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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,286 works

Engraving of a river valley with a large tree, resting soldiers on a hillside, a village church, and a distant castle.

Soldiers at Rest (Milites Requiescentes), from "The Large Landscapes"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Etching of thatched farm houses, trees, and a ploughed field with small travelers on a road in the foreground.

Country Houses, couple and cornfield in the foreground, from the series The Small Landscapes (Praediorum Villarum)

The Master of the Small Landscapes, 1559-61

Engraving of bearded men in turbans searching sacks on a camel beside donkeys, a tree and an ornate urn in a landscape.

Search through the baggage of Joseph's brothers

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-56

Pencil drawing of Rome's rooftops, domes, bell tower and ruined arches seen from a terrace with cypress trees.

View of Rome from the Palatine

Pierre Charles Jombert, ca. 1775

Blue-toned wash drawing of figures on a wooded shore beside a boat, with a large tree and distant cliffs.

Landscape with a Scene from Fénelon's Télémaque

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1780

Grey ink drawing of a brick tower and arched ruins beside a road, with women at a stone fountain and pine trees.

Italian Country House Beside a Road

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, n.d.

Watercolor of a courtly procession with horsemen, a royal carriage, elegant women, and a windmill over distant troops.

Camp de Compiègne, 1698

Eugène Lami, ca. 1860

Watercolor drawing of a Renaissance château with towers seen above trees, with two workers in a garden in front.

The Château of Chambord Seen from the Southwest

Simon Mathurin Lantara, 18th century

Drawing of a riverside landscape with a thatched stone cottage, windblown trees, a sailboat, and a distant church tower.

The Bend in the River

Simon Mathurin Lantara, 1767

Engraving of a seated figure by a fire beneath a tree, with kneeling and reclining figures and flowering plants around them.

Sloth, from "Seven Deadly Sins"

Léon Davent, ca. 1550-55

Pen and grey wash drawing of a church with a bell tower above a garden, trees, and figures on a path.

The Church of São Martinho in Sintra, Portugal

Pierre Lélu, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of a farmyard with a thatched shed, a woman in the doorway, chickens, straw stacks and a cloudy sky.

Farmyard

Jean-Baptiste-Denis Lempereur, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a shepherd with sheep and a dog in a clearing beside large gnarled trees.

Shepherd with His Flock in a Clearing

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1776

Watercolor drawing of the Palace of Versailles across a forest, with riders on horseback and two seated figures in the foregr

Versailles Seen from the Southwest

called the Chevalier de Lespinasse Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1779

Sepia drawing of an oxcart and figures approaching a fortified stone tower, framed by large trees and a stream.

Oxcart Approaching a Fortified Building

Achille Etna Michallon, 1817

Charcoal drawing of three laborers resting on a grassy bank beside a tree, with shovels and tools in the foreground.

Roadworkers at Lunch

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1850-52

Etching of a shepherdess in a cloak and cap beside a tree, with a grazing sheep flock in an open field behind her.

Shepherdess Knitting

Jean-François Millet, 1862

Charcoal drawing of a shepherdess with a staff beside her grazing sheep flock, with tall trees on the right.

A Shepherdess with Her Flock

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1852

Black and grey lithograph of a bowed seated woman beside a standing man, with a tree and a figure in its branches above.

Human Misery, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

Paul Gauguin, 1889

Pastel drawing of a shepherdess leaning on a tree beside grazing sheep and a dog in a shaded pastoral landscape.

A Shepherdess and Her Flock in the Shade of Trees

Jean-François Millet, 1854-55

Drawing of a woman shearing a sheep beside a man in a hat under a large tree, with a fence and cottage behind.

Sheepshearing Beneath a Tree

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1854

Charcoal drawing of a woodcutter raising an axe over bundled faggots beside a stacked pile of wood, with a forest behind.

Woodcutter Trimming Faggots

Jean-François Millet, 1853-54

Pen and ink landscape drawing with green wash showing sandy dunes, a cluster of trees, and shrubs under open sky.

Landscape, Vichy

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1866-67

Sepia drawing of a classical building with arched entrance and cupola, with wind-blown trees at left.

A Building

Brown ink and wash drawing of a carriage with elegant passengers and riders passing through a wooded landscape with dogs.

Outing in a Wood

Jean-Michel Moreau, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a gnarled, hollow tree trunk with broken limbs and exposed roots over grassy ground.

Study of a Tree

Roelant Savery, ca. 1606-7

Black and white woodcut of a large carved idol-like figure, a seated woman, and small figures in a dark landscape.

Maruru

Paul Gauguin, 1893-94

Woodcut print of a standing woman beside large pink flowers and foliage, with a seated figure at left, in black and cream ton

Fragrance (Noa Noa), small block

Paul Gauguin, 1894-95

Pen and brown wash drawing of nude figures gathered among tall trees in a wooded landscape.

The Judgment of Paris

Abraham Bloemaert, late 16th-mid-17th century

Red chalk drawing of a hilltop villa among trees, with a reclining cow and a resting figure in the foreground.

Landscape with a Large Villa on a Hilltop

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1759