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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Ink sketches of figures in rain with umbrellas and an easel, above and beside a handwritten letter on folded paper.

Illustrated letter to M. Roland

Rosa Bonheur, 1840-99

Engraving of a woman pointing to a vision of the Virgin and Child in clouds while a kneeling man looks up, in a landscape.

Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro, 1557-86

Bearded Head, Looking Down to the Right

III Jacques de Gheyn, 1620-30

Pen and ink sketch of a boy balancing a tall weed on his nose beside a crate and a hat.

Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose

Jehan-Georges Vibert, ca. 1874

Grey wash drawing of a dying saint in bed with a kneeling woman and standing figures near a stepped doorway.

The Death of Saint Hilary (recto); Sketch of an Arm (verso)

Jan van Scorel, early-mid 16th century

Engraving of a standing woman in flowing robes holding a covered jar, on a rounded mound, in fine black line.

Mary Magdalen

Master i.e., ca. 1490

Pen and wash drawing on blue paper of a classical cavalry battle with rearing horses, armored riders and spears.

Classical Battle Scene; Verso: Peter and John Heal a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Bartholomeus Spranger, ca. 1590

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Deposition, with figures on a ladder lowering a body and mourners below beside a crucifixion

The Deposition from the Cross

Domenico Campagnola, 1537-1550

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling woman with a child before an armored figure on a pedestal, within a classical colonnaded h

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

Jean Cousin the Elder, ca. 1543

Grey wash drawing of a military convoy in disarray after an explosion, with fallen horses, soldiers, and an overturned carria

A Military Convoy Surprised by an Explosion

Dirk Langendijk, ca. 1790-1800

Sheet of pen and brown wash studies showing many nude male figures in seated and reclining poses.

Figure Studies

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a woman holding a child on a terrace beside a sleeping dog, with an inscription beneath.

O Bella Giovane

Fortunato Duranti, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a decorative ceiling design with grotesques, garlands, winged creatures and framed scenes.

Ceiling Design with Grotesques

Antonio Liverani, 19th century

Blue crayon sketch on brown paper of a robed figure with raised arms above an elephant in a decorative panel.

Preliminary Design for the Playbill to "Le Chariot de Terre Cuite"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

Carter, the Colorman

Charles Beale, ca. 1680

Sepia wash drawing in lunette shape of three seated women with putti holding a laurel branch and a torch.

The Three Virtues (after Raphael)

Jan de Bisschop, ca. 1665

Hand-colored print of fashionable visitors on a stone staircase, all gazing up at the ceiling.

Visitors to the Salon Exhibition, Admiring the Ceiling (Les Amateurs de plafonds au Salon)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, August 27, 1824

Watercolor design of an ornate altar flanked by a crowned saint and a nun, with a heavenly vision above the altar.

Altar Flanked by St. Louis and St. Theresa

Émile Charles Wattier, mid-19th century

Drawing of a man in a plumed tricorn hat and order badge in an oval frame on a pedestal inscribed Frédéric II de Prusse.

Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, after Antoine Pesne

Johann Georg Wille, 1730-1808

Pen and ink caricature of a bearded man's head on a pedestal, with a handwritten French inscription below.

Caricatured Head of a Spaniard

Jules Worms, 1880

Pen and gray wash drawing of a vast basilica interior with coffered vaults, Corinthian columns, and small figures below.

Interior of St. Peter's Basilica

Jean François Chalgrin, 1759-61 (?)

Red textile design with large white roses, oak leaves, fern sprays and trailing vines in a repeating floral pattern.

Design for Patterned Silk

Jean François Bony, ca. 1780-1825

Green broadsheet with twelve skeleton vignettes in couples and comic scenes, with Spanish verses under each image.

The great pantheon of love

José Guadalupe Posada, ca. 1910-15 (published)

Ink and wash elevation of a neoclassical garden front with colonnade, arches, sphinx statues, and a sculpted pediment group.

