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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Pen drawing of a woman between two bearded men under an ornate arch, with skeletons and inscribed banners, dated 1628.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Ganting the Younger, 1628

Circular ceiling design in blue watercolor with winged dancing figures around a central chariot scene with horses.

Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours

Angelica Kauffmann, 1760-1807

Pen and grey wash drawing of a goddess of music among clouds with a winged harpist, putti, and crowds below in a rococo frame

The Goddess of Music Distributing Her Gifts to the Nations

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Pen and ink allegorical design: a seated woman offers a laurel wreath to a nude male figure with a torch, amid classical arch

Design for an Allegorical Print

Louis Lafitte, ca.1800-02

Brown ink and wash drawing of two classical urns with serpent handles, relief figures, and a lion mask detail.

Designs for Two Urns

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin

Pen and wash design drawing of a wall with an ornate chimneypiece, caryatids, framed paintings, and two standing male figures

Design for a Wall Decoration with Chimneypiece and Two Figures

Antoine Le Pautre, ca. 1650-70

Decorative drawing of a telegraph office with interior hall scenes, operators at apparatus, a street facade and framing ornam

The main telegraph office newly built in St. Petersburg and opened 14 October 1862

Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagne, 1862

Ink and wash drawing of the Holy Family in a carpenter's shop, with Joseph at a workbench and the child on the floor.

The Childhood of Christ, in the carpenter's shop

Hans Bol, 1534-93

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 sword with an eagle-head hilt, ornate scabbard and suspension chain.

Design for a Sword

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

Architectural elevation of a palace salon wall with columns, arched painted panels, winged figures and a central doorway.

Central Salon of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792-96

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

Aeneas's Farewell to Dido

Watercolor design sheet with a snuff box lid, a floral frieze, and a circular rosette ornament in pastel colors.

Design for a Snuff Box

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

Pencil sketch of Christ driving money changers from a temple, with a whip raised over a fleeing crowd.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1700-44

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