European Paintings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 2,301 artworks
One of the world's most comprehensive collections of European paintings, spanning from the 13th through the early 20th century. Masterworks by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, El Greco, Monet, Cézanne, and Van Gogh represent the full breadth of Western painting tradition.
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Featured Artworks
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)
Gustav Klimt
1912–13
The Repast of the Lion
Henri Rousseau (le Douanier)
ca. 1907
The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)
Ferdinand Hodler
1896
The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1892
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin
1891
The Shepherd's Song
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
1891
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne
1890–92
Irises
Vincent van Gogh
1890
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh
June 1889
Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress
Paul Cézanne
1888–90
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat
1887–88
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh
1887
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas
ca. 1886–88
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne
ca. 1890
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat
1884
By the Seashore
Auguste Renoir
1883
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage
1879
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir
1878
Boating
Edouard Manet
1874
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas
1874
Haystacks: Autumn
Jean-François Millet
ca. 1874
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
1868–77
Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme
1868–69
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
1867
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet
1866
Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet
1866
Sibylle
Camille Corot
ca. 1870
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas
1865
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau
1864
The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier
ca. 1862–64
The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet
1860
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur
1852–55
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet
1851–52
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau
ca. 1846–67
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix
1846
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner
ca. 1845
Hagar in the Wilderness
Camille Corot
1835
Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Caspar David Friedrich
ca. 1825–30
Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
ca. 1810
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1790
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
1789
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David
1788
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
1787
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1787–88
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough
1787
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
1785
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1782
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)
1779