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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

691 works

Pen and ink design sheet with grotesque figures, urns, scrolling foliage, birds and drapery for a wall decoration.

Design for a Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Small Grotesque Head Looking to the Left Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and ink design of a rococo cartouche with an Annunciation scene above and a robed figure with a staff below.

Design for a Cartouche with an Annunication above and a Kneeling Figure with Staff Below

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Red chalk drawing of two kneeling figures in draped garments, one with clasped hands, on grey paper.

Two Kneeling Figures

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Circular brown wash drawing with white highlights showing robed men in an arched interior with a tower beyond.

The Greatness of Mordecai

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

Circular pen and blue wash drawing of a robed man among armored soldiers and columns, with a kneeling figure in the foregroun

St. George and the Sorcerer of Dacian

Lambert van Noort, 1555

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling draped figure seen from behind, head raised, cloak falling in hatched folds.

Kneeling Draped Figure

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Grey wash drawing of a bearded king reaching toward a kneeling veiled woman in an arcaded palace, with attendants and a balco

Queen Esther hears of the Decree against the Jews

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

Ink and wash drawing of a dim barn interior with peasants, cows, and chickens beneath heavy timber roof beams.

Barn Interior with Peasants and Cows (recto); Six Studies of Peasants (verso)

Isaac van Ostade, 17th century

Hand-colored title page for Songs of Innocence showing a woman reading to two children beneath a tree, with ornate lettering.

Songs of Innocence: Title Page

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Grey wash drawing of two seated bearded men conversing in a classical colonnaded interior, with a third man leaning over a ba

Mordecai overhears the two Conspirators plotting against the King

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

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated man in a flat cap beside a doorway, with a dog at his feet.

Seated Man Wearing a Flat Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635-40

Hand-colored page showing children playing on a green under a large tree, with a poem printed below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Grey sketch of bathers in a wooded landscape on a 1898 Cézanne exhibition announcement from Galerie Vollard.

Exhibition Announcement and Catalogue for a Cézanne show at the Galerie Vollard (May 9-June 10, 1898)

Paul Cézanne, 1898

Pen and ink drawing of a man leading a laden camel with a decorated saddle, with faint sketches of other figures at left.

Man Leading a Camel

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650-69

Hand-coloured illuminated plate of children and adults on a green beneath vines, with a poem above.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and brown wash drawing of two curved ornamental cornice designs with scrollwork, volutes and small putti figures.

Two Designs for the Decoration of a Circular Frieze or Cornice

Agostino Mitelli, mid-17th century

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns by soldiers, inside a circular border of scrollwork and putti, dated 1509.

Christ Crowned with Thorns, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Hand-colored illustration of a haloed robed figure leading a small child through dark trees, with verse text below.

Songs of Innocence: The Little Boy Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Red chalk drawing of a man with long curly hair and a wide-brimmed hat, looking to the side with a serious expression.

Portrait of a man, bust-length, wearing a hat

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, ca. 1510-15

Circular brown ink drawing of the Judgment of Paris with three nude goddesses, a seated man, Cupid, and a reclining river god

The Judgment of Paris

Pieter de Jode, late 16th-mid 17th century

Watercolor illuminated page of Blake's Laughing Song showing figures feasting under trees above poem text with bird border.

Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Etching of an elderly woman with a headscarf and lace collar, head bent, seen three-quarters right, dated 1628.

The Artist's Mother: Head and Bust, Three-Quarters Right

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1628

Dark chiaroscuro print of a Roman-style triumphal procession with soldiers, spears, banners and a crowned figure.

Sheet 8 from "The Triumphs of Caesar"

Andrea Andreani, 1599

Hand-coloured illustration of a woman in a red robe bending over a sleeping infant in a cradle, with an inscribed verse above

Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Grey wash drawing after Giotto showing St. Francis on a bier, mourning monks, a procession and angels above.

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

William Young Ottley, 1795-1836

Daumier lithograph of two men: one bundled in winter coat and top hat, the other relaxed in summer clothes, captioned about V

The assemby in Versailles: In January -Wretched winter!... In June -Scoundrel of a summer!...

Honoré Daumier, June 22, 1872

Hand-colored page with a woman holding an infant under a tree beside sheep, and the verse 'Spring' below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: Spring

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Lithograph of acrobats, stilt walkers and a ringmaster with a hoop on a stage, watched by a crowd of spectators.

Grands Sauteurs!, from "La Caricature"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1823-60

Daumier lithograph: an elderly woman clasps her hands as a young woman watches bouquets thrown from a crowded theater balcony

The mother of the actress, from 'Dramatic sketches,' published in Le Charivari, July 2, 1864

Honoré Daumier, July 2, 1864