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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,119 works

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 fishermen hauling a net on a rocky Hudson shore, with sailboats on the river and hills beyond.

Shad Fishermen on the Shore of the Hudson River

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 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 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

Pen sketches on a page: seated man, robed figures, a shouting newspaper seller with caption 'Terrible Disaster! Loss of the A

Terrible Disaster! Loss of the Arctic! (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

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 couple and street figures before a classical church, with a street lamp and a spotted dog.

"Worldly Folk" Questioning Chimney Sweeps and Their Master before Christ Church, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

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

Indian Figure in Profile

Henry Kirke Brown, 1851

Embroidered oval picture of a shepherd playing flute and a shepherdess with crook beside sheep in a pastoral landscape.

The Shepherdess of the Alps

Evelina Hull, ca. 1812

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

Pastel portrait of a man in a powdered wig and blue coat with pink lining against a brown background.

Hugh Hall

John Singleton Copley, 1758

Peter LaBagh

James Sharples, 1793-1811

Grayscale watercolor of a standing woman in a white gown with her hand on a globe beside a draped table.

Standing Portrait of a Lady with a Globe (from Sketchbook)

Thomas Sully, 1810-20

Portrait of a bald man with blue eyes in a green velvet cap and brown silk robe against a dark background.

Ebenezer Storer II

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1767

Theodore Robinson

Kenyon Cox, 1878

Two painted riders on galloping horses, one with a feathered headdress and lance, one drawing a bow, on aged ledger paper.

Swift Dog Strikes an Enemy

Swift Dog, ca. 1880

Three women in embroidered skirts and flower wreaths dance in a field, rendered in loose colorful pastel strokes.

Dancers in Ukrainian Dress

Edgar Degas, 1899

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded seated man in a hat holding a book and gesturing toward an inscribed scroll.

Seated Man with a Book and a Scroll

Stefano da Verona, first half 15th century