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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,827 works

Etching of villagers gathered by a hearth in a dim rustic interior, with an old woman and seated men at a table.

Evening in the Village

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1800

Etching of a river landscape with a castle on a rocky cliff, a stone bridge, a mill, and figures in a boat.

View of the Convent of the Barefooted Carmelites

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1807

Etched landscape of a river ferry with cattle and figures, ruined columns at right, and a hilltop building at left.

River Crossing

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1796

Etching of a village scene with a farrier shoeing a horse, a rider on the road, and ruined stone walls among trees.

Landscape with Farrier, View of Terrebasse, France

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1808

Etching of an old stone city gate by a river, with seated and standing men in the foreground and a small boat at left.

The Old Gate of Vaise, Lyon

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1803

Etching of peasants resting beneath trees, a woman eating from a bowl, with a river and fishermen in the distance.

Peasants Resting

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1803

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

Engraved print of a banquet with feasting figures, a lute player, burning buildings in panels, and a rainbow with celestial f

Mankind Awaiting the Last Judgement

Jan Sadeler, 1568-1600

Etching of a standing woman in a period hat and a child seated among tall reeds beneath tree branches.

Orphan

James Tissot, ca. 1879

Etching of a woman driving a horse-drawn chariot in a hippodrome, with other charioteers and crowded spectator galleries behi

The Ladies of the Chariots at the Hippodrome (Ces dames des chars à l'Hippodrome)

James Tissot, 1885

Engraved battle scene with horsemen, tents, and fallen horses in a valley beneath mountains.

The Battle at Oroi-jalatu

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1770

Engraving of a large tented encampment with flags, crowds, and horsemen on a plain before mountains and cliffs.

The Surrender of the Khan of Badakhsan

Pierre Philippe Choffard, 1772

Engraving of cavalry charging through a tented camp in a rocky mountain valley, with soldiers wielding swords and lances.

Storming the Camp at Mount Gadan

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1769

Engraved print of a ceremonial banquet with tents, a pavilion, rows of robed officials, and a stone bridge in a park.

The Victory Banquet

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1770

Engraved view of a palace courtyard with rows of robed officials, soldiers, horses and spectators on a raised terrace.

Prisoners Presented to the Emperor

Louis-Joseph Masquelier, 1767-74

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 public scrivener at a wooden street stall with customers, a seated woman, a child and dogs in a stone-walled str

The Public Scrivener

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1790

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 St. Jerome, a bearded old man writing with a quill on a rock beside a lion, a hut and a tree.

St. Jerome

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1797

Engraving of Charmian and a turbaned man holding her hand, with a helmeted soldier and a veiled woman in a classical interior

Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1, Scene 2: Charmian-"Good Sir, give me good fortune"

John Hall, January 1, 1817

Sepia print of a dying man in classical dress supported by a woman, with an attendant holding a cup, within a circular frame.

The Death of Mark Anthony - Le Mort de Marc Antoine (Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 15)

Jean-Marie Delattre, January 15, 1805

Hand-colored print of Rosalind, Oliver and Celia in a forest, a man offering a white handkerchief to two figures.

Rosalind, Oliver and Celia (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 6)

Peltro William Tomkins, 1791

Plate I, from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas

Francis Grose, February 26, 1788

Printed plate of numbered line drawings showing caricature noses and facial profiles arranged in three rows.

Plate II, from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas

Francis Grose, February 26, 1788

Plate III, from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas

Francis Grose, February 26, 1788

Plate IV, from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas

Francis Grose, February 26, 1788

Mezzotint of three hooded witches lying in bed with fingers to their lips, a moth-like figure at left, after Fuseli's Macbeth

The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3)

John Raphael Smith, March 10, 1785

Printed sheet of playing cards with crowned and armored figures, heart suit symbols, rows of pips, and small bird motifs.

Sheet of Playing Cards

Georg Schachomair, 16th century

Etching of a round temple beside a waterfall, with figures on rocks, trees at right and a walled hillside behind.

View of the Temple of the Tiburtine Sibyl

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1809

Etching of a standing hooded monk with folded arms beside a seated older monk near a jar, under gnarled trees and a cave.

Monks in the Desert

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1797

Pen and brown wash drawing of Castel Sant'Angelo and a stone bridge over the Tiber with boats below.

Ponte and Castell Saint'Angelo

Stefano Della Bella, 1633-64

Watercolor design of an ornate theater curtain with red drapery, green damask, gold tassels, and a procession frieze.

Design for a Theater Curtain

Aimé Chenavard, 1818-38

Chalk drawing of a French dragoon in plumed helmet and blue coat, lunging forward with a sabre on tan paper.

A French Dragoon, Study for "The Revolt of Cairo"

Anne-Louis Girodet, ca. 1809

Ink and wash drawing of robed figures, a kneeling man, sacrificial animals and onlookers beneath a palm tree.

