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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Etching of moored sailing boats with tall masts along a waterfront, with small figures walking on a quay in the foreground.

Little Dordrecht

James McNeill Whistler, 1885-86

Etching of a fair booth with a dark awning, figures gathered beneath it, and a lone standing figure on the right.

Booth at a Fair

James McNeill Whistler, [1884-86]

Etching of a cluttered old-clothes shop interior with hanging garments, a chair, and figures near the doorway.

Old-Clothes Shop, No. 2 (Rag Shop)

James McNeill Whistler, [1884-86]

Etching of a shop front with a sign and awning, children and figures walking in the street, drawn in loose hatched lines.

T. A. Nash's Fruit Shop (T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop)

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a furniture shop front with awnings and chairs and cabinets displayed outside, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Furniture Shop

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a street with shopfronts, a barber sign, a street lamp, and figures near a dark archway.

The Barber's (The Barber's Shop, Chelsea)

James McNeill Whistler, [1886-95]

Etching of a London street scene with diagonal iron gate bars over loosely sketched figures and buildings.

Gates, City, London

James McNeill Whistler, after 1887

Etching of a crowded London street with shopfronts, hanging clothes, a sign reading Abrahams, and pedestrians.

Cutler Street, Houndsditch

James McNeill Whistler, [1886-88]

Loose etching of a seated mother leaning over a small child, with hatched lines modeling her gown on cream paper.

Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child)

James McNeill Whistler, 1880-1903

Etching of a tall building with a lamp post and small figures gathered in an open courtyard.

Courtyard, Brussels

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a château with a conical tower rising above dense trees and a railing along a river bank.

Château de Verneuil, Touraine

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Etching of a tall arched window flanked by slender columns, with a smaller window above and loose sketched lines.

Windows, Bourges

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Etching of a city street with a classical building, bare trees on the right, and small pedestrians and a cart on the road.

Fitzroy Square (Street Scene)

James McNeill Whistler, 1878-81

A Lion in Profile Facing to the Left ("Leo")

Giulio Romano, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of several figures: a man with a staff and dog, a seated woman, a standing woman with a rosary, and othe

Studies for Standing and Seated Figures

Salvator Rosa, 1634-45

Brown wash drawing with red chalk showing two draped seated male figures within triangular spandrel shapes.

Two Seated Male Figures Within Spandrels

Andrea Schiavone, 16th century

Pen and wash design for a semi-dome with framed scenes, garlands carried by putti, and a classical architectural order below.

Design for the Decoration of the Semi-Dome of a Church Apse

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1545-55

Brown ink and wash drawing of a man leading a blind friar with a walking stick, on aged paper.

A Man Leading a Blind Friar (recto); Incidental Sketches (not by the artist; verso)

Jusepe de Ribera, 17th century

Brown ink drawing of the goddess Diana with a spear and two hounds beside tall trees, with a hilly landscape behind.

The Goddess Diana with Her Hounds Standing in a Landscape

Agostino Tassi, n.d.

Bust-Length Study of a Man Wearing a Hat in Three-Quarter View (a Frankish Nobleman)

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a sea battle with ornate galleys, spear-carrying soldiers and rowers, and sails in the distance.

The Sea Battle in the Gulf of Morbihan

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of a church interior with tall columns, vaulted arches, a distant altar and small figures in period dres

Church Interior

Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern, 1791

Seymour Seated (Seymour Haden, Jr., Seated)

James McNeill Whistler, 1857-58

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat reading among a crowd of onlookers, with handwritten French inscriptions above.

The Title to the French Set

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Watercolor landscape of a peasant family on a dirt road, grazing cattle under oaks, and a distant church tower.

Peasant Family in a Landscape

Johann Friedrich Nagel, late 18th-19th century

Watercolor of Austrian soldiers and horses in a hillside military camp, with tents and officers on a rise under a cloudy sky.

