Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — highlights
The most celebrated public-domain works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — 652 paintings in this catalogue, spanning 1365 to 1947, most celebrated first. Featuring Frederic Remington, Tani Bunchō and Thomas Sully.
Leda and the Swan
Banquet Piece with Ham
Autumn on Greenwood Lake
View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the Schuylkill River
Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna
Still Life with Bouquet and Fan
Tabletop Still Life with Mince Pie and Basket of Grapes
The Elder Sister
The Betrothal of the Virgin
Fantasy View with the Pantheon and other Monuments of Ancient Rome
Marsh Sunset, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Still Life: The Smell
A View of Asheville, North Carolina
The Nativity with Shepherds
Portrait of the Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Duchess of Parma
A Wooded Landscape with a Pond
The Eiffel Tower
Madonna and Child with Saint John The Baptist
Virgin and Child with Saints Mary Magdalene, Peter, Clare, Francis, and an Abbess
The Immaculate Conception
Diana as Huntress
The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Michael, Catherine of Alexandria, Cecilia, and Jerome
The Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas
A Couple in an Interior
River Landscape with a Church in the Distance
The Holy Family
Rocks
The Goose Girl at Montfoucault (White Frost)
The Holy Family
Boy with Toy Horse
Portrait of a Woman
Blind Man's Bluff
Thomas Taylour, Viscount of Headfort, later 2nd Earl of Bective and 1st Marquess of Headfort (1757–1829)
Head of a Monk (Jan Malderus, Bishop of Antwerp, as Saint Bonaventura)
Charles Louis, Elector Palatine
Apollo Flaying Marsyas
Triptych of Virgin and Child; Saints Catherine and Barbara
Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and Paul
Juno and Luna
Venus Chastising Cupid
Allegory of Knowledge and the Arts in Naples
Virgin and Child
Virgin and Child
Rue Ravignan, Paris
Diana and Actaeon
The Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge, Venice
Pan and Syrinx
Madonna and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist
The Road to Calvary
The Stigmatization of Saint Francis
The Baptism of Christ
The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice
Madonna and Child with Saint and a Donor
Dovedale by Moonlight
Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist
Virgin and Child
Mother and Child (The First Portrait)
Regatta at the Rialto Bridge
Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld
Diana and Actaeon
The Gust of Wind
The Seesaw
Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness
Judith and Holofernes
Virgin and Child
The Baptism of Christ
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
The Flood on the Road to Saint-Germain
Venus of Urbino
Madonna and Child with Souls in Purgatory
Woman with Phlox
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
Virgin and Child with Donor
Still Life with Silver and Gold Vessels, Fruit, and Flowers
Environs of Breda
Still Life of Flowers and Fruit
Two Pigs in a Sty
Still Life with Mangoes and a Hibiscus Flower
Portrait of Mrs. Jonathan Russell (Lydia Smith, 1786–1859)
Noli Me Tangere ("Touch me not")
Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (died 1633)
Olga Merson
Empress Eugénie
Portrait of a Boy
Water Lilies (Nymphéas)
Anthony Chamier
Adonis
Self-Portrait with Angelica and Portrait of Rachel
Louise de Lorraine
Portrait of G. F. Reverdin
Saint Nicholas of Bari
Portrait of Samuel Pemberton
Susan Comforting the Baby
Isabeau de Savoie, Comtesse du Bouchage
Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of a Child of the Comminges Family
Saint Anthony Abbot Shunning the Mass of Gold
Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of Mrs. Matthew Tilghman (Anna Lloyd, 1724–1794) and Her Daughter, Anna Maria (1755–1843)
Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth
Marie de Batarnay
The Suicide of Lucretia
Portrait of Mrs. Samuel McCall, Sr. (Anne McCall, 1720–1785)
Portrait of a Man
Portrait of a Woman
Vicente Osorio de Moscoso, hrabia Trastamara
The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
