New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of draped women gathered in a wooded clearing around a small fire and baskets.

Eurydice Bitten by a Serpent

Hendrick de Clerck, n.d.

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing with a town and church tower, a bridge, boats, a tall tree, and distant mountains.

Landscape with a Town by the Seashore and Mountains in the Distance

Matthijs Cock, mid-16th century

Pen drawing of a walled city across water, with sailing boats, a leafless tree, and a thatched cottage in the foreground.

Landscape with a Walled City and a Large Body of Water

Matthijs Cock, 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded battle scene with horsemen, a rearing horse, winged figures in clouds, and a distant city.

Conversion of St. Paul

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1538 (?)

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a church tower, village houses, rocky outcrop and distant hills under a hatched sky.

Italian Landscape

Cornelis Cort, 16th century

Wash drawing of a flat landscape with a church tower above trees, sandy hillocks in the foreground, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape

Aelbert Cuyp, 1635-91

Pen and wash landscape drawing of tall trees beside a dirt path and wooden fence, with fields and a pale sky receding into th

Landscape with Trees

Aelbert Cuyp, 1635-91

Brown wash drawing of two cloaked men with hats under trees, overlooking grazing sheep and cattle in an open landscape.

Landscape with Sheep and Two Figures (recto); Faint Sketch of a Figure with a Hat (verso)

Jacob Van Der Does, 1623-73

Ink and wash drawing of shepherds resting with cattle and a goat beside Roman ruins, a fountain and a column.

Pastoral Landscape with Roman Ruins

Johann Heinrich Roos, 1645-86

Grey wash drawing of a river town with church spires, boats, and a man with a staff on a bank in the foreground.

View of Nantes

Lambert Doomer, ca. 1650s

Winter scene of a frozen canal in a Dutch town with skaters, pedestrians, snowy trees and brick gabled houses.

Snow Falling on a Dutch Town

Abraham Rademaker, n.d.

Engraving of the gilded Bucintoro barge sailing through a crowded Venetian lagoon with gondolas, ships and onlookers on the q

Plate 5: The Doge in the Bucintoro Departing for the Porto di Lido on Ascension Day, from 'Ducal Ceremonies and Festi…

Giovanni Battista Brustolon, ca. 1766

Engraved view of a crowded arcaded square with flagpoles, a clock tower, and a religious procession of robed figures.

Plate 9: Procession on Corpus Christi Day in the Piazza San Marco, from 'Ducal Ceremonies and Festivals' (Le Feste Du…

Giovanni Battista Brustolon, ca. 1766

Drawing of two sailing squadrons flanking a monument with winged Victory, sea gods reclining in waves below.

Study for Decoration of the Obelisk at Port-Vendres

Charles de Wailly, 1783

Etching of a canal lined with buildings, an arcaded inn at left, figures, a carriage, and moored boats under a cloudy sky.

View of Mestre, an inn at left and other various buildings lining the canal, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i lu…

Canaletto, 1735-46

Pencil sketch of a distant town skyline with a church spire, windmills and masts along a flat shoreline.

Flushing from the Sea

Willem van de Velde the Younger, mid-17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of nude figures clinging to trees and a bank amid floodwaters in a wooded landscape.

The Flood

Jan Cossiers, 1615-71

Etching of the locks at Dolo with an oval basin, stone buildings, a fruit vendor and figures in the foreground.

The Locks at Dolo, an oval-shaped basin with boats at center, buildings on either side, a fruit vendor and groups of…

Canaletto, 1735-46

Etching of a three-arched portico framing ruins, a triumphal arch, and a brick building with figures in the courtyard.

A three-arched portico with an open lantern hanging at center, a triumphal arch and ruins of a classical temple in th…

Canaletto, 1735-46

Etching of an imagined city view with a domed church, a tall column with statue, figures, carts and a large tree.

Imaginary View of Padua, with a campanile and domed church at left, a column surmounted by a statue of a saint at cen…

Canaletto, 1735-46

Etched title page showing a classical ruin framing a dedication inscription, with seated figures on steps at right.

Title page with a large wall of a classical ruin, with a figure seated at right pointing to the dedication, from "Vie…

Canaletto, 1735-46

Red chalk drawing of an ornamental ceiling design with scrolls, garlands, putti, and a seated female figure in an arch.

Ceiling Design

Matías Arteaga y Alfaro, 1633-1703

Etching of nine figures in a landscape beside a herm of Pan, with a reclining nude woman and a standing nude man holding an a

Nine Figures near a Herm of Pan, from "Bacchanals and Histories"

Francesco Fontebasso, 1744

Pen and brown ink sketch with wash showing putti holding a cross above two figures, with an annotation in the lower left corn

Three Putti Holding Cross Before Two Male Saints

Alonso Cano, 1601-67

Brown ink drawing in an arched frame of an auto-da-fé in a courtyard, with a cross, seated officials and a crowd of spectator

Auto-da-fé in a Courtyard

Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo, 1619-71

Sepia drawing of a classical theatre building with a pediment and arched windows, framed by trees and a hill.

Design for a Theatre

Clemens Wenzel Coudray, 1800-1845

Grey wash drawing of a kneeling woman being crowned by a turbaned man, with courtiers watching, over a numbered grid.

The Cornation of Esther by Ahasuerus

Bartolomé Carducho, 1560-1638

Drawing of a woman with a dog on a lakeside path, with trees, misty mountains and a hilltop tower across the water.

Woman with a dog by a mountain lake

Alexandre Calame, early to mid-19th century

Pencil drawing of a Mediterranean coast with palm trees, a hillside village, a calm sea, and a figure on a path.

Mediterranean landscape (recto); Mountains (verso)

Alexandre Calame, 1830-64

Pencil drawing of a wooded landscape with several tall trees, dense foliage, and a cloudy sky on tan paper.

Trees (recto); Soldiers in a Wood (verso)

Alexandre Calame, early to mid-19th century