Image credits

Last updated: November 15, 2026

All paintings on this site are in the public domain. The images are photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access program, where each object is marked as public domain. Details and crops are made from those images. The facts about each painting come from the museum's own pages.

• Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), John Singer Sargent, 1883–84. Oil on canvas. Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916. 16.53. metmuseum.org
• Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), Diego Velázquez, 1650. Oil on canvas. Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971. 1971.86. metmuseum.org
• The Death of Socrates, Jacques Louis David, 1787. Oil on canvas. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931. 31.45. metmuseum.org
• Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze, 1851. Oil on canvas. Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897. 97.34. metmuseum.org

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