Sheerness as seen from the Nore
James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife
Portrait of a Man
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Portrait of Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale
Portrait of Madame Alice Hoschede
René de Batarnay, Comte du Bouchage
Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Bernardino of Siena and Six Angels
Curling;—a Scottish Game, at Central Park
Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Jael and Sisera
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
The Harvesters
Dressing Table and Mirror
Cotopaxi
Cupid in a Tree
Venus
Still Life
Children in a Garden (The Nurse)
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland (1585-1639)
Portrait of a Lady in a Landscape
Madame Cézanne in Blue
Saint Sebastian
The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
The Yellow Scale
Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Saint John the Evangelist
The Adoration of the Magi
Still Life of Flowers in a Basket
Jeanne Pissarro
Elizabeth, Lady Blunt
Portrait of a Nobleman
Portrait of Mary Pemberton (1717–1763)
Andromeda
Portrait of James Cornell Biddle (1795–1838)
Self-Portrait
The Adoration of the Christ Child
Portrait of Mrs. John Earnest Poyas (Catherine Smith, 1769–1836)
Portrait of Pierre Cadeau de Mongazon (1687–1763)
Portrait of Mrs. Richard Nicholls (Margaret Tudor, 1699–1772)
Portrait of Cardinal Luigi Capponi
Portrait of Jean
Portrait of a Young Woman
Portrait of Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell (1761–1830)
Still Life with Fruit and Glassware
Saint Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Self-Portrait
Summer Bamboo by a Waterfall
Hunting Still Life
Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Joseph
Anton Francesco degli Albizzi
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Cardinal Giulio Spinola
Portrait of a Young Woman (formerly seen as oval portrait of Oopjen Coppit)
Landscape at Newfields, New Hampshire
The Little Gardener
Sam Houston
The Nativity
Worshippers at a Shrine in a Mountainous Landscape
Portrait of Captain Edward Knowles, R.N. (1742-1762)
Saint Mary Magdalene
Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl
Portrait of John Vaughan (1756–1841)
The Repentant Magdalen
Martyrdom of Saint Venantius of Camerino
The Bonaventure Pine
Portrait of Julia Ann Seabury
Scouts Climbing a Mountain
Allegory
The Cherub Harvesters
Soldiers Plundering a Village
Portrait of a Gentleman as a Hunter
Fight for the Waterhole
The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
Portrait of a Young Man
Portrait of William Brand
Still Life of White Roses
Portrait of a Young Boy
View of Tivoli with the Flight into Egypt
Allegory of the Consequences of the Peace of Utrecht
Shipwreck on the Coast
Frederick Wenz
Landscape with Hills
Saint Francis
The Judgment of Solomon
Cattle in a Dutch Arcadian Landscape
Bottom of the Ravine
Wooded Landscape with a Woodcutter
Scenes of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ
Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Lord Dacre
Portrait of a Naval Officer, Known as Augustus Keppel
Mercury and Argus
Landscape
Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Shirriff, H.E.I.C.S. (1759/1760-1802)
The Flight into Egypt
Landscape with a Shepherdess and a Boy Fishing
Allegory of Europe
River Landscape with a Church in the Distance
The Call for Help
A Winter Landscape with a Windmill
Landscape with a Hunting Party
Léopold Zborowski
Mars and Venus
Allegory on Peace
Tiger in Landscape (one of a pair)
Portrait of a Lady as Saint Agnes
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Portrait of Sir John Hebdon
Still Life with Apricots and Butterflies
Christ on the Cross
Portrait of the Jones Children of Galveston
Portrait of Robert Livingston (b. 1733)
Landscape with Cornfields
Portrait of Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Madame la Maréchale Lannes, Duchesse de Montebello, with her Children
Love of Virtue
The Flight
At the Moulin Rouge
The Rape of Europa
Apple Tree with Red Fruit
The Emigrants
Dutch Landscape
The Hussar
A Festoon of Roses hanging from a Blue Ribbon, with Butterflies and Insects
