Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,133 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,769 of them are available online. There are 2,338 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

Enter your search terms below or begin with a random object.

showing 20 works out of 27937

A pen and ink with brown wash gestural drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The faceless figures create a pyramid form.

Luca Cambiaso

Descent from the Cross

A loosely brushed watercolor landscape painting of a breezy green field of hay and a cloudy but bright blue sky. In the midground, peasants and horses work the hayfields.

David Cox the Elder

The Hayfield

Aged, brown print of various aged figures performing household chores on a winding hilltop with trees. The older figures hang laundry and tend the fields and younger figures comb goats.

Unknown Maker, French

Landscape Wallpaper

Weathered, blue wallpaper with repeating motifs of white doves next to white ribboned pink and white flower bouquets and in blotchy textured black trees.

Unknown Maker, French

Birds and Flowers Wallpaper

Scuffed wallpaper with multiple turquoise and brown-toned jagged zigzag lines layered and repeated on top of a brown muted background.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Imitating Fabric

Aged, gray toned print of fishermen at shore with trees and building ruins on a cliffside behind them. A thick intricate border with leaves and dotted embellishments surrounds the landscape.

Claude-Joseph Vernet

Marine Scene Dado

Weathered, light blue wallpaper with repeating motifs of red and pink flowers next to a black-spotted white dog standing on a tree and looking at a bird in the branches.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Wallpaper

Deep teal wallpaper with eccentric, red flowers and long blue leaves attached to winding dark blue branches throughout.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Garlands and Flowers Wallpaper

Aged, polka-dotted cream wallpaper with repeating light gray winged baby statues standing on a pedestal. Stemmed salmon pink flowers and floral garlands, which vary in size, surround the pedestal.

Unknown Maker, French

Garlands and Cupids Wallpaper

Intricate and elegant patterns of draping florals and tassel motifs done in white appear embossed on a warm dark orange backdrop

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Flowers and Garlands Wallpaper

Decorative pattern of various metallic brown vases surrounded by large, vivid blooming flowers set against a warm orange backdrop with subtle teal medallions and gold patterns.

Jacquemart et Bénard

Flowers and Ornaments Wallpaper

Wallpaper with a pink and green floral border and two repeating, winding vines with green bordered pink leaves and green dotted geometric shapes, atop a plaid gray pattern underneath.

Unknown Maker, French

Pair of Flocked Wallpaper Borders

Print of repeating blue vases with a floral, geometric border above and thin lined border below. Yellow dotted embellishments are along its neck and raised leaf motifs around its base.

Jacquemart et Bénard

Wallpaper Dado

Unknown Maker, Turkish

Qur'an Pages

Unknown Maker, Egyptian

Page from a Qur'an

Sultan Muhammad

Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad, Safavid

At the center of a cream paper, a drawing of a nude woman in gray with yellow hair. A skirt of white heads and arms juts out from her hips.

Chris Hammerlein

Untitled (Woman on pedestal)

Pietro Perugino

Study of Three Figures (saint Augustine Saint Monica, and the Virgin Mary)

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Neptune and Salacia

A wallpaper panel depicting a palatial courtyard framed by ornate blue and green drapery with stone archways, columns, and two lion statues flanking a cobblestone path.

Unknown Maker, French

View of Venice Wallpaper