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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Watercolor of Collect Pond with a rocky hillside, willow tree, three walking figures, and a distant New York skyline with chu

Collect Pond, New York City

Archibald Robertson, 1798

Charcoal drawing of a woman in a dark dress seated at an upright piano, her hands on the keys, in a soft-shaded interior.

At the Piano

Theodore Robinson, ca. 1887

Pastel drawing of a nude woman with red hair bending forward and drying her foot with a white towel.

Woman Drying Her Foot

Edgar Degas, 1885-86

Dyer Sharp Wynkoop

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Portrait of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Thomas F. Hoppin, ca. 1841

Pastel drawing of jockeys on racehorses crossing a grassy track with a distant town and church spire.

Race Horses

Edgar Degas, ca. 1885-88

Albert Gallatin

James Sharples, ca. 1796

Watercolor portrait of a seated man in a black coat and white cravat, leaning on a black spindle chair, dated 1810.

Allan Melville

John Rubens Smith, 1810

Pastel drawing of a seated dancer in a pale tutu leaning forward, with loose green and blue strokes behind her.

Dancer

Edgar Degas, 1880-85

Dorothea Hart

James Sharples, 1809

The Chief of the Little Osages

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

Pastel portrait of a man with white hair in an olive coat and white cravat against a dark blue background.

Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery

James Sharples, 1798

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 dense crowd of Native American faces with feathered headdresses, painted faces, and a nursing infant in the f

Tableau of Indian Faces

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel portrait of a man with gray hair, dark coat and white ruffled cravat against a dark background.

Noah Webster

James Sharples, 1751-1849

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

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 portrait of a woman in a pleated white bonnet with lace trim and a pale shawl against a dark background.

Abigail Smith Adams

James Sharples, ca.1796

An Osage Warrior

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of Black sawyers cutting logs before a columned neoclassical building, with a woman holding a child and a horse ne

Black Sawyers Working in front of the Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Pen sketches on a page: seated man, three robed figures in an arch, a newsboy, a hat-wearing man, and a smoker.

Christ and Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Watercolor of a clergyman immersing a kneeling woman in a river while a crowd watches from a wooden dock under a stormy sky.

A Philadelphia Anabaptist Immersion during a Storm

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of men in top hats eating oysters at a street barrow at night, with a woman holding a candle beside them.

Nightlife in Philadelphia - an Oyster Barrow in front of the Chestnut Street Theater

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Ink sketch of a seated man at a table under a mosquito net, with insects around him, on orange paper.

Man at Table beneath Mosquito Net (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Watercolor of a yellow stagecoach with passengers and four white horses on a dirt road beside a river and hills.

Travel by Stagecoach Near Trenton, New Jersey

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of people walking on a cobbled street past a brick wall and classical building, with willow trees behind.

Sunday Morning in front of the Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Portrait of Frederick R. Leyland

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1871-73

Watercolor of two Indigenous men and a man in a top hat in a canoe on a river between rocky cliffs and pines.

Two Indians and a White Man in a Canoe

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