Elevation for the Garden-Front of the Hotel de Brunoy, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris

Etienne-Louis Boullée, ca. 1779

Architectural floor plan with a central rotunda, courtyard, and angled wings with labeled rooms, drawn in ink on paper.

Floor Plan for the Renovations of the Château de Rambouillet

Jean Augustin Renard, ca. 1783

Pen and brown ink drawing of a funeral catafalque under a draped canopy, flanked by rows of seated mourners in a grand hall.

Funeral of the Grand Condé

Jean Bérain, ca. 1687

Watercolor frontispiece of garden ruins with columns, a waterfall, statues and an inscribed cartouche, by Claude Louis Châtel

Design for a Frontispiece

Claude Louis Châtelet, 1782

Ink and wash architectural floor plans of the Chateau of Marly with room labels and staircases, drawn by Ange Jacques Gabriel

Plans of the Ground and First Floors of the Chateau of Marly

Ange Jacques Gabriel, 1764

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a classical Paris townhouse facade with fluted Ionic columns and arched windows.

Façade of the Hôtel de Chavannes, Paris (recto); Plan of a Circular Room (verso)

Pierre Louis Moreau Desproux, 18th century

Grey wash architectural elevation of a wall with Corinthian columns, a statued niche, round window and putti garlands.

Elevation of a Wall

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1776

Watercolor design for a ceiling with an oval sky scene of clouds, figures and cherubs framed by ornate scrollwork.

Design for a Ceiling

Daniel Marot the Elder, ca. 1712

Watercolor of a towered castle on a cliff above a winding river valley with distant snowy mountains.

Chatel Argent and the Val d'Aosta from above Villeneuve

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1836

Watercolor of a hilltop fortress above a deep gorge with snowy Alpine peaks in misty blue distance.

The Fort of L'Esseillon, Val de la Maurienne, France

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1835-36

Grey wash drawing of a neoclassical two-armed candelabrum with scrolled arms, acanthus ornament and a fluted pedestal base.

Candelabrum with Alternative Designs for the Arms

Henri Auguste, ca. 1770-1800

Ink and wash drawing of a classical wine cooler with scroll handles, a central mask, and a fluted pedestal base.

Design for a Wine Cooler

Henri Auguste, 1770-1800

Watercolor design for a decorated salon ceiling with a central cloud medallion, gilded scrollwork and pastel panels.

Study for a Ceiling of a Salon in the Hôtel de Mazarin

François Joseph Belanger, ca. 1780

Oval drawing of Diana with stags, hounds, spears and hunting gear amid ornamental scrollwork.

Diana with Attributes of the Hunt

Antoine Caron, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a bacchanal with reclining revelers, cherubs, a fountain and classical columns.

Bacchanal

Michel Dorigny, 17th century

Chalk drawing of a seated woman with curly hair and a standing boy in a ruffled collar beside a chair.

Portrait of a Mother and Child

François-André Vincent, n.d.

Lithograph of five heads crowded together, each making an exaggerated grimace, with a pointing hand in the foreground.

The Grimaces

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1823

Red chalk drawing of mounted riders and tents in a camp, with a distant city and smoke under a pale sky.

Louis XIV at the Siege of Cambrai, Seen from the South-West (March 20-April 19, 1677)

Adam Frans van der Meulen, probably 1680s

Colored drawing of a neoclassical coffered ceiling with octagonal center, wreaths, garlands and rosettes on a blue-gray borde

Study for the Dining-Room Ceiling of the Bagatelle Pavilion

François Joseph Belanger, 1760-1818

Pencil drawing of an artist sketching under a tree beside reclining cattle and a stone wall with an inscription.

Artist Drawing in an Italianate Landscape

Jan van Ossenbeeck, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin and Child with an older man gesturing beside them, with heavy drapery.

The Holy Family

Jan Gossaert, ca. 1510-20

Circular pen and ink drawing of Christ being crowned with thorns by soldiers, with architecture and putti in background.

