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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,815 works

Pen and wash drawing of elegantly dressed figures and dogs at a brick table in a flat landscape with distant sailboats.

Elegant Party on the Tafelberg

Anthonie van Borssom, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of robed figures gathered at an arched doorway beside a hilly landscape with a bathing figure.

Jacob Receiving Joseph's Blood-Stained Cloak (recto); Study of a Bearded Man and The Sacrifice of Isaac (verso)

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1653

A Hungarian Horseman

Roelant Savery, late 16th-mid 17th century

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

Studies of Hounds

David Teniers the Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of an armored rider on horseback with a lion shield, a griffin, and a city behind.

Emperor Ninus

Maerten de Vos, mid-16th-early 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.

Raised white cut paper scene of a mounted man in a tricorn hat leading riders and soldiers past a cannon and bare tree.

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Robert Lovett, 18th-19th century

Brown wash drawing of Diana embracing reclining Endymion in a forest, with a cupid, two dogs, and a glowing moon.

Diana and Endymion

Johann Heinrich Keller, 1700-1765

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

Hand-colored print of Noah's Ark with a red hull, animals boarding a ramp, and birds flying overhead.

Noah's Ark

Currier & Ives, 1868-78

Engraving of a mounted commander leading bound captives in a triumphal procession toward a crowded arch.

The Triumph of Scipio who rides on a horse followed by captured slaves

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraved full-length portrait of a bearded saint in armor and fur-trimmed cloak holding a falcon and sword.

St. Bavo, from the series Saints of North and South Netherlands

Pieter Soutman, 1650

Line engraving of Olympia: a reclining nude woman on a bed, a servant with flowers at left, and a black cat.

Olympia

Édouard Manet, 1902

Woodcut of St. Jerome kneeling with a lion in a forest landscape with a fountain and distant town.

The Penitence of St. Jerome

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Pen and wash drawing of armored cavalry charging in battle, with rearing horses, lances, banners and fallen soldiers.

Battle Scene

Hans Heinrich Waegmann, ca. 1611-14

Engraving of a Roman triumph with mounted soldiers, bound captives, trumpeters and a crowd approaching a triumphal arch.

The Triumph of Scipio, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Master of the Die, 16th century

Engraving of a battle with mounted and foot soldiers, a fallen warrior in the foreground and a walled city behind.

The Victory of Scipio, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Master of the Die, 16th century

Engraving of a flood scene with a crowded boat, struggling figures in water, a waterfall, rocky cliffs and a stormy sky.

Winter

Nicolas Poussin, n.d.

Etching of a woman in a headscarf churning butter in a dim barn interior, with a cat at her feet.

Woman Churning Butter

Jean-François Millet, 1855-56

Etching of gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto offering crowns, with an eagle, horses, and putti holding a heraldic shield above.

Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto offering their crowns to the arms of Cardinal Borghese

Simone Cantarini, 1642-43

Etching of a bull attacking a fallen picador and horse in a bullring while a bullfighter waves a cape.

Plate 26 from "La Tauromaquia": A picador is unhorsed and falls under the bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Black-and-white print of a farm worker asleep in the shade of a haystack, with a grazing horse and cart in the distance.

Mid-Day, from "Four Times of the Day"

Jean-François Millet, 1860

Black and white print of a woman riding a laden donkey beside a farmer with a pitchfork on a rural path.

Morning, from "Four Times of the Day"

Jean-François Millet, 1860

Pencil study of a rearing horse held by a nude man on a stepped pedestal, with handwritten measurements in the margins.

Study for one of the 'Chevaux de Marly'

Guillaume Coustou the Elder, ca. 1740

Etching of a girl by a tree watching geese on a pond in a rural landscape with cattle in the distance.

The Guardian of the Geese, after Millet

Émile Boilvin, 1888-99

Ink drawing of a peasant woman with a spindle and distaff, goats on a hillside behind her, in a rural landscape.

Spinner from the Auvergne

Jean-François Millet, 1830-99

Night farmyard print with a moon behind clouds, a loaded wheelbarrow, a thatched cottage, a wooden gate and a dog.

Moonlight

Jean-François Millet, n.d.

Engraving of revelers brawling under a grapevine arbor beside a fruit-laden table, with a dog and wine barrels, labeled Autum

Autumn, from "The Four Seasons" (Les Quatres Saisons)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1637

Etching of two horses, one lying on the ground and one standing with head lowered, in a rural landscape with trees and a farm

Two Horses

Charles Meryon, 1850