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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,245 works

Hand-colored print of a lake with a stag at the shore, framed by autumn trees and a distant mountain.

Moosehead Lake, Maine

Currier & Ives, 1857-71

Engraving of a kneeling bearded monk at a tree, gazing up at a crucifix in a landscape with a distant church spire.

St. Bernard Kneeling Before a Crucifix

Claude Mellan, ca. 1655

Engraving of a footsoldier seen from behind with a plumed hat, sword and pike, in front of a bare tree, dated 1520.

Footsoldier in front of a Tree

Barthel Beham, mid-17th century

Etching of a stormy Sussex coast with fishermen beside a windswept tree, a tossed sailboat, and a thatched cottage.

A View on the Coast of Sussex

Thomas Rowlandson, October 1, 1785

Etching of a hilly landscape with a village church, trees, and travelers with pack animals on a path.

La Terre, from The Elements

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Engraved page: children dance around a decorated Christmas tree in a parlor; above, people gather evergreens in a forest.

The Christmas Tree (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)

Winslow Homer, December 25, 1858

Engraving of a bearded man in a hat and cloak leaning against a tree in a forest, with a coat of arms beside him.

James Howell Standing in a Forest

Claude Mellan, 1641

Engraving of a man in a cloak and hat leaning on a tree in a forest, with a Latin inscription below.

James Howel Standing in a Forest

Claude Mellan, 1641

Engraving of a man reading a newspaper beside a seated woman in a wooded forest setting with tall trees.

A Quiet Day in the Country (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. III)

Winslow Homer, June 6, 1870

Daumier lithograph of two seated landscape painters at easels outdoors, one copying the other's canvas, with a hill and smoke

The landscape painters, the first copies nature, the second copies the first, from 'The artists,' published in Le Cha…

Honoré Daumier, May 12, 1865

Watercolor of a domed baroque church seen across a park, with strollers in top hats and tree-lined paths in the foreground.

View of St. Charles Church and the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna

Rudolf von Alt, 1831

Engraving of a plumed lansquenet soldier in puffed costume standing beside a tree trunk, with mountains behind him.

A Lansquenet Standing by a Tree

Sebald Beham, 1520

Engraving of three woodsmen felling trees in a forest clearing, with oxen and tree stumps in the background.

Banknote vignette showing woodsmen felling trees in a snowy forest

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1824-37

Etching of putti with grapes, a goat, a wine barrel and a basket, with a dedication inscription below.

Fall

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Engraving of Jesus Christ with a halo, arm outstretched, beside a tree and clouds, inside an arched frame.

Jesus Christ

Simon de La Vallée, 1726

Engraving of nude putti playing on a seesaw branch in a rocky landscape with pine trees and clouds.

The Seesaw

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, ca. 1738

Etching of a stone arch bridge over a stream, a thatched cottage, tall trees and wicker baskets on the bank.

View of the Bridge of Washerwomen at the Peasant House

Pierre Quentin Chedel, mid-18th century

Etching of a standing woman holding a fish beside a seated man, with a banana tree, thatched hut and pools.

Man Sitting and Woman Carrying a Fish

Martin Engelbrecht, first half 18th century

Etched landscape of a brick house, a wooden bridge over a stream, three figures and trees under cloudy sky.

A Landscape with a Home and Three Men on a Bridge

Johann Georg Hertel, 18th century

Pencil sketch of a gnarled tree with tangled bare branches and sprigs of leaves, dated 1833, on tan paper.

Study of a Tree Standing in Water in the Düsseldorf Hofgarten; verso: Studies of Plants

Johann Wilhelm Preyer, 1833

Pencil sketch of a valley with trees, a thatched cottage, a wooden fence, and distant mountains and church.

Landscape with a View in a Valley

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Engraving of two seated children beside a gnarled tree with a hanging fruit, titled Taste, numbered 4.

Taste

Chez Huquier, 18th century

Engraving of a shepherd seated under windswept trees with sheep and cattle, with a ruin and fence in the background.

The Shepherd

Etching of a shepherd girl weaving flowers beside a sheep under a large tree in a wooded landscape.

The Amusement of a Shepherd Girl

Marie Madeleine Igonet

Watercolor of a shaded road beside a steep rocky cliff with dense trees, figures on the path, and a distant building.

A View near the Arco Scuro, looking towards the Villa Medici, at Rome

Francis Towne, 1785

Hand-colored print of a blue Egyptian water lily with buds and lily pads, with a domed building and palms in the background.

The Blue Egyptian Water Lily, from "The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature"

Joseph Constantine Stadler, September 11, 1804

Engraving of a kneeling hooded monk gazing upward in a rocky cave with skulls, a dog, and a cross nearby.

St. Bruno

Sepia print of three women washing by a thatched cottage beneath tall trees, with a wooden shed and cloudy sky.

The Washerwomen (Les Laveuses)

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1771

Monochrome print of tall tree trunks and wavy undergrowth under a pale sky, by Armand Séguin, ca. 1894.

Trees at Night

Armand Séguin, ca. 1894

Pencil landscape drawing with a standing man, a snake near a stream, a rock arch, tall trees and distant mountains.

Southern landscape with a man and a snake

Heinrich Dreber, 1847