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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,710 works

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Grey wash drawing of a religious scene with two women, an infant, a winged angel and a cherub inside a tall arched panel.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1761

Pencil sketch of four women seated around a table with needlework, reading and writing, lit by a candle.

Four Ladies Sitting around a Table Occupied with Needlework, Reading, and Writing (recto); Study of a Woman with Need…

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1758

Red chalk drawing of a bearded, haloed old man seated within a triangular frame, draped in cloth.

Study of St. Jerome

Girolamo Muziano, 1578-79

Red chalk drawing of a barefoot fisherman in a wide hat leaning on an oar beside a chain and iron ring.

A Fisherman Leaning on an Oar

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1774

Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 18th century

Drawing of a bearded nude wild man with oak leaves in his hair and waist, leaning on a wooden staff, in brown wash with white

The Wild Man

Conrad Meyer, 1649

Blue-toned drawing of an armored winged archangel with a sword and shield standing over writhing demons and dragons.

The Archangel Michael Banishing Vice

Franz Ludwig Hermann, 1782