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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

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

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

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

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