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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

796 works

Etching of a draped barefoot figure holding a cup with a serpent beside a tree, with a distant landscape and town.

St. John the Evangelist

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650

Etching of Mercury with a caduceus on a cloud above a sleeping man beside a rock, with a tree and helmet.

Mercury Appears to Aeneas in a Dream

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1757

Drawing of a man resting beside a dog under a huge gnarled oak tree, with small figures working in the misty distance.

A Man Resting Under a Tree

Egbert van Drielst, n.d.

Etching of a nude infant asleep under a tree with two birds in the branches above and a rocky outcrop behind.

Infant Hercules asleep

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1639

Etching of a herdsman with cattle and a dog on a forest path, with a bright sunburst shining through tall trees.

The Herdsman's Cottage, or Sunset

Samuel Palmer, 1850

Etching of two tall trees beside a shadowed hillside, with a distant church under a cloudy sky.

Souvenir of Italy

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866

Etching of five grotesque heads, with a central elderly man wearing an oak leaf wreath and a shouting face at upper right.

Five grotesque heads, including an elderly man with an oak leaf wreath

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of a kneeling shepherd with sheep under a palm tree, beside two turbaned bearded men and a child.

Shepherd with Two Magicians, from "Scherzi"

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-57

Pencil drawing of a large gnarled tree with spreading branches above rocks and grass on pale paper.

Study for Three Trees

John Crome, January 12, 1812

Engraving of a seated nude Diana with a spear, three hounds, a hunting horn on a tree, and a landscape behind.

Seated figure of Diana the Huntress

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Pencil sketch of a leafless, weathered tree with bare branches spreading outward on grey paper.

Study of a Dead Tree

Myles Birket Foster, 1840-99

Watercolor drawing of a carved oak fireplace with niches, columns and a central shield in the Jerusalem Chamber, 1838.

Oak Carving from Fireplace in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster

Charles James Richardson, 1838

The Royal Allied Oak and Self-Created Mushroom Kings

William Heath, May 29, 1815

Engraving of a kneeling woman, a standing armored knight, a mounted rider, and a dragon fight in a rocky background.

St. George Liberating the Princess

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1508

Watercolor drawing of an ornate carved oak fireplace with scrolled pediment, ball finial, and arched central panel.

Oak Carving from Fireplace in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster

Charles James Richardson, 1820-71

Etching of a woman bathing in a stream under willows, with three ducks in the grass in the foreground.

Canards surpris

Félix Bracquemond, 1882

Print of a woman cutting a sleeping man's hair beneath trees, with soldiers and a walled city in the background.

Samson and Delilah

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1514

Watercolor design of a carved oak fireplace frame with a pediment, arched niche and scrolled brackets.

Design for Oak Carving, from the Fireplace, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster

Charles James Richardson, 1820-71

Grey wash drawing of a young man in a tricorn hat leaning against a tree and holding a book, with distant houses.

Young Man Leaning Against a Tree With a Book

William Wellings, ca. 1780-89

Engraving of Adam and Eve beside a tree with a serpent coiled around its trunk, with a city and expelled figures in the backg

Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1514

Etching of ancient ruins with a porphyry urn, a palm tree, and small figures among fallen stones and columns.

Remains of ancient buldings among which stands the sepulchral urn of Marcus Agrippa made entirely of porphyry, which…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Pencil drawing of a woodland scene with a large twisted tree at upper left, slender trunks, and an open path below.

Study of Trees

François Ryckhals, 17th century

Sepia ink and wash drawing of hunters on a rocky ledge under trees, overlooking a distant blue mountain valley.

Hunters in an Outlook on a Mountain

August Leopold Venus, ca. 1870

Woodcut of two bearded saints beside a large tree, one holding an open book, with a hilly landscape behind them.

Saint John the Baptist and Saint Onuphrius

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1503

Page of nine small prints showing seated figures, a youth between two old men under a tree, and religious interior scenes.

A Youth with Two Old Men

Pen and brown ink drawing of a large old tree with dense foliage, a seated figure at lower left and distant walkers at right.

Study of an Old Tree

Gillis Neyts, 17th century

Watercolor of several black, blue and yellow birds perched on a gnarled branch, with a small river scene below.

Six South American Birds

Abraham Meertens, mid-18th-early 19th century

Engraving of a nude man against a tree trunk, with classical ruins, columns and arches in the background.

Man Against a Tree

Master IQV, ca. 1543-44

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, sleeping Cupid in the foreground, and a city in the distance.

Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Woodcut of an angel with keys standing over a dragon, with a walled city and mountains in the background.

The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498