Exhibitions/ Selected Artworks

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Collectors' Collections

At The Met Fifth Avenue
February 19–October 5, 2020

Exhibition Objects


85 Objects

Portrait of George Washington

Eleanor Parke Custis (American, 1779-1852)

Date: ca. 1798 Medium: Hollow-cut silhouette on linen Accession Number: 79.6

Portrait of Martha Washington

Eleanor Parke Custis (American, 1779-1852)

Date: ca. 1798 Medium: Hollow-cut silhouette on linen Accession Number: 1976.567

Portrait of a Man, Full-length, Facing Left, with Arms Folded and a White Collar

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: 1841 Medium: Cut black paper Accession Number: 38.145.243

The Magic Lantern

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: ca. 1835 Medium: Cut paper and wash Accession Number: 38.145.392

Auguste Edouart Seated

Attributed to Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: ca. 1835 Medium: Cut black paper Accession Number: 38.145.394

Sir Walter Scott

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: 1830 Medium: Cut paper silhouette, brush and brown wash background Accession Number: 38.145.398

Roslyn Chapel

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: 1832 Medium: Cut paper silhouette, graphite, and brush and brown wash Accession Number: 38.145.405

Elizabeth Francis, standing to the left with a harp

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: 1843 Medium: Cut paper silhouette Accession Number: 50.602.573

Kate and Harry Lucas, playing with a dog and a bird

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: 1826–49 Medium: Cut paper silhouette Accession Number: 60.603.13

Maria Gracia London

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: 1837 Medium: Cut paper silhouette Accession Number: 50.602.500

Young Girl with Long Braids and Pantalettes, Holding a Flower

Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861)

Date: 1841 Medium: Cut black paper pasted onto folded sheet of white paper Accession Number: 38.145.366

Portrait of a Woman before a Window

Attributed to William Henry Brown (American, Charleston, South Carolina 1808–1883 Charleston, South Carolina)

Date: ca. 1850 Medium: Cut paper against a lithographic background Accession Number: 1984.1101.1

Cottage and Boundary Post on the Spaarndammerdijk ('L'Obelisque')

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: ca. 1650 Medium: Etching and drypoint; second of two states Accession Number: 29.107.5

Untitled

Kara Walker (American, born Stockton, California, 1969)

Date: 1998 Medium: Lithograph Accession Number: 2001.513

Leviathan (Arc Shadow Procession)

William Kentridge (South African, born Johannesburg, 1955)

Date: 2000 Medium: Chine collé of black Canson paper on printed text from Leviathan Accession Number: 2001.529

Harbor Scene with Rising Sun

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

Date: 1634 Medium: Etching; Mannocci's fifth state of eight Accession Number: 26.72.89

The Three Trees

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: 1643 Medium: Etching, engraving and drypoint Accession Number: 29.107.31

Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: 1650 Medium: Etching and drypoint; third of three states Accession Number: 29.107.33

Souvenir of Italy (Souvenir d'Italie)

Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)

Date: 1866 Medium: Etching; probably an intermediate state between the second and third Accession Number: 29.107.50

Scotch Firs, Inveroran

Sir Francis Seymour Haden (British, London 1818–1910 Bramdean, Hampshire)

Date: 1873 Medium: Etching printed in blackish brown ink; Harrington's trial proof a; Schneiderman's first state of three Accession Number: 29.107.170

Saint Florian

Casper (Upper German, Regensburg, ca. 1460)

Date: ca. 1460 Medium: Hand-colored woodcut Accession Number: 31.54.111

Saints Anthony, Sebastian and Christopher

Anonymous, German, Cologne, 15th century

Date: ca. 1470–90 Medium: Metalcut with dot punch, hand-colored; laid down on wooden book cover Accession Number: 31.54.112

Saint Christopher and Saint John the Baptist

Jorg Glockendon (German, late 15th century)

Date: ca. 1480–90 Medium: Woodcut, hand-colored Accession Number: 31.54.114

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John

Anonymous, German, Swabia, 15th century

Date: 1480 Medium: Woodcut, hand-colored Accession Number: 31.54.115

The Sacred Monogram with the Symbols of the Evangelists and the Crucifixion

Anonymous, German, 15th century

Date: 15th century Medium: Woodcut Accession Number: 31.54.137

The Sacred Heart on a Cloth Held by an Angel

Anonymous, German, Nuremberg, 15th century

Date: ca. 1480–90 Medium: Woodcut, hand-colored, printed on vellum, with gold leaf Accession Number: 31.54.142

New Year's Card: Christ Child with the Cross

Anonymous, South Germany, 15th century

Date: ca. 1490 Medium: Woodcut, hand-colored, with traces of gilt Accession Number: 31.54.145

Saint Jerome in Penitence and as a Scholar Removing a Thorn from a Lion's Paw

Master of the Church Fathers' Border (German, late 15th century)

