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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,796 works

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded mythological battle scene with horsemen, soldiers, kneeling figures and tents.

Cassandra preventing Deiphobe from killing Paris

Jean Cousin the Elder, 16th century

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted horseman in a battle scene with fallen bodies, columns, a domed building and smoke.

Ulysses Entering Troy with the Death of Astyanax

Giuseppe Piattoli, 1785-1800

Engraving of a witch riding an animal skeleton with nude men, a goat, horn-blowing boy, and monstrous creatures in tall grass

Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn,…

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1515-25

Watercolor of a turbaned rider on a brown horse beside a tent, with a seated man and other horsemen in a hilly landscape.

Three Arab Horsemen at an Encampment

Eugène Delacroix, 1832-37

Ink sketch of a bridled horse in three-quarter view with a saddle and plumed harness on toned paper.

Goetz van Berlichingen's Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1842

Brown wash drawing of a tomb with a carved figure in a church interior, with Gothic window tracery studies below.

A Tomb and Studies of Windows in the Church of Valmont Abbey (recto); Four Studies of Horses (verso)

Eugène Delacroix, 1829-31

Pencil and blue wash sketch of an armored rider on a white horse beside a young attendant, with sketched figure studies behin

The Wounded Goetz von Berlichingen Takes Refuge in a Gypsy Camp

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1836

Lithograph study of seven ancient Greek coins showing figures, horses, a helmeted head, an eagle and a bull.

Studies of Seven Greek Coins

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Studies of Six Greek Coins

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Lithograph sheet with four studies of Greek coins: a figure with a bull, a winged figure, a bull, and a laureate head.

Studies of Four Greek Coins

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Pen drawing of two Moorish horsemen in conflict, one horse rearing and a rider raising a long rifle, by Delacroix.

Collision of Moorish Horsemen

Eugène Delacroix, 1834

Lithograph of a rider in a tricorn hat on a dark horse, with a wild goblin-like figure on a rearing horse beside him.

Steenie or Redgauntlet Pursued by a Goblin on Horseback

Eugène Delacroix, 1829

Grey-toned print of a rearing horse with a turbaned rider in a desert landscape with palm trees.

Turk Mounting His Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1824

Etching of a smiling young girl holding a dark cat in her arms against a pale background.

Young Girl with a Cat, after a portrait of Julie Manet by Renoir

Berthe Morisot, 1889

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a clergyman, sailboat, tree, reclining figure and lettering reading Anseremme.

Une Soirée Anseremme

Félicien Rops, 1876

Pencil sketch of three riders on horseback with a rough architectural background and handwritten French notes on the page.

Three figures on horseback with indications at right

Engraving of a Roman army troop convoy with armored soldiers, horses, a chariot, and draped figures on the march.

A Roman Army on the March - Troop Convoy

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a chaotic battle with armored warriors, a chariot, rearing horses, banners and fallen soldiers in the foreground

A Battle

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a caparisoned elephant with heraldic banners, armored men, and a crowd on a classical balcony.

Royal Elephant

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1542-45

Engraving of Athena and Poseidon in a mythological contest, with a rearing horse, sea figures, and a winged figure above.

Contest between Athena and Poseidon

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of Silenus carried by attendants of Bacchus, with satyrs, a horse, a ram, and figures holding vessels and fruit.

Silenus Carried by Two Attendants of Bacchus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of a drunken Silenus carried by satyrs and revelers in a bacchanal procession with a goat and cornucopia.

Silenus Carried

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of nude mythological figures, a man carrying a boar's head to a seated woman, with winged putti and a dog.

Meleager Bringing the Boar's Head to Atalanta

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of Phaeton falling from his chariot as horses rear, with Jupiter hurling a thunderbolt from the clouds above.

The Fall of Phaeton

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1545

Engraving of winged Cybele in a turreted crown flanked by two rearing lions, standing on a pedestal with flowing drapery.

Cybele

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Printed interior of an artist's studio with men at easels, a white horse, hanging saddles, dogs, and a drummer in the foregro

The Studio of Horace Vernet (Intérieur d'un Atelier)

Horace Vernet, 1824

Georges-Auguste Couthon at the National Convention in 1793

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca. 1793

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ child, kneeling king, attendants, horses and classical arch

Adoration of the Magi

Jean Mignon, ca. 1545

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris with three nude goddesses, Cupid, a swan, a dog, and a forest landscape.

The Judgment of Paris

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraving of a chaotic battle with mounted warriors, rearing horses and fallen soldiers before a walled city with domed tower

Battle Before Troy

Jean Mignon, 1535-55