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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pencil sketch of four standing men in cloaks and tricorn hats below an architectural cornice.

Figure Studies (recto); Figures Along a Canal and on a Bridge; to the right, a Curtain and a Stool (?) (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a vaulted arched passageway with columns, opening onto a distant square with small figures.

Architectural Capriccio: Vaulted Passageway Leading to a Square

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk of a vaulted colonnade with tall columns, small figures, and a statue niche.

Architectural Capriccio: Vaulted Colonnade of a Palace

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink drawing of a city fire with burning rooftops, smoke, and a crowd of onlookers in the street below.

The Fire at San Marcuola (recto); Roman Ruins (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a lagoon with a tall tower, a sailboat, small figures and low buildings under a cloudy sky.

Lagoon Capriccio with a Tower

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a formal garden with a ruined arch, classical pavilions, walls, statues, and strolling figures.

Gardens of the Villa Correr, near Strà (recto); Study for The Transverberation of Saint Teresa of Jesus and a Study o…

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a Venetian piazza with columns, arcaded buildings, a tall tower and small figures.

The Piazzetta, Looking Toward San Giorgio Maggiore (recto); Two Columns (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a lagoon shore with buildings, tall cypress trees, a figure, and a distant sailing boat.

The Island of Anconetta (recto); Two Feet Wearing Pointed Shoes (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of groups of cloaked figures walking on blue-grey paper, signed Guardi at lower left.

Studies for Groups of Walking Dressed Figures

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a capriccio harbor with a stone bridge, ruined towers, classical columns, ships and figures.

Capriccio with a Seaport and Classical Ruins

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Grey wash drawing of a domed waterfront building with boats and sailing ships on calm water.

A Port near Venice: Chioggia (?)

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Ink and wash drawing of a lagoon town with tall bell towers, gondolas with rowers, and a sailing ship at left.

Quinta Valle at Castello

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of gondolas on a Venetian lagoon with buildings on both sides and a distant bell tower.

The Punta di San Giobbe, with the Island of San Secondo in the Distance

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of a Venetian-style canal with gondolas, buildings, a sailboat, and a distant bell tower.

The Island of Burano

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of a Venetian canal with gondolas, rowers, a sailboat, a bridge and a church with a bell tower.

San Biagio on the Giudecca

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of a brick tower and low buildings on a lagoon shore, with gondolas and rowing boats on the water.

The Tower at Marghera

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Pen and wash drawing of an arcaded square with elegantly dressed figures and dogs in the foreground.

Piazza San Marco Decorated for the Festa della Sensa

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Pale watercolor of Venetian lagoon with gondolas and sailboats before the domed church of San Giorgio Maggiore.

View of the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Watercolor drawing of a busy city piazza with flagpoles, market tents, a clock tower and strolling figures under a blue sky.

View of the Piazza di San Marco Toward the South (showing the now destroyed church of San Geminiano)

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of San Giorgio Maggiore church across Venetian lagoon, with gondolas, rowers and sailing ships.

The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Pen and brown ink drawing of a rocky landscape with cliffs and small figures walking along a path.

Rocky Landscape with Eight Figures

Brown ink and wash sketch of a young woman leaning over a youth who points outward, with loose drapery lines.

Youth in a Chariot with Attendant Young Woman

Guercino, ca. 1621-23

Engraving of Apollo standing nude with a laurel wreath, beside the flayed Marsyas, with onlookers including horned Midas.

Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgment of Midas

Melchior Meier, 1581

Woodcut procession of crowned captives and armored soldiers walking past a Latin caption, titled Triumphus Caesaris.

The Triumph of Caesar

Jacob of Strasbourg, after 1503

Engraved bird's-eye view of Tivoli palace with formal gardens, mazes, a central fountain and terraced stairs.

Tivoli Palace and Gardens, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne Dupérac, 1573

Etched landscape of a sandy rural road, a large tree, a thatched cottage, a seated figure with a dog, and distant farm buildi

Wheat Field

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1772

Pen and ink drawing of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome with fireworks above it, boats on the river and watching figures.

Figures Watching a Display of Fireworks at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome (recto); A Distant View of the Fireworks Seen fro…

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 1606-80

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child while kneeling and turbaned figures appr

The Adoration of the Magi

Guercino, 1625-30

Brown ink and wash drawing of a robed figure pointing upward beside a seated bearded man, with onlookers and radiating light.

The Raising of Lazarus

Guercino, ca. 1619

Etching of a pond edge with broad leaves, flowering plants, reeds, a large tree, and a rustic fence under a pale sky.

The Pond

Eugène Stanislas Alexandre Bléry, 1857