya artist(s)
410–650 CE
American Barque "Jane Tudor," Conway Bay
David Johnson
ca. 1855
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
ca. 1180
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen
ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David
ca. 1512–15
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
ca. 1944 B.C.
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
1787
Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
ca. 1294–1279 B.C.
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David
ca. 1510
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun
ca. 1660
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand
late 1st century BCE
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin
1891
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage
1879
Damascus Room
dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen
ca. 1624–25
Enameled and Gilded Bottle
late 13th century
Boating
Edouard Manet
1874
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
early 9th century
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David
ca. 1510
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur
1852–55
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour
probably 1630s
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi
ca. 1440
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir
ca. 1515
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Habiballah of Sava
ca. 1600
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”
Musō Soseki
early to mid-14th century
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)
Kaikei
early 13th century
The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes
Charles Nègre
1858–59
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck
ca. 1436–38
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
500–550, with modern restoration
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
In proof of true love, a watercarrier skeleton arguing with a woman (Posada); two skeleton angels in upper corners (Manilla)
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1890–96
Night-Shining White
Han Gan
ca. 750
Marie Antoinette in a Park
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
ca. 1780–81
Head of a ruler
ca. 2300–2000 BCE
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
1867
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger
1532