THE WEEKEND COLLECTIONExample gallery / 19th-century paintings

Landscapes
& portraits.

Four works from The Met’s Open Access collection. Select a painting for a closer look.

4 works

Golden wheat below cypress trees and a swirling blue sky. — Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Landscape

A seated woman beside a large vase filled with flowers. — Edgar Degas · 1865
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Portrait

Boats on a sunlit Venetian canal beside pale buildings. — Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Landscape

A painted self-portrait of a man wearing a straw hat. — Vincent van Gogh · 1887
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Portrait

Images and collection data: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0).

An illustrative selection for an HTML gallery guide, not a museum exhibition.

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