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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,796 works

Charcoal and chalk sketch of mounted riders in robes charging with raised spears across hilly desert ground.

Arab Skirmish

Eugène Fromentin, 19th century

Grey lithograph of a wounded armored knight held up by a companion beside a white horse, with onlookers and trees behind.

The Wounded Goetz Taken in by the Gypsies

Eugène Delacroix, 1836-43

Etching of a Roman sacrifice: draped crowd, a bull led to a flaming altar, and a bearded deity figure behind it.

A Sacrifice, copied from a relief on Trajan's Column, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Léon Davent, 1565

Pencil sketch of a charioteer and horseman with horses and a dog on grey paper.

Charioteer and Horseman

Théodore Géricault, early 19th century

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat riding a horse, with a study of a horse's head in the upper left.

Man on Horseback, and Study of Horse's Head

Théodore Géricault, 19th century

Engraving of a nude nymph seated by a tree, gazing at a heron flying off over a grassy riverbank.

Nymph Watching a Heron Flying Away

Léon Davent, ca. 1542-45

Engraving of a Roman-style sacrifice with a bull at an altar, a crowd of robed figures, and classical architecture.

A sacrifice, copied from Trajan's column

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45

Brown wash drawing of turbaned horsemen in combat on galloping horses, with a distant city of domes and minarets behind them.

Combat of Oriental Horsemen

Théodore Géricault, 1822-23

Pencil drawing of a plumed-helmet soldier mounting a saddled horse, with mounted figures and a building in the background.

Soldier Mounting a Horse

Théodore Géricault, 1808 (?)

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a rearing white horse and lancer beside a drummer boy in a military scene.

Drummer Boy Attacked by a Cossack

Jean Victor Schnetz, ca. 1817

Grey wash drawing of two harnessed draft horses beside a sleeping driver, under a dark sky with a distant windmill.

Two Draft Horses with a Sleeping Driver

Théodore Géricault, 1820-22

Engraving of an allegorical dance with a central woman in a gown, musicians, jesters, and objects symbolizing vanity and law.

The Dance of the World

Pieter Baltens, mid-16th century

Grey wash drawing of a dining room scene: a woman raising a glass in anger while others restrain her, a dog and overturned ch

The Angry Wife

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1785

Gray wash drawing of a farmer and young man with oxen and a plow on a country road, trees framing the scene, a dog in front.

A Farmer Entrusting the Plow to His Son

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a horse-drawn carriage with top-hatted men and bonneted women, a rider at left, and another carriage at

Driving in the Bois de Boulogne

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Watercolor sketch of a two-horse carriage carrying two women with a parasol and two men in top hats.

Women in a Carriage

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Watercolor sketch of a horse pulling a carriage with a reclining woman and a standing man in a top hat.

Winter Drive

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of children playing in a room, one holding a stick, with seated and standing adults in an interior.

Children Playing Horse and Carriage

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of mounted guards escorting an ornate carriage past a wall with flags, by Constantin Guys.

The Senator Returning from the Vatican

Constantin Guys, ca. 1865

Etching of a bearded nobleman in a plumed cap holding a horse's reins, with sketched riders and horses behind him.

A Nobleman from the Time of Francis I

Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Black and White Dog, Head Turned to the Left

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1794-95

Satirical lithograph of two riders on rearing horses in a mock duel, with a judge seated under a canopy between them.

Polemical Duel between Lady Quotidienne and Sir Journal de Paris

Eugène Delacroix, 1821

Sheet of Nine Antique Coins

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Etching of a forest path with travelers and laden pack animals, a village and church spire, and a river valley with hills bey

Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum), from "The Large Landscapes"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Engraved print of a village kermis with dancing peasants, a church tower, pigs, a horse cart, and an archery contest.

The Kermis at Hoboken

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1559

Lithograph of a young armored man grieving over his fallen father on a battlefield strewn with dead horses and a sword.

Young Clifford Finding the Body of his Father, from "L'Artiste"

Eugène Delacroix, 1834

Sketch of a snarling lion standing with lowered head and curled tail, rendered in loose dark lines on pale paper.

Lion Standing

Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Black and gray lithograph of armored knights and rearing horses in combat, with a plumed rider at center.

Weislingen attacked by Goetz's Men

Eugène Delacroix, 1836-43

Engraving of armored warriors on horseback fighting over a nude body while mourning women kneel at left.

Achilles Removing Patroclus' Body From the Battle

Léon Davent, ca. 1547

Engraving of a reclining nude woman on a draped bed, with a horned bearded figure and a bird with spread wings nearby.

Jupiter and Antiope

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45