Portraits
The oldest promise in art: to keep a face alive. Court painters, itinerant limners, society photographers, and printmakers all answered it differently — seventeen thousand answers are gathered here.
17,244 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
Penny Picture Display, Savannah
Walker Evans, 1936
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)
Gustav Klimt, 1912–13
A Rose
Thomas Anshutz, 1907
Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress
Paul Cézanne, 1888–90
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
William Merritt Chase, 1885
By the Seashore
Auguste Renoir, 1883
Julia Jackson
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867
![[Woman Seen from the Back] by Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/woman-seen-from-the-back-283121.webp)
[Woman Seen from the Back]
Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas, ca. 1862
Madame Félix Gallois
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1852
Henri-Charles Maniglier
Unknown, ca. 1850
Euphemia White Van Rensselaer
George P. A. Healy, 1842
Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co
Henry Inman, 1832–33
Hayne Hudjihini, Eagle of Delight
Henry Inman, 1832–33
Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes
Gilbert Stuart, 1794
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1790
Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)
Augustin Pajou, 1789
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1789
Francis Brinley
John Smibert, 1729
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany
Giovanni Battista Foggini, ca. 1680–82
Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1665–67
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1665–67
Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)
Gerard ter Borch the Younger, ca. 1666–67
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez), 1650
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman, recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), ca. 1600
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1532
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll
Bronze portrait of a man
The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton
Thomas Eakins, 1900
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1888, cast 1890
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Kenyon Cox, 1887, replica 1908
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh, 1887
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet, 1866
![[Female Nude in Studio] by Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/female-nude-in-studio-282602.webp)
[Female Nude in Studio]
Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes, 1856–59
![[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat] by John Adams Whipple](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/cornelius-conway-felton-with-his-hat-and-coat-282046.webp)
[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat]
John Adams Whipple, early 1850s
![[Two Standing Female Nudes] by Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/two-standing-female-nudes-282051.webp)
[Two Standing Female Nudes]
Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin, ca. 1850
Cameo
George W. Jamison|William Rose, ca. 1835
Michael Angelo and Emma Clara Peale
Rembrandt Peale, ca. 1826
Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), 1787–88
Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog
Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1769
Self-Portrait
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1660
Self-portrait
Simon Bening, 1558
Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini
Maestro delle Storie del Pane, 1494(?)
春屋妙葩像 自賛|Portrait of Shun'oku Myōha
Unidentified artist, ca. 1383
Marble portrait bust of the emperor Gaius, known as Caligula
Self-Portrait
Egon Schiele, 1911
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)
Georges Seurat|Edmond-François Aman-Jean, 1882–83
Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1868–69