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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Pen and wash drawing in a circle of the Circumcision of Christ, with a priest holding the infant and the Virgin watching.

The Circumcision of Christ

Sebald Beham, 1510-50

Circular pen and ink drawing with wash of a garden of love, with bathing women, courting couples, musicians and a town skylin

The Garden of Love

Jörg Breu the Younger, 16th century

A Swiss Foot Soldier

Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, early 16th century

Brown wash drawing of a seated man in a wig and embroidered coat with a star order, holding a quill at a desk.

Portrait of J. J. Régis de Cambecérès

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a group of standing men in robes, one pointing and another raising a staff or banner.

Group of Men

Master of the Large Figure Brush Drawings, 17th century

Seated Young Woman

Adam Elsheimer, late 16th-early 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a uniformed man with a sword leaning on a cannon beside a flag, with a landscape behind.

Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing man in military uniform with a sash and star, leaning on a pedestal.

Portrait of Alexander I, Czar of Russia

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Portrait of Mark Akenside

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman in a headscarf and gown, leaning at a table beside a globe under a tree.

Portrait of Maria Gaet - Agnesi

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a seated man in period dress leaning on a table beside a curtain and tall flowering plants.

Portrait of M.-J.-A.-N. de Coritat, Marquis de Condorcet

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a standing officer in uniform holding a sword, with a stone pedestal and landscape behind him.

Portrait of C.-F. du Perier Dumouriez

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a man in a tricorn hat pointing forward beside a horse, with a flag and rocky ground behind him.

Portrait of Prince Henry of Prussia

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a man in a long coat leaning on an inscribed pedestal beside a quill and book.

Portrait of Giovanni Fantoni (or "Labindo")

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a standing man in period dress holding a top hat and cane, with a building and shrubs behind him.

Portrait of Edmond Burke

Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau, ca. 1815

Brown wash drawing of an elderly man in a coat examining coins in an open cabinet drawer, with shelves and a skull in the roo

Portrait of Joseph-Hilarius Eckehel

Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau, ca. 1815

Brown wash drawing of a standing woman in an empire gown beside a desk with sheet music, and a laurel-crowned harpist behind

Portrait of Angelica Catalani de Valabrègue

Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau, ca. 1815

Brown wash drawing of a seated man in a fur cap and spectacles beside a stove, with a quill and books on a table.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing with wash of a seated bearded man surrounded by a kneeling woman, children, and standing figures under an

Belisarius Begging for Alms

Heinrich Füger, mid-18th-early 19th century

Graphite sketch of two helmeted warriors in classical armor bending over a fallen figure in a columned interior.

Two Warriors in Classical Costume Bending over Two Figures

Heinrich Füger, mid-18th-early 19th century

Red chalk drawing of mourners lowering the dead Christ onto a stone tomb, with veiled women and a bearded man looking on.

The Entombment

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of cavalry riders and rearing horses around a fallen soldier, with trees and a rocky landscape behind.

Cavalry Engagement

Francesco Monti, 1646-1712

Grey wash drawing in oval format showing a radiant monstrance among clouds and angels, with allegorical figures and a globe b

Veneration of the Eucharist by the Peoples of the World (Allegories of the Four Continents)

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1720-74

Graphite drawing of a crowned woman on a horse with flying putti, figures below, and a wheelbarrow of tools in the foreground

Allegory of Europe, from the Four Continents

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1728-74

Pencil drawing of a crowned woman riding a lion under a parasol, with feathered figures and palm trees in the landscape.

Allegory of Africa

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1728-74

Brown ink drawing of a seated man and a crowd of women and boys gathered around a draped statue on a column.

Figures Adoring a Statue of the "Magna Mater"

Joseph Heintz the Elder, 1585

Brown wash drawing of a seated draped woman beside a classical urn under a weeping willow tree.

Female Figure Seated Beside an Urn

Angelica Kauffmann, 1800

Pen and grey wash drawing of a crowd in a city square with robed figures on steps before an arched building.

Virginius and Virginia (?)

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a young woman in half-figure, eyes closed, head tilted, with long braided hair on pale paper.

Half-figure of a Young Woman

Gustav Klimt, 1918

Red chalk drawing of an ornamental cartouche with cherubs, a trumpeting winged figure, and a globe, a study for a book plate.

Preparatory Study for Plate 34 in "Maisons de plaisance" Vol. II

Jacques-François Blondel, 18th century