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7,064 matching works (Cleveland 4,415, The Met 2,649)
Portrait of a Family Playing MusicPieter de Hooch, 1663Cleveland
Poetry PaintingMatsuo Bashō, 17th centuryThe Met
Portrait of Tieleman RoostermanFrans Hals, 1634Cleveland
Botanical Painting: Geraniumca. 1630The Met
A Genoese Lady with Her ChildAnthony van Dyck, c. 1623–25Cleveland
Botanical Painting: Dianthusca. 1630The Met
The Holy Family on the StepsNicolas Poussin, 1648Cleveland
PaintingJean Audran, 1690The Met
The Crucifixion of Saint AndrewCaravaggio, 1606–7Cleveland
Origin of PaintingJean OuvrierThe Met
Wineglass and a Bowl of FruitWillem Kalf, 1663Cleveland
Botanical Painting: Composite Flowerca. 1630The Met
Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the HuntPeter Paul Rubens, c. 1615Cleveland
An allegory of paintingFrançois Collignon, 17th centuryThe Met
Portrait of a WomanRembrandt van Rijn, 1635 or earlierCleveland
St. Luke Painting the VirginClaude Mellan, 1625The Met
Low Waterfall in a Wooded Landscape with a Dead Beech TreeJacob van Ruisdael, c. 1660–70Cleveland
Seated Man Painting or Writingfirst half 17th centuryThe Met
Saint Peter RepentantGeorges de La Tour, 1645Cleveland
The Noble Artist Painting Louis XIIIAbraham Bosse, ca. 1642The Met
Interior of a ChurchEmanuel de Witte, c. 1680Cleveland
Artists Drawing and Painting in a StudioPier Francesco Mola, 1612–66The Met
DanaëOrazio Gentileschi, c. 1623Cleveland
Annibale Carracci Introduces Painting to Apollo and MinervaPietro Aquila, 1674The Met
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Every work shown is marked public domain or CC0 by its museum, so you can use the images freely. Records and images come live from each museum’s open API: Cleveland Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.