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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Stage set design drawing with a windmill, large tree and rocky ground in grey and green wash on tan paper.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Lighthouse

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil design for an opera stage set showing a cemetery with trees, a stone cross, tombstones and a central cut-out opening.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Cemetery

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil sketch of a building facade with a Trattoria di Parigi shopfront, striped awning, balconies and red measuring grid lin

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: "Trattoria di Parigi"

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pen and watercolor drawing of a crowded country road with a carriage full of passengers, pedestrians, dogs, and trees.

Fairlop Fair, Essex

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1816

Engraved print of a procession of grotesque figures with beaked masks and elaborate costumes walking across a landscape.

Procession of Monstrous Figures

the Younger Wendel Dietterlin, 1615

Engraved plate of six decorative caryatid columns with female figures, fruit headdresses, and varied ornamental bases.

Caryatidum (...) sive Athlantidum Multiformium (...)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, ca. 1565

Pen and watercolor design drawing of a wooden chair with carved backrest and pink upholstered seat, with Paris studio stamp.

Design for a Chair

A. Damon et Cie., 19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elegant drawing room with seated guests, a standing man, a dog, and a fireplace.

The Reception

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor drawing of cattle grazing on a hillside above a village with a church tower and rolling downland.

Downlands, Sussex

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of an old man setting a saw beside a woman and dog on a city street with music shop signs.

The Saw-Setter

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of fashionable figures gathered around a gaming table piled with coins in a draped room.

A Gaming Table at Devonshire House

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791

Watercolor drawing of a busy kitchen with diners at a long table, servants, a roasting fire, hanging hams and a dog.

The Squire's Kitchen

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of sailing boats and a crowded rowing boat on calm water, with ships and a distant shore.

Ships and Sailors

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Pencil and wash stage design drawing of a conical tent, tree, standing figure and agave plant with grid lines.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: A Tent

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pen and gray wash stage design drawing of a conical tent, overturned wagon, cannon and grassy rocky ground.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Tent and Overturned Wagon

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Etching of a woman drawing water at a roofed well with buckets, a figure working in the background at right.

Woman at a Well

Camille Pissarro, 1891

Etching of a seated girl by a tree with geese wading in a pond, a fence and rolling fields behind.

Goose Girl

Camille Pissarro, 1888

Portrait of Paul Cézanne

Camille Pissarro, 1874

The Maid at the Market

Camille Pissarro, 1888

Etching of two women selling chestnuts from a large pot at a village market, with a crowd, horse and cart, and houses behind.

Chestnut Vendor, St. Martin's Market, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro, 1881

Etching of a cabbage field with a leaning tree, a low wall, and farm buildings in the background.

The Cabbage Field

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1880

Etching of a rural cottage in a field with bare trees at right and a distant village under an open sky.

The Cottage

Camille Pissarro, 1879

Etching of a meadow with wooden fences, bare trees, a farmhouse and three grazing cows under a pale sky.

Field and Mill at Osny (Pontoise), 1885

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of a meadow with a wooden fence, grazing cattle, leafless trees and a farmhouse by Camille Pissarro, 1885.

Field and Mill at Osny, 1885

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of a harbor quay with moored sailing ships, masts, rooftops, and small figures walking beside a horse and cart.

The Port of Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of a cobbled Rouen street with an arched gateway, a church tower, and pedestrians in the foreground.

The Street of the Grand Clock, Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1885

Etching of a rainy Rouen street with horses in puddles, umbrella-carrying pedestrians, and a street lamp.

Impressions of Rain, Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1883

Pencil sketch of a female figure holding a cross and a flaming heart, with cherubs on clouds above a globe.

The Virgin of the Sacred Heart

Théodore Géricault, ca. 1820

Etching of a seated cowherd by a water's edge beside a tree-lined path, with a cow in the foreground and hills behind.

Cowherd, at Water's Edge

Camille Pissarro, 1890

Etching of cows grazing in a pasture beneath a row of trees, with a farm building and figures in the background.

Cows in the Fields of Éragny, near Gisors

Camille Pissarro, 1888