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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,826 works

Watercolor of purple plums on a branch with green leaves and two yellow quinces resting on sandy ground.

Plums

John William Hill, 1870

Watercolor of a shirtless young man wading in turquoise sea, with a sailboat, palm-lined shore and bunting in the background.

The Bather

Winslow Homer, 1899

Watercolor of a rower in a red headband and white shirt in a single scull on a river, with sailboats in the distance.

John Biglin in a Single Scull

Thomas Eakins, ca. 1873

Drawing of a woman in a gray skirt lifting a bowl while a dark turkey stands beside her on grass near a pale wall.

Feeding the Turkey

Eastman Johnson, ca. 1872-80

Watercolor of a channel bass fish swimming in blue-green water above dark seaweed on the seabed.

Channel Bass

Winslow Homer, 1904

Watercolor of a banjo player, a standing man in a red cardigan, and a barefoot boy dancing in a plain interior room.

The Dancing Lesson

Thomas Eakins, 1878

Watercolor of the seated Great Buddha at Kamakura with eyes lowered, framed by a bamboo canopy, stone lantern and green folia

The Great Statue of Amida Buddha at Kamakura, Known as the Daibutsu, from the Priest's Garden

John La Farge, 1887

Watercolor of two fishing boats on turquoise water, one white boat labeled Lizzie with billowing sail and crew at work.

Fishing Boats, Key West

Winslow Homer, 1903

Woman seated by a sunny window darning grey socks, with potted plants and a basket of mending beside her.

A Month's Darning

Enoch Wood Perry, 1876

Watercolor of a glowing white-striped morning glory flower with green leaves against a dark blue nocturnal background.

Nocturne

John La Farge, ca. 1885

Watercolor of red and yellow flowers and banana plants before a yellow bungalow with a white roof overlooking blue sea.

Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda

Winslow Homer, 1899

Watercolor of a lake with scattered islands and layered mountains under a golden sunset sky, seen from a rocky hillside.

Lake Squam from Red Hill

William Trost Richards, 1874

Watercolor of a pale woman's face and dark hair floating on dark water beside a pink flower under a dusky sky.

The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River

John La Farge, 1897

Osage Warrior

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1805-7

Two barefoot boys with a bucket on a sandy beach beside beached sailboats, with a fish lying on the sand.

A Basket of Clams

Winslow Homer, 1873

Watercolor of an underwater scene with anemones, corals, shells, lobsters, and fish over a rocky seabed.

Ocean Life

James M. Sommerville

Watercolor of a river with cliffs, a wooded hillside, grazing cows and walkers in a sunny meadow.

The Palisades

John William Hill, ca. 1870

Watercolor of a harbor city across a bay, with ships, a windmill, a sandy shore and a windswept pine in the foreground.

New York from the Heights near Brooklyn

William Guy Wall, ca. 1820-23

Pastel drawing of a brown brick facade with pink laundry, a dark doorway, and figures on a stone ledge.

Note in Pink and Brown

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1880

Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat

Edgar Degas, ca. 1868

Poster of a dancer in a polka-dot blouse kicking high beside a top-hatted man, with a silhouetted crowd and bold red letterin

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1891

Watercolor of a standing woman in a dark gray dress holding a hat, against a black background with brown lower edge.

Lady in Gray

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883

Sepia tonal print of a large nude giant seated on a rock ledge, seen from behind, under a crescent moon.

Seated Giant

Francisco Goya, by 1818 (possibly 1814-18)

Graphite sketch of a plumed warrior with spear and shield at the center of a crowded ancient battle scene among trees.

Leonidas at Thermopylae

Jacques-Louis David, ca. 1812-13

Red and black chalk drawing of a bald man's head turned upward, with an open mouth and shaded face on pale paper.

Head of a Man

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1718

Pencil drawing of three young women in period dress, one seated at a piano, two standing behind her, 1818.

The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1818

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bacchanal with satyrs, a goat, a fruit basket, and a classical arch.

Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1635-36

Etching of an imagined Venetian canal scene with a domed church, boats, terraced houses, and a seated man on a wall.

Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats…

Canaletto, 1741

Brown ink and wash drawing of a youth piping for a reclining satyr under trees, with putti and a landscape behind.

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645-50

Watercolor of two women in a whitewashed interior, one seated in embroidered dress and headdress, one in a yellow headscarf b

Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters

Eugène Delacroix, 1832