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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,816 works

Etched frontispiece with a nude youth holding a title sheet and a reclining child playing a flute, both wearing laurel wreath

Third Frontispiece

James Tissot, 1876

Etching of a lake in a wooded park with tall trees and small strolling figures under a pale sky.

La lac du Bois de Boulogne

Félix Bracquemond, around 1858

Etching of two long-legged wading birds by a stone wall and pillar, with hatched lines for feathers and sky.

Les Cigognes

Félix Bracquemond, 1870s

Etching of a magpie with spread wings perched on a globe, with French verses around it, titled Margot la Critique.

Margot la Critique

Félix Bracquemond, 1854

Brown wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around a seated Diana in a forest, with a man watching from the trees.

Diana and Actaeon

Joseph Bergler the younger, late 18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of cattle and shepherds wading through water below a hilltop town and steep rocky mountains.

Cattle and Shepherds in a Southern Mountainous Landscape

Karel Dujardin, mid-17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of cavalry in battle, with rearing horses, raised swords, and fallen soldiers under a hazy sky.

A Battle Scene

Ferdinand Kobell, 1783

Grey wash drawing of a classical sacrificial scene with a priest at an altar and mourners supporting a fallen woman.

An Antique Sacrificial Scene (recto); Sketch of a Group of People (verso)

Johann Eleazar Zeissig, 1779 (?)

Pencil drawing of two wayfarers on a rocky path beside a ruin overgrown with ivy, with trees and hills in the background.

Wayfarers Near a Ruin in a Hilly Landscape

Victor Paul Mohn, 1863 (?)

Mezzotint portrait of a man with curled wig and fur-trimmed collar, labelled Joh. Baptista Piazzetta Pictor.

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Johann Gottfried Haid, 18th century

Portrait of an Artist Sketching a Portrait Miniature

Franz Jakob Josef Ignatz von Predl, 1799

Grey wash drawing of a house with a small doorway beside rocks, trees and a cliff on a hillside.

A House on a Hillside in a Southern Landscape

Adam Pynacker, mid-17th century

Watercolor of a wooden bridge with a standing man, thatched cottages, a windmill and hills under a blue sky.

Landscape with a Bridge Near Mosbjerg

Martinus Rørbye, 1833

Pen and brown ink drawing of two draped seated women, Nemesis and Themis, one holding a staff, by Abildgaard.

Nemesis and Themis

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of two kneeling nude men, one reaching toward the other, with faint pencil background details.

Two Nude Men Playing with Dice

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated figure in a headwrap feeding papers into a fire, with smoke rising behind.

An Old Woman Burning Papers

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Sepia ink and wash drawing of two studies of a crouching male nude hiding among bushes.

Two Studies of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) Hiding in a Bush

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a lake with a sailboat, walking figures on the shore, a manor on a hill, and trees.

View of Naesse castle with Lake Furesø from the West

Erik Pauelsen, ca. 1780-84

Pen drawing of Damocles raising his arm beneath a suspended sword while King Dionysius watches in a draped hall.

The Sword of Damocles; verso: Sketches of Man's Head and of a Figure with a Raised Arm

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1805

Watercolor of a young couple on a path under a ruined stone arch, with green trees and a sunlit ruin beyond.

A Young Couple Viewing Ruins near Bingen

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, 1801

Grey wash drawing of two riders with spear and bow, a winged horse, a lion and a hound on the ground.

Man's Fortitude

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, late 18th-early 19th century

Red chalk and brown wash sketch of a winged angel flying upward, holding a lily, with billowing drapery.

An Angel holding a Lily

Cosmas Damian Asam, early 18th century

Architectural drawing with elevations, sections and floor plan of a church, in ink and wash, with handwritten inscriptions.

Design for the Parish Church of Merkershausen

Balthasar Neumann, 1738

Watercolor of a sleeping woman in blue drapery reclining in a shadowy landscape beside a golden vessel and a tree.

Psyche Asleep in a Landscape

Karl Agricola, 1837

Etching of lapwings flying over a marsh with teal ducks swimming in the water, framed by leafy branches and reeds.

Vanneaux et Sarcelles

Félix Bracquemond, 1862

Etching of a seated woman in a long dress and a bearded man leaning on a pedestal in an ivy-covered garden.

La Broderie à l'aiguille

Félix Bracquemond, ca. 1855 (?)

Etching of a shaded forest path lined with dense bushes and tall tree trunks, with light opening into a clearing.

Rue des Bruyères, à Sèvres

Félix Bracquemond, 1868

Daumier lithograph of two seated card players at a table, one in classical robes, with a standing man speaking from the doorw

Je viens prévenir le roi Agamemnon qu'on va commencer le 4e acte..., from Croquis Dramatiques, published in Le Chariv…

Honoré Daumier, November 27, 1856

Engraving of three people playing cards at a table in a rustic room with a fireplace and leaded window.

The Interrupted Game (Le Jeu intérrompu)

Jean Heudelot, 1730-68

Etching of a smiling older peasant man in a knit cap, leaning on a chair and holding a pipe beside a table.

Peasant with a Pipe

Adriaen van Ostade, 1640-80