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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 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 design drawing of a wooden chair with carved backrest and pink upholstered seat, with Paris studio stamp.

Design for a Chair

A. Damon et Cie., 19th century

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 an old man setting a saw beside a woman and dog on a city street with music shop signs.

The Saw-Setter

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

Pencil and wash stage design drawing of a conical tent, tree, standing figure and agave plant with grid lines.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: A Tent

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pen and gray wash stage design drawing of a conical tent, overturned wagon, cannon and grassy rocky ground.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Tent and Overturned Wagon

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Etching of a woman drawing water at a roofed well with buckets, a figure working in the background at right.

Woman at a Well

Camille Pissarro, 1891

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

Portrait of Paul Cézanne

Camille Pissarro, 1874

The Maid at the Market

Camille Pissarro, 1888

Etching of two women selling chestnuts from a large pot at a village market, with a crowd, horse and cart, and houses behind.

Chestnut Vendor, St. Martin's Market, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro, 1881

Etching of a cabbage field with a leaning tree, a low wall, and farm buildings in the background.

The Cabbage Field

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1880

Etching of a rural cottage in a field with bare trees at right and a distant village under an open sky.

The Cottage

Camille Pissarro, 1879

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 a cobbled Rouen street with an arched gateway, a church tower, and pedestrians in the foreground.

The Street of the Grand Clock, Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of a rainy Rouen street with horses in puddles, umbrella-carrying pedestrians, and a street lamp.

Impressions of Rain, Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1883

Pencil sketch of a female figure holding a cross and a flaming heart, with cherubs on clouds above a globe.

The Virgin of the Sacred Heart

Théodore Géricault, ca. 1820

Etching of a seated cowherd by a water's edge beside a tree-lined path, with a cow in the foreground and hills behind.

Cowherd, at Water's Edge

Camille Pissarro, 1890

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

Lithograph of a woman with raised arms arranging her hair in a bedroom with a bed, chair and patterned wall.

Woman Arranging Her Hair

Camille Pissarro, 1894

Monochrome print of a woman with a raised stick herding cows across an open field toward distant hills.

Cowherd

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1899

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

Etching of three nude women embracing in shallow water beneath trees, with a fourth figure seated on the bank.

Four Bathers

Camille Pissarro, 1895

Etching of two bathers, one standing nude adjusting a hat and one seated figure bending to touch her foot, in loose hatched l

Two Bathers (Les Deux Baigneuses), from "L'Estampe Originale"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Etching of two nude women seated in grass, one raising a hat, with diagonal cancellation lines across the sheet.

Les Deux Baigneuses (Cancelled impression)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

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

Édouard Manet, Bust-Length Portrait

Edgar Degas, ca. 1868

Etching of a two-masted sailing boat by a shore, with a mountain, trees and clouds in the background.

Greek Landscape

Edgar Degas, 1856

Etching of a man in a top hat beside a horse, with tall trees and rolling hills in the background.

The Sportsman Mounting His Horse

Edgar Degas, 1856

Watercolor design drawing of a red upholstered armchair with gold tassels and a fringed skirt, on tan paper.

Design for an Armchair

A. Damon et Cie., 19th century

Watercolor design of a gilded display cabinet with glazed vitrine, classical urns and figures, on a stand with a blue vase.

Design for a Cabinet with a Vitrine

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

Design for a Commode

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

Etching of two cloaked figures passing through a dark stone archway, with Italian text along the lower margin.

Dante and Virgil

Edgar Degas, 1857

Etching of a bearded man seated in a wooden chair, turned to the right, beside a window with hatched shadows.

Édouard Manet, Seated, Turned to the Right

Edgar Degas, ca. 1868

Etching of two dancers in a rehearsal room, one bending toward the floor beside a tall striped curtain.

Two Dancers in a Rehearsal Room

Edgar Degas, 1877-78

Head of a Woman in Profile

Edgar Degas, 1879-80

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

Factory Smoke

Edgar Degas, 1877-79

The Jet Earring

Edgar Degas, 1876-77

Print of a seated nude woman seen from behind, bending over, set against dark vertical strokes of trees.

Girl Putting on Her Stockings

Edgar Degas, 1876-77

Head and Shoulders of a Young Woman in Profile I

Edgar Degas, ca. 1879

Abstract etching of stippled dark and light tones with two diagonal lines, where a pale form suggests a seated woman.

Seated Woman in Bonnet and Shawl

Edgar Degas, ca. 1879

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

Monotone portrait of a mustached man in a dark hat and tie, with a handwritten inscription beneath, on pale paper.

Portrait of Virginie Cardinal's Favorite, the Actor Crochard (illustration for La Famille Cardinal by Ludovic Halévy)

Edgar Degas, ca. 1880

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

Watercolor design drawing of an X-frame stool with blue upholstered seat and tassel fringe, set against a paneled wall.

Design for a Stool

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

Engraved portrait of Galileo Galilei in an oval frame, with cherubs holding a telescope and instruments above.

Portrait of Galileo Galilei set within an elaborate cartouche

Francesco Villamena, 1623

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

Color print of a young woman in a flowered straw hat holding fruit, with a figure seen from behind adjusting her hat.

The Hat Pinned with Flowers (Le Chapeau Épinglé)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1898

Soft tonal portrait sketch of a bearded man with flowing beard and tousled hair, signed Renoir, on pale paper.

Auguste Rodin

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1900

Etching of two bathers: one standing nude adjusting a hat, one seated woman touching her bare foot, with hatched ground.

The Two Bathers

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895