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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Grey wash drawing of the Virgin rising on clouds, arms outstretched, surrounded by angels and cherubs.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Nicolas de Plattemontagne, n.d.

Grey-toned print of a rearing horse with a turbaned rider in a desert landscape with palm trees.

Turk Mounting His Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1824

Etching of a seated woman in an embroidered dress and headdress holding hands with a companion in a tiled interior room.

A Jewish Bride in Tangier

Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Small etching of a seated nude woman seen from behind, head turned over her shoulder, on a wide white paper sheet.

Seated Nude Seen from Behind

Berthe Morisot, 1889

Etching of a woman and a young girl seated together, the girl leaning over a sketchbook on her lap.

The Drawing Lesson (Berthe Morisot and her Daughter)

Berthe Morisot, 1889

Etching of a smiling young girl holding a dark cat in her arms against a pale background.

Young Girl with a Cat, after a portrait of Julie Manet by Renoir

Berthe Morisot, 1889

Small etching of a young woman reclining in an armchair, head resting on her hand, drawn in loose lines on ivory paper.

Young Woman Reclining

Berthe Morisot, 1889

Pencil sketch of a nude woman seated with one arm raised high, hair flowing, and the words Liberté pour tous written below.

Liberté pour tous

Pencil drawing of a wooden work table with a tilted drawing board, drawers, and handwritten measurements in centimetres.

Project for a work table

Pencil drawing of a work table plan with handwritten centimetre measurements and blue annotations along the lower edge.

Project for a work table--measurements

Graphite sketch of a man's head in a wrapped turban, face turned downward, with heavy hatched shadow on the left.

Head of a figure wearing a turban

Pencil sketch of two men at a wooden table, one reclining in a chair with a glass and the other holding a pitcher.

Two male figures seated at a table, drinking

Sketch sheet of many small winged putti in varied poses, with a standing man in a coat at the right edge.

Sheet with putti and several figures

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a clergyman, sailboat, tree, reclining figure and lettering reading Anseremme.

Une Soirée Anseremme

Félicien Rops, 1876

Pencil sketch of three riders on horseback with a rough architectural background and handwritten French notes on the page.

Three figures on horseback with indications at right

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of stooping peasant figures and a central loosely drawn group, with handwritten notes.

Sheet with various peasants

Figure study

Pencil sketch of a standing figure in a wide-brimmed hat and long cloak against a shaded landscape with tall trees.

Shepherd

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a high-collared jacket, with loose scribbled hatching around him.

Victor Vanhove

Félicien Rops, 1833-98

Graphite sketch of a little girl with hair ribbon leaning on a railing, skirt loosely hatched, signed upper right.

Little Girl

Félicien Rops, 1873

Pencil sketch of a reclining man beside an older man in a hat, with handwritten notes in the upper right corner.

Study for Uylenspiegel

Pencil sketch of a crowded beach with bathing huts, tents, strollers in period dress, and people playing on the sand.

The Beach at Blankenberghe

Félicien Rops, 1863

Pencil sketch of two soldiers in helmets and long cloaks on an open plain, one with a lion emblem on his cloak.

Two Belgian Soldiers

Charcoal drawing of a standing man holding two mugs in a dim tavern interior, with a seated figure in the background.

Standing man with beer mugs

Pen and ink sketch sheet with studies of heads in hats, a bearded soldier, a draped figure and flower sprigs.

Sketch Sheet

Félicien Rops, 1878

Pen-and-ink letter to Théo with a sketch of a seated figure against a bare tree trunk.

Letter to Theo Hanon, from Rops, signed Fély

Pencil sketch of a bearded older man wearing a checked turban and dark coat, shown in bust length on pale paper.

Man with a Turban

Vertical drawing with three circular panels labeled Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, showing a couple, a ballot box, and a nurse

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

Notebook with sketches and notes

Brown wash drawing of the risen Christ with the Virgin and St. Joseph above, and apostles gesturing below.

The Risen Christ between the Virgin and St. Joseph, Appearing to St. Peter and other Apostles

Jean Daret, ca. 1630-68

Graphite sketch of a robed bearded figure with arms outstretched, seated on clouds and gazing upward.

Study for Christ as Mediator

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Holy Family with attendant women and cherubs in clouds above a classical landscape.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Adrien Dassier, 1666

Loose pencil sketch of a bowed, bearded man in a long robe leaning on a staff, with a faint second head at upper right.

Standing Figure of a Man with a Staff

Honoré Daumier, 1825-79

Pen and wash drawing of Apollo with a lyre beside a nude woman, with Neptune and nymphs on a sea creature and a city behind.

