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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,981 works

Pen and wash drawing of a medieval castle east front with a gatehouse, round tower, and small figures on grass.

Warwick Castle: The East Front

Canaletto, 1752

Brown ink drawing of masked, pointed-hatted figures gathered around a body under a brick vault, with a wheelbarrow and poles.

The Burial of Punchinello

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1800

Watercolor night landscape with yellow stars and blue dashes above a dark silhouetted treeline.

Landscape with Stars

Henri-Edmond Cross, ca. 1905-1908

Pen and brown wash drawing of a rocky coast with a winged horse, figures, a large tree and a hazy sea.

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1671

Pencil and wash drawing of a road lined with pollarded willows, with a figure sweeping in the foreground and walkers in the d

Road in Etten

Vincent van Gogh, 1881

Red chalk drawing of the Last Supper with Christ and apostles seated at a long table in a sketched interior.

The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634-35

Pen drawing of men shoveling a pile of wooden chairs along a curved arch, with a large empty area in the center.

Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel)

Vranke van der Stockt, 1444-50

Brown ink drawing of Venice lagoon with gondolas, sailing boats, and a domed church on the distant waterfront.

Panaromic View of the Bacino di San Marco, Looking up the Giudecca Canal

Francesco Guardi, 1780-93

Pen and ink sketch of men in hats crowding around a painting on an easel, with a seated figure in the foreground.

Satire on Art Criticism

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644

Loose oil sketch of oak trees and rocky ground in a sunlit forest clearing under a blue sky with white clouds.

Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1832 or 1833

Loose painted sketch of a ballet dancer in a pale tutu with blue flowers, arms outstretched against green brushwork.

Dancer Onstage

Edgar Degas, ca. 1877

Pen and brown wash drawing of a thatched cottage and shed beside trees, with a figure in the doorway and a barrel nearby.

Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644

Small oil landscape study of sunlit rocky banks, dark trees on the left, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Italian Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, ca. 1825-28

Semicircular fan mount with three sketched female dancers in brown and grey wash above a pale arc.

Fan Mount: Dancers

Edgar Degas, 1879

Dark lava fields in the foreground, a town with red roofs beyond, and snow-capped Mount Etna rising under a pale sky.

Catania and Mount Etna

Edward Lear, 1847

Oil sketch of a curving lake below a green hillside with a pale hilltop town and tower under a pale sky.

Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1826-27

Fan-shaped drawing of ballet dancers in dark costumes with gold accents against grey clouds, by Edgar Degas, 1879.

Fan Mount: The Ballet

Edgar Degas, 1879

Fan-shaped drawing of three women gathering cabbages in a field beneath a cloudy sky, with a village on the horizon.

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1878-79

Painting of figures harvesting and pressing apples beside barrels, thatched huts, and grazing sheep in a rural landscape.

Cider

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1864

Loose sketch of ballet dancers in white tutus rehearsing on stage, with a violinist and seated observers beside a green backd

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas, ca. 1874

Painted landscape of a village with roofs and trees on a hillside, overlooking a valley under a cloudy sky.

A Village in a Valley

Théodore Rousseau, late 1820s

Painting of nude women bathing and washing cloth beside a river, with men working on a bridge and boat in the background.

The River

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1864

Pastel drawing of ballerinas rehearsing under a dance master's direction while spectators watch from beside a fireplace.

The Rehearsal Onstage

Edgar Degas, ca. 1874

Colorful folk-art Fraktur with two peacocks, two parrots, crowns, and stylized flowers in a symmetrical arrangement.

Fraktur

Johann Heinrich Otto, ca. 1770-1800

Watercolor of a log cabin and fishing nets on a riverbank, with three men, barrels, a sailboat, and hills.

View from the Packet Wharf at Frenchtown Looking down Elk Creek

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1806

Pastel drawing of two red-haired dancers in green costumes leaning together against a blue-green textured background.

Two Dancers, Half-length

Veiled women in robes process across a dusk landscape, one carrying a blue banner, with a draped bier behind them.

Dirge of the Three Queens

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1895

Watercolor of sailing ships and a small boat on choppy green water, with a hilly shoreline and buildings in the background.

Quarantine, Staten Island

William James Bennett, 1833

Pastel drawing of a seated nude woman seen from behind, drying her arm with a white towel beside a patterned chair.

Woman Drying Her Arm

Edgar Degas, late 1880s-early 1890s

Watercolor of a seated woman in a white bonnet with blue ribbons, in a pale dress beside a grey interior doorway.

The Hat with the Blue Ribbons

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1884-86[?]