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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

506 works

Engraving of a woman with children on a platform in a farmhouse interior, with a goat and a man at the doorway.

La Famille du Fermier

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraving of a barn interior with a seated woman, two children, a pig and chickens beneath a thatched roof.

Interior of a Barn with Mother and Two Children, Right in Front a Pig (copy)

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Engraving of an 18th-century ballroom with dancing couples in formal dress, chandeliers, and musicians in a gallery.

Le Bal Paré

Antoine-Jean Duclos, 1774

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers in a guardroom with a fireplace, a table of card players, and a coat of arms on the wall.

Guardroom Scene

Cornelis Troost, 1744

Brown ink and wash drawing of peasants in a rustic interior with a fish hanging from the beams and figures around a table.

Interior with Peasants

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a workshop interior with a lattice window, wooden table, sloping roof beams, and a bucket on the floor.

Workshop Interior

Thomas Wijck, 1629-77

Etching of visitors in 18th-century dress crowding a gallery with paintings on the walls and a balcony above.

View of the Salon in the Year 1753

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1753

Etching of a painter at an easel in a window-lit studio, with two assistants working by the fireplace.

The Painter in His Studio

Adriaen van Ostade, ca. 1667

Engraving of an ornate 18th-century theatre interior with crowded galleries, crystal chandeliers, and a stage with performers

Decoration de la salle de spectacle construite a Versailles pour la representation de la Princesse de Navarre

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, ca. 1745

Engraving of a Gothic church interior with a crucifix, ornate vaults, and figures, including a large beam in the foreground.

Interior of the Church of Saint Katherine’s with the Parable of the Mote and the Beam

Daniel Hopfer, ca. 1530

Oval drawing of an arcaded palace interior with two figures and a distant craggy mountain seen through an arch.

Vertical Oval Vignette of A Palace Interior with Two Figures Admiring Decoration; a Craggy Mountain Seen Through a Wi…

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, late 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of a church interior with tall columns, vaulted arches, a distant altar and small figures in period dres

Church Interior

Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern, 1791

Watercolor of a seated woman in striped headscarf and embroidered apron spinning, with a pencil sketch of a veiled woman besi

Neapolitan Woman (recto); Study for an Interior (verso)

Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Heideck, late 18th-19th century

Interior of a cathedral with carved choir stalls, a lone robed figure on stone floor, and light through stained glass windows

The Choirstalls in the Mainz Cathedral

Adolph Menzel, 1869

Pen drawing of an ornate gallery with glass display cases, a glazed roof, and visitors in 19th-century dress.

Gallery Lined with Display Cases

John Gregory Crace, 19th century

Engraved rococo cabinet design with ornate chimneypiece, scrolled mirror frame, cherubs and a hunting scene in side panels.

Cabinet de Mr le Compte Bielinski, from "Oeuvre de Juste Aurelle Meissonnier"

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, ca. 1742-48

Engraved kitchen interior with cooks, hanging game birds, copper pots, a hearth fire, and a spiral staircase.

Kitchen Interior

David Vinckboons, 1600-1624

Ink and wash design drawing of a papal throne with draped canopy, columns, stepped dais, and a coffered ceiling below.

Design for a Papal Throne with Elevations and Sketch of Baldacchino Interior

Antonio Basoli, 1841

Grey ink and wash drawing of a classical interior with coffered ceiling, relief friezes, and draped tables holding urns and s

Design for a Stage Set?:Interior of a Stateroom with Four Tables Displaying Urns and Tabernacles

Alessandro Sanquirico, n.d.

Two-part lithograph of a New York infant schoolroom with seated children on benches and children marching and reciting.

First Infant School in Green Street, New York

Anthony Imbert, 1828

Lithograph of a crowded domed auditorium with Corinthian columns, a pipe organ, and a speaker on a platform.

The Broadway Tabernacle, New York, in Anniversary Week

Snyder, Black & Sturn, ca. 1856

Engraving of an elegant salon with columns, a chandelier, and fashionably dressed figures gathered at tables beside two dogs.

L'Assemblee au Salon

François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller, N.D.

Etching of an arena theater filled with spectators, a triumphal car at center, and horsemen in formation at the corners.

Theater at Modena, seen from above and filled with spectators, with a triumphal car at center and horses in formation…

Stefano Della Bella, 1652

Engraved interior of a decorated church nave with a barrel vault, draped hangings, and figures walking toward an altar.

Decoration ordered by Cardinal de Retz in the Church of San Luigi, Rome, for the Saint's Feast Day

Dominique Barrière, 1665

Sepia engraving of a Gothic church interior with pointed arches, pews filled with worshippers, and a carved monument at right

Interior of a Church, part XIV, plate 70 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, January 1, 1819

Engraving of a woman doing housework in a kitchen, with copper pans, a pitcher, and a fireplace hood.

A Woman Doing Housework, Plate 5 from "Five Feminine Occupations"

Geertruydt Roghman, ca. 1648-50

Watercolor of a rustic timber mess room with men gathered around a brick fireplace and a small white dog on the floor.

Telegraph House, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Interior View of the Mess Room, 1858

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Hand-colored print of a rustic interior with a man reading, a woman feeding a child, and a man leaning over a half-door.

Le Nouvéliste

Jean François Janinet, 1770-1814

Colored print of crowded interior of the Great Exhibition hall with glass roof, fountain, statues and national display banner

General View of the Interior, from "Recollections of the Great Exhibition, 1851"

John Absolon, September 1, 1851

Watercolor of workers laying cable inside a ship's tank, with a wooden framework at the center and lamplight glowing behind.

Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern: The Cable Passing Out

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66