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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Engraved plate of six decorative caryatid columns with female figures, fruit headdresses, and varied ornamental bases.

Caryatidum (...) sive Athlantidum Multiformium (...)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, ca. 1565

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elegant drawing room with seated guests, a standing man, a dog, and a fireplace.

The Reception

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor drawing of cattle grazing on a hillside above a village with a church tower and rolling downland.

Downlands, Sussex

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of fashionable figures gathered around a gaming table piled with coins in a draped room.

A Gaming Table at Devonshire House

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791

Watercolor drawing of a busy kitchen with diners at a long table, servants, a roasting fire, hanging hams and a dog.

The Squire's Kitchen

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of sailing boats and a crowded rowing boat on calm water, with ships and a distant shore.

Ships and Sailors

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a seated girl by a tree with geese wading in a pond, a fence and rolling fields behind.

Goose Girl

Camille Pissarro, 1888

Etching of a meadow with wooden fences, bare trees, a farmhouse and three grazing cows under a pale sky.

Field and Mill at Osny (Pontoise), 1885

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of a meadow with a wooden fence, grazing cattle, leafless trees and a farmhouse by Camille Pissarro, 1885.

Field and Mill at Osny, 1885

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of a harbor quay with moored sailing ships, masts, rooftops, and small figures walking beside a horse and cart.

The Port of Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of cows grazing in a pasture beneath a row of trees, with a farm building and figures in the background.

Cows in the Fields of Éragny, near Gisors

Camille Pissarro, 1888

Print of a nude woman seen from behind among grasses by a tree at the shore, with a small boat on the water in the distance.

Bather Standing Among Grasses at the Shore

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1894

Monochrome print of a young woman bending to wash her feet in a stream, with trees and reflections in loose strokes.

A Young Woman Washing Her Feet at the Edge of a Stream

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1894-95

Black and white print of five nude women bathers standing together before dark trees and a hazy sky.

Group of Bathers

Camille Pissarro, 1897

Dark lithograph by Camille Pissarro showing a bather beside a pale tub in shadowy evening interior light.

Bather, Evening

Camille Pissarro, 1897

Monochrome lithograph of bathers in shade beneath trees, with figures bending and standing near a wooded bank.

Bathers in the Shade of Wooded Banks

Camille Pissarro, 1894

Engraving of women visiting a new mother in a canopied bed, with children and a small dog on a tiled floor.

Visit to the New Mother

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraving of women gathered in a canopied bedchamber beside a resting woman, with a servant and a table of dishes at right.

Return from the Christening

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Etching of women dining at a long table in a decorated room with a fireplace, a servant, children and dogs, French verses bel

Wives at Table During the Absence of Their Husbands

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635-36

Etching of a riverside village with gabled houses, a jetty, windmills and church spires across a flat landscape.

Village on a River

Jan Ruischer, 17th century

Monochrome print of dark smoke plumes rising from chimneys against a pale sky.

Factory Smoke

Edgar Degas, 1877-79

Etching of two horses grazing in a meadow with a river, boats, and buildings in the distance under a pale sky.

Horses in the Meadow

Edgar Degas, 1891-92

Pencil drawing of a Gothic church with a tall square tower, a canal bridge in the foreground and a city skyline at right.

View of the Laurenskerk, Rotterdam

Gerrit Battem, 18th century ?

Pen and wash drawing of a Renaissance-style table with turned legs and an arcaded stretcher, against a paneled wall.

Design for a Table

A. Damon et Cie., ca. 1870-80

Etching of thatched huts, a raised storehouse and figures by a fence, with trees and hills behind, at Akaroa.

Native Barns and Huts at Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, 1845, from "The Voyage to New Zealand (1842-46)"

Charles Meryon, 1860

Pencil drawing of a stage set showing a timber cottage cutaway with curtains and a distant town on the right.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Interior of a Cottage

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil drawing of a greenhouse stage set with glass roof, draped curtains, potted plants and climbing vines.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: a Greenhouse

Eugène Cicéri, 1828-90

Grey ink and wash drawing of a Gothic church interior with pointed arches, balustrades and ribbed vaulting, with grid lines.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil drawing of a domed stage set interior with arches, ornate pilasters and standing figures in niches.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Domed Interior (recto); Sketches for Dome and Doors (verso)

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil drawing of a grand stage interior with a coffered ceiling, arched colonnades, classical columns and ornate balustrades

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Interior with Coiffered Ceiling

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90