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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

796 works

Gray wash drawing of an allegorical tree with putti, lions, chariots, pouring figures and a city skyline behind.

An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, winged Cupid resting in front, figures running toward a castle behind.

Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid res…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Etching of a hermit's cave under a rocky cliff with a wooden cross, trees, a small figure and a distant valley.

Brother Joseph in the Alps

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1820

Black and white print of Adam digging with a spade while Eve spins under an apple tree, with two children near the ground.

Adam and Eve (Labour: Whan Adam Delved and Eve Span, Who Was Then the Gentleman?)

Edward Burne-Jones, 1895 or later

Engraving of Angelica and Medoro embracing beneath a tree while Medoro carves their names, with Cupid and a distant city.

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names in the bark of a tree; Cupid holding a torch in…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Etching of an old man in a cap and coat seated on a stone beside a dirt road, with trees and two distant figures.

An Old Man Sitting on the Roadside

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1818

Etching of three women resting under a large tree near a ruined building and a thatched cottage, with a basket on the ground.

Frère Luce

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Engraving of the Holy Family beneath a palm tree with angels and putti above and a donkey at left.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family under a palm tree surrounded by angels, putti, and a male cleric or saint

Giorgio Ghisi, 1578

Etching of a quack seller under a canopy by a barrel, surrounded by a crowd and a child with a hoop beneath a tree.

The Quacksalver (copy)

Adriaen van Ostade, n.d.

Etched print of a nude man and clothed woman fleeing near a tree and white horse, with armed figures and a hut behind them.

Fuite de M. de Belle-Isle, prisonnier chez les Attakapas

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Engraving of a large tree on a hillside, with two walking figures and a dog on a path and a river valley beyond.

Paysan et Paysanne en Marche

Engraving of a woman in a long gown carving a tree trunk as a spaniel watches from a bench in a garden.

Le Chiffre d'Amour

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraving of Christ pointing toward a kneeling Mary beside a large tree, with a church spire in the distant landscape.

Christ Appearing to Mary in the Garden

Pietro da Cortona, 1766

Etching of a large tree beside two cottages on a hill, with two figures walking on a path in the foreground.

Les Deux Chaumieres

Engraving of a woman on a swing in a lush garden, watched by two men and a cupid statue beside a fountain.

Les Hazards heureux de l'Escarpolette (The Swing)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Oval engraving of a seated woman holding a sleeping infant beside a boy pouring water, framed by dense garden trees.

La Bonne Mere

Nicolas de Launay, 18th century

Etching of elderly figures gathered around a fire in a gnarled woodland, one figure on crutches, with French caption below.

Old Age

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Engraved oval scene of a seated mother with a child and sleeping infant in a cradle, a man pouring at right, dense trees behi

La Bonne Mere

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Wood engraving of children and a woman gathering chestnuts under a tree, a boy in the branches and a girl holding a sheet.

Chestnutting (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)

Winslow Homer, October 29, 1870

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees, a winding path, a fence, a small building, and a seated family group in the fo

Mother and Children At Rest

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Print of nymphs and cupids gathered around a fountain beneath trees, with putti tumbling on clouds in the foreground.

La Fontaine d'Amour

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1785

Wood engraving of two lumbermen in snowshoes felling trees in a winter forest, one swinging an axe at a trunk.

Lumbering in Winter (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series)

Winslow Homer, January 28, 1871

Etching of a forest path with twisted trees, two resting travelers at lower left, and dogs walking along the path.

Two Travelers Resting in the Woods

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Daumier lithograph of two seated men under trees, one reading a newspaper, a top hat on a chair beside them.

What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction, from 'The good bourgeois,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, August 30, 1846

Etching of an angel in white robes appearing in light above startled shepherds, sheep and cattle on a dark wooded hillside.

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees, a cow, two figures in the foreground, and rolling hills under a hatched sky.

Mercury and Argus

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a rocky cave framing a distant hilly landscape, with two figures in hats on the rocks below.

The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1797

Pen-and-ink style print of a woodcutter standing over a kneeling figure gathering sticks on a forest path beside a bundle of

Woodcutter Making a Faggot

Jean-François Millet, 1853

Etching of a large oak in a wooded landscape, with a fallen figure, a spear, a seated dog and running hounds below.

The Death of Adonis

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Engraving of a draped woman in classical dress picking fruit from a tree, with fine hatched shading.

Woman in Roman Costume Picking Fruit from a Tree

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1560