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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Brown wash drawing of Moses raising his staff as Egyptian chariots and horses are swept into the sea while a crowd watches.

Moses and the Chosen People Behold the Drowning of the Egyptian Army in the Red Sea

Domenico Piola, 1627-1703

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of four robed figures on rocky ground against a blue-grey sky.

Scene with Four Figures of Monks Discoursing

Paolo Gerolamo Piola, 1666-1724

Watercolor architectural drawing of a grand ministry mansion garden facade above a sectional cutaway, dated 1853.

Project for a Headquarters of a War Ministry

Wagner, 1853

Architectural elevation drawing of a two-story theater facade with arched arcades, columns and statues on top.

Project for the New Theater at St. Quentin (Aisne): Elevation

Emile-Jacques Gilbert, ca. 1841

Colored architectural section of a proposed theater showing balconies, a curved auditorium with red decoration, and a roof tr

Project for the New Theater at St. Quentin (Aisne) - Section

Emile-Jacques Gilbert, ca. 1841

Watercolor elevations of two matching blue and gold tribunes on marble bases, labeled in French as flanking grille no. 1.

Right and Left Tribunes

Charles Percier

Pen drawing of a riverside town with a tower, church spire, a rowing boat with two figures, and grazing animals.

A Town by a Rivers Edge

Nicolas Perelle

Brown ink drawing of the Château d'Amboise seen from a street with a stone wall, pedestrians, and large trees.

Veue et Perspective du Chasteau d'Amboille

Nicolas Perelle

Etching of a walled city with fireworks and smoke, a crowd of riders and people, and a carriage in the foreground.

Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570

Jost Amman, 1570

Etching of three putti holding a framed bust of a laureled man, with columns, an inscribed tablet and a distant city beyond.

Title page: Homage to Mantegna, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint James healing a blind man beneath a coffered arch, with soldiers and onlookers in a city street.

Saint James Cures a Blind Man, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint James's martyrdom: an executioner with a club, mounted soldiers, and a ruined arch in a hilly landscape.

The Martyrdom of Saint James, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Engraving of a martyrdom in an arcaded courtyard with armored soldiers, a headless body and a severed head on the pavement.

The Martyrdom of Saint Christopher, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint Christopher bound at right as archers take aim beneath a pergola, with a tower in the distance.

The Martyrdom of Saint Christopher, "Secondo Quadro"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Mars and Venus in a bath, with winged cupids holding drapery and attending the basin in a classical setting.

Mars and Venus in the Bath

Giovanni David, 1770-90

Pen and brown ink drawing of men raising a large wooden cross as a crowd of robed onlookers watches under a hazy sky.

The Discovery of the True Cross

Bernardo Strozzi, 1599-1644

Pen and ink study of three nude warriors, two on rearing horses, one raising a sword and another holding a spear.

Three Warriors and Their Horses, Study for a Bas Relief Sculpture in the Chateau de Tervueren

François Rude, first half 19th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a figure driving crowds from a colonnaded temple, with a fallen table and arching gestures.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Frans Floris, 1530-70

Pen and brown ink drawing of an eagle in a tree preaching to deer, a lion, sheep, and birds gathered below.

An Eagle Preaching to the Animals

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, 16th century

Blue wash drawing of a couple in period dress in a bedchamber with a canopy bed, a dog, and a third woman at right.

Study for an engraving in the Hortus Voluptatum

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1599

Ink and wash drawing of an interior with two robed figures, an open book and tablets, and a town square beyond.

Vanitas

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, mid-16th-early 17th century

Etching of Saint Paul's Cathedral south elevation with tall spire, Latin inscriptions in cartouche and laurel wreath, by Holl

Saint Paul's from the South Showing the Spire (Ecclesiae Paulinae Prospectus...), from "The History of St. Paul's Cat…

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1657

Engraved south view of St. Paul's Cathedral in London with its tower, nave roof, and ornamental title cartouches.

Saint Paul's, South side (Ecclesiae Cathedralis St. Pauli, A Meridi Prospectus), from "The History of St. Paul's Cath…

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1658

Pen and watercolor sketch by Delacroix showing several male heads, a standing figure, and loose color washes.

Studies of male heads and a standing male figure

Eugène Delacroix

Brown wash drawing of a woman at a swing with a group of elegantly dressed figures gathered in a shaded garden.

"The Swing," after Antoine Watteau (Les Agréements de l'été)

Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863

Pen and ink studies of a nude athlete, a seated lyre player, a centaur, and seven putti on pale paper.

Studies for the decoration of the Library, Palais Bourbon, Paris: standing nude athlete; seated man with a lyre; cent…

Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863

Black and white print of two figures kneeling in prayer near a church, with a dog, banana plants and a basket-carrying figure

Paul et Virginie

Jean Frédéric Schall, ca. 1791-92

Grey wash drawing of a map of ancient Rome with labeled hills and monuments, beside an allegorical scene with a bust and seat

Map of Ancient Rome Illustrating Major Monuments and the Seven Hills

Jan Goeree, before 1704

Pen and wash drawing of Samuel anointing a kneeling young harpist before soldiers and onlookers in a classical square.

Samuel Annointing David (recto); Sketch of two figures (verso)

Karel van Mander I, ca. 1591

Blue-grey drawn frontispiece with Latin inscription cartouche, Medici arms, flanking allegorical figures, and hunting animals

Design for a Frontispiece with the Medici Arms

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, 16th century