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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Watercolor of a sunlit Japanese street with wooden shops, a vendor at a stall, women in kimono and chickens on the dirt path.

Street Scene in Ikao, Japan

Robert Frederick Blum

Pencil and chalk drawing of a forest stream with a kneeling figure drinking beside a fallen tree and boulder.

The Fountain, No. 1: The Wounded Indian Slaking His Death Thirst

Thomas Cole, 1843

Pastel drawing of three men in top hats and dark coats in a pale interior, one leaning in to speak to another.

Portraits at the Stock Exchange

Edgar Degas, ca. 1878-79

Brown wash drawing of robed apostles gazing upward as winged angels point to the sky over a hilly landscape.

Study for "The Ascension"

John Singleton Copley, 1774

Watercolor of a seated man reading a newspaper, a woman holding an infant, a table with fruit and books, and a wall clock.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Otis and Child

Joseph H. Davis, 1834

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

Graphite sketches of male figures on blue paper, including an embracing pair in cloaks, by John Singleton Copley.

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Group of Dying French Officers

John Singleton Copley, 1782-83

Watercolor portrait of a smiling woman with upswept brown hair, white blouse and dark floral shawl.

Anne Charlotte Lynch (Later Mrs. Vincenzo Botta)

Savinien Edme Dubourjal, ca. 1847

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

Pencil sketch of a man seated backward on a chair beside a table with a bottle, with an overturned chair on the floor.

Study for Facing the Enemy (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Francis William Edmonds, ca. 1845

Watercolor of two men sawing logs beside a palmetto-thatched hut among tall palms and cypress trees by a misty river.

The Cypress-Shingle Yard, Ocklawaha River, Florida

Harry Fenn, 1870

Oil self-portrait of a young man with dark hair, white collar and red tie, gazing at the viewer against a dark background.

Self-Portrait

Edgar Degas, ca. 1855-56

Woman in blue dress with lace collar seated at a painted harpsichord, reading sheet music, in a room with a round mirror.

An Old Song

William John Hennessy, 1874

Pencil sketch of two women in period dress playing croquet, with a third figure in the background on a lawn.

The Croquet Players

Winslow Homer, 1866

Pastel drawing of a red-haired woman in a yellow bodice and striped skirt, head tilted up against a blue-green background.

The Singer in Green

Edgar Degas, ca. 1884

John Adams

James Sharples, ca.1796

Charcoal sketch of two fisherwomen with a basket walking across a sandy shore, with a distant figure and boat.

Fisherwomen

Winslow Homer, 1882

Pastel drawing of three ballet dancers in tutus preparing in a studio, one bending forward, one seated, by Edgar Degas.

Three Dancers Preparing for Class

Edgar Degas, after 1878

Pastel portrait of a man in a powdered wig and brown coat with a white cravat, against an oval ochre background.

Pierre Bacot

Henrietta Johnston, ca. 1708-10

Watercolor of a man with an axe on his shoulder looking over a sunlit clearing with stumps and distant hills.

The Pioneer

Winslow Homer, 1900

Brown wash sketch of two ballet dancers in tutus on a pink ground, one turned toward the other.

Two Dancers

Edgar Degas, 1873

Watercolor of a young woman in a flower garland beside an outrigger canoe under a tree, with a thatched hut behind.

Portrait of Faase, the Taupo, or Official Virgin, of Fagaloa Bay, and Her Duenna, Samoa

John La Farge, 1891 (?)

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

Sloop, Nassau

Winslow Homer, 1899

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

Two Dancers, Half-length

Three women carry a long canoe along a grassy shore by the sea, under tropical trees, in a 1891 watercolor.

Girls Carrying a Canoe, Vaiala in Samoa

John La Farge, 1891

Pencil and ink sketch on blue paper of a man lying on the ground beside foliage and trees, with a handwritten caption.

The Last Drop (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Pastel drawing of a seated nude woman from behind, arms raised combing long red hair, against a green textured background.

Woman Combing Her Hair

Edgar Degas, ca. 1888-90

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat sitting and drawing in an open field with a lone tree, by William Sidney Mount, 1840.

Artist Sketching at Stony Brook, New York (from McGuire Scrapbook)

William Sidney Mount, 1840

Sepia watercolor of mounted riders and pack mules on grassland beside a winding river, with wooded hills in the distance.

On the Head-Waters--Burgess Finding a Ford

Frederic Remington, ca. 1893

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