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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,095 works

Brown wash drawing of ruined ancient walls and cypress trees on the Palatine Hill in Rome, with figures on a road.

View of the "Palazzo Maggiore" on the Palatine Hill, Rome

Jan de Bisschop, mid 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a log mill with water wheel beside rocks and a river, with pine trees and two figures at left.

A Mill on Rocks in a River in Norway

Allart van Everdingen, mid-17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a river village with wagons on a road, thatched houses, moored boats and a distant church spire.

River Landscape with Wagons on a Road near a Village

Joos de Momper the Younger, 1586-1631

Pen and wash drawing of a bare-tree winter landscape with workers, a farmhouse, a road with carts, and distant mountains.

Allegory of the Months February and March

Joos de Momper the Younger, 1579-1635

Grey wash drawing of a river landscape with rocks, trees, goats, travellers, and a distant building under clouds.

A River Landscape with Travellers

Herman van Swanevelt, 17th century

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a road with figures, and a distant tower.

Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Road

Jacob van der Ulft, mid-17th-late 17th century

Brown wash drawing of Roman ruins, cypress trees, figures on a road and hills under a cloudy sky.

Italian Landscape, perhaps the Monte Mario, Rome

Jacob van der Ulft, 1659

Pen and brown ink drawing of a wooded valley with a stag hunt in the middle ground and mountains beyond.

Wooded Landscape with Stag Hunt

Tobias Verhaecht, late 16th-early 17th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of a rocky coast with a seated figure, an eagle, sailboats, and a distant town.

The Death of Aeschylus

Tobias Verhaecht, 1576-before 1606

Ink and wash drawing of bare tree branches framing a church apse with arched windows on blue-grey paper.

Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of skaters and horse-drawn sledges on a frozen canal, with a snowy village and bare trees beyond.

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Horse-Drawn Sledges on the Ice, a Village Below

Andries Vermeulen, n.d.

Pencil sketch of an arbor and pathway beneath cliffs and trees, with a building on the ridge and two small figures.

Italian View: A Pathway and Arbor at the Base of Cliffs

Friedrich Salathé, 1815-21

Pen and ink drawing of a walled river town with a castle, a sailing boat in the foreground, and rowboats on the water.

View of Lahnstein on the River Rhine

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1636

Pen and wash drawing of moored sailing boats on a calm river with distant hills and small animals on the left shore.

Tropical Coastal Landscape

Frans Post, 17th century

Watercolor landscape of a thatched farmhouse under large trees, with cows, sheep, a fence and a small pond in front.

Landscape with a Farmhouse

Adrianus de Visser, 1757-1837

Watercolor of a mountain valley with a river, hilltop town, and travelers in traditional dress on a dirt road.

View of Lebanon, after an English Engraving and an Italianate motif of the Sabiner Mountains

Ernst Welker, 1837

Brown ink drawing of a rocky gorge with a small wooden bridge over a brook and two figures crossing.

Swiss mountain landscape with small bridge spanning a brook

Franz Schütz, 1751-81

Etching of thatched cottages behind a fence, with a stooping figure and a worker in a grassy foreground under a hatched sky.

Landscape

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Ink and wash drawing of an ornamental arch with a round landscape medallion, winged figure, mask, and scrollwork.

Decoration over an Arch with a Landscape Scene in a Round Compartment

Gaetano Galdi, 1770

Brown watercolor of a stone arch bridge and waterfall on a rocky mountain road, with travelers and pack animals.

Devil's Bridge toward the Gothard Mountain in Switzerland

Franz Xaver Triner, 1785-1824

Brown wash drawing of a mountain lake with rocky slopes, a stone hut, grazing cattle, and a small boat.

View of Oberalp Lake

Franz Xaver Triner, late 18th-19th century

Engraving of a draped woman in classical dress picking fruit from a tree, with fine hatched shading.

Woman in Roman Costume Picking Fruit from a Tree

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1560

Pen and ink landscape drawing of a resting stag beneath large trees among rocks, with distant hills.

Italian Landscape with Trees, Rocks and a Resting Deer

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1824

Grey-wash drawing of a dense forest with tall trees, a winding path, and a small house half hidden among trunks.

View of a Forest

Joris van der Haagen, 17th century

Etching of a thatched cottage and haybarn among trees, with a cart, a walking figure, and a distant church spire.

Landscape with a Cottage and a Haybarn

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Grey ink and wash drawing of tall trees and a sunlit forest path with two small figures in the distance.

Woodland Scene

Pieter George Westenberg, 1819

Etching of a peasant hut beside tall spruce trees, with a smoking chimney, fence, meadow and stream in the foreground.

Peasant's Hut at the Edge of a Forest

Johan Christian Dahl, 1828

Ink and wash drawing of a rocky stone arch framing ruins on a hill, with three men in a cave below.

Mountainous Landscape with Ruins of a Castle and Three Men in a Cave, Seen through a Stone Gate

Johann Caspar Huber, late 18th-early 19th century

Pencil drawing of a large tree over a ruined stone archway, with two figures on a path and a distant church spire.

Mother and Child Praying at a Roadside Shrine

Eduard von Steinle, 1859

Pencil drawing of a flat river landscape with men and buffalo, a boat, a ruined tower, and distant hills.

Italian Landscape with the Tiber River and Men with Cattle and a Boat

Friedrich Preller the Elder, 1873