From the Met

Around 1490, Venetian painter Jacometto captured this quiet portrait of a woman thought to be a nun, with a hidden grisaille scene on the back.

Gerard David's serene oil-on-wood painting Christ Blessing, from around 1500 to 1505, showcases exquisite early Netherlandish religious art.

This 1533 oil-on-beech portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop captures Friedrich III, the Wise, Elector of Saxony.

A tender oil-on-parchment portrait of Christ's suffering, painted by Netherlandish master Petrus Christus around 1445.

This serene Gerard David panel of the Virgin and Child with four angels, painted in oil around 1510–15, showcases exquisite Northern Renaissance devotional artistry.

Painted limestone portrait of Yuny and his wife Renenutet brings ancient Egyptian family life vividly to life, dating back over 3,000 years.

A Netherlandish Brussels painter captured the Virgin of the Rosary and her Fifteen Mysteries in this oil-on-wood panel from around 1515–20.

Delacroix's dramatic depiction of The Natchez, an oil on canvas he painted across the 1820s and 1830s.

Meet one of a whimsical pair of tin-glazed porcelain dwarf figures, hand-painted around 1740–45 by Villeroy in vivid enamels.

A tender wilderness scene painted around 1440 by Sano di Pietro, blending tempera and gold on wood in the Met's Robert Lehman Collection.

Delacroix's turbulent 1853 oil painting captures Christ sleeping through a raging storm, a moment of quiet faith amid chaos.

Jacopo della Quercia's 1415–16 pen, ink and wash drawing on vellum captures his design for one side of Siena's famed 'Fonte Gaia' fountain.

A 19th-century Chinese vase, part of a pair, showcases dragon handles in vibrant cloisonné enamel, gilt bronze, and champlevé work.

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun captured the elegance of Marie Antoinette in this intimate chalk drawing, created around 1780–81.