Pines on the Coastline

Pines on the Coastline

Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Together with his friend Paul Signac, who lived not far from him in Saint-Tropez, Cross developed a neo-Impressionist style of large strokes resembling mosaics that would later influence the Fauves and the Cubists.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.