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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,119 works

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

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