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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,938 works

Etching of a wooded island in a river with a rowing boat, trees, a stone tower and a ruined building on a hill.

Wooded Island, plate 3 from "Ten Landscapes" (Suite de Dix Paysages)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1763

Etching of a river landscape with trees, mountains, and herdsmen leading cattle through shallow water.

Landscape after Fouquières

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1772

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

Etching of costumed street musicians on a platform before a stone archway, with a crowd of townspeople gathered below.

The Little Charlatans

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1773

Etching of a stone mill beside waterfalls and a rocky cliff, with rowing boats and figures on the water in the foreground.

The Italian Mill

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1771

Etching of a farm interior with barrels in an arched barn, a donkey, goats, chickens, and a seated family under a tree.

Interior of a Farm at Saint-Jean-de-Touslas

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1793

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

Etching of harvesters resting by a haystack in an open field, with horses, a man drinking, and a sleeping figure under cloudy

Harvesters Resting

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1795

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 two seated figures in a window-lined room overlooking a harbor with masted ships and a standing woman at right.

Ramsgate

James Tissot, 1876

Etching of a seated nude man, head resting on one hand, one leg extended, against a hatched dark background.

An "Académie": Sitting Man

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Etching of two nude men, one kneeling and lifting the legs of a reclining man draped over a stone ledge.

An "Académie": One Man Lifting the Legs of Another Man

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Hand-colored print of an anthropomorphic rat with a human face and yellow hat beside a wooden fence and grass.

One of the Rats, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored lithograph of a yellow fish with two caricatured human heads among grass, captioned Son Fish and Sucker.

Son Fish and Sucker, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored lithograph of a rat with a human face crouched on a wharf beside a lantern and chain, over water.

Wharf Rat, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a large fish with an old man's head in a bowler hat and a smaller fish with a young man's head.

Old Shad & Young, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a winged vampire creature with bat ears, a wrinkled face, and a pale human face on its chest.

Vampyr, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Colored lithograph of a shark with a man's head and a gudgeon fish wearing a top hat, set against rocks and sea.

Gudgeon and Shark, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of an orange goldfish with a man's head wearing spectacles, with a ship on water behind.

Gold Fish (Francis M. Drexel), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a mackerel with a man's head in a top hat smoking a pipe, lying on a grassy riverbank.

Mac-Arel, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Daumier lithograph of a scowling heavyset man with a tufted topknot, beside a page of printed text from La Caricature.

The Past. The Present. The Future (Le passé. Le présent. L'avenir), from La Caricature, plate 349

Honoré Daumier, January 9, 1834

Hand-colored caricature of a natural history cabinet with animal specimens bearing human faces, by J. J. Grandville, 1833.

Animal Kingdom: Natural History Cabinet (Règne animal: Cabinet d'histoire naturelle), from La Caricature, plates 265…

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, April 18, 1833

Etched landscape of a chapel by trees, a stone bridge over a river, a waterfall, and figures with goats in the foreground.

Old Chapel at Châtillon-d'Azergues

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1799

Etching of a crowded river scene with boats, a canopied pavilion, a rider on horseback, and a fortified hill behind.

Pope Pius VII on the Saône

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1805

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

Pen and ink sheet of thirteen figure studies of peasant men, women and a child, some seated, with a signed inscription.

Study of Thirteen Figures

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 19th century

Hand-colored print of armoured riders on horses in a long hall at the Tower of London, with spectators in period dress at rig

Horse Armoury, Tower of London

Thomas Rowlandson, November 1, 1809

Pen and ink drawing of a rocky estuary with sailing ships, rowboats, and fortified hill towns under a cloudy sky.

A Rocky Estuary with Ships and Hill Towns

Hendrik van Cleve, 1585

Brown wash drawing of a woman nursing children beside a cherub with a palm, before classical columns and an elderly couple.

An Allegory of Charity

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, ca.1770-90

Pen and brown ink study of three overlapping female heads with lowered eyes, veils and curled hair on aged paper.

Three Female Heads

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1734-1802