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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

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

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.

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