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The Collection
Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
12th–early 13th century
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”
Musō Soseki
early to mid-14th century
Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
ca. 1294–1279 B.C.
Bronze statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand
late 1st century BCE
The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes
Charles Nègre
1858–59
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling
ca. 1470
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)
ca. 1528
Damascus Room
dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)
Kaikei
early 13th century
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer
ca. 1763–64
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi
ca. 1440
Night-Shining White
Han Gan
ca. 750
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck
ca. 1436–38
Head of a ruler
ca. 2300–2000 BCE
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David
ca. 1510
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat
1887–88
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen
ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
Mirror-bearer
Maya artist(s)
410–650 CE
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
Our Lady of Valvanera
Unknown
ca. 1770–80
Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret
332–30 BCE
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
early 9th century
Marie Antoinette in a Park
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
ca. 1780–81
Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)
Jean Antoine Houdon
1788
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus
1446
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen
ca. 1624–25
Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I
ca. 1525–1504 B.C.
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
ca. 1180
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
ca. 1944 B.C.
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)
ca. 1485–95
American Barque "Jane Tudor," Conway Bay
David Johnson
ca. 1855
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David
ca. 1510
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David
ca. 1512–15
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
1597
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
500–550, with modern restoration
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger
1532
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage
1879
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur
1852–55
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau
1864