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Prefer a slower look? These 80 artworks each have their own page with a short write-up and the museum's own record. Browse by type: European painting American art Asian art Ancient art Sculpture and objects
A Genoese Lady with Her Child
Anthony van Dyck, c. 1623–25
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat, 1884–86, border added 1888–89
Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf D (previous leaf 2)
Xiao Yuncong, 1668
Amphora Vase
Unknown maker (China), 1723–35
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1653
Armor for Man and Horse with Völs-Colonna Arms
Unknown maker (North Italy), c. 1575
Bell (Lai Zhong)
Unknown maker (China), c. 800–700 BCE
Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead
John Constable, 1828
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1835
Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
Piet Mondrian, 1927
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
Caravaggio, 1606–7
Cupid and Psyche
Jacques-Louis David, 1817
Danaë
Orazio Gentileschi, c. 1623
Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615
Early Morning After a Storm at Sea
Winslow Homer, 1900–1903
Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro, 1879
Farmer Returning Home in Autumn
Yosa Buson, 1781
Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki)
Unknown maker (Japan), c. 2500 BCE
Frieze of Dancers
Edgar Degas, c. 1895
Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl
Unknown maker (Egypt), c. 25–37 CE
George Washington at Princeton
Charles Willson Peale, c. 1779
Haniwa Horse
Unknown maker (Japan), 400s–500s CE
Head of Sekhmet
Unknown maker (Egypt), c. 1391–1353 BCE
Interior of a Church
Emanuel de Witte, c. 1680
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1747
John the Baptist
Robert Campin, c. 1410
Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe
Claude Monet, 1882
Low Waterfall in a Wooded Landscape with a Dead Beech Tree
Jacob van Ruisdael, c. 1660–70
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)
John Singer Sargent, 1883–84
Mount Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cezanne, c. 1904
Mount Starr King, Yosemite
Albert Bierstadt, 1866
Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope
Unknown maker (Egypt), c. 1427–1401 BCE
Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi
Gustave Courbet, 1877
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte, 1877
Peregrine Falcons (Duck Hawks)
John James Audubon, c. 1827
Pine Tree
Giovanni Segantini, c. 1897
Portrait Head of Emperor Vespasian, Recut from Head of Nero
Unknown maker (Italy), 64–79 CE
Portrait of a Family Playing Music
Pieter de Hooch, 1663
Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote
Joseph Wright of Derby, c. 1771–72
Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman
Frans Hals, 1634
Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape
Petrus Christus, c. 1445
Saint Lawrence
Tilman Riemenschneider, 1502–8
Saint Peter Repentant
Georges de La Tour, 1645
Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong
Matsumura Goshun, 1785
South Wind, Clear Sky (Red Fuji)
Katsushika Hokusai, early 1830s
Square Wine Container (Fangyou)
Unknown maker (China), c. 1250–1046 BCE
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
Claude Monet, 1890–91
Stag at Sharkey's
George Bellows, 1909
Statue of Gudea
Unknown maker (Mesopotamia), c. 2144–2124 BCE
Table Fountain
Unknown maker (France), c. 1320–40
Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti
Unknown maker (Egypt), c. 1353–1347 BCE
Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry)
Antonio Canova, 1816
The Age of Bronze
Auguste Rodin, 1875–76
The Annunciation
Paolo Veronese, c. 1580
The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake
Thomas Eakins, 1873
The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt, 1893
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas, 1874
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David, 1787
The Great Wave (Under the Wave off Kanagawa)
Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32
The Holy Family on the Steps
Nicolas Poussin, 1648
The Holy Family with Mary Magdalen
El Greco, c. 1590–95
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret
Filippino Lippi, c. 1488–93
The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)
Albert Pinkham Ryder, c. 1896–1908
The Thinker
Auguste Rodin, c. 1880
Tomb Guardian with Animal Head
Unknown maker (China), early 700s
Torso of a Kouros
Unknown maker (Greece), c. 550 BCE
Twilight in the Wilderness
Frederic Edwin Church, 1860
View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
Thomas Cole, 1838
View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), ca. 1599–1600
Virgin and Child
Hans Memling, c. 1470–80
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze, 1851
Water Lilies
Claude Monet, 1906
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet, c. 1915–26
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes
Douris, c. 500–490 BCE
Wine Cup with Children at Play
Unknown maker (China), 1465–87
Wineglass and a Bowl of Fruit
Willem Kalf, 1663
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662
Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
Unknown artist (ancient Egypt), ca. 1299–1290 BCE
Guides
Short guides to looking at art, written with AI assistance and checked against museum records.
- How to look at a painting: a slow-looking guide
A practical way to spend five minutes with any painting and see more in it. - Oil painting basics: what the paint is and why it lasts
What oil paint is made of, how it dries and why painters have used it for centuries. - A short guide to Impressionism
How a group of painters in 1870s Paris changed what a painting could look like. - Public domain and CC0: why these images are free to show
What it means when a museum releases its images and data as open access. - How artists paint light: from candle to sunrise
Five paintings, five ways of showing light, and what each one tells you. - Ancient Egyptian art: what to notice
A short guide to how Egyptian artists showed gods, kings and ordinary people, with examples from museum collections. - Greek vases: a beginner's guide
How to tell black-figure from red-figure and white-ground pottery, and why painted vases matter to art history. - Chinese bronzes and porcelain: a short tour
From ritual wine vessels and bells to porcelain cups and vases, a tour of four works from different dynasties. - American landscape painting of the 1800s
How painters like Cole, Church, Bierstadt and Homer used the land to tell big stories. - How to read a museum label: dates, credit lines and accession numbers
What the small print under each artwork tells you, using examples from this site.
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