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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Pen and blue wash sketch of a seated man, standing couple and allegorical figures in an architectural interior.

Compositional Sketch for The Request for Admission into the Union, a Painting in the Town Hall of 's-Hertogenbosch. T…

Theodoor van Thulden, 1645?

Pencil sketch of two seated women in headscarves with a young girl resting at their feet on draped cloth.

Sketch of Two Seated Women with Young Girl Sitting at Their Feet; Verso: Sketch of a Woman

Charles Baugniet, 1830-86

Pencil sketch of women and a child gathered before a fireplace in an interior, with a standing figure at right.

Interior with Figures before a Fireplace

Charles Baugniet, 1871

Pen and grey wash drawing of a shallow dish from above with a central female mask, and a tall ornate pedestal below.

Shallow Round Dish on tall Pedestal Decorated with Fruit and Female Masks

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a smiling bald caricature man in a buttoned coat, carrying a bundle and objects, with a ladder on his

Caricature of a Junkman (recto); Caricature of a School Master (verso)

Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for a Chimneypiece

Jean Charles Delafosse

Pen and watercolor drawing of a domed circular temple with robed figures gathered around a burning altar beneath trees.

Ancient Scene with a Funeral Ceremony for an Actor

Louis Jean Desprez, ca. 1777

Pen and wash design for a classical wall elevation with central fireplace, columns, and two painted landscape panels.

Design for a Wall Elevation

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, ca. 1770-80

Pen drawing of a classical scene with an ornate ship, soldiers, robed figures, columns and a domed building.

Aeneas's Farewell to Dido

Ink and wash design for a fountain with two nude male figures supporting a basin, putti and garlands below.

Design for a Fountain

Charles Pierre Joseph Normand

Pen and ink drawing of a veiled woman reading in an ornate Baroque cartouche with rays of light and tablets below.

Study for a Decorated Initial A with the Annunciation

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Brown ink and wash study of an emperor carrying a cross amid horsemen, soldiers and crowds, framed by a scrolled cartouche.

Study for Emperor Heraclius Carrying the Cross into Jerusalem

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman with putti, a helmeted figure and a lion in a circular composition.

Study of Justice Dispensing Rewards to the Arts (recto); Study of a Lunette and Spandrel (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Vignette with Two Portrait Medallions

Charles Percier

Brown wash drawing of a draped female allegory beside a sailing ship, cargo crates, barrels and a harbor with a tower.

Allegory of Shipping

Charles Percier

Brown ink drawing of allegorical figures with scales, a shield, a flute player, a trumpet and a putto.

Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1639-1709

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing female allegorical figure with a serpent and spear in a niche.

Study for Allegorical Figure of Prudence

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Ink elevation drawing of the Fontaine Desaix in Place Dauphine, with lion-head spouts, inscribed pedestal and classical statu

Fontaine Desaix

Charles Percier

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourning women beside a tomb, with cypress trees, a lion and a flaming urn.

Landscape with a Memorial Scene

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, ca. 1760-80

Pen and gray wash drawing of two figures in a vine-covered garden pavilion with a tiled roof and feathery plants.

Chinoiserie

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Etching of a walled city with fireworks and smoke, a crowd of riders and people, and a carriage in the foreground.

Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570

Jost Amman, 1570

Pen and wash drawing of allegorical figures among clouds with putti, framed by an ornamental border of medallions and panels.

The Triumph of Courage and Wisdom

Johann Michael Rottmayr, late 17th-early 18th century

Etching of three putti holding a framed bust of a laureled man, with columns, an inscribed tablet and a distant city beyond.

Title page: Homage to Mantegna, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint James healing a blind man beneath a coffered arch, with soldiers and onlookers in a city street.

Saint James Cures a Blind Man, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint James's martyrdom: an executioner with a club, mounted soldiers, and a ruined arch in a hilly landscape.

The Martyrdom of Saint James, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Engraving of a martyrdom in an arcaded courtyard with armored soldiers, a headless body and a severed head on the pavement.

The Martyrdom of Saint Christopher, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Red chalk drawing in a circle of the Holy Family: kneeling Mary, seated Joseph, and the infant Christ on a cloth.

Holy Family in the Stable

Govert Flinck, mid-17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a street market with merchants and crowds above, and imprisoned figures in arches below.

Study for a Title-Page: Allegory of Commerce and a Debtor's Prison (?)

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a figure driving crowds from a colonnaded temple, with a fallen table and arching gestures.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Frans Floris, 1530-70

Blue wash drawing of a couple in period dress in a bedchamber with a canopy bed, a dog, and a third woman at right.

Study for an engraving in the Hortus Voluptatum

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1599