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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,286 works

Pen and wash drawing of a town square with bare trees, a tall spired tower, riders on horses and strolling pedestrians.

Abdijplein of Middelburg

Adriaen van de Venne, 17th century

Daumier lithograph of two seated men under trees, one reading a newspaper, a top hat on a chair beside them.

What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction, from 'The good bourgeois,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, August 30, 1846

Etching of an angel in white robes appearing in light above startled shepherds, sheep and cattle on a dark wooded hillside.

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634

Etching of a woman riding a donkey with a child beside her along a wooded hill, with a distant town across the valley.

Flight into Egypt: Altered from Tobias and the Angel by Hercules Segers

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1653

Brown wash drawing of a forest path lined with large trees and dense foliage, with a low fence visible on the left.

A Path in the "Haagse Bos", The Hague

Jan de Bisschop, mid 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a log mill with water wheel beside rocks and a river, with pine trees and two figures at left.

A Mill on Rocks in a River in Norway

Allart van Everdingen, mid-17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a bare-tree winter landscape with workers, a farmhouse, a road with carts, and distant mountains.

Allegory of the Months February and March

Joos de Momper the Younger, 1579-1635

Grey wash drawing of a river landscape with rocks, trees, goats, travellers, and a distant building under clouds.

A River Landscape with Travellers

Herman van Swanevelt, 17th century

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a road with figures, and a distant tower.

Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Road

Jacob van der Ulft, mid-17th-late 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a wooded valley with a stag hunt in the middle ground and mountains beyond.

Wooded Landscape with Stag Hunt

Tobias Verhaecht, late 16th-early 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of bare tree branches framing a church apse with arched windows on blue-grey paper.

Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Watercolor landscape of a thatched farmhouse under large trees, with cows, sheep, a fence and a small pond in front.

Landscape with a Farmhouse

Adrianus de Visser, 1757-1837

Grey wash drawing of a rocky cave framing a distant hilly landscape, with two figures in hats on the rocks below.

The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1797

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ Child on a donkey, with angels, a smoking altar, a boat and trees.

Joseph Adoring the Christ Child near a Smoking Altar, from the Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1752

Watercolor of a mountain valley with a river, hilltop town, and travelers in traditional dress on a dirt road.

View of Lebanon, after an English Engraving and an Italianate motif of the Sabiner Mountains

Ernst Welker, 1837

Brown ink drawing of a rocky gorge with a small wooden bridge over a brook and two figures crossing.

Swiss mountain landscape with small bridge spanning a brook

Franz Schütz, 1751-81

Pen-and-ink style print of a woodcutter standing over a kneeling figure gathering sticks on a forest path beside a bundle of

Woodcutter Making a Faggot

Jean-François Millet, 1853

Etching of a girl by a tree watching geese on a pond in a rural landscape with cattle in the distance.

The Guardian of the Geese, after Millet

Émile Boilvin, 1888-99

Etching of thatched cottages behind a fence, with a stooping figure and a worker in a grassy foreground under a hatched sky.

Landscape

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Engraving of a draped woman in classical dress picking fruit from a tree, with fine hatched shading.

Woman in Roman Costume Picking Fruit from a Tree

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1560

Dark painting of a winged angel wrestling a man beneath a large twisted tree in an arched forest scene.

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Eugène Delacroix, 1850

Pen and ink landscape drawing of a resting stag beneath large trees among rocks, with distant hills.

Italian Landscape with Trees, Rocks and a Resting Deer

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1824

Grey-wash drawing of a dense forest with tall trees, a winding path, and a small house half hidden among trunks.

View of a Forest

Joris van der Haagen, 17th century

Engraving of a muscular bearded nude man raising one arm beside a tree, with draped cloth and faces in the rocks below.

John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness

Battista Franco Veneziano

Engraving of a centaur carrying off a draped woman as an archer draws a bow beside a tree, with a reclining nude holding flow

The Abduction of Dejanira

Battista Franco Veneziano, 16th century

Engraving of an angel halting an elderly man's raised knife over a kneeling boy, with a ram and fire nearby.

The Angel Staying the Arm of Abraham

Battista Franco Veneziano

Engraving of a sprawled merchant as monkeys steal coins, goods and instruments from him in a forest clearing.

The Merchant Robbed by Monkeys

Pieter van der Heyden, 1562

Grey ink and wash drawing of tall trees and a sunlit forest path with two small figures in the distance.

Woodland Scene

Pieter George Westenberg, 1819

Etching of a peasant hut beside tall spruce trees, with a smoking chimney, fence, meadow and stream in the foreground.

Peasant's Hut at the Edge of a Forest

Johan Christian Dahl, 1828

Grey wash drawing of two large twisting trees by a river, with a reclining man, a dog, and walking hikers in the distance.

Riverscape with Hikers and a Dog

Heinrich Theodor Wehle, late 18th-early 19th century