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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Graphite drawing with white highlights of wind-bent fir trees, rocks, and a distant snowy mountain range.

Fôrets et Montagnes

Alexandre Calame, 1830-64

Grey wash drawing of a classical garden pavilion with a cupola, beside an iron gate and tall poplar trees.

Garden Pavillion

Graphite drawing of a kneeling monk in a hooded robe, with smaller studies of a head, a hand, and folded cloth.

Figures of Monks

Juan Carreño de Miranda, 1614-85

Pen and ink study of two armored knights in ornamental borders with helmets, shields, and medallion heads.

Study for Two Book Illustrations

Carl Alexander von Heideloff, early to mid-19th century

Pen and ink drawing of Gothic architectural study panels with a rider on horseback, seated figures, and a central statue.

Studies for Two Book Illustrations

Carl Alexander von Heideloff, 1809-65

Brown ink drawing of four figures conversing in a wooded landscape with rocks and trees.

Four Figures Conversing in a Landscape

Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, 1616-68

Pen and brown ink drawing of workers carrying sacks and shoveling grain in an arcaded hall, with bearded men at left.

Joseph Storing Grain During the Seven Years of Plenty

Patrizio Cajés, 1540-1612

Etching of a satyr with a club, a reclining woman, putti, an urn on a pedestal, and two standing men in a landscape.

Satyr with Club and Seven Figures, from "Bacchanals and Histories"

Francesco Fontebasso, 1744

Etching of armored warriors and grieving women before classical columns and ruins, with a distant temple and tree.

The Sacrifice of Polyxena, from "Bacchanals and Histories"

Francesco Fontebasso, 1744

Etching of horsemen in a storm, with wind-bent trees, rain, thatched cottages and a castle on a hill.

Plate 6: the Tempest

Davide Antonio Fossati, 1743

Brown wash drawing of storm waves breaking on rocks under a dark sky, with birds flying overhead.

Stormy Sea

Eduard Hildebrandt, 1851

Brown ink and wash drawing of a female musician with a lute, putti reading music, and a landscape with figures.

The Sense of Hearing

Joseph Heintz the Elder, 16th century

Ink and wash design of an ewer and oval table with candelabra in a landscape, framed by putti and figures.

Design for an Ewer, table and candelabra within an ornamental frame

Abraham Drentwett the Elder, 1660-1727

Watercolor and ink drawing of reclining camels with saddlecloths and a seated rider before arched walls in Tangier.

Camels Reposing, Tangiers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1865

Loose watercolor of horsemen among trees beside a pale stretch of water under a blue sky.

Moors on Horseback

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1838-74

Watercolor of masked figures in period costume on a garden terrace with swans on a pond and autumn trees overhead.

Masquerade

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1868

Pen and brown ink drawing of an ornamental cartouche frame with scrolls and writhing monster creatures around a blank center.

Half of a Cartouche with Monsters

Pierre Quentin Chedel, 18th century

Drawing of a pastoral landscape with two large trees, a winding road, travelers, distant hills and birds in the sky.

Landscape

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain, 1730-58

Watercolor drawing of a formal garden with a statue in a circular basin, stone urns, and a long tree-lined avenue toward dist

Scenic View of Gardens

Antoine-Claude Fleury, n.d.

Pen drawing of a winged figure beside an eagle and a seated nude freed from broken chains, with distant mountains.

The Release of Prometheus

Max Klinger, late 19th-early 20th century

Loose painted sketch of mossy boulders, a fallen log and a stream bed under green foliage.

Landscape

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Red chalk drawing of figures playing backgammon at a table within an ornate rococo frame with scrolling foliage.

Game of Backgammon

Johann Esaias Nilson, 1741-88

Pen and gray wash drawing of a reclining nude sea figure with putti and a sea creature in a triangular pediment design.

Design for a Box-Front

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Sheet of Studies of Heads

Anthony van Dyck, 1615-41

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a large spreading tree and shrubs on a sloping bank above a path.

A Group a Trees

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Pen and ink sketch with wash of robed bearded men and a figure with raised arm, possibly Christ confronting Pharisees.

Christ and the Pharisees (recto); Christ and a Pharisee (verso)

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a gnarled tree in the foreground and a farmhouse on the right under open sky.

Landscape with a Gnarled Tree and a Farm

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Drawing of a seated turbaned king beside a canopy bed, with a kneeling veiled woman and a standing attendant in an interior.

David's Promise to Bathsheba

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1642-43

Pencil sketch of a woman in a full gown standing in an elegant interior with a sofa, console table and doorway.

Study for "The Just Resentment," etched vignette in "Songs in the Opera of Flora"

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1737

Pencil sketch of dancing couples and onlookers in an outdoor garden, with a musician at left and trees framing the scene.

Study for "The Mutual Agreement," etched vignette in "Songs in the Opera of Flora"

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1737