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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,981 works

Watercolor of purple plums on a branch with green leaves and two yellow quinces resting on sandy ground.

Plums

John William Hill, 1870

Watercolor of a shirtless young man wading in turquoise sea, with a sailboat, palm-lined shore and bunting in the background.

The Bather

Winslow Homer, 1899

Watercolor of a banjo player, a standing man in a red cardigan, and a barefoot boy dancing in a plain interior room.

The Dancing Lesson

Thomas Eakins, 1878

Watercolor of a pale woman's face and dark hair floating on dark water beside a pink flower under a dusky sky.

The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River

John La Farge, 1897

Watercolor of a channel bass fish swimming in blue-green water above dark seaweed on the seabed.

Channel Bass

Winslow Homer, 1904

Watercolor of a lake with scattered islands and layered mountains under a golden sunset sky, seen from a rocky hillside.

Lake Squam from Red Hill

William Trost Richards, 1874

Watercolor of an underwater scene with anemones, corals, shells, lobsters, and fish over a rocky seabed.

Ocean Life

James M. Sommerville

Watercolor of two fishing boats on turquoise water, one white boat labeled Lizzie with billowing sail and crew at work.

Fishing Boats, Key West

Winslow Homer, 1903

Watercolor of a river with cliffs, a wooded hillside, grazing cows and walkers in a sunny meadow.

The Palisades

John William Hill, ca. 1870

Watercolor of a harbor city across a bay, with ships, a windmill, a sandy shore and a windswept pine in the foreground.

New York from the Heights near Brooklyn

William Guy Wall, ca. 1820-23

Watercolor of red and yellow flowers and banana plants before a yellow bungalow with a white roof overlooking blue sea.

Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda

Winslow Homer, 1899

Graphite sketch of a plumed warrior with spear and shield at the center of a crowded ancient battle scene among trees.

Leonidas at Thermopylae

Jacques-Louis David, ca. 1812-13

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bacchanal with satyrs, a goat, a fruit basket, and a classical arch.

Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1635-36

Etching of an imagined Venetian canal scene with a domed church, boats, terraced houses, and a seated man on a wall.

Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats…

Canaletto, 1741

Brown ink and wash drawing of a youth piping for a reclining satyr under trees, with putti and a landscape behind.

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645-50

Engraving of Christ bearing the cross through a crowd of soldiers on horseback, onlookers and dogs, with rocky hills behind.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1475-80

Etching of a tall double-trunked spruce tree beside a river, with mountains, a castle, and a town in the distance.

Landscape with a Double Spruce

Albrecht Altdorfer, ca. 1521-22

Engraving of a bacchanal with nude revelers, satyrs and putti around a wine vat beneath a grapevine.

Bacchanal with a Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna, Before 1475

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris with nude goddesses, a sun chariot, Jupiter and an eagle in the sky, and river gods.

The Judgment of Paris: he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above. In the upper…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-20

Pen and watercolor drawing of a knight and a noblewoman on horseback facing each other before a river landscape and walled ci

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen

Bernard van Orley, 1530-35

Pen and wash drawing of a river town with a hilltop castle, wooden bridge, church spire and a sailboat on the water.

View of Heidelberg

Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1588-89

Watercolor of a lake with blue mountains, a shoreline town, bathers in the foreground and a glowing sunset sky.

The Lake of Zug

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1843

Lithograph of fallen bodies among rubble before a stone barricade, with smoke and city buildings in the background.

Civil War

Édouard Manet, 1871-73 [published 1874]

Misty grey night view of the Thames with a small boat and figure in the foreground, factory chimneys and a spire on the far s

Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea)

James McNeill Whistler, 1878

Etching of the crucifixion of Christ between two thieves, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below under radiating light.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653

Pastel landscape of rolling hills, a winding pale path and green fields under a hazy sky, signed Degas in red.

Landscape

Edgar Degas, 1892

Black chalk drawing of a woman with curled hair, head turned toward viewer, on tinted paper with handwritten inscription.

Portrait of Emma Hamilton

Angelica Kauffmann, 1791

Monochrome drawing of two roses with buds, serrated leaves and thorny stems on a pale paper ground.

Two Roses

Anne Vallayer-Coster, ca. 1810

Ink drawing of a sinuous dragon with spotted body curling among stylized foliage and clouds, with a calligraphic cartouche.

'Saz'-Style Drawing of a Dragon Amid Foliage

Shah Quli, ca. 1540-50

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining bearded male figure gazing upward, with hatched shading on tinted paper.

Ecstatic Christ

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1510-11