Still Life with Carp and Pike
Portrait of Maria Seabury
Hagar and the Angel
Portrait of John Gerry
Marcelle Aron (Madame Tristan Bernard)
The Glorification of the Name of Jesus
Saint Carlo Borromeo Attending to the Plague Victims
Portrait of Mme. Jule-Antoine Droz
Saint James the Greater
Hercules Killing the Centaur Nessus
Indians Spear Fishing
Cattle in Pool (A Summer Landscape)
The Lookout
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
The Blanket Signal
Still Life with Melons, Peaches, Figs, and Grapes
Virgin and Child
Terrace in the Garden near the Wannsee towards Northwest
Krishna and Radha
Change of Ownership (The Stampede; Horse Thieves)
Still Life with Musical Instruments
Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
Hill Country Landscape
Travellers in a Landscape
Portrait of William Holmes (1762–c. 1818/20)
Esmé Stuart, 5th Duke of Lennox and 2nd Duke of Richmond (1649-1660)
William Watson
Portrait of Maggie Wilson
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
Regatta in Venice
Landscape with Figures
Still Life with Fish
Portrait of Chatrina, Aged 23 Years
Saints and Angels
Portrait of a Gentleman
The Parley
Breakfast still life
Landscape
Saint Constantia's Vision before the Tomb of Saints Agnes and Emerentiana
Portrait of Florence Pierce
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Landscape at Le Pouldu
Portrait of a Boy
Saint Arsenius Leaving the World
The Lost Child Returned
Truss, A Hunter
Saint Agnes
Landscape
Portrait of a Woman
Allegory of War
Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
The Mass of Saint Gregory
Saint Bartholomew
The Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Still Life
Portrait of Mrs. John Champneys (Anne Livingston, born 1746)
The Expulsion of Hagar
Saint Paul Writing His Epistles
Portrait of Joseph Henry
The Vesuvius Erupting, the Artist and His Father, Carle Vernet, in the Foreground
Allegory
Aiding a Comrade
Portrait of a Woman
Saint Clare Rescuing a Child Mauled by a Wolf
Still Life with a Leg of Lamb
The Last Supper
Saints and Angels
The Countess of Darnley and her Daughter, Lady Elizabeth Bligh
Portrait of a Couple, said to be Sir Francis and Lady Dashwood at Wycombe Park
Landscape
Hero and Leander
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain
Portrait of Eleanor or Mary Campion
The Resurrection
Portrait of Jaspar de Charles van Nieuwenhoven
The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel and Adored by a Franciscan
Portrait of a Man with a Pumpkin
Saint Michael the Archangel
Portrait of Standish Barry (1763–1842)
Bust of a Young Woman
The House of Saints with Saint Catherine
Veil of Veronica
Archduke Albert VII of Austria (1559–1621), Wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece
Saint John the Evangelist Called to Write the Revelation
Portrait of John B. Gest
Still Life with Dog and Game
Laban Searching the Belongings of Jacob
Portrait of Brigadier General Joseph Lewis Hogg
Portrait of Abigail Erving Scott
Kneeling Nude
Portrait of Maria Healy, the Artist's Daughter
Young Woman with a Guitar
Weeping Nude
A New Year on the Cimarron
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
Landscape with Boar Hunt
The Fall of Man
Portrait of Mrs. Mary Cuthbert
The Adoration of the Magi
Christ in the House of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
Still Life with Musical Instruments
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Hunt Still Life with a Velvet Bag on a Marble Ledge
Bacchanal
Man with a Cane
Landscape with a Rock Arch and River
Landscape with Cattle
Les orangers
The Beloved of Enalus Sacrificed to Poseidon and Spared
Portrait of Mrs. John Greenleaf (Priscilla Brown, born 1725)
The White Tablecloth
Landscape
Still Life of a Dead Hare, Partridges, and Other Birds in a Niche
Flower Still Life in a Glass Vase
Portrait of Mrs. Paul Richard (Elizabeth Garland, 1700–1774)
Tancred Baptizing Clorinda
Mountain Landscape
Armida Fighting the Christians
Martijn Gaertz
Flight into Egypt
The Twelfth Night Feast
Tiger in Landscape (one of a pair)
The Merry Company
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Still Life
Tiger on the Watch
Episode of the Buffalo Gun
