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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pen and ink sketch of architectural ornaments, a column and entablature, and a seated male figure on pale paper.

A Figure and Some Architectural Details

Michelangelo, 1475-1564

Pen and wash drawing of Christ gesturing at a column as men carry a struggling figure through a crowded classical street.

Christ Healing a Possessed Man

Aureliano Milani, 1675-1749

Red chalk drawing of a hilly landscape with windblown trees, a village, a hilltop building and three small figures.

Hilly Landscape with Three Figures

Aureliano Milani, 1675-1749

Drawing of an old man on his deathbed tempted by demons, with an angel reaching toward him from above.

An Old Man on His Deathbed Tempted by Demons (recto); Back View of a Male Nude (verso)

Aureliano Milani, 1675-1749

Watercolor of a windblown woman in yellow beside a red-cloaked man leaning on a tree with a lyre, distant castle and mountain

Tasso Contemplating Beauty

Tommaso Minardi, 1823

Brown wash drawing of a haloed child seated beside a reclining lamb, with lilies and a reed cross in a landscape.

Seated John the Baptist with a Lamb in a Landscape

Tommaso Minardi, 1787-1871

Sepia drawing in lunette shape of the Virgin and Child with infant John the Baptist, a lamb, and a distant city.

The Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and a Lamb in a Landscape

Tommaso Minardi, 1787-1871

Pen and brown wash sketch of artists drawing and painting in a studio, with a crowd of onlookers and a standing nude model.

Artists Drawing and Painting in a Studio

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Four Caricatured Heads

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Brown ink and wash drawing of a forest landscape with trees, a hunting party at left, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Forest Scene, a Halt at the Left, a Hunt at the Center

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Pen and grey wash drawing of caricatured men gathered around a table, one seated figure drawing at the lower center.

Group of Caricatured Figures with an Artist Drawing

Guercino, 1612-66

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk of a preacher addressing a seated crowd under palms, with a boat on water at right.

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Brown ink wash drawing of a fallen man on the ground with startled soldiers and spears on the right.

Conversion of Saint Paul

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Brown ink and wash drawing of a leaning tree with two figures at its base, a ruined building at right, and a distant landscap

Landscape with Two Men Under a Tree

Pier Francesco Mola, 1632-66

Pen and ink sketch of mythological figures, a nude central figure and draped women among scribbled clouds.

The Pregnancy of Callisto Discovered by Diana

Antonio Molinari, 1612-66

Pen and brown wash drawing of a kneeling man lifting a beam, with robed figures on each side in an interior setting.

The Discovery of the True Cross

Moncalvo, 1568-1625

Brown wash drawing of a seated winged figure in drapery beside a flaming stone pedestal, in a lunette shape.

Seated Allegorical Female Figure

Morazzone, 1593-1626

Brown ink and wash drawing of a dense woodland with gnarled trees and rocky ground, with faint sketched figures at lower left

Woodland Scene with Light Sketch of a Madonna and Child

Girolamo Muziano, 1528-92

Brown wash drawing of a haloed Christ seated under a canopy, preaching to kneeling figures in a columned architectural hall.

Christ Preaching

Federico Zuccaro, 16th century

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of an old bearded man with a staff and a young woman with a bundle before a classica

The Dismissal of Hagar

Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, 1657-1736

Ink and wash drawing of a rocky ravine path leading to a columned classical building carved into a cliff.

Design for a Stage Set (recto); Architectural Design (verso)

Francesco Navone, 1780-1804

Watercolor of a three-masted sailing ship cresting grey waves under a cloudy sky.

Ship at Sea

Albert Ernest Markes, late 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a large gnarled tree with a hollow trunk in a wooded park landscape.

In the Park at Packington

Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, 1770-1812

Brown wash drawing of trees beside a river, with a ruined tower on the left and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landscape

Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, 1770-1812

Grey wash drawing of a classical domed tomb among trees beside a winding road, with distant hills under a pale sky.

Italian Landscape with a Tomb

George Howland Beaumont, 1783

Watercolor of a river winding toward a cathedral city, with two seated figures on a hill in the foreground.

Rouen, View from Bon-Secours

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1821-22

Red chalk and ink drawing of a procession of nude and draped male figures carrying long staffs across a horizontal sheet.

Procession of figures

Carlo Urbino, 1510-85

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a large tree, rolling hills, and a castle on a hill under clouds.

Landscape with a Castle on a Hill

Crescenzio Onofri, 1632-1712

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated muscular figure with one knee raised, on blue-grey paper.

Reclining Female Nude Figure

Domenico Tintoretto, 1560-1635

Brown and grey wash drawing with a grid, showing a seated nude figure surrounded by a crowd of mocking figures.

The Mocking of Christ

Domenico Tintoretto, 1580-1635