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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,286 works

Watercolor of a forest stream with a small waterfall, a leaning mossy tree, and several figures resting on the banks.

Landscape with Waterfall

Friedrich Christian Klass, late 18th-early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a large tree with two seated travelers, a walking figure on a path, and a distant town.

Landscape with Wayfarers

Ferdinand Kobell, 1740-99

Grey wash drawing of rocky landscape with ruins, a windswept pine, a thatched cottage and pale cliffs under cloudy sky.

Landscape with a ruin near Mödling

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1796

Grey wash drawing of an idealized landscape with cliffs, a waterfall, grazing cows, a lake, and a distant temple.

Ideal Landscape with a Shepherd and Cows

Johann Christian Klengel, 1770-1824

Etching of a ruined stone tower and wall beside a tall poplar and leafy trees on a rocky bank.

Rustic Landscape

duc de Chartres Louis Philippe Joseph, 18th century

Pen and ink landscape drawing with tall trees, a winding road, a river, a distant building and hills.

Classical Landscape with a Building and a River

Abraham Genoels, 17th-early 18th century

Ink and white heightening study of a broken, splintered tree trunk with twisted branches on a blue-grey ground.

Study of a Blasted Tree Trunk and Branches

Simon de Vlieger, 1600-1653

Brown wash drawing of hunters resting by a campfire in a night forest, with pack horses and a moonlit sky.

Hunters resting in a forest at night

Kilian Christoffer Zoll, 1830-60

Etching of a classical bust on a pedestal surrounded by dense foliage, a cascading waterfall, and a fallen log in the foregro

Le Buste

Hubert Robert, n.d.

Engraving of a young man with a walking stick seated on a rock under a tree, with pigs grazing in a landscape behind him.

The Prodigal Son Guarding Pigs

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Etching of a rocky forest clearing with a large boulder, fallen log, bare tree, and a small figure by the stone.

Simplicius in der Waldeinöde, from the series Intermezzi

Max Klinger, n.d.

Etching of an old bearded man and a young girl reading a book together in a forest hut surrounded by trees and rocks.

Simplici Schreibstunde, from the series Intermezzi

Max Klinger, n.d.

Etched landscape of a country road lined with windswept trees, a fence, and distant houses under an open sky.

Landscape after Dürer

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, n.d.

Engraving of a bearded old man kneeling by an open tomb with skeletal remains under a large tree, with a town on a hill.

Jacob, from "Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum"

Jan Sadeler, 1593-94

Engraving of a bearded hermit kneeling at a cave entrance with a rosary, beside a waterfall and palm trees.

Onofrius, from "Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum"

Jan Sadeler, 1585-86

Sepia drawing of an armored warrior raising a sword among fallen figures, with a winged figure flying overhead in clouds.

Rinaldo in the Enchanted Forest

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1763

Engraving of women under a large tree watching a distant battle with horsemen, smoke and wagons.

Illustration from "L'Ariane" by Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin; Palamede on Horseback Confronts His Enemies while Searchin…

Abraham Bosse, 1639

Pencil drawing of a classical landscape with tall trees, draped figures by a fountain, and a building beside water.

Classical Landscape with Women at a Fountain

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a gnarled tree with twisting branches and feathery foliage on pale paper.

Study of a Tree

Jacob de Gheyn II, late 16th-early 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a wooded river landscape with a stone bridge, a tower, and large framing trees.

Ancient buildings next to water in the woods (recto); A variation of the same landscape in reverse (verso)

Robert Adam, 1740-55

Grey wash drawing of Moses kneeling before a burning bush as a figure points, with sheep grazing in the landscape beyond.

Moses and the Burning Bush

Gerard Hoet, n.d.

Engraving of a bearded hermit reading beneath a tree by a cliff and waterfall, with a monk and distant town in the landscape.

Epiphanius, from "Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum"

Maerten de Vos, 1593-94

Grey pencil and wash design for a stage set showing an arched frame of tree trunks, palms and rocks around an open centre.

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri, 1825-90

Pen and watercolor landscape with thatched cottages, resting cows, peasants at work, and a distant church spire under a cloud

March

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of a thatched farmstead with shepherds tending and shearing sheep under trees.

June

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of figures harvesting fruit beside a river, with a rowboat and sailing boat nearby.

September

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor landscape of a grape harvest with figures resting by a barrel, a river, sailboat, and distant town.

October

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor village scene with a church steeple, thatched cottages, butchered pigs and villagers in the foreground.

November

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Watercolor of trees on a bank above a still lake, with a dirt path at lower right and a partly cloudy sky.

Trees by the lake, Peamore Park, near Exeter, Devon

Francis Towne, 1790-1810

Engraving of Mercury helping a man out of a pile of nude bodies, with a tree and woman's torso at left.

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand…

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, ca. 1490-1525