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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pen and grey wash drawing of ornamental scrollwork panels with a central cartouche, winged figures, and urns.

Design for plate 5 from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pencil drawing of a large arched hall with rows of stacked framed paintings and two men in caps sorting them.

Candidates for Admission to the Paris Salon

Felicien Myrbach-Rheinfeld, late 19th-early 20th century

Grey wash drawing of rocks, trees and animals framing a blank central panel, with an owl, squirrel, birds and an otter.

Design for a Title Page(?): Rocks and Animals

Joseph Martin Nideröst, late 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a harbor with sailing ships, a fortified tower, arched bridge, and a statue on a pedestal.

Harbor Scene

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber, ca. 1730

Watercolor interior design sketch with a grey floor, a black ornamental frieze, and a pink and blue patterned rug in the corn

View of Interior for Paris Exhibition 1925, with Rugs

Erik Gunnar Asplund, 1824

Pen and grey wash drawing of a goddess of music among clouds with a winged harpist, putti, and crowds below in a rococo frame

The Goddess of Music Distributing Her Gifts to the Nations

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of two classical urns with serpent handles, relief figures, and a lion mask detail.

Designs for Two Urns

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin

Pen and wash design drawing of a wall with an ornate chimneypiece, caryatids, framed paintings, and two standing male figures

Design for a Wall Decoration with Chimneypiece and Two Figures

Antoine Le Pautre, ca. 1650-70

Decorative drawing of a telegraph office with interior hall scenes, operators at apparatus, a street facade and framing ornam

The main telegraph office newly built in St. Petersburg and opened 14 October 1862

Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagne, 1862

Pen and blue wash sketch of a seated man, standing couple and allegorical figures in an architectural interior.

Compositional Sketch for The Request for Admission into the Union, a Painting in the Town Hall of 's-Hertogenbosch. T…

Theodoor van Thulden, 1645?

Pencil sketch of two seated women in headscarves with a young girl resting at their feet on draped cloth.

Sketch of Two Seated Women with Young Girl Sitting at Their Feet; Verso: Sketch of a Woman

Charles Baugniet, 1830-86

Pencil sketch of women and a child gathered before a fireplace in an interior, with a standing figure at right.

Interior with Figures before a Fireplace

Charles Baugniet, 1871

Pen and grey wash design for an oval platter showing tritons and sea nymphs battling around a central cartouche.

Design for a Platter with Battling Tritons and Sea Nymphs

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a Gothic cathedral interior with a rose window, galleries of spectators, and robed clergy around a dais.

The Anointing of Louis XVI at His Coronation in Reims Cathedral, June 11, 1775

François Joseph Belanger, 1814

Architectural elevation drawing of a classical arsenal entrance with columns, allegorical statues, chains, and cannons.

Elevation of the Entrance to an Arsenal

Jean Charles Delafosse

Pen and ink drawing of three classical architectural trophy designs with urns, garlands, and ram heads, dated 1800.

Three Designs for Architectural Trophies

Jean Charles Delafosse

Pen and ink sketch of a martyrdom scene with muscular nude figures, a central prone body, and onlookers at the edges.

Martydom of St. Lawrence

Raymond de La Fage

Pen and wash design for a classical wall elevation with central fireplace, columns, and two painted landscape panels.

Design for a Wall Elevation

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, ca. 1770-80

Architectural drawing with a north elevation of a classical palace above and its ground plan below, in pen and wash.

North Elevation and Ground Plan of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792-96

Architectural elevation of a palace salon wall with columns, arched painted panels, winged figures and a central doorway.

Central Salon of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792-96

Pen drawing of a classical scene with an ornate ship, soldiers, robed figures, columns and a domed building.

Aeneas's Farewell to Dido

Pen and wash design sheet showing silver tureens, urns, a tazza and a candelabrum held by a standing female figure.

Designs for Silver

Jean Guillaume Moitte

Grey wash drawing of a sailing warship squadron at sea under cloudy skies, with a French caption below.

Campagne du Vice-amiral Cte d'Estaing

Pierre Ozanne, 1778

Pencil sketch of two armchairs, one curved with scrolled arms, the other with an arched back and tapered legs.

Studies for Two Armchairs (recto); sketches for Three Chairs and Parts of a Fourth (verso)

Charles Percier, ca. 1800-1805

Brown ink and wash study of an emperor carrying a cross amid horsemen, soldiers and crowds, framed by a scrolled cartouche.

Study for Emperor Heraclius Carrying the Cross into Jerusalem

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Grey wash drawing of a harbor with a sailing ship, crates and barrels, and a central oval monogram cartouche.

Design for a Vignette: Harbor Scene

Charles Percier

Vignette with Two Portrait Medallions

Charles Percier

Pen and ink drawing of a rococo ornamental design with scrolls, a cornucopia of flowers, and hanging garlands.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration (recto); Daphne Pursued by Apollo (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Brown wash drawing of a draped female allegory beside a sailing ship, cargo crates, barrels and a harbor with a tower.

Allegory of Shipping

Charles Percier

Grey wash drawing of robed saints and music-making angels among clouds in heavenly glory.

Prophets, Patriarchs, Saints, and Music-Making Angels in Glory

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1639-1709