Austrian Soldiers

Wilhelm von Kobell, late 18th-19th century

Ink drawing of a winged devil holding a palette and brush beside an easel labeled Skizzenbuch, with sketches at his feet.

Der Fehlerteufel ("Devil of Mistakes")

Gustav Bartsch, 1844

Watercolor of a mountain valley with a rushing river, boulders, conifers, and a snow-capped peak in the distance.

Mountain Valley

Thomas Ender, early 19th-mid 19th century

Etching of a street with old buildings, a horse-drawn cart, a street lamp, a bare tree and a wooden fence.

Temple (The Temple)

James McNeill Whistler, [1880-81]

Etching of a row of steamboats moored on a river, with a small bridge at the right edge and streaked sky above.

Steamboat Fleet

James McNeill Whistler, [1875]

Etched street scene of a busy city avenue with tall buildings, carriages, horses and pedestrians receding toward a distant to

St. James's Street, June 1878

James McNeill Whistler, July 2, 1878

Ink sketch of a standing man with one arm outstretched, with the handwritten caption 'Suggestion by Whistler for his Portrait

Suggestion by Whistler for his Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, 19th-20th century

Pen sketch of a curly-haired winged figure holding a staff, with dotted halo outlines, on cream paper.

Whistler as Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler, 19th-20th century

Lithograph of a river bridge and hazy city skyline with two figures on a stone embankment in the foreground.

The Savoy Pigeons

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Pencil-like lithograph of a tyresmith at an anvil beside an arched doorway, with standing men and figures in the dim interior

The Tyresmith, from "The Whirlwind"

James McNeill Whistler, November 15, 1890

Loose etched sketch of a Paris greengrocer's shop with heaped vegetables, two women shoppers and a child in a doorway.

Fruit-Shop, Paris (Greengrocer's Shop, Paris)

James McNeill Whistler, 1892-93

Faint etched print of a standing nude woman seen frontally, with loose lines and light hatching on a pale sheet.

Nude Woman Standing

James McNeill Whistler, [1873-75]

Watercolor landscape of a windmill over a grain field, with a farmer leading oxen and a woman with a basket in the foreground

Landscape

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1785

Watercolor of a seated woman in striped headscarf and embroidered apron spinning, with a pencil sketch of a veiled woman besi

Neapolitan Woman (recto); Study for an Interior (verso)

Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Heideck, late 18th-19th century

Woodcut print of women seated in a room with a book, needlework and a basket of fruit, inscribed IOSE. SAL. 1557.

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sor…

Giuseppe Salviati, 1557

Etching of a dying bearded man in bed supported by a richly dressed king, with courtiers watching in period costume.

Allegory of Painting (The Death of Leonardo da Vinci)

Giuseppe Cades, ca. 1780-99

Painted landscape of a ruined castle on a forested hilltop above a river, with a stone bridge and horse cart.

View of Kynsburg over the Weistritz River Valley in Silesia

Johann Heinrich Bleuler, late 18th-19th century

Etching of a Gothic cathedral facade with a spire at right and small figures walking on a street in front.

Notre Dame, Bourges

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Watercolor and graphite study of a leafy plant with large lobed leaves and flowering stems, with grasses at its base.

Study of a Plant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1712-74

Watercolor of a rocky arch framing a valley, with sheep and a sleeping shepherd on a grassy path below.

Rocky Landscape with Sleeping Shepherd

Philip Heinrich Dunker, 1817

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bound, seated bearded man mocked by an armored soldier and a man drinking from a goblet.

Mocking of Christ

Johann Heintz, late 16th-early 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a village street with gabled houses, a church tower, a large tree and two figures.

Village Street Scene with a Church

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1777

Pen and brown wash drawing of a reclining figure, a skull, and a ruined monument with a standing figure and a distant city.

Allegory of the Transience of Life

Christian Richter, 1618

Grey wash drawing of figures on a wooden bridge by willows, a rowboat on a canal, and a farmhouse under cloudy sky.