Portrait of Andrew Jackson
The Guardian Angel
Head of a Woman
Sir Robert Rookwood
Saint John the Baptist
Landscape with Washerwoman
Allegory of Prudence
Charity
Portrait of Mrs. Jelf Powis and her Daughter
Interior with Figures Playing Tric-trac
Idealized Portrait
The Departure of the Boatman
Still Life with Yellow Roses
Two Soldiers
Interior
Home and Warmth
A Young Woman Pulling on Her Stocking
Young Woman
The Sonata
Vase of Chrysanthemums
The Crow Exposed
The Amorous Turk
Kiss on the Beach
Victorian Bouquet
The Children
The Admirer
Rock Reef, Maine
Seascape
Daniel in the Lions' Den
View of the Seine, Paris
Boy Attempting to Restrain a Cow by a Rope
Journey of Rebecca
Allegory of Scientific Experiment
Émile Bernard
An Old Man and his Attendant heading towards a House on a Hill
A House on a Cliff with Mountains in the Background
The Rape of Europa
The Sacrifice of Noah
The Bridge at Giverny
Bird in Snow
The Four Elements
The Flowered Terrace
Putti as Fisherman
Madonna and Child Seated in a Landscape with Saint John the Baptist
Plums
A House in a Bamboo Grove at the Shore
Indian Fire God (The Going of the Medicine-Horse)
The Toilers of the Sea
Coastal Rocks, Nahant: A Sketch
The Pilgrim Mourning His Dead Ass
Disbanding Gomez' Army
A Meeting of Lawyers
Pueblo Indian Village
Girl Reading
Study of a Dead Heron
Woman Walking on the Banks of the Aven
French Explorer's Council with the Indians
Sunset on the Lagoon, Venice
Boating in Central Park
Woodcock
Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament Adoring the Name of Jehovah
An Old Man and an Attendant heading to a two-story Mansion at the Shore
Dr. Connell
Peaceable Kingdom
A Bull Fight
The Captive Bird
The White Monk
The Siege of Mathura by Jarasandha
The Imperial Lying-In
The Gleaner
Sunlight and Shadow
Wild Geese Descending on a Sandbank
A View of the Roman Countryside
The Transgressor
Sarah Harding
Maharana Jagat Singh II and Nobles Watching the Raslila Dance Dramas
The Good Education
The Display on the Return to Dulnon Camp, August 1786
The Defeat of Crazy Horse
Tiger and Bamboo
Composition VI
Moses and the Daughters of Jethro
Indian Pass
Head of a Young Boy
Girl Reading
The Finish of a Horse Race with a Country Fair in the Background
Sheep Herder
The Basket Chair
Boatwomen in Brittany
Italian Landscape with Mountains and a River
Recognition: North and South
Latona and the Lycian Peasants
Captain Peter Hawker of the 14th Light Dragoons
The Hand that Was Not Called
A Country House in a Valley with a Blossoming Plum Tree
Moving Camp
The Painter's Studio
Boat Building by Robinson Crusoe and Friday
St. Peter's First Sermon in the City of Jerusalem
The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam
The Scout
William Denison
The Boardwalk at Sainte-Adresse
The Ricks Barn, Woodstock
Spaniel with a Still Life of Dead Game
Saint Catherine
Mountains and Woods in Silhouette
U. S. Soldier, Spanish-American War
Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle
Still Life with Golden Bream
The Display of the Elephant
Monju Bosatsu
The Japanese Footbridge, Giverny
The Promenade
Edwy and Elgiva: A Scene from Saxon History
Early Spring—Bluebonnets and Mesquite
Woman Writing in an Interior
Lady Delves Broughton
Woman with Mirror and Orchids
Mt. Fuji and Mt. Ashigara from Numazu from the series Vertical Tokaido (or "Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō")
Young Nude Seated on the Edge of a Well
The Return of Orestes
The Return of Gomez to Havana
Penn's Treaty with the Indians
A House next to a Small Grove at the Shore in the Mist
A House next to Pine Trees, in front of Mountains
Colonel John Fortnum and Family
The Dutch Man-of-War "De Gouden Leeuw" on the River Y near Amsterdam
The Apprentice (Boy with Apple)
Woman and Little Girl of Constantine with a Gazelle
The Bathers (Clearing in the Forest)
Pasture Lands
A Bejeweled Lady
Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers
Interior with Drinking Figures and Crying Children
Breton Girl with a Red Umbrella
A Study of Butterflies, Moths, Spiders, and Insects
Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana, Venice
Mademoiselle Boissière Knitting
Days on the Range ("Hands Up!")
