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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Watercolor design of a pink stage curtain with a gold urn emblem in a laurel wreath and a banded green and yellow valance.

Design for a Stage Curtain

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil sketch of a bay with a hillside city, church tower, distant mountain, and rocky foreground walls on tan paper.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris (recto); Man with Cane (verso)

Eugène Cicéri, 1840-90

Pen and ink sketch of soldiers in shako hats at a dress parade, with a crowd and parasol-holding women, and a verse below.

Dress Parade (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1852

Snowy forest path with bare trees and two dark-coated figures standing in the center, drawn in gray and white tones.

Winter Scene with Two Men

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pen and ink sketch of a seated man and woman in armchairs, with pencil studies of figures on the same sketchbook page.

40 and 50 (Man and Woman Seated) (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854

Printed broadside with 36 numbered engravings of birds, including eagles, parrots, flamingos and peacocks, each with a Spanis

Broadside with images of 36 birds

Juan Llorens, 1860

Printed broadside with 48 small numbered scenes of circus horse riders, acrobats, and clowns under a title header.

Broadside with 48 scenes depicting the equestrian and gymnastic moves of the royal circus

Juan Llorens, 1860

Pencil drawing of a tall building facade with narrow windows, a balcony, and a doorway, cut to an elongated shape on grey pap

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri, 1840-90

Lithograph of two mounted Roman herdsmen with lances driving horned cattle over rocky ground, a dog at lower left.

Bouchers de Rome

Théodore Géricault, 1817

Lithograph of two shirtless boxers facing off with raised fists while a crowd of spectators watches around the ring.

Boxers

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Lithograph of a cart of wounded soldiers pulled by horses, with a man in a greatcoat gesturing beside it.

Cart Loaded with Wounded Soldiers

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Lithograph of a crippled man in a top hat passing a uniformed sentry at a doorway, with a crowd and domed building behind.

The Swiss Sentry at the Louvre

Théodore Géricault, 1819

Lithograph of an elderly man in a top hat sitting on steps with a dog, beside a shop window and a street scene.

Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Lithograph of a man with a whip leading harnessed horses through a stone archway onto a cobbled street.

Entrance to the Adelphi Wharf

Théodore Géricault, 1821

Lithograph of a turbaned man seated on a rock, gazing pensively over a stormy sea under a dark sky.

I Dream of Her to the Sound of the Waves

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Black and white print of a turbaned rider with raised sword guarding a fallen trumpeter, with cavalry charging behind.

Mamluk Defending a Wounded Trumpeter

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Etching of a lion attacking and pinning a fallen horse on rocky ground beneath a cave-like rock outcrop.

Lion Devouring a Horse

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Lithograph of a coal wagon with a seated driver drawn by a team of horses up a rocky slope under a cloudy sky.

The Coal Waggon [sic.]

Théodore Géricault, 1821

Black and white lithograph of several horses on a road near a stone pillar, with a man leading one and a rider on a grey hors

Horses going to a Fair

Théodore Géricault, 1821

Lithograph of a nude rider bound to a rearing horse on a rocky shoreline, with a stormy sky and a French caption below.

Mazeppa

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Lithograph of soldiers and horsemen crossing a snowy Alpine pass while a man in a cocked hat points forward.

Passage through Mt. Saint-Bernard

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Etching of a nude man seen from behind with a draped woman beside him, set among large trees and foliage.

The Lovers

Parmigianino, 1527-30

Lithograph of a groom leading a dark harnessed horse past a stone stable with a wooden door, by Géricault.

The Horse of Mecklembourg

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Lithograph of two horses on a rocky mountain path with a man in striped trousers leading them, peaks behind.

Horses of Auvergne

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Lithograph of a groom in a tall hat leading three horses, one dark pinto in front, across a shadowed ground.

Three Horses Led by a Groom to be Skinned

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Black chalk study of a seated elderly bearded man in a draped robe, with white highlights on grey paper.

Study for a Figure of Saint Joseph

Bartolomeo Schedoni, ca. 1595-1615

Dappled Horse

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Lithograph of a lion feeding on a dead horse on rocky ground beside a dark cave wall.

A Horse Being Eaten by a Lion

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Red chalk landscape drawing of a river with trees, two reclining figures on the near bank, and wading figures on the right.

Landscape with Figures on the Bank of a River

Gaspard Dughet, 17th century

Lithograph of a turbaned horseman raising his fist on a rearing horse before rocky cliffs and a stormy sky.

The Giaour

Théodore Géricault, 1820