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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Grey wash drawing of a draped woman holding a medallion showing a fountain, beside an obelisk fountain with carved reliefs.

Female Figure Holding a Coin and Image of a Fountain

Jan Goeree, before 1704

Grey wash drawing of the Colosseum cross-section with tiered seats and arches, topped by a laurel-crowned bust on a plinth.

A Reconstruction of the Colosseum in Cross-Section

Jan Goeree, before 1704

Pen and grey wash drawing of a classical frame with a statue, bust, Roman coins, and Latin inscriptions on a banner.

Adumbration of Capitoline Hill

Jan Goeree, before 1704

Ink and wash drawing of a tall date palm with a Latin banner, with a haloed rider on a donkey and a crowd in a hillside lands

Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem

Jan Goeree, 1696-1704

Engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, Mary and a haloed companion at left, and soldiers at right.

Crucifixion

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1475-85

Grey wash drawing of a male saint with upturned face, holding a staff and wrapped in a heavy draped cloak.

Male Saint with Staff, Half-Figure

the Younger Francisco Herrera, 1640

Engraved print of a vertical strip of curling, serrated foliate ornament on a cross-hatched ground.

Foliate Ornament

Master W with the Key, ca. 1465-90

Engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ center, two thieves on crosses, mourning women kneeling and soldiers at right.

The Crucifixion

Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, 15th century

Engraving of the Annunciation: an angel with wings kneels before a kneeling Virgin in a tiled Gothic bedroom.

The Annunciation

Master FVB, late 15th century

Engraving of a man and woman embracing cheek to cheek, she in a striped headdress, he in a tasseled cap.

The Lovers

Master bxg, 15th century

Engraving of a woman playing a harp and a man playing a lute in a columned interior with a hanging candle chandelier.

Lute Player and Harpist, from Scenes of Daily Life

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of an ornamental title page with spring and autumn allegorical figures flanking a blank panel, crown, cheru

Drawing for the title page to the 'Descrpción de las honras' (related to the death of Philip IV)

Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo, 1666

Pen and brown wash drawing of a woman in a headscarf leaning on a ledge, holding drapery over a basket of fruit and flowers.

Female Personification of Summer or Abundance

Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo, 1619-71

Brown wash drawing of a nude figure seen from behind among swirling, struggling figures in a dark, dramatic composition.

The Chastisement of Luxury

Eugenio Lucas, 1817-70

Loose watercolor of turbaned figures resting in the shadow of a stone archway, with red and blue robes in the foreground.

Arabs Resting

Eugenio Lucas, 1817-70

Engraving of a man in a feathered hat standing beside a seated woman on a canopied bed in a furnished interior.

Couple Seated on a Bed, from Scenes of Daily Life

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Engraving of an elderly bearded man in a large folded turban, shown in three-quarter view against a plain background.

Head of an Elderly Man with a Long Beard and Turban

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Engraving of two haloed saints under a Gothic arch, one holding a large book and one reading a small book, with a Latin scrol

Saints Thomas and James the Lesser, from The Apostles

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a haloed kneeling saint receiving a sacred vessel amid radiating light and angels in clouds.

St. Paschal Baylon Adorning the Blessed Sacrament

Mariano Salvador Maella, 1739-1819

Pen and brown ink study of a standing bare-chested man beside an easel, with an inscription below, on pale paper.

Standing Male Figure: Study for a Portrait

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1670-80

Engraving of a wild man with a leafy crown holding a club, resting on a shield with a leaping greyhound.

Shield with Greyhound Held by Wild Man

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Engraved decorative border of hares roasting a hunter on a spit above a fire, surrounded by foliate scrolls.

Hares Roasting the Hunter

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Engraved ornamental panel with dancing figures, a standing woman, a piper, and a dog among curling foliage scrolls.

Panel of Ornament with Dance of Lovers

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a bearded man with a white collar, looking directly at the viewer, on blue-grey paper.

Head of a Bearded Man

Francisco Pacheco, 1564-1644

Sheet of studies, including a Roman head, a male figure on a pyre, and a colonnade

Luis Paret y Alcázar, ca. 1766-1774

Woodcut of a bearded man in robes tearing open a lion's jaws, with a town and castle in the landscape behind.

Samson Rending the Lion

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497-98

Frontispiece for the collection 'Trages españoles usados en diferentes epocas'

Luis Paret y Alcázar, ca. 1798-1799

Woodcut of a crowned woman on a multi-headed beast holding a chalice, with angels and a burning city above a crowd.

The Whore of Babylon, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1498

Woodcut of the Virgin on a canopied deathbed surrounded by mourning apostles, with a candle and drapery in an arched room.

The Death of the Virgin, from the The Life of the Virgin

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Studies of a standing man holding a hat and a girl in profile

Luis Paret y Alcázar, ca. 1766-1774