New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,981 works

Watercolor of a white sloop with billowing sails on choppy blue water, with a small rowboat and distant shoreline.

Sloop, Nassau

Winslow Homer, 1899

Watercolor of a distant city skyline with church spires across a river, with sailing boats and a flagpole in the foreground.

Albany, New York

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a crowded hall with feathered figures on a wooden stage, a standing man, and spectators.

Exhibition of Indian Tribal Ceremonies at the Olympic Theater, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a weathered stone wall with red flowers, green shrubs, and a sailboat on the sea under a pale blue sky.

A Wall, Nassau

Winslow Homer, 1898

Watercolor of a striped paddle steamboat with passengers and an American flag moving between rocky cliffs on a river.

Steamboat Travel on the Hudson River

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca.1813

Watercolor of people dancing and socializing in a wayside inn, with a fiddler playing near an open door.

Merrymaking at a Wayside Inn

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel landscape on tan paper showing rolling open ground, dark shrubs and a pale sky with a distant horizon.

Landscape

John Henry Twachtman, after 1890

Watercolor of a ferry with carriage and passengers crossing a rocky river toward pale cliffs and wooded hills.

A Ferry Scene on the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry, near Havre de Grace

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a two-horse sleigh with passengers on a snowy Philadelphia street beside a columned bank building.

Winter Scene in Philadelphia - The Bank of the United States in the Background

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of trees and boulders on a shore, with rowboats and sailboats on a calm river and wooded cliffs beyond.

Weehawken from Turtle Grove

William James Bennett, ca. 1830

Watercolor of a white clapboard country house with columned porch, framed by large trees, a statue and urns on the lawn.

A Country Residence, Possibly General Moreau's Country House at Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pen and ink sketch of a hooded figure bent over a desk with an open book, inkwell and candlestick.

Half-length Figure in a Monk's Cowl (Possibly a Self-portrait) (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854

Graphite study on blue-grey paper of three figures in motion, one reaching forward with outstretched arms, beneath faint red

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Three Figures

John Singleton Copley, 1785-86

Watercolor of a stone tomb with an arched wooden door on a grassy hill, framed by trees and cypresses under a pale sky.

General Washington's Tomb at Mount Vernon (Copy after Engraving in The Port Folio Magazine, 1810)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca.1813

Watercolor of gnarled trees on a hillside overlooking a winding road and open fields under a pale sky.

Olive Trees at Tivoli

George Inness, 1873

Pencil and chalk study of two prone soldiers on grey paper, with handwritten scale notes across the top.

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Two Dead Figures

John Singleton Copley, 1782-83

Watercolor of three brown clay vessels: a frog-shaped cup, a ribbed jar, and a narrow-necked bottle on a pale ground.

Indian Antiquities (Copy after Engraving in American Medical and Philosophical Register, 1812)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1812-ca. 1813

Brown wash drawing of four feathered figures on a riverbank, with a city and paddle steamer visible on the water behind them.

Visit to Their Old Hunting Grounds (from Hosack Album)

John Ludlow Morton, ca. 1843

Pencil sketch of a log cabin with a chimney and woodpile among tall forest trees, on an open sketchbook spread.

Camp A: Log Cabin in Woods (from Sketchbook)

William Trost Richards, 1885

Watercolor of a crowd gathered before an open doorway, with a man in the doorway and many people raising arms and kneeling.

Black Methodists Holding a Prayer Meeting

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Open sketchbook page of blue paper with loose white chalk strokes depicting cloud forms.

Cloud Study (recto, from sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Pencil sketch of clouds over a calm sea with waves and rocks in the foreground, drawn on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of Clouds and Sea (from Sketchbook VII)

William Trost Richards, 1886

Watercolor of the packet ship Mohawk of Albany sailing past high wooded cliffs on a river with small sailboats nearby.

The Packet "Mohawk of Albany" Passing the Palisades

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pencil sketchbook map of rivers and lakes near Tacoma and Mount Tacoma, with a small sailboat drawn at upper right.

Map of Region Northwest of Mount Tacoma (from Sketchbook)

Albert Bierstadt, 1890

Pencil sketch of a log cabin with a chimney and woodpile among tall trees in a misty forest, in a sketchbook.

Camp A: Log Cabin in Woods (from Sketchbook X)

William Trost Richards, 1885

Watercolor of a domed neoclassical academy building with a columned portico and tall poplar trees in a garden.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (Copy after an Engraving in The Port Folio Magazine, June 1809)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Graphite sketch on grey paper of a seated man at a table and kneeling figures, with a standing figure at upper right.

Four sketches (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Pencil drawing of dense tropical palms, cycads and banana leaves with a tall palm trunk on the right.

Palms

William Trost Richards, 1855

Watercolor of the Pennsylvania Hospital with a central columned portico, cupolas, tall trees, and an iron fence along the str

The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of distant mountains and classical ruins along a hazy horizon.

Sketchbook of Italian Landscape Subjects

Jervis McEntee, 1869