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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Colored drawing of a pulpit design with a robed preacher, winged angel, cherub on clouds and crimson drapery.

Design for a Pulpit

Augustin Pajou, n.d.

Sepia drawing of an ornate urn on a pedestal with sphinxes, fruit swags, a satyr and putto relief, birds and flowers.

Wine Cooler or Vase on a Classical Pedestal

Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, ca. 1784

Scrapbook page with pencil and ink studies of canopied beds, drapery, griffin ornament and garland swags.

Scrapbook containing Drawings and Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

André Marie Chatillon, ca. 1804-10

Side and front elevation drawings of a canopied bed with red and white drapery and carved wooden details.

Design for a Bed and Canopy

Charles Percier, 18th Century

Watercolor drawing of classical ruins with columns, a fountain with statues, arches and small figures in an oval frame.

Architectural Capriccio

Jean Henri Alexandre Pernet, ca. 1780-1800

Pencil design drawing of a bedroom with a draped canopy bed, cherub figures, swags, and panelled walls.

Design for a bedroom

Henri Perron, 19th century

Colored chalk drawing of a rococo cartouche entwined with yellow gourds, green leaves, pink tendrils and small orange flowers

Ornamental Design with Fruit and Flowers (recto); Flower Stalk with Leaves (verso)

Alexis Peyrotte, 18th century

Etching of Othello pushing away a kneeling woman in an interior, with a standing woman and draped curtain beside him.

"Away!": plate 7 from Othello (Act 3, Scene 4)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Head of a Bearded Man

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1518-19

Woodcut of St. John the Baptist seated with a lamb, a cross-topped staff, and a radiant halo behind his head.

St. John the Baptist Holding the Lamb

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1517

Black and white print of Christ on the cross with the Virgin and Saint John standing on either side, a skull at the base.

Christ on the Cross flanked by the Virgin and Saint John

Dürer-School, ca 1530-1540

Engraving of a bearded penitent man kneeling beside a lion among rocky cliffs and pine trees, with a distant castle.

Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1496

Engraving of a kneeling man feeding pigs at a trough in a village yard with gabled houses and a barn behind.

The Prodigal Son

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1496

Engraving of the Virgin Mary seated and nursing the Christ Child, both with radiating halos, against hatched grass and sky.

The Virgin Nursing the Christ Child

Albrecht Dürer, 1519

Woodcut of Christ kneeling before an angel with a chalice while disciples sleep nearby and soldiers approach in the distance.

Christ on the Mount of Olives, from The Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497-99

Etching of Abraham entertaining angels at a table with bread and a ewer, a servant, and a doorway with a landscape beyond.

Abraham Entertaining the Angels

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1656

Etching of a boy walking between a woman and a bearded man with a staff, a dog below, and a rocky landscape behind.

Christ between his Parents, Returning from the Temple

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of a kneeling bearded saint praying before a crucifix beneath a large tree, with a domed church on the hill.

Saint Francis beneath a Tree, Praying

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1657

Etching of a bearded elderly man in a turban gesturing to a standing boy carrying wood, with rocky ground and trees.

Abraham and Isaac

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1645

Etching of a crowded execution scene on a plain, with archers, horsemen, banners and ruined classical buildings.

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Jacques Callot, ca. 1632-33

Etching of the Supper at Emmaus showing a bearded figure at a table with radiant light, companions, and an elderly woman at l

The Supper at Emmaus

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Watercolor of a Dutch canal with a wooden bridge, thatched cottages, a woman with buckets, and a boatman under a cloudy sky.

Dutch Canal, Rijswijk

Jacob Maris, second half 19th century

Charcoal bust portrait of a woman in a dark hood and pince-nez, turned to the left against a shaded background.

Bust of a Woman Wearing a Pince-nez (Wife of the Artist)

Théodule Augustin Ribot, ca. 1875

Chalk drawing of a woman in a white bonnet and apron spinning flax at a wooden wheel against a dark background.

A Woman Spinning Flax

François Bonvin, 1861

Pen and ink design for an ornate cartouche showing a religious scene of figures beside a draped curtain.

