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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pencil sketch of a charioteer and horseman with horses and a dog on grey paper.

Charioteer and Horseman

Théodore Géricault, early 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of six figure studies, including seated mother and child, reclining figure and standing nude.

Six Figure Studies, including four for "The Poor Italian Family"

Théodore Géricault, 1816-17

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat riding a horse, with a study of a horse's head in the upper left.

Man on Horseback, and Study of Horse's Head

Théodore Géricault, 19th century

Engraving of a nude nymph seated by a tree, gazing at a heron flying off over a grassy riverbank.

Nymph Watching a Heron Flying Away

Léon Davent, ca. 1542-45

Engraving of a Roman-style sacrifice with a bull at an altar, a crowd of robed figures, and classical architecture.

A sacrifice, copied from Trajan's column

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45

Brown wash drawing of turbaned horsemen in combat on galloping horses, with a distant city of domes and minarets behind them.

Combat of Oriental Horsemen

Théodore Géricault, 1822-23

Pencil drawing of a plumed-helmet soldier mounting a saddled horse, with mounted figures and a building in the background.

Soldier Mounting a Horse

Théodore Géricault, 1808 (?)

Grey wash drawing of two harnessed draft horses beside a sleeping driver, under a dark sky with a distant windmill.

Two Draft Horses with a Sleeping Driver

Théodore Géricault, 1820-22

Pencil sketch of soldiers and figures, with a cloaked crouching man at right and a helmeted soldier at left.

Fallen Soldiers

Théodore Géricault, ca. 1818

Pen and red wash drawing of four male figures in theatrical costumes with hats, ruffs and striped breeches.

Figures in Theatrical Costumes

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of satyrs, putti, a goat and an urn beneath trees in a garden setting.

Satyrs Preparing for a Festival

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Sketch in red chalk and grey wash of a seated older man and a standing man raising his hat, labeled Voltaire and Piron.

Voltaire and Piron

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a nude man reclining on a draped divan, head tilted back, one arm hanging over the cushion.

Male Nude Reclining on a Divan

Anne-Louis Girodet, ca. 1793

Engraving of an allegorical dance with a central woman in a gown, musicians, jesters, and objects symbolizing vanity and law.

The Dance of the World

Pieter Baltens, mid-16th century

Brown ink drawing of a tinker mending a leaking copper pot labeled with political bills, while a bowing man looks on.

Design for an English Political Satire

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a girl's head tilted downward, with loose curls and a sketched shoulder on cream paper.

Girl's Head

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a dining room scene: a woman raising a glass in anger while others restrain her, a dog and overturned ch

The Angry Wife

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1785

Red chalk drawing of a reclining muscular male nude beside a pouring urn, with draped cloth and sketched figures above.

Reclining River God

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Etching of a reclining nude woman seen from behind, her head resting on her arm, with loose drapery and hatched shadows.

Study of a Woman Viewed from Behind

Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Pen and wash drawing of an interior with a seated woman, children, a kneeling figure, a dog and a crowd of onlookers.

Presentation of the Illegitimate Child

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Etching of a melancholy seated man in a dim prison cell, with two figures behind him near an open doorway.

Tasso in Prison, from "L'Art"

Léopold Flameng, 1879

Gray wash drawing of a farmer and young man with oxen and a plow on a country road, trees framing the scene, a dog in front.

A Farmer Entrusting the Plow to His Son

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a horse-drawn carriage with top-hatted men and bonneted women, a rider at left, and another carriage at

Driving in the Bois de Boulogne

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of sailors in tricorn hats among women in long skirts in an interior with an arched doorway.

Sailors and Women

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Watercolor sketch of a two-horse carriage carrying two women with a parasol and two men in top hats.

Women in a Carriage

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Loose grey and brown wash drawing of men in top hats and women in long dresses strolling under trees in a park.

Walking in the Park

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Loose watercolor of two women in long dark dresses walking beneath trees, one with a blue collar.

Two Ladies Taking a Walk

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of two women in full skirts seated in armchairs in an interior room.

Two Seated Women

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Watercolor sketch of a horse pulling a carriage with a reclining woman and a standing man in a top hat.

Winter Drive

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Watercolor and ink drawing of fashionably dressed men and women in blue gowns and dark coats in an interior, dated 1852.

Leaving the Theater

Constantin Guys, 19th century