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.

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

showing 20 works out of 375

Henri Gervex

The Coal Porter (sketch for Mairie 19th arrondissement, Paris)

Leon Kossoff

After Velázquez Christ after the Flagellation, Contemplated by the Christian Soul

Thomas Couture

Head of a Bishop

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Portrait of Walter Greaves

Oil painting depicting houses along water, with a bright sky above and distant horizon made up of expressive brushstrokes in vibrant shades of blue, yellow and green, with red accents.

Paul Cézanne

On the Banks of a River (Au Bord d'une Rivière)

Thomas Lawrence

Portrait of John Philip Kemble (fragment)

John White Alexander

Study for Pandora

Antoine Coypel

Study for a Lunette - Figures Seated in Clouds

Antoine Coypel

Study for a Religious Painting

A black, red, and white chalk portrait of an aristocratic white woman gazing at the viewer. She has red flowers in her curly hair, a neck ruff, and pearl earrings.

Ottavio Leoni

Portrait of the Signora Licinia Leni Marchesa Martinenghi

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 pen and ink drawing of a smiling, bewigged French knight. In uniform, he stands facing left, one arm holding a tri-corner hat, the other held up in greeting.

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Le Chevalier de La Motte

Red, white, and black chalk roundel-shaped portrait of a white woman with blue eyes wearing a white cloth head covering. She is in three-quarter view, looking directly at the viewer.

Gérard de Lairesse

Portrait of a Woman Probably Marie Salme, the Artist’s Wife

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Study after Alessandro Vittoria's Bust of Giulio Contarini

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 bearded and nude Hercules lays across the bottom of the drawing on his funeral pyre. The top half depicts his entering Olympus via chariot, welcomed by the gods.

Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck

Study for the Death of Hercules

A black chalk study of Malchus and the apostle Peter. An anguished Malchus stretches rightward as he fights against Peter’s outreached hand, which appears from off sheet on the left.

Anthony van Dyck

Study for Malchus

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)

A charcoal drawing of a sculptural, nude male torso seen from behind. The figure is heavily shaded and detailed, and fine lines express detailed contours of the body.

Anton Løvenberg

Study after a Plaster Cast of a Male Torso

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