Design for a Cartouche with a Religious Subject in the Central Compartment

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of soldiers in tall shakos marching through shallow water with rifles and knapsacks.

Soldiers Marching in Water

Charles-Henri Pille, 19th century

Drawing of an ornamental cartouche frame with winged putti, a crowned figure, and a woman holding a mirror around a blank pan

A Cartouche and Two Shields Surrounded by Allegorical Figures

Andrea Lilli, 1570-1631

Pencil landscape drawing of a seated shepherd by a tree with a dog, shrubs and a wide distant view, in a green border.

Landscape with Seated Shepherd and Dog

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, n.d.

Pen drawing of a triumphal procession with elephants, horses, torch bearers and classical architecture.

Triumph of Julius Caesar

Andrea Mantegna, Possibly late 15th or 16th century

Pen and watercolor design drawing of andirons with pine cone finials, fluted bases and acanthus scroll relief panels.

Design for Andirons

Jean Louis Prieur le Jeune, late 18th century

Grey wash drawing of the dead Christ reclining with a haloed head while a woman with long hair holds his foot.

The Dead Christ Mourned by the Magdalen Who Venerates the Wounds on His Feet

Fortunato Duranti, 1787-1863

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate altar with an oval cartouche, scrolled brackets, and a decorative frieze.

Design for an Altar

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Pen and ink architectural design sheet showing church interior elevations with arched niches, pilasters, and ornamental pedim

Design for a Church Interior

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Two dancers in feathered costumes and striped pleated skirts, one holding a fan, drawn in pen and watercolor on paper.

Drawing of Two 'Americans' for Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut

Daniel Rabel, 1626

Pen and wash drawing of an oval cartouche hung from a ribbon, with garlands, a tassel and classical moldings.

Design for Oval Cartouche

Gautier d'Agoty, 18th century

Pen and wash elevation drawing of a classical interior with a vaulted ceiling, pilasters, painted panels and an arched centra

Design for an Architectural Interior

Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette, n.d.

Pencil design drawing of a rococo ceiling with scrollwork cartouches, floral garlands, and sketched putti in the center.

Design for Ceiling

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Pencil design drawing of an ornate ceiling with scrolling motifs, a central medallion, a putto and a balustrade below.

Designs for Ceiling

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Pen and ink elevation drawing of an ornate paneled wall with fluted pilasters, urn-topped doors and a moulded frieze.

Design for Wall Panelling

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Ceiling design in watercolor showing a golden sunburst with a face at center, blue sky, clouds, and a flower-garland border.

Designs for Ceilings with Central Sunburst

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Watercolor ceiling design with soft clouds, two small birds, and a lattice border entwined with vines and purple flowers.

Designs for Ceilings with Clouds and Birds

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Watercolor design of an arched doorway with double doors, painted floral swags, and a blue classical medallion above.

Designs for Arched Doorway

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Watercolor design for a ceiling with a central rosette, blue arabesque panels, and layered floral and geometric borders.

Design for Ceiling with Plant and Arabesque Decoration

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a winged figure flying through radiating light above two crawling men.

Carl Ehrenswärd as Apollo, flying to inspect Sergel and Abilgaard

Johann Tobias Sergel, 1797

Sepia wash drawing of a seated man and a standing woman in a hilly landscape with a distant spire and birds.

Man and woman in a landscape (Faust and Marguerite)

Richard Parkes Bonington, ca. 1826-27

Pencil sketch of a classical triumphal arch with columns, sculptural groups, reliefs, and small figures in the foreground.

Study for a Triumphal Arch (recto); Alternate Study for a Triumphal Arch (verso)

Hubert Robert, ca. 1800

Three Designs for Helmets

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Annunciation: an angel with a lily faces the kneeling Virgin Mary beside a draped curtain.

Annunciation

Filippo Bellini, 1560-1600

Pen and ink study of a bearded prophet-like man in draped robes raising one arm, on a grey-toned sheet.

Study for the Prophet Jeremiah (recto); Studies of a Horse Seen from Below and of a Man Seated on a Chair, Probably a…

Henry Fuseli, 1764-70

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Entombment, with Christ's body held by mourners in an arched architectural setting.

