The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
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The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur
634 likes104 comments
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage
1534 likes24 comments
Pair-case watch with alarm
Adam Roumeau
1202 likes132 comments
Man Weighing Gold
Adriaen Isenbrant
781 likes71 comments
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi
1494 likes124 comments
Head Of A Man Facing To The Left
Leonardo da Vinci
525 likes35 comments
Sleeping Cupid
Caravaggio
1087 likes57 comments
Studies Of A Bear Walking
Leonardo da Vinci
617 likes127 comments
Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo
Anthony van Dyck
688 likes18 comments
Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi
1170 likes60 comments
Girl carrying a crucifix and stepping toward a pilaster, seen from behind
Guido Reni
1519 likes89 comments
The Head of a Woman Looking Up (Judith)
Guido Reni
543 likes93 comments
The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni
1472 likes42 comments
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh
1472 likes142 comments
The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet
1195 likes45 comments
The Death of Cleopatra
Guido Cagnacci
1014 likes24 comments
Studies of Flying Putti (recto); Composition Studies (verso)
Guido Reni
544 likes94 comments
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat
656 likes126 comments
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix
1467 likes37 comments
Monsieur de Bellefourière
French Painter
988 likes98 comments
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour
983 likes53 comments
Studies For A Nativity
Leonardo da Vinci
1424 likes94 comments
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Jan Massys
1068 likes58 comments
Guillaume Budé (1467–1540)
Jean Clouet
1079 likes109 comments
The Last Communion Of St Jerome
Sandro Botticelli
1519 likes49 comments
The Finding of Moses
Jacopo Tintoretto
1231 likes121 comments
Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens
477 likes27 comments
Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love
Michele Desubleo
1169 likes119 comments
The Judgment of Paris
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1472 likes42 comments
A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler
870 likes120 comments
Man in a Turban
Rembrandt
1045 likes115 comments
Young Woman with a Red Necklace
Rembrandt
1281 likes31 comments
Anger (Ira), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins
Pieter van der Heyden
1473 likes123 comments
Lust (Luxuria) from The Seven Deadly Sins
Pieter van der Heyden
1472 likes122 comments
Venus and the Lute Player
Titian
1224 likes114 comments
The Lamentation
Scipione Pulzone
1172 likes102 comments
River Landscape with Mercury Abducting Psyche
Simon Novellanus
666 likes96 comments
Divan of Sultan Husayn Baiqara
Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi
752 likes142 comments
Pepito Costa Y Bonells
Francisco Goya
1315 likes65 comments
Tiburcio Pérez Y Cuervo
Francisco Goya
1344 likes94 comments
You'Ll See Later (Después Lo Veras)
Francisco Goya
1402 likes12 comments
Three Men Digging
Francisco Goya
1407 likes17 comments
The Giant
Francisco Goya
946 likes56 comments
Sebastián Martínez
Francisco Goya
979 likes89 comments
Don Manuel Osorio Manrique De Zuñiga
Francisco Goya
1072 likes42 comments
Majas On Balcony
Francisco Goya
1101 likes71 comments
Dona Narcisa Baranana De Goicoechea
Francisco Goya
1106 likes76 comments
Christ on the Cross
Cecco del Caravaggio
842 likes92 comments
David standing with crossed legs and holding the head of Goliath on a pedestal at left, a sword on the ground, after Reni
Gilles Rousselet
1226 likes136 comments
Big Fish Eat Little Fish
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1472 likes102 comments
The Denial of Saint Peter
Ludovico Carracci
598 likes108 comments
Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni
Gian Battista Bolognini
678 likes88 comments
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1471 likes41 comments
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Massimo Stanzione
925 likes35 comments
Madonna and Child
Titian
1227 likes117 comments
Portrait of a Man
Jacopo Tintoretto
1229 likes119 comments
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys
1069 likes59 comments
Portrait of a Man
Thomas Forster
1054 likes24 comments
Portrait of a Man
Titian
1226 likes116 comments
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Andrea Solario
527 likes137 comments
Self-Portrait
Anthony van Dyck
687 likes17 comments
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Girolamo da Carpi
1578 likes48 comments
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Marcellus Coffermans
1076 likes106 comments
The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys
1071 likes61 comments
The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio
1278 likes88 comments
The Annunciation
Gerard David
1287 likes137 comments
The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano
1232 likes82 comments
The Annunciation
Joos van Cleve
565 likes135 comments
The Holy Family with Two Angels
Guido Reni
1255 likes145 comments
The Holy Family
Joos van Cleve
563 likes133 comments
The Last Judgment
Joos van Cleve
562 likes132 comments
The Lamentation
Ludovico Mazzolino
1220 likes30 comments
The Last Supper
NetherlandishPainters
1025 likes35 comments
