Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Tommaso Minardi

Lunette Design with Madonna and Child Enthroned Flanked by Two Flying Angels

Unknown Maker, Florentine

Triumphal Car Depicting the Allegory of Vice

Giorgio Vasari

The Arrest of Christ

William Daniell

Near Anjere Point Straits of Sunda, Island of Java

Anthony van Dyck

Christ Bearing the Cross

Francesco Mazzuoli, called II Parmigianino

Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist

A young woman standing erect seen from behind pointing her fan to her dressing table. She wears wide petticoats, corset, crown, and heels. Two small dogs play at her feet.

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Lady Dressing

A brown ink and wash depicting three female allegories. From left to right: Charity breastfeeding an infant, Justice holding a sword, and Prudence pointing to a mirror.

Elisabetta Sirani

Study for Allegory of Justice Charity, and Prudence

A pen and ink and drawing of a deceased man's will being opened. Beside the deceased, one man reads off a paper as others fight for his possessions in anguish.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

The Opening of the Will

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Country Dance

A pen and ink with brown wash drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The Cross is centered in the drawing.

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Deposition

An illusionistic drawing of sheets of printed papers haphazardly piled on a speckled green surface. The papers look convincingly three dimensional but are in fact renderings on a two-dimensional surface.

Willem Robart

Trompe l’Oeil with Printed Matter

Esaias van de Velde I

Frozen Canal before a Farm in Winter

A lightly drawn pen and ink rendering of a triumphal procession from the Old Testament. Abigail kneels in supplication at enter left. David stands proudly in the middle right.

Hendrik de Clerck

David and Abigail

Francesco Solimena

Alexander's Defeat of Darius at the Battle of Arbela

Angelica Kauffmann

Portrait of Stanislas III Poniatowski

Felice Giani

Vestal Virgins Showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate

An ink and wash drawing of scenes from Saint Joseph’s life, including Jesus’ birth and childhood. The scenes are presented within an ornate wall with figurative sculptures at the top.

Marco Tullio Montagna

Scenes from the Life of Saint Joseph

Pieter Jansz. Pourbus

Study for The Last Judgment

A pen and ink drawing of Hercules and other figures in a physical. Floating in the sky above and behind him are three female allegories: Victory, Honor, and Fame.

Carlo Maratti

Double-Sided Sheet with Studies of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides