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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,219 works

Etching of a thatched cottage beside a forest path with tall trees and small figures, including a rider on horseback.

Cottage at the Entrance to a Forest

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1772

Etched landscape of a river with tall trees, grazing cattle, figures resting, a stone ruin and a church spire.

Landscape at Ambronay

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1796

Pen and brown ink drawing of stone houses and trees on a hilltop with a sloping path and distant plain, 1866.

Roman Landscape near Rocca di Papa

Ernst Furchtegott Mohn, 1866

Etching of a stone farmhouse with an arched doorway beside a large tree, with figures on a path and cattle on a hill.

The Small Oratory

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1804

Watercolor sketch of the Bay of Naples framed by an arch and trees, with sailboats, a town, and Mount Vesuvius.

View of the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius

Franz Ludwig Catel, ca. 1820-1822

Grey ink and wash drawing of a large tree on a slope with small figures, a lakeside town in the distance.

Seated Figure by a Lake

Émile Schuffenecker, 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a hilly landscape with a distant town, arcaded building, tall trees and two small figures.

View of the Rhone river near Saint-Genis-Laval, south of Lyons

Michiel van Overbeek, after 1667

Etched landscape with a waterfall, castle ruins on cliffs, a river with rapids, a large tree and grazing cattle.

Birch Tree Uprooted by a Storm

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1809

Etching of a watermill with a wooden waterwheel, a bridge over rushing water, a thatched cottage and trees.

The Watermill, after a painting by Ruisdaël

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1782

Etching of a village entrance with a stone archway, tiled-roof houses, workers on a roof, and a large tree on the left.

Entrance to the Village of Lentilly

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1804

Etching of a lake in a wooded park with tall trees and small strolling figures under a pale sky.

La lac du Bois de Boulogne

Félix Bracquemond, around 1858

Pencil drawing of two wayfarers on a rocky path beside a ruin overgrown with ivy, with trees and hills in the background.

Wayfarers Near a Ruin in a Hilly Landscape

Victor Paul Mohn, 1863 (?)

Etching of a shaded forest path lined with dense bushes and tall tree trunks, with light opening into a clearing.

Rue des Bruyères, à Sèvres

Félix Bracquemond, 1868

Engraving of a fearful seated woman beside a tree with a hare, hedgehog and owl, with a farmhouse in the distance.

Timiditas from Four Vices

Raphaël Sadeler, 1560-1628

Brown ink and wash drawing of a landscape with cypress and pine trees, a stone arch, two figures, and a distant town.

View in Rome near the Colosseum

Michiel van Overbeek, mid-17th-early 18th century

Engraving of Saint Sebastian with a halo, bound to a tree and pierced by arrows, in a landscape with towers and a bridge.

Saint Sebastian tied to a tree and pierced with arrows

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Saint Sebastian, nude and haloed, tied to a tree pierced by arrows, with castles and a river behind him.

Saint Sebastian tied to a tree pierced by arrows

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre pointing at a kneeling man about to flay Marsyas, bound naked to a tree at left.

Apollo seated at the right with a lyre, pointing to a kneeling man who is about to flay Marsyas tied naked to a tree…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre gesturing to a kneeling man while nude Marsyas is tied to a tree at left.

Apollo seated at the right with a lyre on his knee, pointing to a kneeling man who is about to flay Marsyas who is ti…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Etching of a standing armoured man gesturing toward a seated woman and companions beneath a large tree, with palms behind.

Cassandra, Frontispiece, Vol. 2:

William Hogarth, 1725

Etching of a helmeted warrior beside seated women and onlookers under a draped tree, with hills in the distance.

Cassandra, Frontispiece, Vol. 4

William Hogarth, 1725

Etching of a hanging figure from a tree, armored soldiers with spears, and violent struggle with fallen animals on the ground

Dismemberment, etc. (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725)

William Hogarth, after 1725

Etching of a cardinal, a woman holding a small animal, and a kneeling hermit in a rocky wooded landscape with a cross.

