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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Engraved Masonic lodge diploma with a mother and infants, cherubs holding compass and square, and a list of officers in scrip

Diploma for the Freemasons of Bordeaux, after François Boucher

Pierre Philippe Choffard, 1766

Brown ink drawing of a landscape with trees, a man leading a donkey, and a seated woman with a child by a road.

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635

Pen and ink landscape with tall trees, a distant castle, a shepherd and cattle beside a stream.

Sunrise (recto); Landscape with Figures (verso)

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a family traveling by donkey along a path beneath palm trees, with a distant hazy landscape.

The Flight into Egypt

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Wash drawing of a wooded landscape with robed figures gathered on rocks beside a waterfall and swans in the pool below.

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses

Claude Lorrain, 1674

Pen and brown ink drawing of four men in feathered caps, three with bows and arrows and one with a raised spear, on rolling h

Three Archers and a Figure with a Spear

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1670-72

Moonlit coastal drawing with a rocky arch, a winged horse, small figures on the shore, and a calm sea beyond.

Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain, 1674

Brown wash drawing of a harbor with masted ships, rowboats with figures, and a ruined tower on the shore.

View of Civitavecchia

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a harbor with masted ships, a rowboat with one figure, and towers on the shore.

A Port Scene

Claude Lorrain, 17th century

Red chalk allegorical drawing of robed figures, a helmeted woman and a winged child beneath draped curtains and a coat of arm

Allegory of the Life of the Dauphin

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, ca.1765

Red chalk drawing of crowds in chaotic abduction scene before a fortified city with towers and a fire altar.

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1781

Sepia drawing of Christ falling under the cross, attended by angels among clouds.

Christ Falling under the Cross

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1782

Sepia drawing of the Pentecost scene with a dove and flames above robed figures gathered in clouds.

The Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Sepia drawing of a cross among clouds with angels and cherubs, and discarded armor and weapons below.

The Cross Triumphant over Worldly Powers

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1782

Red chalk drawing of a robed figure reaching toward a seated man among clouds, with angels and putti above.

The Risen Christ Appearing to Souls in Purgatory

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1782

Red chalk drawing of the Holy Trinity on clouds with a cross, a dove, and adoring angels and putti below.

Angels Adoring the The Holy Trinity

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1772

Red chalk drawing of saints and bishops gathered on clouds beneath a radiant triangle of divine light.

The Company of Saints in Glory

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1772

Pen and brown wash drawing of satyrs, nymphs and an infant beside a goat in a forest with an altar and urn.

The Nurture of Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Corneille

Pen and ink study sheet with many sketched figures, robed women and men, and a colonnade, for a judgment scene.

Figure Studies for a Judgment Scene

Michel Corneille the Younger

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds among angels, with praying figures gazing upward below.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Michel Corneille the Younger

Drawing of a kneeling bearded saint embracing an X-shaped cross, with an angel descending above and onlookers around.

The Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Michel Corneille the Younger

Red chalk drawing of several studies of female heads, hands and a small child on grey paper.

Copies after Raphael's "The Finding of Moses"

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and brown ink drawing of nude men in combat, one raising a sword over a fallen figure, with figure studies around.

Combat of Nude Men, after Raphael

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1823

Pen and ink sketch of nude warriors struggling in battle, one bending forward and others raising spears, on tan paper.

Battle Scene with a Prisoner Being Bound, after Raphael

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1823

Pen and ink sketch of fallen warriors, a rearing horse, and a distant battle over hills, by Eugène Delacroix.

Fallen Warriors and a Runaway Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1862

Watercolor of a knight in armor being dressed by a young page in blue, beside a helmet on a red cushion.

Goetz von Berlichingen Being Dressed in Armor by His Page George

Eugène Delacroix, 1826-27

Pen and brown ink sketch of a crouching lioness beside a caricatured male head at upper left, by Eugène Delacroix.

A Lioness and a Caricature of Ingres

Eugène Delacroix, 1850s

Pencil sketch by Eugène Delacroix of a seated doge in robes with a crowd of onlookers and attendants around a central figure.

Study of Jacopo Brought before His Father, the Doge, for "The Two Foscari"

Eugène Delacroix, 1847

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling figure visited by an angel in a dark garden, with sleeping figure and distant group.

The Agony in the Garden

Eugène Delacroix, 1823-24

Loose watercolor of a pale sea under a hazy sky, with a distant headland and handwritten notes along the right edge.

The Sea at Dieppe

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1852-54

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crouching tiger with dark stripes, head turned right, on tan paper.

Crouching Tiger

Eugène Delacroix, 1839

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing robed male figure with hatched shading, hands clasped, looking downward.

Standing Saint (Apostle?)

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Brown ink drawing of a seated young figure pointing toward a haloed child in a rocky wilderness.

The Infant Saint John the Baptist with the Infant Christ in the Wilderness (recto); Fragment of Architectural Design…

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pen and ink sketch of a seated bare-chested man holding a tall staff beside rocks, with a hatched landscape behind him.

