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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Etching of a young girl with long hair and a ruffled collar, seated before a plain background with a chair at right.

The Infanta Margarita, after Velázquez

Edgar Degas, ca. 1861-62

Pencil drawing of a seated man in Tyrolean costume with a wide hat, smoking a pipe, on tan paper.

A Man in Tyrolean Costume, Seated, Smoking a Pipe

Théodore Valério, 1842

Wash drawing of priests and bearers carrying a chest toward a columned temple while a crowned king kneels in a doorway.

King Solomon Beholds the Ark of the Covenant Being Brought to the Temple

Andrea Vicentino, 1604

Pen and ink sketch of two winged skeletons holding drapery above a funerary urn with a skull, a wall tomb design.

Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1630-40

Pen and brown wash drawing of Christ raising a kneeling figure from Limbo, with crowds of souls and angels in an arched frame

The Descent of Christ to Limbo (recto); Coats of Arms of Florentine and Sienese Families (verso)

Domenico Beccafumi, ca. 1536

Cover - Yvette Guilbert

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898

Watercolor design of a gilded neoclassical medal cabinet with a caduceus, eagle, laurel wreath and rows of gold medallions.

A Medal Cabinet for Napoleon

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1804-10

Drawing of a kneeling bearded old man in a robe, hands clasped in prayer, in ink and white highlights on blue paper.

Saint Jerome (recto); Soldier with a Spear (verso)

Vittore Carpaccio, 1480-1525

Brown wash drawing of a haloed, nude Christ rising from a tomb while sleeping soldiers lie beneath him with spears.

The Resurrection

Marco Zoppo, ca. 1465-70

Pen and ink drawing of a papal escutcheon in a tabernacle, supported by angels and putti beside an empty oval cartouche.

A Tabernacle Containing a Papal Escutcheon Supported by Angels

Giulio Romano, ca. 1538-40

Brown wash drawing with white highlights showing two studies of muscular male figures and draped cloth.

Studies for Four Figures (recto); Composition Sketches for Groupings of Figures on Clouds (verso)

Palma il Giovane, 1600-14

Pen and ink design for a doorway with nude figures, putti, and medallions on a purple-washed ground.

Design for a Doorway

Monogrammist HT, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of the crowned Virgin and Child enthroned on clouds, with God the Father and a dove above and cherubs aroun

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Hans Werl, late 16th-early 17th century

Drawing of a bearded man with tousled hair resting his hand on his chin, gazing sideways, in charcoal on toned paper.

Portrait of a Young Man Leaning on his Hand

Hans Troschel, ca. 1620

Pen and ink drawing of a curly-haired Cupid leaning on a scroll, with two doves at the lower left.

Cupid with Two Doves

Toussaint Dubreuil

White chalk drawing on brown paper of two draped figures seated and embracing beside a stone bench.

A seated couple, embracing

Edward Burne-Jones, ca. 1865

Pen and brown ink sketch of a man and woman embracing, with loose drapery and small face studies above.

A Man and a Woman Embracing

Antoine-Jean Gros

Pen and wash drawing of a robed figure driving money changers from a columned temple, with overturned tables and scattered co

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Matthias Scheits, ca. 1665-70

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude male figure with head bowed, one arm extended, on tan paper.

Seated Boy

Girolamo Macchietti, 1555-92

Brown ink and wash sketch of a seated woman in draped robes with an elderly bearded man at the right edge.

Susanna

Peter Paul Rubens

Pen and gray wash drawing of a heraldic shield with scrolls, flanked by female figures and putti in architectural niches.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1590

Pen and wash drawing of an architectural façade elevation with columns, a statue in a niche, and a seated figure on a scroll.

Design in Elevation for the Façade of a Building

Cigoli, 1590-1610

Pen and grey wash drawing of a woman with a child beside a sphere, compass and drafting tools, dated 1619.

Allegory of Sculpture

Johann Andreas Rauch, 1619

Grey wash drawing of a woman in a mantilla beside a man with a sword seen from behind, against a shadowed wall.

Maja and an officer; folio 22 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B"

Francisco Goya, 1795-97

Grey wash drawing of a woman hauling water from a well by pulley, with two women washing behind her.

Three women, one in the foreground drawing water from a well, two in the background washing; folio 45 (recto) from th…

Francisco Goya, 1795-97

Grey wash drawing of a young woman in a long dress looking down into a stone well beside a dark wall.

A young woman looking into a well; folio 46 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B"

Francisco Goya, 1795-97

Red chalk lithograph of a man in a top hat embracing a woman with feathered hair against a sprayed red background.

Mademoiselle Lender and Baron

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Grey lithograph sketch of a woman with head tilted back on a stage beside a curtain, with a man at left.

I. Sur la Scene

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898

II. Dans la Glu

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898

III. Pessima

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898