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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

796 works

Dark painting of a winged angel wrestling a man beneath a large twisted tree in an arched forest scene.

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Eugène Delacroix, 1850

Etched landscape with a large oak, dense woodland, a path with three walking figures, and rolling hills in the distance.

The Departure of Hagar

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Engraving of a muscular bearded nude man raising one arm beside a tree, with draped cloth and faces in the rocks below.

John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness

Battista Franco Veneziano

Grey ink and wash drawing of tall trees and a sunlit forest path with two small figures in the distance.

Woodland Scene

Pieter George Westenberg, 1819

Ink and wash drawing of bare tree branches framing a church apse with arched windows on blue-grey paper.

Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Engraving of an angel halting an elderly man's raised knife over a kneeling boy, with a ram and fire nearby.

The Angel Staying the Arm of Abraham

Battista Franco Veneziano

Grey wash drawing of two large twisting trees by a river, with a reclining man, a dog, and walking hikers in the distance.

Riverscape with Hikers and a Dog

Heinrich Theodor Wehle, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen drawing in an oval frame of a hilly landscape with a palm tree, ruined buildings, a hilltop castle and two figures.

Vertical Oval Vignette of a Mountainous Landscape with Two Shepherds in the Foreground

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, late 17th century

Engraving of a young shepherd seated by a tree, with a mountain and towered buildings behind him and an old man at lower righ

Young shepherd seated in a landscape looking toward an old man in the lower right, buildings in the background and a…

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1509-12

Pen and ink drawing of a large tree, a stream and bridge, and a village with a church on rolling hills.

Southern German Landscape

Otto Friedrich Magnus Count Baudissin, 1800-1865

Pen drawing of a wooded landscape with a Bacchic procession of satyrs, maenads and a centaur, with a distant hilltop temple.

The Triumph of Bacchus

Joseph Anton Koch, 18th-19th century

Watercolor and ink landscape of a multi-tiered waterfall over rocks, framed by pine trees and steep mountain slopes.

Landscape with a Waterfall

Johann Christoph Rist, 1816

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

Drawing of a seated young woman in white dress sketching under a tree beside a distant landscape.

Portrait of a Seated Young Lady Drawing under a Tree

Firmin Massot, late 18th-19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a forest scene with tall trees, a fallen log over a rocky stream, and a grassy bank.

Ugbrooke, Devon

John White Abbott, July 17, 1809

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

Engraving of the Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist beneath a large tree, with a landscape behind.

Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. John the Baptist

Jan Müller, ca. 1588

Etching of a young woman in a tunic holding a large dog by its collar beside a tree in a hilly landscape.

A Nymph Holding a Large Dog by its Collar

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1654

Watercolor of cattle and sheep resting under beech trees, with shepherds and a distant castle on hills.

Cattle and sheep at resting at the edge of a forest

the younger George Barret, ca. 1840

Engraving of nymphs removing a thorn from a satyr's foot beside a tree, with a child and distant landscape.

Oreads Removing a Thorn from a Satyr's Foot

Jan Müller, 1590

Engraving of a pastoral scene with napping peasants under a tree, a standing soldier at right, a cottage, goats, and a dog by

Plate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right;…

Giuliano Giampiccoli, ca. 1725-59

Etching of a woman in flowing dress holding a large dog by the collar beside a tree, with a hilly landscape behind.

Nymph Holding a Large Dog by the Collar

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1654

Etching of a turbaned man crouching in a forest ambush, with distant horsemen and tents in an open landscape at right.

Indian in an Ambush

Paul Edme Le Rat, 19th century

Etching of an old woman on a swing, with a cat perched on a branch above her and foliage behind.

Old woman on a swing

Francisco Goya, n.d.

Etching of a rider watering his horse at a fountain beside ruins, with a second rider in the distance under trees.

Plate 19: Landscape with a Cavalier Watering His Horse at a Fountain, from "Various figures and doodles" (Diverses fi…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Dark woodland print with slender tree trunks in the foreground and a bright clearing of light on the right.

The Ambush (L'Embuscade)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1858

Ink and wash drawing of a bare-chested archer on a rock, drawing his bow as a snake coils around his ankle.

Philoctetes Being Bitten by the Snake

Gotthard Ringgli, late 16th-early 17th century

Etching of a twisted tree on a rock by water, with two cloaked women and a donkey at the left edge.

Landscape with two women, one mounted on a donkey

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1660

Gray wash drawing of a man under a tree attacked by a lion as his horse runs away across a hazy landscape.

A Man under a Tree Bitten by a Lion while his Horse Escapes

Mathais Füssli the Elder, 1692

Print of a proposed colossal statue of George Washington on a tall pedestal, with strollers in a tree-lined park.

Proposed Colossal Statue of George Washington for the City of New York

G. Thomas, 1845