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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,279 works

Ink and wash drawing of two seated men at a table, an old man with a staff watching, and a village landscape behind.

A Proverb: Wealth and Poverty

Karel van Mander I, mid-16th-early 17th century

Etching of soldiers and cavalry marching at night along a forest road, with a burning tree and wagon.

A Night March, Plate 16 from "Life Studies of the Great Army"

Edwin Forbes, 1876

Etching of tall trees framing a path leading to a distant domed building under a hazy sky.

Environs de Rome

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866

Sketch of a tree bent by wind, a figure walking across a field, and a cottage under a cloudy sky.

The Gust of Wind (Le Coup de Vent)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1871

Pen and wash drawing of African figures among palm trees, with elephants, tusks, a parasol and clay vessels.

Scene of Africa (Allegory?)

Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer, early 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of European men and turbaned figures trading near a stone pedestal, palm trees and boats.

Europeans Engaging in Commerce and Trade in Asia

Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer, early 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a Dutch street with a windmill, a stone city gate, strolling figures and a dog.

Entrance to The Hague from the South East

Jacob Elias La Fargue, 1750-76

Watercolor battle scene with soldiers fighting near a ruined church and a burning farmhouse under smoky skies.

Battle Scene with Church at left

Dirk Langendijk, ca. 1790-1800

Etching of a naiad beside an overturned urn pouring water, with a triton and sea figures rising from the waves and putti at l

Water, represented by a naiad seated at the base of a tree and resting her arm on a supine urn from which water flows…

Giulio Carpioni, 1640-60

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a large tree at right, a steep rocky cliff, a village, and a bridge over a river.

Mountainous Landscape

Denijs van Alsloot, ca. 1608-11 (?)

Drawing of a fir tree with tangled branches and a textured trunk, with open landscape and sky at the right.

A Fir Tree in the Forest of the Landes, Aquitane

René-Ernest Huet, 1909

Pen and ink study of a palm tree with a scaled trunk and arching fronds on aged paper.

Study of a Palm Tree (recto); Mountain Landscape (verso)

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1635-40

Red chalk drawing of a wide panoramic landscape with a windmill, farm buildings, and a large tree on the right.

An Extensive Panoramic Landscape with a Windmill

Jan Baptist Weenix, mid-17th century

Drawing of huntsmen and dogs retrieving ducks from a pond, with a company by a carriage and a distant town under a willow tre

Huntsmen and Company Observing Dogs Retrieving Ducks in a Pond (The Month of April)

Pieter Stevens, ca. 1610-20

Watercolor of skaters on a frozen canal under a brick bridge, with a snowy thatched cottage and windblown tree beneath stormy

Winter Landscape with Skaters on a Frozen Canal

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of a rainbow over a farmhouse, grazing cows and a distant village under a stormy sky.

Landscape with a Rainbow over a Farmhouse and Distant Village

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, n.d.

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a colliery winding wheel at a town edge, with a castle on a hill and a bare tree.

View of a colliery at the edge of a town

George Price Boyce, 1865-75

Etching of a nude woman swinging from a branch above a seated bear, framed by flowering trees and bamboo.

Intermezzi, Opus IV

Max Klinger, 1881

Grey wash drawing of a forest path framed by large trees, with small figures resting on the left and distant ruins beyond.

Wooded Landscape

Paulus van Liender, 18th century

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Etching of a gnarled pollard willow with a lion at its base and a kneeling bearded man in the lower right landscape.

St. Jerome beside a Pollard Willow

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Etching of three leafy trees on a rise under a stormy sky, with a flat plain and distant town at left.

The Three Trees

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1643

Etching of thatched cottages, a haystack and trees in flat countryside, with a man sketching in the lower right corner.

Cottages and Farm Buildings with a Man Sketching

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1645

Etching of a clump of trees and cottages beside an open field, with a tall tree at left and a distant horizon at right.

Clump of Trees with a Vista

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1652

Pencil sketch of a small man standing between tall bare trees, with sailboats on the water at right.

Study of Man between Trees

Odilon Redon, 1860-80

Pencil drawing of a kneeling man on a dirt path beside a thatched cottage and gate, with trees and clouds behind.

Landscape with Figure

George Morland, late 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor of a stone arch bridge over a river with trees and a steep hillside, two small figures on the bridge.

Denham Bridge upon the Tavy

William Payne, 1780-1830

Elderly couple on a garden bench gazing at a classical marble statue, with a man in a top hat and a cane beside a woman.

--No matter what one says, old things are always beautiful. --Yes, my dear, but only in marble., from 'As you like it…

Honoré Daumier, January 21, 1850

Circular etching of large trees on a riverbank with a small boat, figures, a tower at left, and distant buildings.

Landscape with Trees by the Water

Goffredo Wals, n.d.

Etching of sheep gathering at a wooden fold beneath trees, with a shepherd, distant hills and a radiating dawn sky.

Opening the Fold, or Early Morning

Samuel Palmer, 1880