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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

686 works

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining draped figure with a flying putto above, on grey paper.

Design for a Ceiling

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown ink sketches of horsemen on horseback and a foreshortened nude figure on aged paper.

Studies of Horsemen and Study of a Figure for a Deposition (recto); Sketch for an Entablature (verso)

Palma il Giovane, 1548-1628

Brown wash drawing of a winged woman, a bearded river god with a staff, and a nude boy among clouds.

Winged Female Figure, River God, and a Nude Boy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Red chalk drawing of nine overlapping heads, bearded men and figures in turbans, with handwritten note at lower right.

Nine heads after Paolo Veronese

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing with white highlights of two standing male figures, one in a turban and robes, one seen from behind

Two Standing Male Figures

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Brown wash drawing of two women seated on a cloud with two putti in the lower right corner.

Two Women Seated on a Cloud, and Two Putti

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures lowering a body into a tomb, with a lantern and haloed mourners.

Entombment of Christ

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen drawing of an ornamental letter B with acanthus scrolls, nude figures, a bull's head and a goat on blue paper.

Design for an Ornamental Initial: B

Teodoro della Porta, 1567-1638

Brown ink and wash drawing of a woman crowning a bearded man, with a winged figure and a small putto in the sky.

Virtue Crowning a Bearded Man

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and ink drawing of a veiled woman holding an infant, with a seated putto and angel holding a flowering branch.

St. Catherine of Siena with The Infant Jesus (recto); Warrior with Dead Lion? (verso)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink design sketch of an ornate fountain with a Madonna and Child, winged figures, a lion, and a monkey on the cornice

Design Fragment for the Left Side of the 'Fonte Gaia' in Siena

Jacopo della Quercia, 1415-16

Watercolor fragment of a laced buskin on a foot, blue drapery, a green plant, and a Greek key border.

Fragment of a Tapestry Cartoon: Foot in a Buskin, Drapery, and a Plant

Raphael, 1500-50

Grey wash drawing of a seated mother in draped clothing nursing an infant at her breast.

Mother and Children (Charity?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown ink figure studies of a seated pointing man, a helmeted man, and a standing man wearing a plumed cap.

Figure studies: seated and standing men

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Brown wash drawing of swirling fire tongues and a radiating halo, a fragment of a Descent of the Holy Spirit cartoon.

Head of an Apostle Surrounded by a Tongue of Fire and a Nimbus: Fragment of a Cartoon for a Descent of the Holy Spirit

Raphael, 1500-50

Head of Bearded Old Man Shown in Profile, Looking Up

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Studies of a Man's Head in Profile, and of a Standing Male Figure

Pen and gray wash drawing of a robed woman with a stork in a circular landscape with a tree and a building.

An Allegory of Chastity

Hans Ulrich Franck, 1600-75

Pen and wash drawing of a seated winged angel beside a scrolled cartouche, with a seated putto holding a garland on a pedesta

Fragment of a Design for an Overdoor with Seated Angel Supporting Cartouche, and Seated Putto Holding Garland (recto)…

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of an allegorical figure with a laurel branch, a winged putto, and a reclining nude in a spandrel.

Allegorical Figure of Peace

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Gray wash drawing in a circle: a kneeling man beside a bed, a crowned woman reclining, a bearded king and attendant at right.

Haman begs Esther for his Life

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Pen and ink drawing of Saint Andrew bound to an X-shaped cross with a crowd of onlookers and a dog below.

Martydom of Saint Andrew (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of veiled women with lamps, kneeling figures, and a trumpeting angel in a night sky.

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

William Blake, ca. 1799-1800

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling woman in draped robes with an outstretched arm, on squared grid paper.

Woman Kneeling Facing Left (recto); Seated Woman Facing Right (verso)

Giovanni Battista Trotti, 1555-1619

Head of a Man Wearing a Helmet, Looking to Upper Left (recto); Two Sketches, Arms and Hands (verso)

Francesco di Maria, 1623-90

Brown and white ink drawing in a circle showing a standing robed man surrounded by seated and nude male figures.

Grand Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany Surrounded by his Artists

Giorgio Vasari, ca. 1556-62

Red chalk sketch of two women embracing with draped robes and other standing figures in the background.

The Visitation of Our Lady (Luke 1:39-56)(recto); Zachariah (verso)

Giacomo Zoboli, 1681-1767

Brown ink drawing of Christ riding a donkey into Jerusalem as a crowd gathers, with a figure spreading a cloak on the road.

The Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem

Ercole Setti, 16th century

Pen and ink drawing in a circle of a seated figure by a pedestal, with winged figures in clouds above and a lion below.

Allegory of Forgetfulness

Giorgio Vasari, ca. 1570

Brown ink and wash drawing of Poseidon with trident and rearing horse facing Athena in armor, with gods above and a city belo

The Contest Between Athena and Poseidon for the Possession of Athens

Cesare Nebbia, 1570s