View of a Bridge in the Dutch Countryside with Figures

Nicolaas Wicart, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor of a great tit with black cap and yellow breast perched on a bare branch against a pale background.

A Great Titmouse (Parus major) Perched on a Branch

Pieter Withoos, late 17th century

Pencil drawing of a large tree beside a villa with a balcony, with a rocky cliff and distant mountains on the right.

Landscape with a Tree in front of a Villa

Eduard Gaertner, 1801-77

Pencil portrait of a young woman in a lace headscarf and white blouse, turned to the left with a calm gaze.

Swiss Girl

August Ferdinand Hopfgarten, 1833

Grey wash drawing of a man and women with a cudgel striking a cat as a fox crouches nearby, with a sword on the ground.

Illustration for Reinecke Fuchs: Tomcat Hinz being hit instead of Reinecke

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1805-74

Portrait of O. Rietschel

J. H. Schulz, ca. 1854

Botanical study of pink and white hibiscus flowers and white oleander on a tan sheet, with a faint pencil sketch of another h

Study of Hibiscus Plants

Adolf Senff, 1828

Etching of a river at dawn with sailboats, a wooden pier, factory chimneys and a church spire under a cloudy sky.

Early Morning, Battersea (Battersea Dawn) (Cadogan Pier)

James McNeill Whistler, 1861

Etching of a blacksmith's forge with workers around an anvil, tools hanging on the wall, and figures in hats.

The Forge, from "A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects"

James McNeill Whistler, 1866

Sketch of a row of Chelsea houses with chimneys, a bare tree and iron railings along the street.

Lindsay Row, Chelsea

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Sketch of a seated nude woman with bowed head on a draped platform, with a chair at the left edge of the sheet.

Little Nude Model, Reading

James McNeill Whistler, 1889-90

Pale grey lithograph of a dancing female figure with arms outstretched, holding a billowing veil of drapery.

Dancing Girl

James McNeill Whistler, 1889

Grey lithograph sketch of a busy market square with figures, awnings, arched windows and buildings.

The Market Place, Vitré

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Monochrome sketch of stone steps in a park with walking figures, a sculpted pedestal at right, and tall trees behind.

The Steps, Luxembourg Gardens

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Loose pencil sketch of a reclining female nude on a draped couch in a sparse studio interior, by James McNeill Whistler.

Nude Model, Reclining (Nude Model Resting)

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Sketch of a vaulted gallery with framed paintings on the wall and visitors walking across the floor.

The Long Gallery, Louvre, from "The Studio"

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Pencil sketch of a classical stone archway framing a dim workshop with two figures working at a bench.

The Whitesmiths: Impasse de Carmélites

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Loose pencil-style sketch of steep gabled roofs, a chimney and a tower above a stone house with an arched doorway.

Gabled Roofs, Vitré

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Pencil sketch of a helmeted warrior addressing a seated king in a crowded tent, with onlookers and a round table at right.

Mucius Scaevola Before King Porsenna

François Boucher, 18th century

Loose sketch of a seated mustached man with hatched strokes for his jacket and trousers on white paper.

The Doctor, from "The Pageant"

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Loose sketch of a standing woman in a headscarf and flowing dress, leaning on a bowl, drawn in dark lines on cream paper.

Girl with a Bowl

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Sketch of two children standing at a doorway beside a house with bay windows, drawn in loose grey lines on cream paper.

Little Doorway, Lyme Regis

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Lithograph of two figures beside horses in a stable yard, drawn in loose dark strokes on cream paper.

The Smith's Yard, from "The International Studio"

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Lithograph of a seated woman with dark hair, face lightly modeled and body rendered in loose tonal strokes.

Firelight (Mrs. Joseph Pennell)

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Pen and wash drawing of a muscular man in a blue loincloth reclining on a grey table, arms behind his head.

Male Nude Lying on a Table

Monogrammist AW, 1567 (?)

