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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pen and ink landscape with tall trees, a distant castle, a shepherd and cattle beside a stream.

Sunrise (recto); Landscape with Figures (verso)

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a family traveling by donkey along a path beneath palm trees, with a distant hazy landscape.

The Flight into Egypt

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Wash drawing of a wooded landscape with robed figures gathered on rocks beside a waterfall and swans in the pool below.

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses

Claude Lorrain, 1674

Pen and brown ink drawing of four men in feathered caps, three with bows and arrows and one with a raised spear, on rolling h

Three Archers and a Figure with a Spear

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1670-72

Moonlit coastal drawing with a rocky arch, a winged horse, small figures on the shore, and a calm sea beyond.

Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain, 1674

Red chalk drawing of crowds in chaotic abduction scene before a fortified city with towers and a fire altar.

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1781

Sepia drawing of Christ falling under the cross, attended by angels among clouds.

Christ Falling under the Cross

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1782

Sepia drawing of the Pentecost scene with a dove and flames above robed figures gathered in clouds.

The Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Sepia drawing of a cross among clouds with angels and cherubs, and discarded armor and weapons below.

The Cross Triumphant over Worldly Powers

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1782

Red chalk drawing of a robed figure reaching toward a seated man among clouds, with angels and putti above.

The Risen Christ Appearing to Souls in Purgatory

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1782

Pen and brown wash drawing of satyrs, nymphs and an infant beside a goat in a forest with an altar and urn.

The Nurture of Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Corneille

Red chalk drawing of several studies of female heads, hands and a small child on grey paper.

Copies after Raphael's "The Finding of Moses"

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and ink sketch of nude warriors struggling in battle, one bending forward and others raising spears, on tan paper.

Battle Scene with a Prisoner Being Bound, after Raphael

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1823

Pen and ink sketch of fallen warriors, a rearing horse, and a distant battle over hills, by Eugène Delacroix.

Fallen Warriors and a Runaway Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1862

Pen and brown ink sketch of a crouching lioness beside a caricatured male head at upper left, by Eugène Delacroix.

A Lioness and a Caricature of Ingres

Eugène Delacroix, 1850s

Pencil sketch by Eugène Delacroix of a seated doge in robes with a crowd of onlookers and attendants around a central figure.

Study of Jacopo Brought before His Father, the Doge, for "The Two Foscari"

Eugène Delacroix, 1847

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling figure visited by an angel in a dark garden, with sleeping figure and distant group.

The Agony in the Garden

Eugène Delacroix, 1823-24

Loose watercolor of a pale sea under a hazy sky, with a distant headland and handwritten notes along the right edge.

The Sea at Dieppe

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1852-54

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crouching tiger with dark stripes, head turned right, on tan paper.

Crouching Tiger

Eugène Delacroix, 1839

Pencil sketch of an kneeling angel approaching a draped woman who stands with bowed head, a scene of the Annunciation.

The Annunciation (Angel Approaching from Left)

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Brown ink and wash drawing of mounted cavalry fighting, with soldiers firing pistols and fallen men on the ground.

Combat of Cavalry

Jacques Courtois, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a cavalry battle with mounted soldiers, rearing horses, fallen men and smoke in the sky.

Cavalry Battle

Jacques Courtois, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a cavalry battle with riders, rearing horses, fallen soldiers, and smoke over a field.

Battle Scene: a Cavalry Engagement

Jacques Courtois, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with a seated Virgin, kneeling shepherds, angels and classical arches.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Jean Cousin the Younger, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded mythological battle scene with horsemen, soldiers, kneeling figures and tents.

Cassandra preventing Deiphobe from killing Paris

Jean Cousin the Elder, 16th century

Etching of demons, a huge winged dragon, and soldiers fighting amid burning ruins and smoke.

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Jacques Callot, 1635

Engraving of a nude hero with a spear facing a winged dragon near trees, with fallen armored warriors below.

Cadmus killing the Dragon

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted horseman in a battle scene with fallen bodies, columns, a domed building and smoke.

Ulysses Entering Troy with the Death of Astyanax

Giuseppe Piattoli, 1785-1800

Engraving of a witch riding an animal skeleton with nude men, a goat, horn-blowing boy, and monstrous creatures in tall grass

Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn,…

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1515-25

Watercolor of a turbaned rider on a brown horse beside a tent, with a seated man and other horsemen in a hilly landscape.

Three Arab Horsemen at an Encampment

Eugène Delacroix, 1832-37