Museum Exhibition
City and Country: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 22, 2025 – September 2, 2025
Featuring a variety of works spanning the seventeenth to the twentieth century, this installation touches on the theme of city and country.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Sir Edward John Poynter
The West Wind, Lynmouth
1866
Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)
Sheet: 12 in. × 18 1/4 in. (30.5 × 46.4 cm)
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Pieter Christoffel Wonder
Self-Portrait
plate etched 1812–14
Etching on machine-made wove paper
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 1/2 in. (32.7 × 24.2 cm) Plate: 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 in. (9.2 × 8.2 cm)
View at museumJan (Pietersz.) Saenredam
Beached Whale at Wijk aan Zee
1602
Engraving; second state of three
16 1/8 × 23 5/8 in. (41 × 60 cm)
View at museumHendrick Goltzius
A Pilot Whale
1594
Etching and engraving
Sheet: 7 3/16 in. × 10 in. (18.2 × 25.4 cm) Image: 6 3/4 × 9 15/16 in. (17.1 × 25.2 cm)
View at museumEsprit Antoine Gibelin
Louis XVI as the Benefactor of Surgery
1771–74
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk underdrawing
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 75 3/16 in. (39 × 191 cm)
View at museumbaron François Gérard
View of Rome (recto); A Woman's Head In Profile (verso)
ca. 1790–91
Black chalk, brush and gray wash (recto); pen and iron gall ink (verso)
8 3/8 × 12 15/16 in. (21.3 × 32.8 cm)
View at museum16 documented works in this exhibition
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