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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of rolling fields, trees, shrubs and cottages under an open sky.

Landscape with the Village of Lincent

Constantijn Huygens the Younger, 1675

Watercolor of a girl in a bonnet seated in dune grass, looking toward a grey sea with a distant sailboat.

Girl in the Dunes

Jozef Israëls, mid-19th-early 20th century

Grey wash drawing of Christ falling under the cross, with soldiers, mourning women and a stone arch.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, 1732-61

Watercolor and graphite sketch of Dutch sailing boats on choppy water with a windmill on the distant shore.

Dutch Fishing Boats; verso: Sketches of Boats

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1870

Watercolor landscape of a road lined with autumn trees, fields and a distant village under a pale sky.

Road near La Côte-Saint-André

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1885

Watercolor of a windmill with yellow tower and dark sails beside a tree, houses and a cloudy blue sky.

Wind Mill at Antwerp

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1866

Engraved double portrait of two men in oval medallions within an ornate Rococo frame, with Latin inscriptions below.

Portraits of Canaletto and Visentini

Antonio Visentini, 1735

Watercolor landscape of rolling hills, a windblown tree, a dirt path and a grazing cow under a pale sky.

Landscape

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1877

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded picture gallery with many framed paintings and small groups of figures.

Interior of a Picture Gallery

Hans Jordaens III, ca. 1620

Watercolor study of a stag beetle surrounded by butterflies, grasshoppers, a dragonfly, a wasp, and a spider, with a wind fac

Insects and the Head of a Wind God

Joris Hoefnagel, ca. 1590-1600

Grisaille study of a ceiling decoration with clouds, a draped woman, winged putti and reclining figures in flanking spandrels

Study for the Decoration of a Vault

Carlo Alberto Baratta, 1754-1815

Pen and ink wash drawing of Apollo driving a chariot of rearing horses over clouds, with faint red grid lines.

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Rising Sun

Luca Cambiaso, 1527-85

Grey wash drawing of hunters with dead hares and a bird beside a stone wall, with dogs and a saddled horse under trees.

Hunters with Dead Game in a Landscape

Giovanni Agostino Cassana, 1600-1800

Pen and gray wash drawing of a rococo corner ornament with scrolls, shells, flower-filled urns and foliage.

Design for the Corner of a Decoration (recto); Sketch of Monumental Building with Four Temple-Front Entrances (verso)

Jacques de Lajoüe, ca. 1730

Pen and watercolor drawing of a young hunter seated on a rock with dogs in a landscape with trees and a vessel.

Young Hunter with His Dogs in a Landscape

Giovanni Francesco Castiglione, 1641-1710

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd of animals including a lion, leopard, goats, cow, ostriches and birds.

A Congress of Animals

Giovanni Francesco Castiglione, 1641-1710

Drawing of God descending in clouds with putti, pointing at a kneeling man while women watch beside a classical ruin.

God the Father Appearing to Jacob

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1635-45

Pen and brown ink sketch of several nude male figures in dynamic poses, one figure pulling down another, with studies of head

Fantastic Subject: Five Nude Male Figures Punishing Another

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1609-64

Red chalk drawing of shepherds herding sheep and cattle past a tree trunk along a rocky path.

Pastoral Journey with Flocks and Herds at a Stream

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1660-64

Red chalk and wash drawing of a nude man gesturing among animals and figures, with a sketched ark at upper left.

Noah Entering the Ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1609-64

Etching of figures searching belongings beneath trees, with a mounted rider, women, children, and a distant hilly landscape.

Laban searching for idols among Jacob's possessions

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1635-40

Etching of Pan reclining near pitchers, a large urn on a pedestal under a tree, sheep grazing, and distant mountains.

Pan reclincing near a large vase set in a landscape

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645

Etching of figures carrying a shrouded body down stone steps, with a dog and a standing figure among ruins.

Tobit burying the Dead

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1647-51

Etching of the Raising of Lazarus: a figure points at a tomb as light breaks through, with kneeling women and a crowd nearby.

Raising of Lazarus

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645-50

Etching of a seated sorceress in ruins with companions of Ulysses transformed into sheep, a stag, a dog and a peacock.

Circe with the companions of Ulysses changed into animals

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650-51

Etching of animals including a horse, cattle, sheep and goats moving across a landscape past shepherds beneath a tree.

Noah and the animals entering the ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1650-55

Etching of the Resurrection of Lazarus with a robed figure at right, Lazarus rising from a tomb, and a crowd of onlookers at

Resurrection of Lazarus

Salvatore Castiglione, 1645

Pen and brown wash drawing of a chaotic galley battle with broken masts, struggling figures and a distant fleet.

The Naval Battle of Meloria

Giovanni David, 1743-90

Pencil and wash drawing of a figure sketching outdoors beside gnarled trees, with a child, a dog and a distant town.

Landscape with an Artist Sketching

Mari ten Kate, n.d.

Watercolor of the domed Muiderpoort gatehouse beside a canal, with large trees, boats, a footbridge and a windmill.

The Muiderpoort, Amsterdam, seen from the Plantage

Hendrick Keun, 1771