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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,826 works

Pen and ink drawing with blue wash of a chaotic battle with warriors, horses, a chariot, and billowing cloaks.

The Battle of Diomedes and Aeneas (from the Story of Achilles)

Jan van Orley, ca. 1720-30

Pen and gray wash ceiling design of an oval with putti, a wine press, and allegorical female figures in clouds.

Ceiling Design with the Mystical Wine Press

Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner, ca. 1750

Pencil drawing of a hilltop village above a wooded valley with a river, arched bridge, and hazy mountains beyond.

A View of Cavi in the Sabine Hills

Louis Gurlitt, 1848

Pencil drawing of soldiers in armor carrying a wrapped body through a timber-beamed room with a curtain and urn.

The Dead Wallenstein Being Carried Away by Soldiers

Karl von Piloty, 1871

Sepia etching of a bearded man writing at a desk beside glass flasks, a funnel and a magnifying glass.

Self-Portrait

Henri Charles Guérard, ca. 1890

Grey wash drawing of soldiers distributing sacks of grain to crowds of desperate townspeople in a colonnaded city.

Roman Soldiers Defending a City Plagued by Famine

Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1734

Pen and ink drawing of a hilltop town on a cliff above the sea, with trees and two figures in the foreground.

View of Capri

Carl Wagner, 1823

Engraved print of kilted Highlander soldiers marching with bayonets past spectators beneath American flags, 1861.

The Seventy Ninth Regiment (Highlanders), New York State Militia (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, p. 329)

Winslow Homer, May 25, 1861

Pen and brown wash drawing of Neptune with trident in a sea chariot drawn by sea horses above a shell-shaped fountain base.

Design for a Fountain with Neptune in his Chariot

Francesco Fontebasso, ca. 1740-60

Engraving of about fifteen nude children dancing in a line, one playing a trumpet at left, hands linked.

Fifteen Nude Children Dancing

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1535

Woodcut of soldiers on horseback attacking infants and mothers beneath a classical colonnade, with a castle on a distant hill

Massacre of the Innocents

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1511

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate covered ciborium with a cross finial, cherub heads, and an eagle on its stem.

Ciborium for the Coronation of Napoléon I

Charles Percier, 1804

Wood engraving of Civil War soldiers charging with a regimental flag, rifles and bayonets, amid smoke and cavalry.

A "Negro" Regiment in Action (from "Harper's Weekly")

Thomas Nast, March 14, 1863

Grey wash drawing of three fishermen hauling a net by a rowboat, with a harbor town and flying cherubs in an oval frame.

Emblem Drawing ("Hope sustains me")

Jacob Matham, early 17th century

Colored print of a soldier leaning over to hold a horse at water, with mounted riders and tents in the distant camp.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Water Call

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored print of a soldier in a kepi grimacing as he bites a hard biscuit, with a tin cup beside him.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Hard Tack

Winslow Homer, 1864

Woodcut of mourners gathered in a vaulted interior around a central figure, with robed apostles in dense black and white hatc

Death of the Virgin, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

Albrecht Altdorfer, ca. 1513

Colored print of Union soldiers in camp, one sitting and gesturing angrily as spilled coffee and tin cups litter the ground.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Upset His Coffee

Winslow Homer, 1864

Woodcut of Christ in a long robe presented to a crowd of soldiers and onlookers in a stone courtyard, with spears behind.

Ecce Homo, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

Albrecht Altdorfer, ca. 1513

Two soldiers press against a tree as shells fall nearby, one holding a rifle, both looking frightened.

Life in Camp, Part 1: A Shell is Coming

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored print of a man in a feathered hat carried on a rail by two men before white tents and a crowd in a camp.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Riding on a Rail

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored illustration of a startled man in bed under a blanket, with a horse's head looming over him and another man watching.

Life in Camp, Part 1: An Unwelcome Visit

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored print of two soldiers in blue jackets and red caps giving a haircut to a seated man in a striped cape.

Life in Camp, Part 2: The Field Barber

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored print of soldiers in camp; one man in a feathered hat balances a heavy log on a barrel while guards watch nearby.

Life in Camp, Part 1: The Guard House

Winslow Homer, 1864

Soldier sitting outside a tent pulling on boots while comrades run across a camp, with rows of tents behind them.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Late for Roll Call

Winslow Homer, 1864

Hand-colored print of a soldier with bedroll and canteen saying goodbye to a woman who holds his arm, caption GOOD BYE.

Life in Camp, Part 2: Good Bye

Winslow Homer, 1864

Soldier sprawled in mud beside a rifle, with stacked knapsacks and upright rifles behind him in a camp scene.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Stuck in the Mud

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored print of uniformed men tossing a soldier into the air with a blanket, a group of onlookers watching below.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Tossing in a Blanket

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored print of a doctor examining a seated soldier's tongue at a camp, with tents and two onlookers behind.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Surgeon's Call

Winslow Homer, 1864

Hand-colored print of a young woman in a red bodice reading a book in a pink chair, captioned The Girl He Left Behind.

Life in Camp, Part 2: The Girl He Left Behind

Winslow Homer, 1864