Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
City and Country: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
16 documented works
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 museumSir Edward John Poynter
The West Wind, Lynmouth
1866
Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)
Sheet: 12 in. × 18 1/4 in. (30.5 × 46.4 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 museumJoseph Marie Vien
Allegory of the Arts
1796
Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, over faint black chalk underdrawing
sheet: 9 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (24.4 x 35.8 cm)
View at museumAdélaïde Labille-Guiard|Marie Gabrielle Capet
Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet)
1789
Red, black, and white chalk on toned laid paper
Sheet: 20 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. (52 x 48 cm)
View at museumMarie Gabrielle Capet|François André Vincent
An Allegory of Lyric Poetry
1811
Black chalk and stumping, heightened with white chalk; squared in black chalk
8 1/4 × 13 1/4 in. (21 × 33.7 cm)
View at museumJean Guillaume Moitte|Louise Pithoud
Frieze with Antique Motifs
18th century
Etching and aquatint
Sheet: 5 1/16 x 17 3/16 in. (12.8 x 43.7 cm) Image: 4 5/16 x 16 5/8 in. (10.9 x 42.2 cm)
View at museumLouise Pithoud|Jean Guillaume Moitte
Frieze with Antique Motifs
18th century
Etching and aquatint
Sheet: 5 1/16 x 17 3/16 in. (12.8 x 43.7 cm) Image: 4 5/16 x 16 5/8 in. (10.9 x 42.2 cm)
View at museumMartin de Monchy|Louis Simon Boizot
La Liberté
1789–99
Engraving
Image: 7 11/16 × 5 7/8 in. (19.5 × 15 cm) Sheet: 10 3/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25.8 × 18.5 cm)
View at museumLouis Simon Boizot|Martin de Monchy
L'Egalité
1789–99
Engraving
Image: 7 11/16 in. × 6 in. (19.5 × 15.3 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (27 × 19.3 cm)
View at museumCarle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet|F. Delpech
François Delpech's Print Shop
ca. 1820
Lithograph with 20th century lettering addition (“Rockman Prints")
Image: 6 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (16.8 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 9/16 in. (21.9 × 29.3 cm)
View at museumAdolphe Martial Potémont, called Martial|Cadart & Luquet|Auguste Delâtre
Headquarters of the Société des Aquafortistes
1864
Etching
Plate: 11 7/16 × 15 1/2 in. (29 × 39.3 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 × 18 3/8 in. (35 × 46.7 cm)
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