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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Chalk drawing of a woman's head tilted down, eyes lowered, with soft wavy hair in shaded tones.

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

Leonardo da Vinci, 1510-13

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)

Michelangelo, ca. 1510-11

Pen and watercolor drawing of the Spanish Steps in Rome with 18th-century figures, a fountain, and the Trinità dei Monti chur

Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti

Giovanni Paolo Panini, ca. 1756-58

Watercolor interior of a cottage with a man reading, a woman feeding a child, another man leaning on a wall, and a loom.

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adriaen van Ostade, 1673

Chiaroscuro woodcut of Hercules raising a club among classical architecture, with nude women and armed figures around him.

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1520-27

Etching of a towering round prison tower with stairs, railed walkways, arches and a wooden crane, with small figures.

The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1749-50

Pen and brown ink drawing of three standing draped figures with curly hair and flowing robes on aged paper.

Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso)

Stefano da Verona, 1435-38

Armor

Odilon Redon, 1891

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)

Georges Seurat, 1882-83

Chalk drawing of a woman in a white turban seen from behind, looking over her bare shoulder, on tan paper.

Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1789

Pen and wash drawing of Jupiter and Juno reclining on a draped bed with cherubs, framed by classical columns.

Jupiter and Juno: Study for the "Furti di Giove" Tapestries

Perino del Vaga, ca. 1532-35

Pastel drawing of a seated nude woman having her hair combed by an attendant beside a green tufted armchair.

Woman Having Her Hair Combed

Edgar Degas, ca. 1886-88

Miniature painting of a mounted king meeting a veiled woman in a rocky landscape, with a Persian verse panel above.

"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597-98

Persian miniature of a man carving a channel in rocky mountains while a rider on a brown horse watches, with a mountain goat

"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio 74 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami, dated 931 AH/1524-25 CE

Painted manuscript page of dancing dervishes on a flowery hillside, with onlookers and blossoming trees under a blue sky.

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Hafiz, ca. 1480

Miniature painting of a harpist and a seated man on rocks, surrounded by deer, gazelles, birds and a white horse in a hilly l

"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597-98

Illustrated manuscript folio with six red-ground painted scenes of a tiger, figures and flowers, with Arabic text.

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi, dated 741 AH/1340-41 CE

Two lovers embrace in Persian dress against a gold-flecked background with flowering stalks, a wine flask and fruit.

The Lovers

Riza-yi 'Abbasi, dated 1039 AH/1630 CE

Persian miniature of a youth in a garden pavilion attended by winged fairies, musicians and a crescent moon above.

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maid…

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597-98

Manuscript page with three lines of black Arabic calligraphy framed by gold and blue illuminated borders and pointed roundel

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri, dated 707 AH/1307-8 CE

Painted manuscript page of an elephant clock with a mahout, a dragon, a bird on top, and figures in a canopied tower.

"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif, dated 715 AH/1315 CE

Persian miniature of birds gathered by a stream in a rocky landscape, with a peacock, cranes and a falcon under a tree.

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1600

Persian miniature of a seated ruler at a mountain feast beside a central fire, with attendants, grazing animals, and calligra

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1525

Two turbaned figures meet in a rocky landscape, one on a black horse beside a man seated on a brown camel, framed by Persian

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)

Mustafa ibn Vali, ca. 1595

Persian manuscript painting of a courtyard with a balcony, a bathing pool with nude women, and a garden behind.

"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Maulana Azhar, ca. 1430

Pen and ink landscape sketch of thatched village houses with horsemen and travelers on a road beneath a tall tree.

Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road

Fra' Bartolomeo, ca. 1501

Brown ink and wash drawing of an executioner raising an axe over a kneeling man, with soldiers and a crowd watching.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari, ca. 1557-58

Charcoal study of a standing nude figure with arms lowered, set against a dark textured background and a bench.

Study for "Poseuses"

Georges Seurat, 1886-87

Red and black chalk drawing of a seated woman turning her head and gesturing, with white highlights on tan paper.

Seated Woman

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1716-17

Pen and ink drawing with wash of a bearded man's head and shoulders in the form of a classical bust, gazing upward.

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca

Peter Paul Rubens, 1600-1626