The New Metamorphosis, Plate 7: The Cardinal, a Hermit and Donna Angela Holding Fantasio

William Hogarth, 1724

Etching of peasants outside a tavern under a large tree, with a seated violinist, a child, and a distant church tower.

Violinist and Little Organgrinder

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a man in a cap and loose clothes beside a barrel and jug, under a large tree, with a cottage in the distance.

The Pissing Man

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Engraving of a kneeling nude woman gazing up at winged Cupid in a tree, with a river landscape and Italian verse below.

Plate 14: Cupid airborne gleeing from Psyche, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a phoenix on a tree above resting animals including stags, lions and a bull, with pigeons on a ruin at right.

A phoenix sat atop a tree, wings open, an assortment of animals below

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Etching of a village kermess under a large tree, with peasants drinking at a table beside a thatched cottage and a church tow

The Kermess Under the Great Tree

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Engraving of two men on horseback on a wooded path, one pointing forward, beneath a large leaning tree and cloudy sky.

Hudibras Sallying Forth (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 1)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Pen and ink landscape drawing of farm buildings, trees, a brook and rocks under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Brook and Farm Buildings

Ferdinand Kobell, late 18th century

Sepia drawing of a winding forest path with a strolling couple, two seated beggars, and a fallen log beneath tall trees.

A Path Bordered by Trees with two Beggars and a Couple Strolling

Ferdinand Kobell, late 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a river landscape with herders and cattle, a ruined tower on a hill, and a sailboat on the water.

Southern Landscape with Figures and Cattle at a River

Jan van der Meer the Younger, 1686

Etching of a mounted figure raising a sword before a crowd with staves, a dog and horses, trees behind, by William Hogarth.

The Encounter with Talgol and Magnano (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 3)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Grey wash drawing of a forest with large trees, birch trunks, a winding path and stream in the foreground.

Forest Landscape

Lodewijk de Vadder, early 17th-mid 17th century

Etching of a treehouse with draped canopy, bells, and three figures among flowers, pines, and rococo scrollwork.

Treehouse

the Elder Jean Jacques Avril, 1773

Etching of a windswept pine tree in a pastoral landscape with seated figures, a sailboat, and distant hills.

Pastoral Scene

Etching of a windswept landscape with three porters carrying loads on a dirt path and a standing man at left.

The Three Porters

Allart van Everdingen

Etching of two men wading in a river beside a rocky outcrop, with trees and a distant hilltop in the background.

Two men standing ankle-deep in a body of water with a rocky outcrop behind them, to the left a rocky bank, trees and…

Karel Dujardin, 1658

Engraving of a nude youth crowned with cypress branches beside a wounded stag in an oval woodland scene.

Cyparissus, from "The Rural Gods"

Cornelis Cort, 1565

Etching of two men on a rocky outlook beside a tall spruce, overlooking a wooded valley, village and distant hills.

Two Men on a Rock Terrace

Allart van Everdingen

Etching of a ship with tritons and mermaids in the sea, a tree with the Golden Fleece over a dragon, and a winged Fame blowin

The entry of the Count of Brionne: in the upper image, the count stands on a shipdeck in the guise of Jason, with mer…

Jacques Callot, 1627

Etched landscape with large trees on the right, figures on a bank, and a distant town with spires across water.

A landscape with a monk and an angel in the center, a town to the left (The Vision)

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1630-40

Etched landscape with a multi-arched bridge over a river, small boats, large trees, a rocky foreground and figures.

Landscape with bridge traversing a river occupied with three small boats, one of which is encroaching the near river…

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, ca. 1626-80

Etched ornamental panel with two eagles, leopard heads and curling foliage beneath a circular title cartouche.

Two eagles with wings spread, below two leopard heads attached to tree trunks that form three circles, from "Ornament…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1650-56

Etching of Venus seated under a tree as Cupid draws a bow and arrow beside her, with a landscape behind.

