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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,286 works

Brown wash drawing of a winter road framed by bare trees, with two figures and a distant windmill under an overcast sky.

A Winter Landscape

Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers, 1854

Engraving of a nude man against a tree trunk, with classical ruins, columns and arches in the background.

Man Against a Tree

Master IQV, ca. 1543-44

Etching of a windblown beech tree with exposed roots, a forest behind it, cottages at right, and a shepherd with animals.

The Great Beech

Jacob van Ruisdael, 1650-82

Engraving of sleeping Silenus at right, a satyr leaning over a table, and a goat climbing onto the table at left among grapev

Silenus sleeping at right, taunted by a Satyr, and a Goat climbing on a table at left

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Engraving of Perseus with a severed head beside a winged figure, and draped nymphs among fruit trees in a garden.

Perseus in the Garden of the Hesperides

Cherubino Alberti, 1628

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, sleeping Cupid in the foreground, and a city in the distance.

Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, winged Cupid resting in front, figures running toward a castle behind.

Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid res…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Woodcut of an angel with keys standing over a dragon, with a walled city and mountains in the background.

The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Gray wash drawing of an allegorical tree with putti, lions, chariots, pouring figures and a city skyline behind.

An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Engraving of a reclining nude bearded hero beside a club and lion skin, with a harbor city and mountains behind him.

Hercules Resting from His Labors

Giorgio Ghisi, 1567

Engraving of Angelica and Medoro embracing beneath a tree while Medoro carves their names, with Cupid and a distant city.

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names in the bark of a tree; Cupid holding a torch in…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Engraving of the Holy Family beneath a palm tree with angels and putti above and a donkey at left.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family under a palm tree surrounded by angels, putti, and a male cleric or saint

Giorgio Ghisi, 1578

Engraving of woodcutters sawing a log in a forest, with a standing overseer, a small dog and tall pine trunks.

The Wood-cutters

Hubert von Herkomer, 1880

Engraving of a seated preacher in a forest addressing a crowd on a path, with mountains and a river in the distance.

John the Baptist Preaching in the Desert

Nicolaes de Bruyn

Etching of a horseback rider on a path beside a canal, with a moored boat and cabin under large trees.

On the Canal in Vienna

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1819

Etching of a rural road with farmhouses, grazing cows and sheep, two figures, and a tall tree on a rocky bank.

In Regenberg

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1815

Etching of a village road with a large tree, an ox cart pulled by oxen, a stone statue pillar, and wooden barns.

In Buchberg

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1817

Etching of a mountain valley with a castle on a cliff, a covered wooden bridge, and a woman with cows in the foreground.

St Georgsberg near Switzerland in the Tyrol, after Klein

Johann Christoph Erhard, early 19th century

Etching of a northern view of Lauffen in Salzburg, with a town by a river, a horse cart on a path and figures on a hill.

Paths in the Dukedom of Salzburg

Johann Christoph Erhard, early 19th century

Etching of a mountain valley with the town of Radstadt, a church tower, farmhouses, and travelers with horses on a rocky path

Rural Landscape, "Radstadt am Tauren"

Johann Christoph Erhard, early 19th century

Etching of a rocky valley with a wooden shed, a pine tree, walking figures and steep cliffs in the background.

Around Muckendorf

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1818

Etching of a man on horseback leading a riderless horse past a wooden fence beneath large trees.

The Peasant on Horseback and the Riderless Horse

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1814

Etching of a horseback rider on a rocky path beside tall trees, with a steep gorge and a distant church tower.

The Horseback Rider in the Gorge

Johann Christoph Erhard, 19th century

Etching of a hermit's cave under a rocky cliff with a wooden cross, trees, a small figure and a distant valley.

Brother Joseph in the Alps

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1820

Etching of a man in a hat passing a woman at a wooden gate beside a stone pillar, with bare trees and a road in winter.

Winter Landscape

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1818

Etching of an old man in a cap and coat seated on a stone beside a dirt road, with trees and two distant figures.

An Old Man Sitting on the Roadside

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1818

Etching of a boy with three goats by a stone trough, beneath a tree, with a rocky cliff and stream behind.

A Boy with Three Goats

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1815

Etching of a man in a wide hat leaning on a wooden fence under a large tree, with a rocky cliff in the background.

A Shady Enclosure of Trees

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1815

Etching of a peasant doffing his hat at a roadside shrine holding a statue of Mary, with trees, rocks and village roofs.

A Peasant Greeting the Statue of Mary

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1817

Etching of a wooded path with a stone shrine, a woman and child, a fence, and cliffs in the distance.

The Grove with Boys

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1817