Famous Paintings at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive art museums, with collections that span five thousand years of art and include ancient Egyptian artifacts, European old masters, nineteenth-century French painting, American art, Japanese prints, and modern photography. The museum's holdings are broad enough that a visitor can move from a seventeenth-century Dutch portrait to a Japanese woodblock print in a single afternoon. The paintings listed below are part of that collection; visitors can see them in person when they are on view, and this guide focuses on works in our catalogue that the Met owns.

Famous Paintings at the Met: Paintings from This Catalogue

This catalogue includes nine paintings held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ranging from a seventeenth-century Dutch portrait to a Japanese woodblock print and covering European, American, and Japanese art.

• French painter Charles Bargue, A Footman Sleeping (1871): a footman asleep in a domestic setting.
• British painter J. M. W. Turner, Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (1835): a view of Venice from the church porch named in the title.
• American painter Edward Lamson Henry, North Dutch Church, Fulton and William Streets, New York (1869): a view of the church and surrounding streets in New York.
• American painter William Trost Richards, Sundown at Centre Harbour, New Hampshire (1874): a landscape at sunset.
• Dutch painter Jan van Ravesteyn, Portrait of a Woman (1635): a formal portrait from the Dutch Golden Age.
• French painter Edgar Degas, The Dance Class (1874): ballet dancers in a rehearsal room, a subject he returned to often.
• Greek-born painter El Greco, View of Toledo (1596): a landscape of the Spanish city of Toledo.
• Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1830-1839): a color woodblock print of a towering wave with Mount Fuji in the distance.
• French painter Claude Monet, Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899): an Impressionist view of his garden at Giverny.

Before you go

Before your visit, check the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website to see which works from this list are currently on view. Paintings can be off display because of loans, conservation treatments, or the museum's regular rotations of works on paper. If you are looking for a particular painting, use the online collection search to confirm its gallery location before you arrive at the museum.