Cupid prepares to shoot an arrow as Venus looks over her right shoulder, from "Sport of Love" (Scherzi d'amore)

Odoardo Fialetti, 1617

Etched ornamental cartouche with blank center, two nymphs on the sides, and a duck at the base, by Stefano della Bella.

A cartouche supported by a duck below and decorated with two nymphs whose arms become tree branches, plate 6 from "No…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1647

Etching of an ornamental cartouche with a windswept tree, a draped skull at top, and bones at the sides, with a Latin scroll.

A cartouche with a tree blowing in the wind, a skull with drapery at top, bones to either side, from "Eight Emblems f…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1640-60

Etching of two monks in a forest, one holding a skull beside a dark cave, with a wooden cross and dense trees.

Two Monks in Contemplation in a Forest

Carl Baron von Vittinghoff, 1809

Engraving of a reclining piper under a large oak beside a standing shepherd gesturing toward grazing cattle and sheep.

Mercury and Battus, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

Robert Willemsz de Baudous, after 1590

Etching of a woodland path with a herdsman, cattle, and a dog beneath trees, with a bright sunburst through the leaves.

The Herdsman's Cottage, or Sunset

Samuel Palmer, 1880

Etching of revelers in a woodland with a radiant Bacchus figure, above a vignette of children harvesting grapes by a ladder.

The Vine, or Plumpy Bacchus

Samuel Palmer, 1880

Print of a leaning tree with pale trunks and sprawling branches beside a winding dirt lane, shrubs in foreground.

Tree Trunks and Lane

John Crome, 1811-13

Etched river landscape with trees, a sailboat, a hilltop castle labeled Hernenstein, and a distant town labeled Coblentz.

Coblentz and Harmenstein [copy]

Abraham Aubri, after 1664

Etching of a rural landscape with travelers on horseback, a small columned shrine, billowing clouds, and farm buildings among

The First Spring

Allart van Everdingen

Etching of a ruined round temple with columns beside trees, a path with two figures, and a calm river under clouds.

The Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, from "Landscapes and Ruins"

Jan van de Velde II, ca. 1615

Etching of a woodland with large trees, a hunter and dog, a marsh with herons, and a distant tower under clouds.

Woodland scene with marshy banks, from "Six Landscapes in Tyrol"

Roelant Savery, ca. 1600

Engraving of a forest with a seated man holding a staff, two goats, fallen trees and a stream.

A man holding a staff and seated on a tree trunk; with two goats to either side; surrounded by downed trees, foliage,…

Roelant Savery, ca. 1600

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve beside the tree of knowledge as a bearded God in robes points a warning finger, 1540.

God at right forbidding the nude Adam and Eve at left to eat from the tree of knowledge in center, from "Adam and Eve"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540

Painting of a large beech tree in a woodland clearing, with a mother and children resting at left and deer grazing at right.

A mother and children resting beneath a large beech tree, deer grazing beyond, possibly in Norbury Park, Surrey

the elder George Barret, 1776

Watercolor of misty trees beside a rocky stream, with grazing cows and a seated figure in soft morning light.

Early morning near Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland

John Glover, before 1831

Watercolor of woodcutters felling and stacking logs in a forest, with a river valley visible through the trees.

Woodcutters at Park Place, Henley, the river Thames beyond

William Havell, ca. 1826

Grey-wash drawing of a crowded Amsterdam square with a town hall, a tall decorated liberty pole, and celebrating figures.

Popular Celebrations in Dam Square, Amsterdam, on 4 March 1795, marking the erection of the Liberty Tree and the succ…

Daniël Kerkhoff, 1795 or after

Etching of Villa d'Este gardens in Tivoli with a curved staircase, two statues, tall cypress trees and small figures.

View of the gardens at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, cyprus trees to right, a staircase leading to the villa at left, t…

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1764

Etching of an arched aqueduct and cypress trees on a hillside, with figures, donkeys and a cart on a path below.

View of the entrance to Tivoli and the walls of the Villa d'Este, horsemen approaching the entrance at bottom center,…

Richard de Saint-Non, 18th century