The Crowning with Thorns

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520-30

Pencil drawing of a draped female figure holding an armillary sphere, with a globe and instruments at her feet.

Urania

Wenzel Jamnitzer, 1520-85

Pen and brown wash drawing of Saint Thomas standing barefoot in a long cloak beside a carpenter's square and tools.

Saint Thomas

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527

Brown ink drawing of a palace garden with an arched gateway, fountains, colonnades, statues, and towers.

View of the Gardens of a Palace

Lodewijk Toeput, mid-16th-early 17th century

Gray wash drawing of soldiers with spears and a banner around kneeling captives, with figures hanging from gallows in the dis

Execution of the Five Kings of the Amorites

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1533-74

Circular drawing of an old bearded man by a hearth as a boy blows on the fire, with a street scene visible outside.

December: And Old Man Seated by a Hearth with a Young Man Blowing on the Fire

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, late 16th-mid 17th century

Drawing of a mustached man in a ruffled collar and embroidered doublet, within an oval frame with painter's tools below.

Portrait of the Painter François Gysels

David Bailly, ca. 1620-30

Grey wash drawing of a bearded armored warrior with a banner, with battle scenes and horsemen behind him.

Levi Avenging the Honor of his Sister Dinah

Crispijn van den Broeck, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a river valley with conifers, a rocky cliff, and a jagged mountain range under a pale sky.

The Salzach Valley with a View of the Watzmann Massif in the Background

Frederik van Valkenborch, ca. 1595-1600

Pen and brown ink drawing of grotesque devils and a skeleton around bottles, with a Dutch inscription across the top.

Diablerie: A Satire on the Medical Profession

Andries Both, 1612-41

Grey wash drawing of a small house beside a river, framed by tall trees and reeds under a pale sky.

Wooded Landscape with a House beside a River

Lucas van Uden, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of an old bearded man kneeling in a rocky landscape beside a lion, with a town on a hill.

Saint Jerome Praying in a Landscape

Niccolò dell' Abate, 1550-60

Pen and brown ink sheet of figure studies, nude bodies, a winged putto and ornamental scrolls, by Vincenzo Tamagni.

Sheet of Figure Studies and Ornamental Motifs (recto and verso)

Vincenzo Tamagni, 1520-30

Brown ink drawing of an armored warrior standing beside a robed figure holding up a cloth, with a rocky landscape behind.

David Showing Saul the Tip of His Coat

Ferdinand Bol, 1636-41

Pen and brown ink drawing of a fox beside a glass vessel with fish, two herons, and a dead duck in a landscape.

Fox With Two Herons

Frans Snyders, ca. 1630-40

Brown ink and wash drawing of seated King David playing a harp with angels on clouds, over a red chalk grid.

King David with Angels

Morazzone, ca. 1625-26

Portrait of Honoré Daumier

Étienne Carjat, 1861

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a flowing robe and draped cloak, standing barefoot on a ground line.

An Apostle Holding a Book

the Elder Francisco de Herrera, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a lamentation scene with Christ's body on the ground and many mourning figures in period dress.

The Lamentation

Jan de Beer, ca. 1500-20

Drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, Christ child, shepherds, oxen and a ruined stone structure.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Aertgen van Leyden, early 16th-mid 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of Saint Catherine, crowned and haloed, leaning on a sword with draped robes.

Saint Catherine Leaning on a Sword

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1503-4

Oval pencil drawing of a young woman in a bonnet beside a metal milk churn and rose bush, with a tree behind her.

Perrette, ou la petite laitière

Montbrian De Chateauvieux, 1786

Oval drawing of a young woman in period dress carrying a rose basket on her head, with a cherub, urn and cypress trees.

Marton, ou la jeune bouquetière

Montbrian De Chateauvieux, 1787

Ink drawing of a standing soldier in a tricorn hat holding a musket with bayonet, on a rocky ground, brown ink on tan paper.

