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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,455 works

Pen and wash design of a casket with acanthus scrolls and a central eagle on a moulded base, mounted in a decorative border.

Design for a Casket with the Gonzaga Eagle

Giulio Romano, ca. 1527-46

Brown ink drawing of a lavish interior with crowned figures, a banquet table of coins and gold vessels, and a woman with a mi

Allegory of Wealth, Lust and Stupidity

Joos van Winghe, late 16th century

Watercolor drawing of two hanging dead birds, a grey quail and a long-beaked barred bird, against a pale background.

Two Dead Birds (A Quail and a Long-Beaked Bird)

Count Giorgio Durante, 1705-55

Pen and wash drawing of a woman and child on stairs beside a birdcage, a dog, and a hooded figure under a porch.

Woman and Child on Stairs

Pierre Lélu, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of women gathered around a flower-crowned white bull, with cupids and an eagle above and a ruined column in

The Rape of Europa

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 18th century

Watercolor and ink drawing of two overlapping dead ducks, one with a green head and brown chest, on a cream ground.

Two Dead Ducks

Count Giorgio Durante, 1705-55

Pen and watercolor drawing of an ice boat with a sail and skaters among stylized pine branches in a fantastical winter landsc

Fantastical Landscape with Exotic PLants, Two Skaters and a Man in an Iceboat

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1771

Black and white chalk drawing of an eagle with wings spread on blue-grey paper, talons visible at lower left.

An Eagle with Wings Spread

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Ink and watercolor drawing of two dead birds with barred plumage and long bills lying overlapping on a pale ground.

Dead Birds

Count Giorgio Durante, 1685-1755

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Baptism of Christ with angels, a dove, and a cross in the sky.

The Baptism of Christ

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Brown ink drawing of a cinerary urn design with a blank cartouche, eagles, roosters and a mask among fruit garlands.

Cinerary Urn, after the Antique

Nicolas Poussin, 17th-19th century

Bird, Perhaps an Egret, Seen in Profile with One Wing Lifted

Count Giorgio Durante, 1685-1755

Grey chalk drawing of a bare tree, a hooded figure and two birds in a rural landscape under a cloudy sky.

Copy of a painting entitled "L'Automne," by J.F. Millet

Alfred-Ernest Robaut, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a large curlew with a long curved bill, with smaller curlews, a duck, reeds and flying birds behind.

Curlews and Ducks

Nicolas Robert, 17th century

Graphite drawing of a white cockatoo with raised crest perched on a bamboo branch, wing spread, by Jean-Georges Vibert.

The Angry Parrot

Jehan-Georges Vibert, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of a figure pointing to the sky as birds fly and putti hover near a sun, with soldiers below.

Romulus Receiving the Augury

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of three parrots perched on a bare tree stump against a faint landscape background.

Three Parrots

Nicolas Robert, ca. 1675

Grey-toned drawing of a white cockatoo on a chained perch holding a berry, with metal feeding bowls beside it.

The Sedate Parrot

Jehan-Georges Vibert, n.d.

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a river with trees, a bridge, a village, a rowing boat and birds.

River View with Figures

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink drawing of Jupiter descending in flames and clouds toward a startled woman, with an eagle below.

Jupiter Appearing to Semele

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Brown ink and wash drawing of muscular Vulcan working at an anvil in a forge, with assistants and a winged cupid watching.

Venus and Cupid in Vulcan's Forge

Domenico Piola, 1627-1703

Red chalk drawing of a saint in ecstasy holding a cross, with a cherub, a dove and cherub heads in the clouds.

Male Saint in Ecstasy

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen drawing of the Judgment of Paris with a seated youth offering an apple to three nude goddesses, a cupid, dog, and peacock

Judgment of Paris, after Raphael

Raphael, 1520-1600

Brown wash drawing of Christ crowning a kneeling woman as cherubs and a dove of the Holy Spirit gather in the clouds above.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Francesco Vanni, 1605

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate octagonal catafalque with an arched niche, urn, putti and a pyramidal roof.

Catafalque for a Cardinal

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of an eagle carrying a winged youth above men in ancient dress gazing upward.

The Abduction of Ganymede

Giorgio Vasari, 1511-74

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of a bearded saint with an eagle and open book, seated on clouds, in an octagonal frame.

Saint John the Evangelist

Giovanni de' Vecchi, 1598-99

Pen and ink sketch of an angel with a sword expelling two nude figures, with studies of dogs, a bull and a turkey below.

The Expulsion from the Garden

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Fan mount design with a dancing couple, elegant seated women in gowns, arched colonnade and an oval landscape vignette.

Fan Mount: The Spanish Piazza

Charles Conder, 1896

Engraving of a standing woman holding a banner with a boar's head, with a boar, an owl and an obelisk nearby.

Gluttony, from "The Vices"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552