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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,662 works

Colored print of two white kittens lapping spilled milk from a table beside an overturned bowl, with red drapery behind.

My Little White Kitties - Into Mischief

Currier & Ives, 1857-71

Hand-colored section drawing of a Chinese-style pavilion with pagoda roofs, arched interior windows, and a smaller adjoining

Project for a Chinese Pavillion

Michel Barthelemy Hazon, n.d.

Watercolor design of a blue passion flower with green leaves and tendrils on a grey scrolled lattice panel.

Design for Panel Decoration Centered on a Passion Flower

J. Hulme, 1828-40

Red chalk drawing of a young man in a beret, eyes looking upward, with curly hair and loose hatched shading.

Young Man Wearing a Beret

François Boucher, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ancient galley with carved prow and armored soldiers in classical dress.

Studies of Details from Trajan's Column

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1635

Pen and wash perspective drawing of a cradle with scrolled feet, ring handle, and finials on a plain ground.

Perspectival Drawing of a Cradle

Peter Flötner, 1500-1546

Pen and wash drawing of two nude children playing a bowling game with a ball and pins in a landscape.

Two Children Playing with a Ball

Peter Flötner, 1500-1546

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a dark cap, head turned, with a sketched hand raised at left.

Sketch of Joseph Guichard

Félix Bracquemond, 1853

Grey wash drawing of craggy rock formations with boulders and trees, pen outlines on pale paper.

Design for rock-work at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park

Thomas Sandby, 1780s (?)

Watercolor drawing of rock-work with cascading waterfalls, a cave opening, and a pool, by Thomas Sandby.

Design for rock-work and cascades at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park (recto). Rock-work Designs (verso)

Thomas Sandby, 1780s (?)

Watercolor of a crowded domed hall with dancing guests, potted trees, and a balcony audience beneath a glass ceiling.

Innere Ansicht des Deutschen Volks Winter Gartens. IInterior of the German Winter Garden. 45 Bowery, New York

Fritz Meyer, 1856

Etched head-and-shoulders portrait of a man in three-quarter view with a moustache, against dense diagonal hatching.

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, after his own design of 1848

Félix Bracquemond, 1869

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Holy Family, Saint Elizabeth and infant John the Baptist beneath a tree, with a hilltop town

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1520-25

Watercolor landscape of a winding river gorge with cliffs and trees, a distant town and hills under cloudy sky.

View of Chepstow, Wales

John Scarlett Davis, 1834

Brown watercolor of a columned mansion above a fenced lawn, with a rowboat on the water and a carriage on the road.

Inner Bay, Staten Island, New York

Augustus Köllner, ca. 1872

Colour print of a seated man in a grey coat with a quill and inkwell on a café table, floral banquette behind him.

Viennese Café: The Man of Letters (Wiener Café: Der Litterat)

Moriz Jung, 1911

Colored print in six panels showing a courtly man and woman with a smiling sun, treasure chest, and handwritten German verse.

A Fulfilled Wish (Der erfüllte Wunsch)

Moriz Jung, 1911

Head of a Woman

Eugène Carrière, ca. 1904

Pen and ink sketch of a head and shoulders of a figure in a tall headdress, turned to the right, with loose hatching.

Study of Head and Shoulders of Woman with Headdress

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing man in a hat and long coat holding a gun, with a hatched shadow on the ground.

A sportsman with a gun

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Pen and ink sketch of a plumed rider with a baton on a horse with an ornate saddle cloth, seen from behind.

A mounted drummer from the front

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Engraved print of men in period dress gathered around a table in a classical hall with hanging flags.

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, July 4, 1776

Asher Brown Durand, 1823

Engraving of two women and a man in a field, with an ox-drawn hay wagon behind them at the edge of the trees.

The Last Load (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)

Winslow Homer, August 7, 1869

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly itinerant man in a wide-brimmed hat, leaning on a walking stick.

An itinerant

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Pen and ink drawing of a mounted drummer seen from behind, raising a drumstick beside a horse with a tasselled saddle cloth.

A mounted drummer from the back

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Woodcut print of two men beside a tangle of pale ribbons, with a framed picture above and title text below.

Gespräch eines Redakheurs mit einem Staatsmann (Editor's Conversation with a Statesman)

Moriz Jung, 1907

Engraved cartoon of vultures with human faces on cliffs in a storm, with skulls labeled Law, Justice and Taxpayer below.

A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over"-"Let Us Prey" (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 15, p. 889)

Thomas Nast, September 23, 1871

Pen and ink drawing of a young medieval warrior with sword and shield framed by ornate foliate scrollwork.

The Young Siegfried

Julius Hübner, 1839

Watercolor of two children outdoors, a girl in white with a pink sash standing beside a seated boy in a brown jacket.

Portrait of two children

George Richmond, 1837

Lithograph of a hunter with dogs crossing a field at dusk, two figures and a cart in the distance.

Return from the Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829