Pencil sketch of townhouses and trees along a street, drawn lightly on cream paper with the number 146 in the corner.

Trial Sketch: Grande Rue Dieppe

James McNeill Whistler, probably 1891

Etching of a woman in a long dress and bonnet at a ship railing, looking out to sea with gulls and rigging beside her.

The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week")

James McNeill Whistler, June 21, 1862

The Nun in "Count Burckhardt" (from "Once a Week")

James McNeill Whistler, September 27, 1862

Etching of a woman with long windblown hair leaning against a wall, with a stormy sky and sea behind her.

The Relief Fund in Lancashire (for "Once a Week")

James McNeill Whistler, July 26, 1862

The Morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (from "Once a Week")

James McNeill Whistler, August 16, 1862

Pencil drawing of a young man with bow and quiver seated on a rock with two dogs in a rocky wooded landscape.

Young Man with Bow and Arrow

François Jacques Fleischbein, 1832

Watercolor of a fisherman's family with a dog-drawn cart on a dune beach, boats and birds under a pale sky.

A Fisherman's Family at the Beach, the Mother and One of the Children Sitting in a Cart

Jan Gerard Smits, 1855

Engraving of infant Jupiter nursed by goat Amalthea, with nymphs, a shepherd and goats in a rocky landscape.

Jupiter suckled by the goat Amalthea

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Lithograph of a draped woman seated on a bench, head bowed, rendered in soft grey tones on cream paper.

The Draped Figure Seated, from "L'Estampe Originale"

James McNeill Whistler, October-December 1893

Sketch of a dancing girl with billowing drapery and an outstretched arm, drawn in soft grey strokes on cream paper.

Dancing Girl

James McNeill Whistler, 1890

Loose pencil sketch of a standing female figure partly draped in vertical folds of cloth, with one arm raised.

Model Draping

James McNeill Whistler, 1890

Sketch of two seated women chatting in a garden, with a statue on a pedestal and trees behind them.

Conversations under the Statue, Luxembourg Gardens

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Monochrome sketch of a city building with a crowded balcony of figures and umbrellas, chimneys above, by Whistler.

The Long Balcony (Paris Windows, The Long Balcony)

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Loose sketch of two men seated at a table in an interior, with a standing woman in a gown at the right.

Late Picquet

James McNeill Whistler, 1890

The Old Smith's Story

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Loose pencil sketch of a young woman in a hat and long coat, standing with her head bowed, on cream paper.

Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Hat (Miss Seaton) (Dorothy Seaton in a Hat)

James McNeill Whistler, 1902

Loose sketch of a seated young woman in a chair, face lit within dense diagonal shading, by James McNeill Whistler.

Portrait of a Young Woman (Miss Seaton) (Dorothy Seaton)

James McNeill Whistler, 1897, only printed posthumously

Etching of a busy Thames wharf with moored boats and sailing ships, and a seated man in the foreground.

The Old Thames: "Black Lion Wharf," an Etching

Carl Hentschel, 1895

Loose lithograph sketch of a young girl in a long dress standing before a shaded background, by James McNeill Whistler.

Little Evelyn, from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 88

James McNeill Whistler, March 1896

Lithograph of a seated shoemaker at a cluttered worktable with a standing woman behind him in a dim interior.

The Shoemaker (The Shoemaker, Dieppe)

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Pen sketch of a hooded woman leaning on a wall beside a stormy, swirling sky and dark ground.

The Relief Fund in Lancashire (for "Once a Week," July 26, 1862)

James McNeill Whistler, 1862

Black-and-white print of a woman in a long dress leaning on a ship railing, looking toward the sea and distant shore.

The Major's Daughter (for "Once a Week," June 21, 1862)

James McNeill Whistler, 1862

Pen-and-ink print of a woman in a long gown seated at a window, looking out over a city with rooftops and clouds.

The Morning Before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (for "Once a Week," August 16, 1862)

James McNeill Whistler, 1862