Composition with Grid 1
The Last Stand
Young Woman Playing a Lute
The Mule Pack
Evening Memory I
Two Figures (most likely Ryo Douhin receiving the Taoist law from Shou Rikken)
The Fourteenth of July
Hounds Resting from the Chase
Picture of Kyoto Seascape under the Night Moon
The Fox Wedding
Two Young Girls among Flowers
Flamingo Shooting in South America
Seascape
Distant View of the Mansfield Mountain, Vermont
The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Bréau
Young Woman Powdering Herself (Study)
Mrs. Elisha Mathew
Mary Taylour, Viscountess of Headfort, later Countess of Bective and Marchioness of Headfort (1776–1795)
Woman at her Dressing Table
The Fire at the Opera House of the Palais-Royal
View of a Town in the Sabine Hills
At the Table of Monsieur and Madame Natanson
The Four Elements
William Fermor
Sunbath
Crozant, Pont Charraud
Composition
A Garland of Flowers on a Carved Stone Medallion
Portrait of a Boy
Moonlight
A Calm Afternoon, Long Island
Portrait of Henry Robinson
The Herd Boy
Still Life of Game including a Hare, Black Grouse and Partridge, a Spaniel looking on with a Pigeon in Flight
The Martyrdom of Saint Paul
Charles-François-Marie de Custine, Chevalier de Wiltz
Spanish-American War Soldiers in Action
A Puff of Steam
A Gray Day
The Fruit Market
A Skating Scene
Oranges, Nuts, and Figs
Sketch 160A
An Italian Port Scene
Soldiers Playing Dice
Fishermen's Wives at the Seaside
A Man taking a Rest under a Big Pine Tree
The Shipwreck of Robinson Crusoe
Sluice in the Optevoz Valley
La route (The Road)
A Small Grove of Trees before a Rounded Hill at the Shore
A Pastoral Concert
Young Mother
The House of Caiaphas
Madame Hessel at Home
Afterglow
Sunlight and Shadow
The Dry Leaves Lasted Longer Than She
Apache Indians in the Mountains
The Young Itinerant
Paradise Flycatchers amid Flowering Branches
Deer Stalking in Scotland: Getting Ready
Anna
A Capriccio View of Rome with the Castel Sant'Angelo
Portrait of a Woman
The Tartar Camp
One of Gomez' Men
Sunlight and Shadow, Shinnecock Hills
Millicent Watson
Arearea (Joyfulness) II
Flushing Grouse, Long Lake, Hamilton County, New York
The Infantry Square
American Motherhood
Friday's Father Rescued
Caryatid
Fête Champêtre
A View of a Room of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities (Salle no. 9) in the Louvre
Visit to the Wreck
Three Views of "Amity Hall" With a View of Dover and the White Cliffs
Robert Hodshon Cay
Henry Winston Barron, M.P.
Calero (Antonio Baños)
Pine and Rock
Miss Alicia Macartney
The Grove — Monhegan
John Gage
The Thames at Westminster Abbey
Southern Courtship
The Model
Fitzstephen French, M.P.
Robinson Crusoe and Friday in the Cave
Figs on a Tazza with Pears, Quinces, Melons, Plums, Mushrooms on a Table, with Figs, Cherries, Peaches, and Acorns on a Ledge Above
Tanuki in the Snow with First Bamboo Shoots of Spring
The Prophet Balaam and the Angel
Quai à la Seine, Paris, au Clair de Lune
Arm Organization
Robinson Crusoe and His Man Friday Leave the Island
Haystacks and Barn
The Thames at the Tower of London with London Bridge and St. Paul's in the Distance
The Chicken
Building a Shelter
The Apparition of the Virgin to the Dying Pedro Faverio
Foot Impression in the Sand
View of the Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute
A View on the Banks of the River Stour
View of the Convento de Los Agustinos Recoletos, Madrid (one of a pair)
Walking the Chalk
The Battle of Israel and Amalek
Golden Glow
Otter Hunting ("On the Scent")
Mailah-Jahn
Pleasure Party by a Mill
Diogenes Casting Away His Cup
The Hermit
Picnic Scene
The Emerald Lady
View of the Escorial (one of a pair)
In His Cave
A Shepherd Boy
Seashells by the Shore
View Along the Norman Coast
Moonrise: Soldier and Maiden
Sarah Harding
Roses and Nightingale
Night on Boardwalk
Soul in Bondage
The Gunsmith Shop
Highlanders Consulting
Saint Nicholas of Bari
Ballet Dancer
Synchromy
The Poultry Sellers
Elegant Figures in a Salon
The Witches' Sabbath
Saving the Life of Friday
Duck Hunting
The Venezuelan Guard at El Dorado
New England Village
View at Enderby, Leicestershire
The Young Savant Mother
Arthur Freeman
Portrait of Ebenezer Coffin
Interior, Study for The Three Women
Portrait of Two Young Men
Crucifixion
His Excellency Oliver Wolcott, Governor of the State of Connecticutt
Krishna Abducting Rukmani from the Temple
James Stuart, Duke of Lenox and Richmond
The Holy Family with a Donatrix as Saint Catherine of Alexandria