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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Etching of the Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, the Virgin embracing the Christ child in a wooded landscape with Sain

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1637-40 or after

Etching of the Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist in a wooded landscape, with trees and a lamb.

Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1637-40

Brown wash drawing of two cloaked men by a tree overlooking grazing sheep and cattle in an open landscape.

Landscape with Sheep and Two Figures

Jacob Van Der Does, 1623

Etching of Europa riding a flower-garlanded bull over the sea, surrounded by flying and swimming putti and a distant landscap

Rape of Europa

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1636

Etching of a youth playing pipes beside a sleeping man under oak trees, with a cow and dog in a pastoral landscape.

Mercury and Argus, copy in reverse after Cantarini

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1630-48 or after

Engraving of a youth playing a pipe under an oak, with a reclining man, a cow, and a distant landscape.

Mercury and Argus, counterproof of copy in reverse after Cantarini

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1630-1648 or after

Print of a seated youth playing pipes under trees beside a reclining figure, with a cow and sheep in a rural landscape.

Mercury and Argus

Simone Cantarini, ca.1630-48

Etching of Venus and Adonis: a nude Venus seated on rock, Adonis embracing her, a cupid nearby, trees and a dog in a landscap

Venus and Adonis

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1637-39

Pen and wash drawing of a fountain and monumental staircase with reclining figures, urns, and architectural framing.

Manuscript page with a Project for a Fountain (recto); Project and Plan for a Monumental Staircase (verso)

Luigi Vanvitelli, ca. 1740-60

Pencil architectural elevation with pedimented aedicules, arched niches, and sculpted figures over a faint construction grid.

Detail study for the façade of Milan cathedral

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Pen and ink design sketch of a theater interior with columns, arches, drapery swags, a hanging lamp and curved balustrade.

Design for a Theater Interior

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Etching of Christ bearing a cross on his back, kneeling in a landscape while a figure supports the beam above him.

Christ bearing the cross on his back, copy after Cantarini

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1637-39 or after

Etching of a shepherd with a flute pointing outward, two children beside him, under gnarled trees in a landscape.

Shepherd holding a flute and two other figures in a landscape

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1660-61

Pencil architectural sketch of a wall with a doorway, pilasters, and a cartouche, with smaller studies at left.

Architectural Sketch for the design of a Wall with Doorway, with two smaller sketches for the design of windows or do…

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Pen drawing of an oval ballroom ceiling with coffered panels, a central allegorical medallion, and figures in clouds.

Ceiling of Ballroom decorated for the Marriage of the King of Naples to the Archduchess of Austria

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Pen and wash cross section of a theater with tiered boxes and a stage set showing a classical street with columns and an obel

Transverse Section of the Small Theater at the Palace of Caserta, with a View of a Stage Design

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Pen and wash architectural drawing of a theater plan with a radiating ornamental ceiling and a scale bar in palms.

Projection of Ceiling Over Plan of the Small Theater in the Palace at Caserta

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Brown ink drawing of a crowd of onlookers beside faint sketches of a crucified figure, attributed to Giovanni Battista Spinel

The Martydrom of St. Andrew

Giovanni Battista Spinelli, 1630-60

Charcoal drawing of Christ falling under the cross, with soldiers, a horse, and kneeling women around him.

Christ Falls under the Cross

Girolamo Starace, 1730-94

Brown ink and wash drawing of a rocky coast with a winged horse, two figures, a tall tree, and distant hills under a pale sky

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain, 1671

Pen and ink sketch on blue paper of sea nymphs, tritons and cherubs around a figure in a shell chariot with dolphins.

The Triumph of Galatea

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Pen and ink drawing of skeletons and kneeling penitents around an altar with candles, tombstones and putti.

Allegory of Penance and Death

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman surrounded by nude infants in a wooded landscape.

A Seated Female Figure Surrounded by Nude Infants

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Etching of a dark interior with witches, demons, a bat, and a nude figure near a hearth.

Departure for the Sabbath

Dominique Vivant Denon

Black and red chalk drawing of a man gesturing toward cloaked figures in front of a sketched wall with windows and a shrine.

Family Group Kneeling Before a Street Shrine

Ventura Salimbeni, ca. 1600

Sepia drawing of a heavenly assembly with an enthroned central group, angels, saints, and putti in lunettes.

Paradise

Federico Zuccaro, 1565-77

Etching of a male nude lying on his side on rocky ground, with hatched shading and brushy vegetation behind him.

Male nude lying on his side with his right arm behind his back

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1635-40

Etched landscape with a tall tree at left, a winding path or water through rocky hills, and distant mountains under a hatched

A landscape with water in the foreground and mountains in the distance

Salvator Rosa, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of the Holy Family with winged angels gathered around a seated woman and children.

The Holy Family with Attendant Angels

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Pen and wash drawing of a seated bearded satyr with flowing hair, with a grotesque mask study in the upper right.

Seated satyr, with enlarged head of same (recto); Head of a woman (verso)

Pellegrino Tibaldi, 1527-96