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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Brown ink drawing of the goddess Diana with a spear and two hounds beside tall trees, with a hilly landscape behind.

The Goddess Diana with Her Hounds Standing in a Landscape

Agostino Tassi, n.d.

Bust-Length Study of a Man Wearing a Hat in Three-Quarter View (a Frankish Nobleman)

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a sea battle with ornate galleys, spear-carrying soldiers and rowers, and sails in the distance.

The Sea Battle in the Gulf of Morbihan

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of a church interior with tall columns, vaulted arches, a distant altar and small figures in period dres

Church Interior

Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern, 1791

Seymour Seated (Seymour Haden, Jr., Seated)

James McNeill Whistler, 1857-58

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat reading among a crowd of onlookers, with handwritten French inscriptions above.

The Title to the French Set

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Watercolor landscape of a peasant family on a dirt road, grazing cattle under oaks, and a distant church tower.

Peasant Family in a Landscape

Johann Friedrich Nagel, late 18th-19th century

Watercolor of Austrian soldiers and horses in a hillside military camp, with tents and officers on a rise under a cloudy sky.

Austrian Soldiers

Wilhelm von Kobell, late 18th-19th century

Ink drawing of a winged devil holding a palette and brush beside an easel labeled Skizzenbuch, with sketches at his feet.

Der Fehlerteufel ("Devil of Mistakes")

Gustav Bartsch, 1844

Watercolor of a mountain valley with a rushing river, boulders, conifers, and a snow-capped peak in the distance.

Mountain Valley

Thomas Ender, early 19th-mid 19th century

Etching of a street with old buildings, a horse-drawn cart, a street lamp, a bare tree and a wooden fence.

Temple (The Temple)

James McNeill Whistler, [1880-81]

Etching of a row of steamboats moored on a river, with a small bridge at the right edge and streaked sky above.

Steamboat Fleet

James McNeill Whistler, [1875]

Etched street scene of a busy city avenue with tall buildings, carriages, horses and pedestrians receding toward a distant to

St. James's Street, June 1878

James McNeill Whistler, July 2, 1878

Ink sketch of a standing man with one arm outstretched, with the handwritten caption 'Suggestion by Whistler for his Portrait

Suggestion by Whistler for his Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, 19th-20th century

Pen sketch of a curly-haired winged figure holding a staff, with dotted halo outlines, on cream paper.

Whistler as Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler, 19th-20th century

Lithograph of a river bridge and hazy city skyline with two figures on a stone embankment in the foreground.

The Savoy Pigeons

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Pencil-like lithograph of a tyresmith at an anvil beside an arched doorway, with standing men and figures in the dim interior

The Tyresmith, from "The Whirlwind"

James McNeill Whistler, November 15, 1890

Loose etched sketch of a Paris greengrocer's shop with heaped vegetables, two women shoppers and a child in a doorway.

Fruit-Shop, Paris (Greengrocer's Shop, Paris)

James McNeill Whistler, 1892-93

Faint etched print of a standing nude woman seen frontally, with loose lines and light hatching on a pale sheet.

Nude Woman Standing

James McNeill Whistler, [1873-75]

Watercolor landscape of a windmill over a grain field, with a farmer leading oxen and a woman with a basket in the foreground

Landscape

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1785

Watercolor of a seated woman in striped headscarf and embroidered apron spinning, with a pencil sketch of a veiled woman besi

Neapolitan Woman (recto); Study for an Interior (verso)

Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Heideck, late 18th-19th century

Woodcut print of women seated in a room with a book, needlework and a basket of fruit, inscribed IOSE. SAL. 1557.

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sor…

Giuseppe Salviati, 1557

Etching of a dying bearded man in bed supported by a richly dressed king, with courtiers watching in period costume.

Allegory of Painting (The Death of Leonardo da Vinci)

Giuseppe Cades, ca. 1780-99

Painted landscape of a ruined castle on a forested hilltop above a river, with a stone bridge and horse cart.

View of Kynsburg over the Weistritz River Valley in Silesia

Johann Heinrich Bleuler, late 18th-19th century

Etching of a Gothic cathedral facade with a spire at right and small figures walking on a street in front.

Notre Dame, Bourges

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Watercolor and graphite study of a leafy plant with large lobed leaves and flowering stems, with grasses at its base.

Study of a Plant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1712-74

Watercolor of a rocky arch framing a valley, with sheep and a sleeping shepherd on a grassy path below.

Rocky Landscape with Sleeping Shepherd

Philip Heinrich Dunker, 1817

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bound, seated bearded man mocked by an armored soldier and a man drinking from a goblet.

Mocking of Christ

Johann Heintz, late 16th-early 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a village street with gabled houses, a church tower, a large tree and two figures.

Village Street Scene with a Church

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1777

Pen and brown wash drawing of a reclining figure, a skull, and a ruined monument with a standing figure and a distant city.

Allegory of the Transience of Life

Christian Richter, 1618