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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Watercolor of a woman with a fan leaning on a stone pillar beside flowering vines, wearing a gold dress and blue sash.

Lady with a Fan

Louis-Robert Cuvillon, n.d.

L'Exemple de Ninon de Lenclos, Amoureuse

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898

Brown wash drawing of a bound man in a pale robe hanging from a gallows, with a figure on a ladder above.

Hanged Man

Graphite portrait sketch of a bearded, balding man with loose hatched shading against a pale background.

Portrait of the Artist (recto); Fragment of a Landscape Study (verso)

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1880

Pencil drawing of a seated woman flanked by two standing young women in period dresses, in a sketched interior.

The Baroness Duperré and Her Daughters

Théodore Chassériau, 1841

Ink and wash drawing of a crowded theater audience with men in coats and top hats gazing toward the stage.

A Theater Audience

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

The Cardinal Pacca

Jacques-Louis David, n.d.

Portrait of Hortense Valpinçon (Mme. Jacques Fourchy)

Edgar Degas, 1883

Sketch of a jockey in a dark jacket riding a horse, drawn in graphite and wash on tan paper.

A Jockey on His Horse

Edgar Degas, ca. 1868-70

Self-Portrait; wearing a top hat facing left within a drawn frame (recto); two studies of his face (verso)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1797-98

Pencil drawing of a smiling balding man with curly hair in an oval frame, beside a book and a long gun on a table.

Portrait of the Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)

François Dumont, 1808

Head of a Saint (profile to the right), after Fra Angelico

Edgar Degas, n.d.

Charcoal and chalk sketch of a dancer balanced on pointe, skirt flaring, arm extended, on tan paper.

Dancer on pointe

Edgar Degas, ca. 1878

Loose pencil and blue crayon sketch of two riders on horses beside sketched trees on cream paper.

A Woman and a Man on Horseback

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1879-81

Graphite sketch on brown paper of a hunched, bowed seated man with head lowered and arms drawn close to the body.

Study for Ugolino

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 19th century

Etching of two philosophers on a parapet, one pointing at a partly eclipsed sun beside an armillary sphere and classical buil

Two Philosophers Watching an Eclipse

Pierre Brébiette, 1615-42

Madame Théodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot)

Edgar Degas, 1869

Ink and graphite sketch of a windblown dancing figure with faint studies, and a wash study of an older man's head at lower ri

Sheet of Studies with a Dancer

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Three sketched male heads in ink and brown watercolor on tan paper, signed with initials at lower left.

Three Male Heads

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Pen and grey wash sketch of two men, one in a dark cloak in the foreground glancing sideways, a lighter figure behind him.

L'Amateur

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Two Male Heads

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Graphite sketch on grey-blue paper of a seated woman in drapery, hands pressed to her face.

Study for Vieille Italienne (recto); Drapery Study (verso)

Edgar Degas, 1856

Brown wash drawing of a tree-lined road with a seated figure, leading toward a town with arches and a domed church.

View of Ariccia

Jean Achille Benouville, 1853

Drawing of a draped female figure with clasped hands gazing upward, in graphite and white chalk on tan paper with grid lines.

Allegorical Figure of the City of Piacenza, for a Pendentive in the Chapel of Saint-Roch, Church of Saint-Sulpice, Pa…

Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol, 1821

Study for “Madame Théodore Gobillard” (Yves Morisot)

Edgar Degas, 1869

Graphite drawing of Pope Pius IX blessing from a balcony, with attendants holding an umbrella and cross and papal arms below.

Pope Pius IX Imparting the Blessing Urbi et Orbi

François-Léon Benouville, 1847

Lithograph of a hairdresser combing a woman's yellow hair while she holds a hand mirror, drawn in brown ink with color accent

The Coiffure (Playbill for the Théâtre Libre)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Lithograph of a seated man playing a long instrument, with a horned devil figure and crescent moon behind him in a dark sky.

For You! (from Les Vieilles Histoires)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Nuit Blanche

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Lithograph of a bearded man in bed tended by a nurse holding a bowl beside a candle on a carved table.

Carnot Is Sick! (from Les Vieilles Histoires)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893