Entombment

Maso da San Friano, 16th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate ewer topped by Neptune on a sea-horse chariot, with scrolled handle and pedestal.

Design for a Ewer with Neptune on his Chariot

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate funerary monument with arched niche, staircases, candles and a crowned statue.

Designs for a Funerary Monument with Stairs (recto); Various Funerary Monument Designs (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink sketch of rococo console tables, a niche, and a funerary monument with candlesticks on aged paper.

Sheet with Various Designs for Tables and a Funerary Monument

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink sheet with designs for ornate archways, baldachins, and decorative columns with scrollwork and drapery.

Designs for Archways and Baldachins with Caryatids and Coats of Arms (recto); Design for a Monument with Statues of P…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of baroque urn designs, arched niches with scrollwork, and a columned altar study on pale paper.

Studies for Coffee Urns, Arched-top Altars, and an Altar Project for the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral (recto); St…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652-1725

Pen and wash elevation drawing of a two-tiered church facade with pilasters, pediment, central niche, and a red heraldic cros

Design for the Façade of Santi Faustino e Giovita, Rome

Carlo Fontana, 1652-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a palace facade with balconies and arches beside a large arcade in a street scene.

Street Scene with a Palace Façade and an Arcade

Fabrizio Galliari, 1707-94

Pen and grey wash drawing of a decorated wall design with an oval landscape medallion, putti, garlands, and reclining figures

Design Wall Elevation with Stucco and Painted Decorations

Luigi Garzi, 1708

Pen and watercolor design for a ceiling with ornate scrollwork, medallions and a central scene of two figures in a landscape.

Design for a Ceiling with Decoration Related to Virgil's Sixth Canto

Felice Giani, 1778-1823

Pen and ink design for an ornate carved mirror frame over a mantel, with scrolls and a shell crest, dated 1742.

Design for a Carved Mirror Frame Surmounting a Mantle (Trumeau)

Domenico Silvestro Giannotti, 1742

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate urn with garland handles, putti and lion relief, and a fluted pedestal.

Design for a Vase (recto); Sketch of Small Vase (verso)

Jacques Francois Joseph Saly, ca. 1752

Ink and wash architectural drawing of a symmetrical church façade with a pediment, columns, niche statues and central doorway

Design for a Church Façade

Giuseppe Jarmorini, 1732-1816

Pen and wash elevation of a drawing room with garlands, cherubs, urns and paneled doors in soft brown and blue tones.

Design for Decoration of a Drawing Room

Giovanni Battista Maderna, 1758-1803

Pen and wash design of a decorative border with winged putti, a garlanded urn, scrollwork and a meander pattern.

Design for One-Quarter of a Ceiling Decoration

Leonardo Marini, 1730-97

Pen and watercolor design of a palace interior with green drapery, gilded garlands, an oval frame and a console table.

Design for a Palace Interior

Leonardo Marini, 1730-97

Pen and wash architectural design of an arched altarpiece niche beneath a garlanded dome with rococo cartouches.

Architectural Design with an Altarpiece Framed in a Niche and Surmounted by a Dome

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1755-1817

Ink and wash design for a Baroque altar in a niche with Corinthian columns, rococo frame and radiant emblem above.

Designs for an Altar in a Niche

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1755-1817

Pen and wash drawing with four panels of putti working with heraldic shields, drapery and pedestals.

Four Sketches of Putti Hanging Coat of Arms

Carlo Marchionni, 1702-86

Pen and wash drawing of a trompe l'oeil ceiling with Corinthian columns, ornate vault moldings, eagles and figures opening to

Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, ca. 1750-60

Pen and grey wash drawing of three rococo ornamental wall panels with scrollwork, an urn of flowers, and a cherub face.

Design for a Portable Screen

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and grey wash design drawing of a rococo canopy with scrolled cornice, central finial and swagged drapery.

Design for a Canopy (recto). Design for an Armchair (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Etching of a seated nude man among classical ruins, with rising flames and a statue on a column behind him.

