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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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

Lithograph of Macbeth in plaid dress facing three witches who gesture over a bubbling cauldron in a dark, smoky setting.

Macbeth Consulting the Witches

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Lithograph bust portrait of a young man in dark jacket and white cravat against hatched dark background, with Latin inscripti

Baron Schwiter (Louis Auguste Schwiter, 1805-1889)

Eugène Delacroix, 1826

Lithograph of Faust offering his arm to Marguerite on a medieval street, with Mephistopheles walking behind them.

Faust Trying to Seduce Marguerite (Goethe, Faust)

Eugène Delacroix, 1825-27

Pencil drawing of a standing nude male figure, Saint Sebastian, with raised arm and loincloth, on pale paper.

Saint Sebastian

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pen and ink drawing of a robed standing figure with bowed head holding a tall cross over the shoulder.

Standing Figure Holding Cross

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pen and ink drawing of a robed male saint with arms extended, standing on a stepped pedestal.

Male Saint (an Apostle?) Standing on a Pedestal with Arms Extended (recto); Standing or Kneeling Male Saint (verso)

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50