The Return of Joseph

John Michael Rysbrack, 1720-70

Hand-colored stage design of an Egyptian-style temple with columns and lion figures inside a rocky cave with hanging vines.

Design for the Opera: The Magic Flute, Act I, Scene I

Karl Friedrich Thiele, 1847-49

Etching of a seated man and a woman pointing at him, with several dogs and study heads of dogs around them.

Studies of Dwarfs and Dogs

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1753

Brown ink drawing of a tall tree beside a lake, with fishermen, two seated children, and distant buildings and hills.

Pastoral Scene

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 1626-80

Grey wash drawing of a winged putto riding a lion-like sea creature with a second head, highlighted in white on blue paper.

A Winged Putto Riding a Sea Horse and a Lion (recto); The Three Graces (verso)

Denys Calvaert, 1574

Etching of a busy Chelsea street with a fish shop under an awning, pedestrians on the pavement, and shopfronts above.

The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea (Fish Shop, Chelsea)

James McNeill Whistler, 1886-87

Brown ink and wash drawing of a turbaned woman holding a sword beside a severed head, after Ubaldo Gandolfi.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Ubaldo Gandolfi, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a long vaulted hall with arched niches, urns on pedestals, and several hanging candelabra receding in

Vaulted Hall with Candelabra

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, 1675-1743

Etched procession of riders and camels with trumpeters approaching a distant city, with a dedicatory cartouche at left.

Entry of the Polish Ambassador into Rome

Stefano Della Bella, 1633

Pen and wash drawing of a river waterfall between rocky banks and trees, with a ruined tower on a distant hill.

Corra Linn, the Falls of the Clyde

Joseph Farington, 1788

Red and black chalk drawing on blue paper of a classical funeral procession with a draped body, soldiers on horseback, and ar

Study for the Funeral of Pallas

Antoine Coypel, ca. 1716-17

Etched frontispiece with a nude youth holding a title sheet and a reclining child playing a flute, both wearing laurel wreath

Third Frontispiece

James Tissot, 1876

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

Etching of two long-legged wading birds by a stone wall and pillar, with hatched lines for feathers and sky.

Les Cigognes

Félix Bracquemond, 1870s

Etching of a magpie with spread wings perched on a globe, with French verses around it, titled Margot la Critique.

Margot la Critique

Félix Bracquemond, 1854

Brown wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around a seated Diana in a forest, with a man watching from the trees.

Diana and Actaeon

Joseph Bergler the younger, late 18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of cattle and shepherds wading through water below a hilltop town and steep rocky mountains.

Cattle and Shepherds in a Southern Mountainous Landscape

Karel Dujardin, mid-17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of cavalry in battle, with rearing horses, raised swords, and fallen soldiers under a hazy sky.

A Battle Scene

Ferdinand Kobell, 1783

Grey wash drawing of a classical sacrificial scene with a priest at an altar and mourners supporting a fallen woman.

An Antique Sacrificial Scene (recto); Sketch of a Group of People (verso)

Johann Eleazar Zeissig, 1779 (?)

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 (?)

Mezzotint portrait of a man with curled wig and fur-trimmed collar, labelled Joh. Baptista Piazzetta Pictor.

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Johann Gottfried Haid, 18th century

Portrait of an Artist Sketching a Portrait Miniature

Franz Jakob Josef Ignatz von Predl, 1799

Grey wash drawing of a house with a small doorway beside rocks, trees and a cliff on a hillside.

A House on a Hillside in a Southern Landscape

Adam Pynacker, mid-17th century

Watercolor of a wooden bridge with a standing man, thatched cottages, a windmill and hills under a blue sky.

Landscape with a Bridge Near Mosbjerg

Martinus Rørbye, 1833

Pen and brown ink drawing of two draped seated women, Nemesis and Themis, one holding a staff, by Abildgaard.

Nemesis and Themis

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of two kneeling nude men, one reaching toward the other, with faint pencil background details.

Two Nude Men Playing with Dice

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated figure in a headwrap feeding papers into a fire, with smoke rising behind.

An Old Woman Burning Papers

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Sepia ink and wash drawing of two studies of a crouching male nude hiding among bushes.

Two Studies of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) Hiding in a Bush

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a lake with a sailboat, walking figures on the shore, a manor on a hill, and trees.

View of Naesse castle with Lake Furesø from the West

Erik Pauelsen, ca. 1780-84

Pen drawing of Damocles raising his arm beneath a suspended sword while King Dionysius watches in a draped hall.

The Sword of Damocles; verso: Sketches of Man's Head and of a Figure with a Raised Arm

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1805

Watercolor of a young couple on a path under a ruined stone arch, with green trees and a sunlit ruin beyond.

A Young Couple Viewing Ruins near Bingen

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, 1801