Apollo and Galatea in a Landscape with Neptune and Three Nymphs

Orazio Samacchini, 1550-60

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman playing a flute beside a seated man, with faint sketched heads at left.

A Frieze Portraying a Music Party

Niccolò dell' Abate, 1512-71

Engraving of a Roman army troop convoy with armored soldiers, horses, a chariot, and draped figures on the march.

A Roman Army on the March - Troop Convoy

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraved print of a Roman army marching, with helmeted soldiers, shields and draped figures moving across rocky ground.

A Roman Army on the March - Marching Slingers

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a chaotic battle with armored warriors, a chariot, rearing horses, banners and fallen soldiers in the foreground

A Battle

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of mythological figures in draped robes and nude forms before a curtain and rocky landscape, with a dog at right.

Hercules dressed as a woman

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Circular engraving of a sorceress offering a cup to a man beside a ship, with serpents and ornate architecture around them.

Circe Giving a Drink to Ulysses's Companions

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of nude and draped muses with musical instruments and putti in a wooded landscape, by Antonio Fantuzzi.

Muses at the Foot of Mount Parnassus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a crowd gathered around a fire beside classical buildings, with draped mourners and reclining figures in the for

Burning of a corpse

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a crowded classical sacrifice scene with a flaming altar, nude figures, bearded priests and a large tree.

The Sacrifice

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1542

Engraving of a tumultuous crowd of nude and draped figures tumbling before a colonnaded classical building.

Ignorance Defeated

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a caparisoned elephant with heraldic banners, armored men, and a crowd on a classical balcony.

Royal Elephant

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1542-45

Circular red engraving of winged Fortune offering a cup to an armored, crowned prince beside classical columns and a wheel.

Fortune Making a Prince Drink

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1543

Engraving of Athena and Poseidon in a mythological contest, with a rearing horse, sea figures, and a winged figure above.

Contest between Athena and Poseidon

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a rocky river landscape framed by classical figures, putti, fruit garlands and an ornamental pediment.

Frame of Ignorance Defeated

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraved landscape with rocky peaks, a walled hilltop town with a domed church, trees, a house and ducks in the foreground.

Landscape from "Venus Pushing Cupid" frame

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Etching of a river landscape with boats framed by ornate scrollwork, reclining figures, putti, and flaming urns.

Landscape with Ornamental Frame

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1543

Engraved print of an ornate ewer with a curved handle, shell-shaped spout, and figures of putti on its body.

Vase

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraved design of an ornate vase with reclining nudes, supporting male figures, grapevines and a lion mask.

Vase

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Red-toned engraving of classical goddesses on a staircase before bearded gods, framed by reclining nudes and putti.

Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite Leaving Olympus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of Silenus carried by attendants of Bacchus, with satyrs, a horse, a ram, and figures holding vessels and fruit.

Silenus Carried by Two Attendants of Bacchus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of a drunken Silenus carried by satyrs and revelers in a bacchanal procession with a goat and cornucopia.

Silenus Carried

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of a crowded classical banquet hall with columns, fruit garlands, dining men, musicians and a dog in the foreground

Banquet of Scipio

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraved ornament panel with two male term figures on spiral bases flanking a central cartouche and mask.

Ornament Panel with Terms and Spiral Bases

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of Christ washing the feet of his disciples in an interior with a banquet table, basin, and attentive onlookers.

Christ Washing the Feet of his Disciples

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a bearded God seated on a globe with winged female figures, a laurel wreath, and putti among clouds.

God Seated on the World

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of women spinning in an interior room while armed men stand at an arched doorway, with Latin verses below.

Lucretia and Her Women Spinning

Hendrick Goltzius, 1578-79

Engraving of the Pietà: the dead Christ lies across the Virgin's lap while mourners and ladders surround them.

Pietà

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of nude Hercules standing over crouching Cacus beside classical columns and an arched opening.

Hercules and Cacus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a nude youth guiding an ox plow as helmeted warriors rise from the earth among tree trunks.

Cadmus Tilling the Field Where He Sawed the Dragon's Teeth

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of an armored man taking leave of a seated woman, with spear-bearing figures in a background interior.

A Man Saying his Farewells to a Woman

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a reclining nude woman beside a horned satyr-like figure, with a pile of fruit and vegetables in the foreground.

Jupiter and Antiope

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Oval engraving of winged and reclining mythological figures with horses and sun rays, dated 1544.

Night Protecting Sleeping Time from the Last Rays of the Sun

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1544

Engraving of a seated nude sibyl writing at a sloped desk beside a lamp, with fine crosshatched shading and draped cloth.

A Sibyl

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of an allegorical scene with nude and draped figures, a winged figure and classical columns in an interior.