The Righteous Man

Giovanni David, ca. 1775

Brown ink drawing of Saint Lawrence with a halo, holding a book and palm, standing beside a gridiron on a grid-ruled sheet.

Saint Lawrence

Bartolomeo Cesi, 1619

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate rococo palazzo interior with arched niches, draped curtains, and large mirrors.

Design for a Stage Set: Interior of a Palazzo Decorated with Large Mirrors and Console Tables

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and grey wash design of a vaulted stage interior with a grand stairway, columns and a gallery.

Design for a Stage Set: Groin-Vaulted Stairway Leading to a Gallery with Another Stairway to a Second Story at Left (…

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and gray wash drawing of a stage set with a staircase, balustrade, classical columns and a gallery of connected barrel va

Design for a Stage Sets: Anteroom with Stairs Leading to a Gallery Composed of a Series of Connected Barrel Vaults

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and gray wash drawing of rococo ornament with draped canopy, scrollwork, clouds and pilasters.

Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (recto). Variant Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and wash elevation drawing of a palace wall with arched niches, columns, busts on pedestals, and ornate cornice.

Design for the Decoration of a Palace Interior

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1711-65

Pen and wash design for a rococo church ceiling with clouds, a cross, putti, scrollwork and religious medallions.

Design for a Church Ceiling

Vincenzo dal Rè, 1700-1762

Pen and wash elevation of a classical palace garden facade with a central dome, two flanking domed pavilions and arched openi

Design for the Garden Façade of a Palace

Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, 1695-1766

Brown ink drawing of a tiered architectural altar with a central niche, flanking seated figures, and a winged figure at top.

Design for an Altar Erected for the Holy Week

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750-66

Pen and brown ink drawing of an architectural altar design with columns, a statue niche, and a figure atop the pediment.

Design for the Left Half of an Altar

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750-66

Ink and watercolor design of a rococo cupola with coffered ceiling, floral bouquets, urns and carved balustrades.

Design for a Cupola Decoration

Giovanni Antonio Torricelli, 1736-81

Graphite drawing of a clenched right hand with shaded fingers and faint drapery lines on a cream sheet.

The Hand of Poussin, after Ingres

Georges Seurat, 1875-77

Pen and grey wash drawing of an oval ornamental design with Passion scenes, a crucifixion, and winged putti around a blank ca

Design for a Silver Vessel with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen, ca. 1600

Pen and red chalk drawing of The Last Judgment with a enthroned figure above angels, nude crowds, and architecture below.

The Last Judgment

Michael Herr, ca. 1620

Pen and wash drawing of a grand armory hall stage set with columns, coffered ceiling, armor trophies and statues.

Design for a Stage Set

Carlo Zucchi the Younger, ca. 1748-95

Pen and gray wash drawing of a halberdier in Renaissance dress beside an unfinished scrolled coat of arms with a helmet.

Design for Stained Glass: A Halbardier by an Unfinished Coat of Arms

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1570-80

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling bearded man being crowned with garlands by a woman, with a winged figure, cherubs and a sc

Time Banished by Truth

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man with curly hair and a pipe, with loose figure studies beside him.

Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin (recto); Sketch of Head (verso)

Henry Somm, n.d.

Pen drawing with three architectural elevations of a parish church showing interior section, front facade with towers, and re

Drawing of Interior, Façade, and Rear of Church

Jacques Germain Soufflot, 18th century

Pen and watercolor caricature sheet titled Sanitorium des Airs, with airships, a central woman in a tall hat, and numbered vi

Sanitorium des Airs

Georges Tiret-Bognet, n.d.

Monochrome drawing of a small hot air balloon drifting above layered clouds beneath a glowing moon in a dusky sky.

Drawing for an Illustration in "Voyages du Flandre"

Albert-Charles Tissandier, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a symmetrical ornamental panel with an armored woman, putti, and scrolling decorative framing.

Study for an Ornamental Panel

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate architectural frame with an empty central panel, putti, and sphinxes.

Design for a title page

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Watercolor of two women in tiered evening gowns, one seated on a sofa and one standing by a piano in a gilded interior.

Fashion Study: Two Women in Evening Dress

Adèle-Anaïs Toudouze, ca. 1860