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The Most Famous Artworks of Metropolitan Museum of Art

The 60 most celebrated works of the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum, ranked by renown across 10,887 works in the catalog.

A note on the ranking: "fame" here is a measure of renown, not of merit — synthesised from how widely a work is cited and held. It leans toward the Western canon and the best-digitised collections. Read it as a popular index, not a verdict.

  1. The Chess Players
    The Chess Players Thomas Eakins · 1876
  2. Venus and Mars
    Venus and Mars Paolo Veronese · 1570
  3. Venus and Cupid
    Venus and Cupid Lorenzo Lotto · 1530
  4. View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
    View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow Thomas Cole · 1836
  5. The Young Bather
    The Young Bather Gustave Courbet · 1866
  6. Venus and Adonis
    Venus and Adonis Titian · 1550
  7. The Dancing Class
    The Dancing Class Edgar Degas · 1870
  8. The Penitent Magdalen
    The Penitent Magdalen Georges de La Tour · 1640
  9. The Organ Rehearsal
    The Organ Rehearsal Henry Lerolle · 1893
  10. The New Bonnet
    The New Bonnet Francis William Edmonds · 1858
  11. The Harvesters
    The Harvesters Pieter Brueghel I · 1565
  12. Bacchante by the Sea
    Bacchante by the Sea Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1860
  13. Salome
    Salome Henri Regnault · 1870
  14. The Storm
    The Storm Pierre Auguste Cot
  15. Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
    Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada Édouard Manet · 1862
  16. Mrs. Noah Smith and Her Children
    Mrs. Noah Smith and Her Children Ralph Earl · 1798
  17. The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room
    The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room Seymour Joseph Guy · 1866
  18. The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
    The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak Albert Bierstadt · 1863
  19. Pygmalion and Galatea
    Pygmalion and Galatea Jean Léon Gérôme · 1896
  20. Marine Landscape
    Marine Landscape Alfred Thompson Bricher · 1895
  21. Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
    Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist Fra Bartolomeo · 1499
  22. Young man in Mayo costume
    Young man in Mayo costume Édouard Manet · 1863
  23. The Matador Saluting
    The Matador Saluting Édouard Manet · 1866
  24. The Valley of Wyoming
    The Valley of Wyoming Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1865
  25. Cider Making
    Cider Making William Sidney Mount · 1840
  26. Domestic Scene
    Domestic Scene Unknown · 1775
  27. The Woman in the Waves
    The Woman in the Waves Gustave Courbet · 1868
  28. The Ark
    The Ark Lodewijk Tieling · 1700
  29. A Bachelor's Drawer
    A Bachelor's Drawer John Haberle · 1896
  30. The Source
    The Source Gustave Courbet · 1862
  31. Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)
    Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War) Thomas Pritchard Rossiter · 1859
  32. The Saithwaite Family
    The Saithwaite Family Francis Wheatley · 1793
  33. The New Bonnet
    The New Bonnet Eastman Johnson · 1876
  34. Washerwomen
    Washerwomen François Boucher · 1768
  35. The Horse Fair
    The Horse Fair Rosa Bonheur · 1853
  36. Allegory of the Catholic Faith
    Allegory of the Catholic Faith Johannes Vermeer · 1670
  37. Woman with a Parrot
    Woman with a Parrot Gustave Courbet · 1866
  38. Portrait of Marianne Dorothy Harland (1759–1785), Later Mrs. William Dalrymple
    Portrait of Marianne Dorothy Harland (1759–1785), Later Mrs. William Dalrymple Richard Cosway · 1796
  39. The Constitution and the Guerriere
    The Constitution and the Guerriere Thomas Chambers · 1845
  40. The American School
    The American School Matthew Pratt · 1765
  41. View at Amalfi, Bay of Salerno
    View at Amalfi, Bay of Salerno George Loring Brown · 1857
  42. The Nymph of Fontainebleau
    The Nymph of Fontainebleau Unknown · 1600
  43. The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
    The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne Alfred Sisley · 1872
  44. Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore
    Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore Sanford Robinson Gifford · 1871
  45. View on the Catskill—Early Autumn
    View on the Catskill—Early Autumn Thomas Cole · 1836
  46. Garden at Sainte-Adresse
    Garden at Sainte-Adresse Claude Monet · 1867
  47. The Lacemaker
    The Lacemaker Nicolaes Maes · 1656
  48. Emma Homan
    Emma Homan John Bradley · 1844
  49. A Vase of Flowers
    A Vase of Flowers Margaretha Haverman · 1716
  50. Lady Williams and Child
    Lady Williams and Child Ralph Earl · 1783
  51. The Daughters of Catulle Mendès
    The Daughters of Catulle Mendès Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1894
  52. Lake George and the Village of Caldwell
    Lake George and the Village of Caldwell Thomas Chambers · 1854
  53. The Musicians
    The Musicians Caravaggio · 1598
  54. Washington Crossing the Delaware
    Washington Crossing the Delaware Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze · 1851
  55. The Holy Family
    The Holy Family Joos van Cleve · 1512
  56. Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
    Self-Portrait with Two Pupils Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1793
  57. Portrait of a Woman
    Portrait of a Woman Unknown · 1600
  58. Flora
    Flora Rembrandt van Rijn · 1654
  59. Isle of the Dead
    Isle of the Dead Arnold Böcklin · 1880
  60. Lake George
    Lake George John Frederick Kensett · 1869