Standing Soldier

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, 1812-45

Brown ink drawing of an imagined palace courtyard with a domed building, arcades, statues, obelisks, and small figures.

Architectural Fantasy

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a large pyramid with small temple facades at its base and sailboats on a waterfront at right.

Study of a Pyramid

Jacques-Louis David, n.d.

Ink and wash elevation of an ornate gallery wall with columns, painted panels, sculpted niches and paneled doors.

Design for a "Grande Galerie"

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1769

Red and black chalk sketch of an ornate classical pavilion with columns, steps, and small figures in the foreground.

Study for a Festival Machine

Laurent Hubert, 18th century

Ink and wash elevation of a long classical monument with colonnades, a central pyramid roof, and domed end pavilions.

Elevation of a Monument

Jean Jacques Huvé, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of rocky cliffs and palm trees, with riders and a distant domed city on the right.

Caucasian Landscape

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen drawing of jagged mountains with castles on cliffs and small figures hauling a rope across rocky ground.

Castles on Mountains

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pencil and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds, with the Virgin and infant Christ lit at center and kneeling figur

Adoration of the Shepherds

Claude Vignon, ca. 1620-30

Brown wash drawing of a draped female figure holding a fluted bowl overhead as a torchère on an ornate pedestal.

Design for a Torchère

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, ca. 1770-90

Architectural elevation drawing of the Hôtel de Montholon in Paris, showing a columned neoclassical facade with dormer window

Elevation of the Façade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1785-86

Architectural drawing of two dining room sections with statues in niches, paneled doors, and draped windows, titled Hotel de

Longitudinal and Cross Sections of the Dining Rooms of the Hôtel de Montholon

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1785-86

Four colored architectural elevations of salon interiors with blue drapery, gilded paneling, doors, and fireplaces, titled Hô

Longitudinal and Cross Sections of the Salons of the Hôtel de Montholon

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1785-86

Hand-colored print of Kew Gardens with pine trees, strolling figures, a white Alhambra pavilion and a tall pagoda in the dist

A View in Kew Gardens of the Alhambra and the Pagoda

Heinrich Joseph Schütz, 1813

Pen and ink sketch sheet with horses, riders, elephants, an ox and two dancing figures, with handwritten notes.

Various Studies

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch sheet with nativity group, horseback figures before a village, and studies of contorted figures.

Sketches for Biblical Scenes

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of a convalescent in a canopy bed attended by visitors in a room with a clock and folding screen.

The Convalescent

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of hunters and hunting dogs gathered in a crowded interior hung with game and filled with pottery.

Departure for the Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Colored design with Virgin and Child in clouds above a landscape scene, framed by an ornate blue patterned border.

Design for a Stained Glass Window

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a rustic country house with thatched outbuildings, figures, sheep, and a stream in front.

A Rustic Country House

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1850

Pen and ink sketch of crowded figures, horsemen, a camel, dogs and a walled city on an arched sheet.

Sketches of Classical or Biblical Figures

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of mounted warriors with spears moving through a narrow mountain pass between steep rock walls.

Warriors in a Mountain Pass

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a mountainous valley with rocky cliffs, a village on a ridge, and a winding path.

Mountainous Scene

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of armed riders and figures under a cloudy sky, with skeletal remains in the foreground.

After the Battle

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch sheet with studies of helmeted Roman soldiers, cavalry riders, and a battle scene with fallen figures.

Sketches of Roman Soldiers

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1842-85

Pen and ink sketch of a rock dwelling with a wooden door and steps, with a family group of adults and children in the foregro

House in the Rocks

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1839

Pen and ink drawing of a thatched inn with birds on the roof and a crowd dancing and dining below.

The Chien-Caillou Inn

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a dark rocky crevasse with steep cliffs and jagged rock formations on tan paper.

The Crevasse

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen drawing of travelers with a child and donkey in a rocky landscape with skulls in the foreground and hills beyond.

Flight to Egypt

Rodolphe Bresdin