Religious Allegory

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of nude mythological figures, a man carrying a boar's head to a seated woman, with winged putti and a dog.

Meleager Bringing the Boar's Head to Atalanta

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of three women weaving at a loom in an arcaded classical interior with marble walls and a relief sculpture.

The Daughters of Minyas

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1545

Engraving of Phaeton falling from his chariot as horses rear, with Jupiter hurling a thunderbolt from the clouds above.

The Fall of Phaeton

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1545

Engraving of winged Cybele in a turreted crown flanked by two rearing lions, standing on a pedestal with flowing drapery.

Cybele

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of a draped woman in classical dress with a veil, turning her head over her shoulder while standing on a pedestal.

Woman Looking over Her Shoulder

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a standing classical female figure in draped robes holding a tall ornamented staff, on a pedestal.

Melpomene, from the Mattei sarcophagus, Rome

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a draped female statue standing on a pedestal, with flowing robes and long wavy hair.

Woman Full Face, Her Head Slightly to the Left

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1543

Engraving of a chaotic sea battle with ships, struggling nude figures in the waves, and a rocky coast with a lighthouse.

Revenge of Nauplius

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a rocky grotto facade with three arched openings, bearded herm figures, niches with busts, and statues visible i

A Grotto

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1545

Ink and wash drawing of Christopher Columbus in an oval frame, surrounded by navigational instruments, allegorical figures an

Christopher Columbus

Jean-Baptiste Dedéban, 1805-49

Pen and ink sketches of classical architecture, columns, scrollwork and putti for a decorative casket design.

Sketches for the Design of a Casket (recto); Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths(?) (verso)

Girolamo da Carpi, 1545-55

Pencil drawing of six women in flowing gowns dancing in a circle, holding hands, before a wooded landscape.

The Round Dance, or Rays of Sunlight

Anne-François-Louis Janmot, 1835-55

Red and black chalk portrait of a bearded man in a plumed cap and ruffed collar, turned to the left.

Portrait of La Val de Pramence

François Clouet, 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of sea gods kneeling before a standing king on a pedestal, with cherubs and clouds above a harbor.

Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV

Michel Corneille the Younger, n.d.

Etching of the sacrifice of Polyxena: a bearded man gestures at an altar beside a burning brazier as mourning women crowd aro

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Giovanni David, 1776

Charcoal study of a kneeling draped female figure seen from behind, with a separate head study of hair at upper right.

Studies of a Draped Female Figure, Kneeling, Seen from the Back, for the East Transept of the Chruch of Sainte-Clothi…

Henri Lehmann, 1858

Graphite and chalk study of a woman in a long gown carrying a basket of bread, drawn on squared blue-grey paper.

A Woman Distributing Bread from a Basket: Study for "Feed the Hungry," in the Chapel of the Seven Corporal Works of M…

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry, 1850-53

Charcoal and chalk drawing of crowded bookshelves with stacked books and loose papers on the floor.

Bookshelves, Study for "Edmond Duranty"

Edgar Degas, 1879

Soft gray and blue drawing of a nude woman crouching over the edge of a bath, one arm reaching down.

The Bath

Edgar Degas, 1895 or before

Printed interior of an artist's studio with men at easels, a white horse, hanging saddles, dogs, and a drummer in the foregro

The Studio of Horace Vernet (Intérieur d'un Atelier)

Horace Vernet, 1824

Brown wash drawing in a circle of a bound nude man on a diagonal cross, with helmeted soldiers and a kneeling woman.

Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Ferdinand Pierre Joseph Ignace Delamonce, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ seated in a room with a standing woman gesturing toward him and a kneeling woman at left

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

Ferdinand Pierre Joseph Ignace Delamonce, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded seated male figure with raised arms on clouds, attributed to Luigi Sabatelli.

God The Father Creating (?) (recto); Study of neo-classical statue of a nude male (verso)

Luigi Sabatelli, 1792-1850

Watercolor of workers demolishing a classical building, with carts, rubble, and a statue in an arched niche.

Demolition of the Old Vestibule of the Palais-Royal, Paris

Pierre-Antoine Demachy, ca. 1767

Pen and grey wash drawing of a man with downcast eyes, a cloth wrapped around his head, and draped collar.

Caricature of Georges-Auguste Couthon (called Aristide, 1756-1794), President of the Convention in 1793, on the way t…

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca. 1794

Head of a soldier in profile, with a sword handle

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca. 1794

Profile of two soldiers wearing fur caps

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca. 1794

Pen and ink sketch of a crowd of armed men with a severed head raised on a pike above them.

The Head of Jean Féraud (1759-1795), a Deputy at the Convention, Carried on a Pike, May 21, 1795

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca. 1795