John the Baptist with a Lamb in the Wilderness

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Brown ink sketch of a bearded man's head turned three-quarters, with wavy hair and loose shoulder lines.

Head of Christ

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pen and chalk sketch of a robed woman standing on clouds, hands crossed at her chest, on pale paper.

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception Standing on Clouds

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pencil and ink sketch of the Virgin seated on clouds with angels around her, drawn on pale paper.

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception Seated on Clouds, Supported by Four Angels

Pedro Duque Cornejo, 1700-50

Pencil sketch of an kneeling angel approaching a draped woman who stands with bowed head, a scene of the Annunciation.

The Annunciation (Angel Approaching from Left)

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Red chalk study of a man in a draped cloak, head turned toward the viewer, arms extended outward.

Study for a Portrait of a Man

Guillaume Courtois, 17th century

Drawing of an elderly bearded man with tousled hair and a furrowed brow, rendered in brown wash and white highlights.

Head of a Bearded Man

Giovanni Serodine, 1600

Brown ink and wash drawing of mounted cavalry fighting, with soldiers firing pistols and fallen men on the ground.

Combat of Cavalry

Jacques Courtois, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a cavalry battle with mounted soldiers, rearing horses, fallen men and smoke in the sky.

Cavalry Battle

Jacques Courtois, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a cavalry battle with riders, rearing horses, fallen soldiers, and smoke over a field.

Battle Scene: a Cavalry Engagement

Jacques Courtois, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with a seated Virgin, kneeling shepherds, angels and classical arches.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Jean Cousin the Younger, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded mythological battle scene with horsemen, soldiers, kneeling figures and tents.

Cassandra preventing Deiphobe from killing Paris

Jean Cousin the Elder, 16th century

Etching of demons, a huge winged dragon, and soldiers fighting amid burning ruins and smoke.

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Jacques Callot, 1635

Engraving of a nude hero with a spear facing a winged dragon near trees, with fallen armored warriors below.

Cadmus killing the Dragon

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45

Red chalk drawing of a man's head with curly hair and wide eyes on a grey-toned sheet.

Study of a Man's Head

Pontormo, 1520-25

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted horseman in a battle scene with fallen bodies, columns, a domed building and smoke.

Ulysses Entering Troy with the Death of Astyanax

Giuseppe Piattoli, 1785-1800

Engraving of a witch riding an animal skeleton with nude men, a goat, horn-blowing boy, and monstrous creatures in tall grass

Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn,…

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1515-25

Woodcut of a winged woman crowned with stars facing a crowned seven-headed dragon, with God and angels in the clouds above.

The Apocalyptic Woman, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Watercolor of a turbaned rider on a brown horse beside a tent, with a seated man and other horsemen in a hilly landscape.

Three Arab Horsemen at an Encampment

Eugène Delacroix, 1832-37

Ink sketch of a bridled horse in three-quarter view with a saddle and plumed harness on toned paper.

Goetz van Berlichingen's Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1842

Brown wash drawing of a tomb with a carved figure in a church interior, with Gothic window tracery studies below.

A Tomb and Studies of Windows in the Church of Valmont Abbey (recto); Four Studies of Horses (verso)

Eugène Delacroix, 1829-31

Brown ink drawing of a nude woman kneeling by a cross, raising a torch amid clouds, with faint sketches at left.

The Figure of Religion (recto/verso)

Eugène Delacroix, 1820-21

Graphite sketch of bearded men in draped robes and nude figures arranged within a triangular pendentive composition.

The Tribute Money

Eugène Delacroix, 1843

Pencil and blue wash sketch of an armored rider on a white horse beside a young attendant, with sketched figure studies behin

The Wounded Goetz von Berlichingen Takes Refuge in a Gypsy Camp

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1836

Brown wash drawing of a church interior with shadowed pointed arches, lit gothic windows, and stone columns.

Interior of the Church of Valmont Abbey

Eugène Delacroix, 1829-31

Pencil and wash sketch of the Annunciation: a seated veiled woman at left and a winged angel with raised arm at right.

The Annunciation (Angel Approaching From the Right)

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pen and grey wash drawing of two seated robed men, one writing in a book and one holding a scroll and pen.

Two Figures of Evangelists Writing

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pencil sketch of a reclining saint holding a cross, supported by two angelic figures in loose, faded strokes.

Reclining Figure of Saint Holding Cross, Supported by Two Angels (Death of the Magdalene?)

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pencil drawing of a kneeling friar in a hooded habit holding the Christ Child, with a faint halo and hatched background.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Pedro Duque Cornejo, 1700-50

Pen and ink sketch of a kneeling winged angel with outstretched arms and loose hatched drapery.

Kneeling Angel With Hands Outstretched

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pen and ink sketch of a standing draped woman holding a large oval medallion, dated ca. 1700-50.

Standing Female Figure with Large Medallion

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50