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Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour
probably 1630s
Enameled and Gilded Bottle
late 13th century
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin
1891
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
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David
ca. 1512–15
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau
1864
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi
ca. 1440
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
early 9th century
Mirror-bearer
Maya artist(s)
410–650 CE
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
ca. 1944 B.C.
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
ca. 1180
Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)
Jean Antoine Houdon
1788
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David
ca. 1510
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”
Musō Soseki
early to mid-14th century
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat
1887–88
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus
1446
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
12th–early 13th century
The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes
Charles Nègre
1858–59
Boating
Edouard Manet
1874
Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I
ca. 1525–1504 B.C.
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David
ca. 1510
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen
ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
American Barque "Jane Tudor," Conway Bay
David Johnson
ca. 1855
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)
ca. 1440
Night-Shining White
Han Gan
ca. 750
Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
Ugo da Carpi
ca. 1520–27
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
1787
Damascus Room
dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Marie Antoinette in a Park
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
ca. 1780–81
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun
ca. 1660
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir
ca. 1515
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin
probably 1633–34
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
1597
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Habiballah of Sava
ca. 1600
Head of a ruler
ca. 2300–2000 BCE
Our Lady of Valvanera
Unknown
ca. 1770–80
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
1867