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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pencil sketch of a cat resting on all fours, seen from behind, with its head turned to the side.

A Cat Resting on All Fours, Seen from Behind

Édouard Manet, 1861

Head of a Horse, after the Parthenon

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1825

Pen and ink drawing of putti around a panel showing a nude archer aiming at pigeons.

Putti grouped around a rectangular panel

A Lyre Bird

Charles Meryon, ca. 1846-55

Pencil sketch of a bird of paradise on a perch with long trailing tail feathers and handwritten French color notes.

A Bird of Paradise

Charles Meryon, 1835-68

Pencil sketch of a jay perched on a ledge, head turned upward, with handwritten French notes at the top.

A European Jay

Charles Meryon, ca. 1863

Brown wash drawing of a nude woman lifted by a draped goddess among clouds, with a deer and kneeling figures below.

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Charles de La Fosse, ca. 1678

Pen and wash drawing of a donkey-riding figure departing between columns, with an armoured guard, attendants, dogs and onlook

The Departure of Sancho Panza for the Island of Barataria

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 18th century

Lithograph in black on yellow of two Breton women in white headdresses by a wooden fence, with a rural landscape behind.

Bretonnes à la Barrière, from the "Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques"

Paul Gauguin, 1889

Grey-blue wash drawing of a fox and hedgehog in a landscape with hilltop buildings and rocky cliffs.

The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog, from La Fontaine's "Fables", XII, 13

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1733

Brown ink and wash sketch of a warrior on horseback with standing draped figures and veiled women studies.

Figure Studies: Warrior on Horseback, and Groups of Standing Female Figures

Francesco Curia, 1565-1608

Red chalk drawing of a woman holding a horse's bridle while a child points at the horse.

Marcolfa Persuades Cacasenno to Mount a Horse

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1685-1747

Brown wash drawing of a rider leaping into a chasm while onlookers in classical dress react beside columns.

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm (recto); Study of a Seated Crowned Female Figure (verso)

Luigi Garzi, 1638-1721

Pencil sketch of a drunken Silenus riding a donkey, surrounded by satyrs and draped figures in a frieze-like procession.

Drunken Silenus Riding on an Ass

Jacques Sarazin, 17th century

Pencil drawing of men clubbing cormorants at a pond while birds fly past a large window frame and a tree.

The Defeat of the Cormorants

Louis Testelin, ca. 1648-53

Chalk drawing of a reclining nude woman pointing right beside a companion, with a forest and a seated figure behind.

Diana and Acteon

François-André Vincent, 1778

Pen and watercolor drawing of a seated woman nursing an infant, a praying man in a hat, a palm tree, and a donkey at sunset.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt)

William Blake, 1806

Night festival drawing with a glowing star-topped obelisk, crowds dancing, carriages and horsemen along a tree-lined avenue.

Design for the Engraving "Réjouissances du Peuple . . . à Reims le 27 aout 1765"

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1767

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical colonnade, reclining muses, a harp player, a lion and a flying figure in clouds.

Temple of the Muses

Charles Monnet, ca. 1777

Brown wash drawing of a crowned woman beside a lion, looking up at clouds, rushing water and muscular figures in a storm.

The Deliverance of Cybele, an Allegory of the Seasons

Gabriel François Doyen, n.d.

Etching of a woodland sacrifice to Pan, with a goat, satyrs, nymphs and a large tree beside an altar.

Sacrifice to Pan

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1762-63

Pen sketch of a small child riding a long-bodied dog above a symmetrical scrolled ornament study.

Sketch of a Child Riding a Dog

William Pitts, 1805-40

Colored print of two white kittens lapping spilled milk from a table beside an overturned bowl, with red drapery behind.

My Little White Kitties - Into Mischief

Currier & Ives, 1857-71

Pen and ink sketch of a plumed rider with a baton on a horse with an ornate saddle cloth, seen from behind.

A mounted drummer from the front

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Pen and ink drawing of a mounted drummer seen from behind, raising a drumstick beside a horse with a tasselled saddle cloth.

A mounted drummer from the back

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Engraved cartoon of vultures with human faces on cliffs in a storm, with skulls labeled Law, Justice and Taxpayer below.

A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over"-"Let Us Prey" (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 15, p. 889)

Thomas Nast, September 23, 1871

Lithograph of a hunter with dogs crossing a field at dusk, two figures and a cart in the distance.

Return from the Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829

Pen and ink sheet of sketches with animal-human figures, caricatured heads, soldiers and a battle scene in a wood.

Sheet of Studies, Including for Reineke Fuchs; verso: Studies of Soldiers and of a Battle in a Wood

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, mid-19th century

Watercolor of a man in a red jacket riding a bay horse, with two mounted attendants and a mountain landscape behind.

Sir John Floyd on horseback

Richard Westall, 1800-14

Etching of two women kneeling in tall grass beside a flying bird, with robed figures in the distance under a rayed sky.

S. Aigri, évêque de Verdun (St. Agericus, Bishop of Verdun), December 1st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Sa…

Jacques Callot, 1636