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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,079 works

Three women in kimono stroll a riverbank beside a willow tree, with sailboats on the water at dusk.

Three Girls on a Riverbank

Painting of a flowering branch with white blossoms and grey-green leaves on a muted tan background, with grasses at lower rig

Blossoming Trees

Painting of a shepherd in a red cap guiding sheep and a cow under a tree, with classical ruins in a distant hilly landscape.

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Impressionist landscape of a hillside pasture in autumn with grazing cows, stone walls, rocks, and orange and green trees.

Hillside Pastures - September

Willard Metcalf, 1922

Watercolor of a marsh river with cows wading, a rowboat, a sailboat and a steamboat under a hazy sky.

Hackensack Meadows

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1890

Forest landscape painting with large trees, a robed group at left, a fisherman with a dog at right, and a village beyond a ri

Forest Landscape with two of Christ's Miracles

David Vinckboons

Brown ink wash drawing of a wooded landscape with tall trees, wind-bent branches, and a dark grassy foreground.

Landscape: Black Trees II

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1862

Painting of a walled hill town above green slopes, with grazing white cattle in the foreground and blue mountains beyond.

Italian Hill Town

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1925

Painting of red poppies in a garden below a low wall, with dark cypress trees and a pale cloudy sky.

Cypress and Poppies

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a leaning palm tree with spreading fronds and coconut clusters against a shaded sky.

Palm Tree

Elihu Vedder, 1836

Hanging scroll of snowy mountains, bare trees, rocks and a small hut beside a frozen stream in grey ink.

Snow Clearing: Landscape after Li Cheng

Painting of a river landscape with a lone tree on a grassy hill, a dirt path, a fallen trunk, and distant hills under clouds.

Paysage de rivière - Alexandre François Desportes

Alexandre François Desportes, 1690

Painting of a calm lake with a village and church tower on a promontory, wooded hills behind, and a villa on the right shore.

Lake of Orta

Carroll Beckwith, 1910

Monochrome ink landscape scroll with a misty cliff, a tree on rocky shore, and a calm lake under a pale sky.

Landscape

Tenshō Shūbun

Cypress fronds in grey and ochre tones spread across a pale sheet, with Japanese calligraphy columns beside them.

Waka Poem with Printed Gold-and-Silver Underpainting of Cypress Fronds

Hon'ami Koetsu, 1600

Hanging scroll of a woman binding her hair beside a small attendant under flowering cherry branches, in muted tones.

Woman Binding Her Hair and Attendant under Flowering Cherry Tree

Miyagawa Chôshun, 1700

Loose sketch of a wide river bending past a wooded hillside, with a distant town and a white sail under cloudy skies.

View of the Hudson River from the Catskills

Stanford White, 1870

Painting of a wide river with sailing boats, a crowded ferry, figures on the bank, a windmill and village houses under cloudy

River Scene with Boats

Adam Willaerts, 1643

Fan-shaped painting of craggy mountains and trees with red, green and blue foliage, signed with a red seal.

Autumnal Landscape

Ike Gyokuran, 1728

Painting of a sunlit path beside a green fence covered in red roses, with dark evergreen trees and a blue sky behind.

Landscape

Wilhelm Trübner, 1910

Grey wash view of a villa with arched doorways and pines beside a calm lake, with two small boats on the water.

Italian Lake Scene with Villa (from Cropsey Album)

Carl Werner, 1849

Hanging scroll of a rider on a brown horse crossing a misty mountain path beneath a gnarled tree with red fruit.

Herb Gatherer in the Mountains

Matsumura Goshun, 1767

Pencil sketchbook spread of a lake with mountains, a bell-tower village house, trees and a wooden drying rack.

Cloud Study; Lake [Maggiore?] and Village (verso, from sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Pencil sketch of a lake shoreline with steep mountains, a village at the water's edge, and distant peaks.

Lake Maggiore, May 11, 1869 (recto, from Sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Ink scroll painting of a mountain village with a dense crowd of horses below craggy peaks and pine trees.

After Ike Taiga’s “Horse Market in a Mountain Village”

Watanabe Kazan, 1800

Painting of a sunlit river with rocks, a stone bridge, trees and a red brick building on a wooded hillside.

The Bronx River

Ernest Lawson, 1910

Painting of a hillside village with red buildings, a winding river, a green boat, and white clouds over a turquoise sky.

Shadows, Spuyten Duyvil Hill

Ernest Lawson, 1910

Hanging scroll of a misty mountain landscape with a palace pavilion, boat on a river, and arched bridge.

Palace Landscape

Tani Bunchō, 1800

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, rocky cliffs and autumn trees with a small house and waterfall, with calligraphy at upper

Autumn Landscape 秋景山水図 (Shūkei sansui zu)

Painting of a flat, muddy meadow under a grey overcast sky with two grazing cows and bare trees near the horizon.

The Meadows

William Langson Lathrop, 1897