Date: ca. 1470–85 Medium: Metalcut, hand-colored, with circle, fleur-de-lis, star, and dot punches; second state Accession Number: 31.54.168

The Angels of the Euphrates Killing Mankind; and The Angel Preventing Saint John from Recording the Words of the Seven Thunders, from an "Apocalypse" blockbook, second edition

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century

Date: 1440–50 Medium: Woodcut printed in brown ink Accession Number: 31.54.169

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Master of Jesus in Bethany (Netherlandish, late 15th century)

Date: ca. 1470–80 Medium: Metalcut with one star and several dot punches; hand-colored Accession Number: 31.54.179

The Mountain and the Star Fall into the Sea, from the "Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis" block book, fourth edition

Anonymous, German, 15th century

Date: 1460–70 Medium: Woodcut, hand-colored Accession Number: 31.54.188

Virgin on a Crescent, title page from Pelbartus de Temesvar's "Stellarium corone"

Attributed to Daniel Hopfer (German, Kaufbeuren 1471–1536 Augsburg)

Date: 1502 Medium: Whiteline woodcut Accession Number: 31.54.413

Christ on the Cross

Anonymous, German, Franconia, 15th century

Date: ca. 1485 Medium: Woodcut, hand-colored, printed on vellum, with tooled gold leaf Accession Number: 31.54.482

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: 1810 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, embossed and punched paper, and carved and painted mother of pearl on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.1834

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: 1810 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, embossed and punched paper, and carved and painted mother of pearl on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.1835

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: 1810 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, embossed and punched paper, and carved and painted mother of pearl on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.1849

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: ca. 1825 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, embossed and punched paper, and carved and painted mother of pearl on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.1851

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: 1810 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, and embossed and punched paper on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.1853

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: ca. 1840 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, and embossed and punched paper on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.1854

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: 1810 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, hand-colored stipple engraving, and embossed and punched paper on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.2021

Greeting Card

Johannes Endletzberger (Austrian, 1782–1850)

Date: 1839 Medium: Gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, embossed and punched paper, and painted mother of pearl on silk Accession Number: 1984.1164.2056

Canal with a Boat and Ducks

Anthonie van Borssom (Dutch, Amsterdam 1630/31–1677 Amsterdam)

Date: 17th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and blue washes Accession Number: 2005.330.3

View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves

Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, Dordrecht 1620–1691 Dordrecht)

Date: ca. 1640–42 Medium: Black chalk and gray wash and graphite, watercolored in green and ochre yellow, partly brushed with gum arabic; framing lines in black ink Accession Number: 2005.330.4

Kitchen Scene

Cornelis Dusart (Dutch, Haarlem 1660–1704 Haarlem)

Date: 1687 Medium: Black and red chalk, brown, gray, blue, yellow, red washes Accession Number: 2005.330.11

Walls, Towers, and Gates of Amsterdam

Jacob Savery I (Netherlandish, ca. 1565–1603)

Date: late 16th–early 17th century Medium: Pen and brown ink Accession Number: 2005.330.17

Abdijplein of Middelburg

Adriaen van de Venne (Dutch, Delft 1589–1662 The Hague)

Date: 17th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash Accession Number: 2005.330.20

Accident

Robert Rauschenberg (American, Port Arthur, Texas 1925–2008 Captiva Island, Florida)

Date: 1963 Medium: Lithograph Accession Number: 2007.49.594

Ill in Paris

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1948 Medium: Etching Accession Number: 2007.49.613

Ale Cans

Jasper Johns (American, born Augusta, Georgia, 1930)

Date: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Accession Number: 65.674.1

Target

Jasper Johns (American, born Augusta, Georgia, 1930)

Date: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Accession Number: 67.813.1

Numbers

Jasper Johns (American, born Augusta, Georgia, 1930)

Date: 1967, published in 1st Etchings, 2nd State 1967–69 Medium: Etching and open-bite Accession Number: 1972.732.6

Atmosfera Miró

Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca)

Date: 1959 Medium: Color lithograph with graphite drawings Accession Number: 2007.49.528

The Awakening of the Giant (L'Éveil du Géant)

Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca)

Date: 1938 Medium: Drypoint Accession Number: 2007.49.577

Untitled

Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca)

Date: ca. 1959–60 Medium: Collage with woodcut and collagraph from the illustrated book À Toute épreuve (1947-1958) Accession Number: 2007.49.682

Still Life with Bottles and Pitcher

Giorgio Morandi (Italian, Bologna 1890–1964 Bologna)

Date: 1915 Medium: Etching and aquatint; first state of two Accession Number: 2007.49.625

Melancholia

Kiki Smith (American, born Nuremberg, 1954)

Date: 1999 Medium: Etching Accession Number: 2007.49.547

In Full Cry

Sybil Andrews (Canadian (born England), Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk 1898–1992 Victoria, British Columbia)

Date: 1931 Medium: Color linocut on Japanese paper Accession Number: 2019.592.2

The Eight

Cyril E. Power (British, London 1872–1951 London)

Date: 1930 Medium: Color linocut on Japanese paper Accession Number: 2019.415

The Merry-Go-Round

Cyril E. Power (British, London 1872–1951 London)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: Linocut on Japanese paper Accession Number: 2019.592.19

Whence & Whither?

