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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

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 drawing of a tiered tomb with a reclining effigy in elevation, with an oval floor plan below.

Design for a Freestanding Tomb Seen in Elevation and Plan

the Younger Antonio da Sangallo, 1530-35

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

Pen and brown ink ornamental design with cherubs, garlands, a floral urn, and scrollwork, framed by a double border.

Ornamental Design

Jacob Roer, ca. 1694

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers and onlookers gathered beneath a draped tent canopy in a military camp.

Design for a Title Page: A General and His Army Looking at a Map

Jan Antoine Coxie, late 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Last Supper with Christ and apostles at a table, servants, and draped curtains in an interi

The Last Supper

Nicolaas van der Horst, early to mid-17th century

Pen drawing of a man in a hat pruning a bare tree with a curved knife, inside an oval frame labeled FEBRVARIVS.

The Month of February: Man Pruning a Tree

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen drawing of a bearded man in a hat grafting a leafy branch onto a tree, labeled APRILIS, in an oval frame.

The Month of April: Man Grafting a Branch onto a Tree

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen drawing of a man in period dress holding a flower, with a sword and shield, labeled MAY, in an oval frame.

The Month of May: An Elegant Man Holding a Flower and Lute

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of an interior with two robed figures, an open book and tablets, and a town square beyond.

Vanitas

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, mid-16th-early 17th century

Grey wash drawing of allegorical figures, a globe, a nude statue on a pedestal and a winged trumpeter under classical arches.

Design for a Frontispiece of a Title Page

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Graphite study of a hooded rider on horseback leading robed attendants and a crowd before a city wall, with a parasol overhea

Study for "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage"

Eugène Delacroix, 1845

Watercolor of a bearded man in a blue doublet and red breeches writing with a quill at a desk in an interior.

Mathurin Régnier

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1846

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a standing woman in a turban and draped Moroccan-style costume, one arm extended.

Standing Woman in Moroccan Costume

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1834

Pen and watercolor sketch by Delacroix showing several male heads, a standing figure, and loose color washes.

Studies of male heads and a standing male figure

Eugène Delacroix

Brown wash drawing of a woman at a swing with a group of elegantly dressed figures gathered in a shaded garden.

"The Swing," after Antoine Watteau (Les Agréements de l'été)

Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863

Lithograph of a man in a nightcap reaching for a barking dog beside a bed, with a lit candle on a nightstand.

Allons haut! Y sommes-nous?, from "La Chasse"

Honoré Daumier, November 11, 1843

Daumier lithograph: a woman and a top-hatted man sit at a table with a dog and wine bottle between them.

Qui aime Bertrand aime son chien (He who loves Bertrand loves his dog), from "Proverbes et Maximes"

Honoré Daumier, July 22, 1840

Black and white print of two figures kneeling in prayer near a church, with a dog, banana plants and a basket-carrying figure

Paul et Virginie

Jean Frédéric Schall, ca. 1791-92

Grey-toned drawing of a standing male figure in flowing drapery, arm outstretched, with white chalk highlights and handwritte

Standing Draped Male Figure

Baldassare Franceschini