The Virgin holding the infant Christ, a circular composition, after Reni
Anonymous, 17th century
748 likes58 comments
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1529 likes39 comments
Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve
561 likes131 comments
Virgin and Child
NetherlandishPainter
547 likes137 comments
Venus and Adonis
Titian
1225 likes115 comments
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas
1464 likes34 comments
Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer
723 likes53 comments
The Card Party
Caspar Netscher
1020 likes30 comments
Bust of a Bearded Figure
Andrea Solario
750 likes80 comments
Tobit Burying the Dead
Andrea di Lione
804 likes14 comments
Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci
718 likes108 comments
The Burial of Christ
Annibale Carracci
1406 likes16 comments
Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness
Annibale Carracci
1468 likes38 comments
The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci
717 likes107 comments
David standing with crossed legs and holding the head of Goliath on a pedestal at left, a sword on the ground, after Reni
Anonymous
1381 likes11 comments
David standing with crossed legs and holding the head of Goliath on a pedestal at left, a sword on the ground, after Reni
Anonymous
1280 likes50 comments
The Holy Family with young John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth, two angels above, after Reni
Anonymous, 17th century
746 likes56 comments
The Virgin holding the infant Christ, an oval composition, after Reni
Anonymous, 17th century
652 likes102 comments
The Virgin holding the infant Christ, after Reni
Anonymous, 17th century
752 likes62 comments
The Virgin holding the infant Christ, a circular composition, after Reni
Anonymous, 17th century
747 likes57 comments
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck
692 likes22 comments
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck
693 likes23 comments
Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Anthony van Dyck
662 likes132 comments
The Preaching of John the Baptist
Bartholomeus Breenbergh
419 likes29 comments
Saints Peter and Paul
Bartolomeo Manfredi
691 likes21 comments
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows
Bernard van Orley
1553 likes83 comments
Virgin and Child with Angels
Bernard van Orley
988 likes138 comments
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun
744 likes74 comments
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino
873 likes123 comments
Silk Animal Carpet
Caravaggio
959 likes49 comments
Hanging (?) Fragment
Caravaggio
1298 likes48 comments
The Musicians
Caravaggio
747 likes137 comments
Saint Philip Neri (1515–1595)
Carlo Dolci
1018 likes68 comments
Paradise
Carlo Saraceni
808 likes138 comments
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
Claude Lorrain
1106 likes136 comments
The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch
Cornelis Engebrechtsz
632 likes102 comments
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio
833 likes143 comments
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco
1347 likes17 comments
View of Toledo
El Greco
1345 likes15 comments
The Rape of Tamar
Eustache Le Sueur
921 likes131 comments
Saint Dominic in Penitence
Filippo Tarchiani
548 likes58 comments
Samson holding the jaw bone of an ass over his head and standing next to the Philistines he has just killed, more dead bodies in the background, a tapered composition with rounded top, after Reni
Flaminio Torre
446 likes56 comments
Tervueren Castle
Flanders
979 likes129 comments
Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591)
Francesco Salviati
689 likes79 comments
The Love Letter
Jacob Ochtervelt
990 likes140 comments
A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, Anno 1066, to the Year 1677
Francis Sandford
898 likes148 comments
The Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family walking together, Saint Joseph pointing to the left and the Virgin carrying the infant Christ, an angel in front of her offering a flower, after Reni
Francois de Poilly
704 likes114 comments
Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals
542 likes52 comments
Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals
569 likes79 comments
The Smoker
Frans Hals
539 likes49 comments
Boy with a Lute
Frans Hals
538 likes48 comments
Armed Three-Master Anchored Near a City from The Sailing Vessels
Frans Huys
1530 likes40 comments
A Brazilian Landscape
Frans Post
1233 likes23 comments
The Penitent Magdalen
Georges de La Tour
982 likes52 comments
The Van Moerkerken Family
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
599 likes69 comments
Curiosity
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
601 likes71 comments
Portrait of a Seated Man
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
600 likes70 comments
Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
658 likes128 comments
Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni
Gian Battista Bolognini
980 likes30 comments
Christ on the cross, Saint John the Baptist at right, Mary Magdelene and the Virgin at left, after Reni
Gian Battista Bolognini
672 likes82 comments
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Giovanni Battista Caracciolo
746 likes116 comments
Saint Matthew and the Angel
Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo
722 likes52 comments
The Annunciation
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
904 likes54 comments
The Flagellation; (reverse) The Madonna of Mercy
Girolamo Romanino
1251 likes101 comments
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Dominic and Angels
Giulio Cesare Procaccini
1199 likes129 comments
A Cat Stealing Fish
Giuseppe Recco
1075 likes145 comments
Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap
Govert Flinck
1080 likes50 comments
A Young Woman as a Shepherdess
Govert Flinck
1532 likes102 comments
Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino
603 likes113 comments
Charity
Guido Reni
1473 likes43 comments
The Reclining Headless Body of Holofernes; Study of Female Semi-Nude Figure (on a small separate, unrelated sheet of blue paper, pasted onto the lower left of the large sheet)
Guido Reni
547 likes97 comments
Girl with a Cushion
Guido Reni
1073 likes123 comments
The Holy Family with Scriptural Scene in Background
Guido Reni
1279 likes29 comments
The Madonna and Child in the Round
Guido Reni
1277 likes27 comments
The Virgin and Child at a table with the young John the Baptist
Guido Reni
1254 likes144 comments
Saint Christopher walking with the infant Christ on his right shoulder
Guido Reni
1250 likes140 comments
Young Saint John the Baptist kneeling before the infant Christ who caresses his face, the Virgin and Joseph in the background at right
Guido Reni
1249 likes139 comments
The Virgin holding the infant Christ, an oval composition
Guido Reni
1224 likes114 comments
Saint Jerome kneeling on a rock in front of a cross and an open book facing left
Guido Reni
1219 likes109 comments
Ecce Homo
Guido Reni
546 likes96 comments
Katharina Merian
Hans Brosamer
871 likes121 comments
Saint John the Baptist Preaching
Mattia Preti
1436 likes146 comments
Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti
1202 likes132 comments
Clothing the Naked
Michiel Sweerts
859 likes109 comments
Portrait of a Knight of Malta, Probably Fra Jacopo Salviati
Mirabello Cavalori
899 likes49 comments
The Crucifixion
Pedro Orrente
1111 likes61 comments
Sebastian Andorfer (1469–1537)
Hans Maler
1198 likes48 comments
Epileptics Walking to the Left from Pilgrimage of the Epileptics to the Church at Molenbeeck
Hendrick Hondius I
1107 likes57 comments
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen
837 likes87 comments
Twelve Heads
ItalianPainter
719 likes149 comments
The Holy Family with Shepherds
Jacob Jordaens
558 likes128 comments
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto
1253 likes143 comments
Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II
1075 likes105 comments
View of Heidelberg
Jan Brueghel the Elder
831 likes121 comments
A Woodland Road with Travelers
Jan Brueghel the Elder
844 likes94 comments
Anna van Bergen (1492–1541) and Her Son Hendrik (born 1519) as the Virgin and Child
Jan Gossart
1465 likes135 comments
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir
872 likes22 comments
The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalen
Johann Liss
1260 likes90 comments
A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer
1068 likes98 comments
Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer
1045 likes75 comments
Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer
1067 likes97 comments
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer
1044 likes74 comments
The Penitent Magdalene (Magdalena Poenitens), from "The Large Landscapes"
Johannes van Doetecum I
1491 likes21 comments
Shed with Cottage, from The Small Landscapes
Johannes van Doetecum I
1363 likes113 comments
Farm, from The Small Landscapes
Johannes van Doetecum I
1341 likes91 comments
Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
1099 likes129 comments
The Tears of Saint Peter
Jusepe de Ribera
539 likes149 comments
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera
1377 likes87 comments
Allegory of Music
Laurent de La Hyre
985 likes55 comments
Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto
1284 likes134 comments
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Rembrandt
1534 likes104 comments
Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer")
Rembrandt
1531 likes101 comments
Head of Christ
Rembrandt
1533 likes103 comments
Woman with a Pink
Rembrandt
1535 likes105 comments
Venus and Adonis
Peter Paul Rubens
478 likes28 comments
Friedrich III (1463–1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony
Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop
1445 likes15 comments
Johann I (1468–1532), the Constant, Elector of Saxony
Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop
1443 likes13 comments
The Lamentation
Ludovico Carracci
477 likes67 comments
The Agony in the Garden
Nicolas Poussin
715 likes45 comments
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus
Nicolas Poussin
1228 likes18 comments
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
Nicolas Poussin
723 likes133 comments
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin
1227 likes17 comments
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin
1230 likes20 comments
Jan (1438/41–1516), First Count of Egmond; Magdalena, Countess of Egmond (1464–1538)
North Netherlandish Painter
1043 likes33 comments
Head of an Old Woman
Orazio Borgianni
940 likes130 comments
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Orsola Maddalena Caccia
1170 likes120 comments
A Cardinal's Procession
Ottavio Leoni
1203 likes133 comments
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese
1013 likes43 comments
Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages
Paris Bordon
572 likes42 comments
The Disillusioned Medea
Paulus Bor
602 likes72 comments
Doge Andrea Gritti (1455–1538)
Titian
1200 likes90 comments
Alfonso d'Este (1486–1534), Duke of Ferrara
Titian
1223 likes113 comments
Avarice (Avaritia) from The Seven Deadly Sins
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1474 likes124 comments
The Ass at School
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
448 likes98 comments
Pride (Superbia) from The Seven Deadly Sins
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1496 likes146 comments
Avarice (Avaritia), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1470 likes120 comments
Euntes in Emaus (Landscape with Pilgrims at Emmaus), from "The Large Landscapes"
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
931 likes21 comments
Everyman
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
447 likes97 comments
Faith (Fides), from "The Virtues"
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1499 likes149 comments
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
866 likes116 comments
St. James and the Magician Hermogenes from The Story of the Magician Hermogenes
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1505 likes15 comments
St. James and the Magician Hermogenes
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1501 likes11 comments
The Dirty Bride or the Marriage of Mopsus and Nisa
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
813 likes43 comments
The Dirty Bride or The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
783 likes13 comments
Big Fish Eat Little Fish
Pieter van der Heyden
1492 likes22 comments
Avarice (Avaritia), from "The Seven Deadly Sins"
Pieter van der Heyden
1488 likes18 comments
Pride (Superbia), from "The Seven Deadly Sins"
Pieter van der Heyden
1487 likes17 comments
Sloth (Desidia), from "The Seven Deadly Sins"
Pieter van der Heyden
814 likes44 comments
The Merchant Robbed by Monkeys
Pieter van der Heyden
987 likes77 comments
The Fall of the Magician
Pieter van der Heyden
805 likes35 comments
Summer (Aestas), from "The Seasons"
Pieter van der Heyden
1490 likes20 comments
The Land of Cockaigne
Pieter van der Heyden
811 likes41 comments
The Battle about Money
Pieter van der Heyden
812 likes42 comments
Frieze fragment
Polidoro da Caravaggio
1266 likes16 comments
Military Procession
Polidoro da Caravaggio
1291 likes101 comments
Christ with a Staff
Rembrandt
1530 likes100 comments
Portrait of a Woman
Rembrandt
1528 likes98 comments
Man in a Beret
Rembrandt
1529 likes99 comments
Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family
Rembrandt
1044 likes114 comments
Portrait of a Man
Rembrandt
1043 likes113 comments
Man with a Magnifying Glass
Rembrandt
1010 likes80 comments
Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family
Rembrandt
1042 likes112 comments
Bellona
Rembrandt
1041 likes111 comments
Portrait of a Woman
Rembrandt
1019 likes89 comments
Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves
Rembrandt
1536 likes106 comments
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt
1015 likes85 comments
Portrait of a Man
Rembrandt
1537 likes107 comments
Susanna, partly naked and stepping out of a fountain with two elders at left, one of them pulling at her garment, after Reni
Theodor van Kessel
1249 likes19 comments
Portrait of a Woman
Thomas Forster
1053 likes23 comments
Woman Playing a Guitar
Simon Vouet
1434 likes84 comments
Saint Agapitus of Praeneste in the Arena; (interior) The Beheading of Saint Agapitus of Praeneste
Swiss Painter
837 likes87 comments
Saint Remigius Replenishing the Barrel of Wine; (interior) Saint Remigius and the Burning Wheat
Swiss Painter
836 likes86 comments
Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan
Titian
1228 likes118 comments
Lute Player
Valentin de Boulogne
654 likes24 comments
The Supper at Emmaus
Velázquez
1075 likes105 comments
Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez
1073 likes103 comments
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez
1072 likes102 comments
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez
1098 likes128 comments
María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain
Velázquez
1076 likes106 comments
Garden of the Inept Administrator
Wen Zhengming
564 likes74 comments
Charles I
Wenceslaus Hollar
1083 likes73 comments
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin
1439 likes149 comments
About the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Renaissance and Baroque collection
The The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s holdings of Renaissance and Baroque painting in New York sit among the most significant surviving collections of pre-modern European art. The works in this group — 256 paintings — span the themes of tragedy & death, daily life, portrait, religion & mythology, love & romance, power & politics, landscape and the hands of artists from Jacques Louis David, Rosa Bonheur, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Adam Roumeau, Adriaen Isenbrant.
If you’re planning a visit, use this page as a starting list of the must-see paintings. If you’re researching from a desk, each painting page goes deeper than a museum label: the patron, the symbolism a 17th-century viewer would have recognised, the technique under the surface, and where the painting fits in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s longer history.