Cyril E. Power (British, London 1872–1951 London)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: Linocut on Japanese paper Accession Number: 2019.592.21

Street Decoration

Lill Tschudi (Swiss, Schwanden 1911–2004 Schwanden)

Date: 1937 Medium: Color linocut on Japanese paper Accession Number: 2019.592.22

Tour de Suisse

Lill Tschudi (Swiss, Schwanden 1911–2004 Schwanden)

Date: 1935 Medium: Linocut on Japanese paper Accession Number: 2019.592.23

Memento Portrait of a Young Midshipman

John Downman (British, Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire 1749–1824 Wrexham, Wales)

Date: 1769–1824 Medium: Watercolor, colored chalk, and graphite Accession Number: 48.149.18

Mrs. Papendiek and Her Son

Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, Bristol 1769–1830 London)

Date: 1789 Medium: Red and black chalk Accession Number: 48.149.19

The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

John Ruskin (British, London 1819–1900 Brantwood, Cumbria)

Date: ca. 1866 Medium: Watercolor, gouache (bodycolor), pen and brown ink, over graphite Accession Number: 48.149.22

The Fort of L'Esseillon, Val de la Maurienne, France

Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)

Date: 1835–36 Medium: Watercolor Accession Number: 1972.118.293

View of St. Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum

Richard Wilson (British, Penegoes, Wales 1712/13–1782 Denbighshire, Wales)

Date: 1754 Medium: Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on blue paper; laid down on original paper mount with purple border Accession Number: 1972.118.294

Woman Bathing (La Toilette)

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color from three plates; fourth state of four (Mathews & Shapiro) Accession Number: 16.2.2

The Coiffure

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color from three plates; fifth state of five (Mathews & Shapiro) Accession Number: 16.2.3

The Bath

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint, soft-ground etching and aquatint, printed in black ink from one plate; fifth state of seventeen (Mathews & Shapiro) Accession Number: 16.3.1

The Bath

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint, soft-ground etching and aquatint, printed in color from two plates; seventeenth state of seventeen (Mathews & Shapiro) Accession Number: 16.2.7

In the Omnibus

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color from three plates; seventh state of seven (Mathews & Shapiro) Accession Number: 16.2.4

The Letter

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color from three plates; fourth state of four Accession Number: 16.2.9

The Letter

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint, printed in black ink from one plate; first state of four Accession Number: 16.3.2

The Fitting

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color from three plates; seventh state of seven (Mathews & Shapiro) Accession Number: 16.2.8

The Fitting

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

Date: 1890–91 Medium: Drypoint and soft-ground etching, printed in black ink from one plate; second state of seven (Mathews & Shapiro) Accession Number: 16.3.3

Angel Revealing a Vision of The New Jerusalem: Design for a Stained Glass Window, Saint Michael's Episcopal Church, New York

Designed and drawn by D. Maitland Armstrong (American, Newburgh, New York 1836–1918 New York)

Date: 1910 Medium: Watercolor and pen and ink Accession Number: 2012.400.3

Veritas: Design for a Memorial Stained Glass Window

Designed and drawn by D. Maitland Armstrong (American, Newburgh, New York 1836–1918 New York)

Date: 1890–1918 Medium: Watercolor and pen and ink Accession Number: 2012.400.27

Indian Paint Brush (Castilleja Miniata)

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Date: June 29, 1909 Medium: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite, with page design indicated in graphite and two details in ink Accession Number: 2010.341.2(27)

Bush Poppy (Dendromecon Rigida)

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Date: June 6, 1912 Medium: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite, with page design indicated in graphite Accession Number: 2010.341.2(55)

Field Book of Western Wild Flowers, with five hundred illustrations in black and white, and forty-eight plates in color drawn from nature by the author

Written and illustrated by Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Date: 1915 Medium: illustrations: color photographic process and offset lithographs Accession Number: 2011.518

Album of American Wildflower Drawings

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Date: 1909–14 Medium: Pen and ink and graphite Accession Number: 2010.341.1(1–71)

Album of American Wildflower Watercolors

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Date: 1909–18 Medium: Watercolor over graphite with brown ink Accession Number: 2010.341.2(1–73)

Field Book of Western Wild Flowers, with five hundred illustrations in black and white, and forty-eight plates in color drawn from nature by the author

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Date: 1915 Accession Number: Publishers Bindings 747

Field Book of Western Wild Flowers, with five hundred illustrations in black and white, and forty-eight plates in color drawn from nature by the author

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Date: 1915 Accession Number: Publishers Bindings 834