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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,851 works

Etching of a crowded Venetian piazza with a clock tower, two columns, and birds flying over the rooftops.

The Piazetta (The Piazzetta)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a dark stone archway framed by leafy trees, with figures in hats seated at a table and a woman with a child at lef

The Traghetto, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a busy Venetian waterfront with figures on the quay, moored sailing boats, a gondola and palazzi.

The Riva, No. 1 (The Riva)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a narrow Venetian street with a tall mast, seated figures in the foreground, and shuttered buildings.

The Mast (The Venetian Mast)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a courtyard with a woman by a stone well, turkeys on the ground, a staircase and building with figures and vines.

Turkeys

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a Venetian quay with strolling figures, stone steps to the water, moored boats and palazzo facades.

The Riva, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Brown etching of a loose street scene with buildings, a central rounded structure and sketched figures.

Glass Furnace: Murano (Murano - Glass Furnace)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of woven lobster pots and baskets on a sandy beach with grass tufts and a distant sea horizon.

Lobster Pots (Lobster Pots - Selsea Bill)

James McNeill Whistler, [1880-81]

Etching of a city street with tall buildings, balconies, a horse and cart in the foreground, and pedestrians.

Alderney Street, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts," 1881

James McNeill Whistler, [1880-81]

Etching of a swan and iris stems by a river, with trees and a building on the far bank.

Swan and Iris (sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris")

James McNeill Whistler, 1883

Etching of moored sailing boats with tall masts along a waterfront, with small figures walking on a quay in the foreground.

Little Dordrecht

James McNeill Whistler, 1885-86

Etching of a fair booth with a dark awning, figures gathered beneath it, and a lone standing figure on the right.

Booth at a Fair

James McNeill Whistler, [1884-86]

Etching of a cluttered old-clothes shop interior with hanging garments, a chair, and figures near the doorway.

Old-Clothes Shop, No. 2 (Rag Shop)

James McNeill Whistler, [1884-86]

Etching of a shop front with a sign and awning, children and figures walking in the street, drawn in loose hatched lines.

T. A. Nash's Fruit Shop (T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop)

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a furniture shop front with awnings and chairs and cabinets displayed outside, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Furniture Shop

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a street with shopfronts, a barber sign, a street lamp, and figures near a dark archway.

The Barber's (The Barber's Shop, Chelsea)

James McNeill Whistler, [1886-95]

Etching of a London street scene with diagonal iron gate bars over loosely sketched figures and buildings.

Gates, City, London

James McNeill Whistler, after 1887

Etching of a crowded London street with shopfronts, hanging clothes, a sign reading Abrahams, and pedestrians.

Cutler Street, Houndsditch

James McNeill Whistler, [1886-88]

Loose etching of a seated mother leaning over a small child, with hatched lines modeling her gown on cream paper.

Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child)

James McNeill Whistler, 1880-1903

Etching of a tall building with a lamp post and small figures gathered in an open courtyard.

Courtyard, Brussels

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

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

Etching of a tall arched window flanked by slender columns, with a smaller window above and loose sketched lines.

Windows, Bourges

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Etching of a city street with a classical building, bare trees on the right, and small pedestrians and a cart on the road.

Fitzroy Square (Street Scene)

James McNeill Whistler, 1878-81

A Lion in Profile Facing to the Left ("Leo")

Giulio Romano, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of several figures: a man with a staff and dog, a seated woman, a standing woman with a rosary, and othe

Studies for Standing and Seated Figures

Salvator Rosa, 1634-45

Brown wash drawing with red chalk showing two draped seated male figures within triangular spandrel shapes.

Two Seated Male Figures Within Spandrels

Andrea Schiavone, 16th century

Pen and wash design for a semi-dome with framed scenes, garlands carried by putti, and a classical architectural order below.

Design for the Decoration of the Semi-Dome of a Church Apse

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1545-55

Brown ink and wash drawing of a man leading a blind friar with a walking stick, on aged paper.

A Man Leading a Blind Friar (recto); Incidental Sketches (not by the artist; verso)

Jusepe de Ribera, 17th century

Brown ink drawing of the goddess Diana with a spear and two hounds beside tall trees, with a hilly landscape behind.

The Goddess Diana with Her Hounds Standing in a Landscape

Agostino Tassi, n.d.

Bust-Length Study of a Man Wearing a Hat in Three-Quarter View (a Frankish Nobleman)

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a sea battle with ornate galleys, spear-carrying soldiers and rowers, and sails in the distance.

The Sea Battle in the Gulf of Morbihan

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of a church interior with tall columns, vaulted arches, a distant altar and small figures in period dres

Church Interior

Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern, 1791

Seymour Seated (Seymour Haden, Jr., Seated)

James McNeill Whistler, 1857-58

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat reading among a crowd of onlookers, with handwritten French inscriptions above.

The Title to the French Set

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

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

Etching of a street with old buildings, a horse-drawn cart, a street lamp, a bare tree and a wooden fence.

Temple (The Temple)

James McNeill Whistler, [1880-81]

Etching of a row of steamboats moored on a river, with a small bridge at the right edge and streaked sky above.

Steamboat Fleet

James McNeill Whistler, [1875]

Etched street scene of a busy city avenue with tall buildings, carriages, horses and pedestrians receding toward a distant to

St. James's Street, June 1878

James McNeill Whistler, July 2, 1878

Ink sketch of a standing man with one arm outstretched, with the handwritten caption 'Suggestion by Whistler for his Portrait

Suggestion by Whistler for his Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, 19th-20th century

Pen sketch of a curly-haired winged figure holding a staff, with dotted halo outlines, on cream paper.

Whistler as Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler, 19th-20th century

Lithograph of a river bridge and hazy city skyline with two figures on a stone embankment in the foreground.

The Savoy Pigeons

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Pencil-like lithograph of a tyresmith at an anvil beside an arched doorway, with standing men and figures in the dim interior

The Tyresmith, from "The Whirlwind"

James McNeill Whistler, November 15, 1890

Loose etched sketch of a Paris greengrocer's shop with heaped vegetables, two women shoppers and a child in a doorway.

Fruit-Shop, Paris (Greengrocer's Shop, Paris)

James McNeill Whistler, 1892-93

Faint etched print of a standing nude woman seen frontally, with loose lines and light hatching on a pale sheet.

Nude Woman Standing

James McNeill Whistler, [1873-75]

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

Woodcut print of women seated in a room with a book, needlework and a basket of fruit, inscribed IOSE. SAL. 1557.

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sor…

Giuseppe Salviati, 1557

Etching of a dying bearded man in bed supported by a richly dressed king, with courtiers watching in period costume.

Allegory of Painting (The Death of Leonardo da Vinci)

Giuseppe Cades, ca. 1780-99

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

Etching of a Gothic cathedral facade with a spire at right and small figures walking on a street in front.

Notre Dame, Bourges

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

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