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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Watercolor of a woman in blue gown and seated man watching an infant on a sofa in an ornate fireplace room.

The First Babe

Jehan-Georges Vibert, 1872

Graphite drawing of a white cockatoo with raised crest perched on a bamboo branch, wing spread, by Jean-Georges Vibert.

The Angry Parrot

Jehan-Georges Vibert, n.d.

Eight Heads of Ecclesiastics

Jehan-Georges Vibert, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of cavalry and infantry battling near pyramids, with fallen men and horses in the foreground and palm trees

Battle of the Pyramids, July 21, 1798

François-André Vincent, ca. 1800

Two Men Holding Long Staffs (recto); Proof impression of part of an etching, and scribbles in the artist's hand (verso)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720-78

Red chalk drawing of a rural landscape with a thatched cottage, a well, a wind-bent tree, and small figures.

Landscape with a Cottage and Well

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1714

Red chalk drawing of a country house with a tiled roof beside trees and a low fence in an open landscape.

Landscape with a Country House

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1714

Red chalk landscape with a tall tower, village buildings, a leaning tree, a shepherd with sheep, and riders at right.

Landscape with an Old Woman Holding a Spindle, after Domenico Campagnola

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1715

Panoramic print of a fleet of steamboats and sailing ships preparing in line on a harbor, smoke and cannon fire on shore.

Grand Canal Celebration: View of the Fleet Preparing to Form in Line

Anthony Imbert, 1825

Watercolor perspective of a Gothic Revival stone castle with a tall tower and flag under a moonlit cloudy sky.

Ericstan, for John J. Herrick, Tarrytown, New York (perspective)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1855

Red chalk drawing of a reclining nude female figure on draped cloth, with grey shading and a sketched interior behind.

Reclining Nude Figure (recto); unidentifiable sketches (verso)

Jean-Antoine Watteau, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a farmhouse beside a river with two small figures walking at left and trees on both sides.

Farm House along a River, two figures at left

Jean-Antoine Watteau, n.d.

Watercolor perspective of a columned classical hotel building with rooftop railings, a church spire behind it, and small figu

Proposal for Astor House (Park Hotel), New York (perspective)

Ithiel Town, ca. 1830-34

Studies of a Woman Wearing a Cap

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1717-18

Watercolor perspective of two symmetrical neoclassical buildings with colonnades flanking a lawn, between brick townhouses un

Unexecuted Design for Cross-Block Terrace Development (perspective)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1831

Colored architectural floor plan of a columned custom house with a central rotunda, labeled with Wall and Nassau Streets.

Plan of U.S. Custom House

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1834

Engraving of a busy New York harbor street with moored sailing ships, brick warehouses, barrels, and men in top hats.

South Street from Maiden Lane, New York, in 1828

William James Bennett, 1834

Brown ink and wash drawing of a ruined château with broken towers and an arched doorway, with a seated sketcher in the foregr

Ruins of the Château of Becoiseau, near Mortcerf (seine-et-Marne)

Johann Georg Wille, 1784

Watercolor of a tan-sailed boat on shallow lagoon water with wooden posts, a distant city skyline, and sunlight breaking thro

Venetian fishing boat

Félix Ziem, n.d.

Watercolor of a gondolier poling a gondola across a lagoon at dusk, with Venice's bell tower and domes on the horizon.

Venice

Félix Ziem, n.d.

Engraved street scene of Fulton Street and Market with arched market stalls, a horse cart, pedestrians, and brick buildings.

Fulton Street and Market, New York

William James Bennett, 1834

Watercolor elevation of a classical white exchange building with Ionic columns, a central dome, and a cloudy sky.

First Merchants' Exchange, New York (elevation of main façade)

Alexander Jackson Davis, probably 1826

Hand-colored panoramic print of New York harbor with a paddle steamer, sailboats, rowboats and a city skyline under a pale sk

Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River

Robert Havell Jr., 1844

Hand-colored aquatint of a busy 1836 Broadway street in New York with carriages, pedestrians and shop signs.

Broadway, New-York. Shewing [sic] Each Building from the Hygeian Depot Corner of Canal Street to beyond Niblo's Garden

Thomas Hornor, 1836

Lithograph of a crowded iron and glass exhibition hall with galleries, exhibits, a statue, and visitors in 19th-century dress

An Interior View of the New York Crystal Palace

Charles Parsons, 1853

Hand-colored print of crowded skaters in period dress on a frozen pond in Central Park, with a stone bridge behind them.

Central Park, Winter - The Skating Pond

Charles Parsons, 1862

Grey-ground drawing of the Nativity with the Virgin, infant Christ, kneeling and standing figures and angels above.

The Nativity

Louis Licherie de Beurie

Pastoral landscape drawing with cattle and sheep, a shepherd, tall trees, a river, a ruined tower, and a distant town under b

Extensive Pastoral Landscape

Marco Ricci, 1676-1730

Watercolor capriccio of Roman ruins with a triumphal arch, stone lion, and figures among fallen architectural fragments.

Capriccio with Roman Ruins

Marco Ricci, 1676-1730

Ink and white chalk drawing on grey paper of three standing male figures in draped robes, studied from different angles.

Three Standing Figures

Francesco Primaticcio, 16th century