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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Circular brown ink drawing of the Judgment of Paris with three nude goddesses, a seated man, Cupid, and a reclining river god

The Judgment of Paris

Pieter de Jode, late 16th-mid 17th century

Drawing of an elderly bearded man with flowing hair in brown wash and red chalk against a dark background.

Study for the figure of Moses

Jacob de Wit, 1730-37

Pen and wash drawing of Ecce Homo: a crowned figure on a balcony above a crowd, framed by a border of birds, flowers and urns

Ecce Homo

Maerten de Vos, 1584

Two Studies of a Man

Santi di Tito, ca. 1575

Red chalk drawing of a seated man in a powdered wig and buttoned coat, one hand resting on a table.

Portrait of George Graham

Thomas Hudson, ca. 1739

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with cherubs and an angel holding a cross, heightened with white.

Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso)

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Brown wash drawing of the risen Christ rising above a tomb as startled soldiers recoil below.

The Resurrection of Christ

Denys Calvaert, n.d.

Drawing of Neptune and Amphitrite in a shell chariot pulled by two sea horses, with a trident and a distant castle.

Neptune and Amphitrite

Hans Ulrich Franck, 1595-1675

Brown ink and wash drawing of a stone bridge over a stream with two figures, bare trees and snow in a winter landscape.

The Bridge at Shoreham

Samuel Palmer, ca. 1829

Watercolor of misty mountains above a pale reflective lake, with handwritten place names along the bottom edge.

Craig Goch, Moel Hebog, North Wales

Cornelius Varley, ca. 1802

Sepia drawing of a woman with long hair leaning over a reed-covered basket among bulrushes, with figures and a balustrade beh

Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes

Simeon Solomon, February 22, 1859

Grey wash drawing of a lion below a goat on a rocky cliff, with a wide landscape and clouds behind them.

The Lyon and the Kid, from Ogilby's Aesopics

Francis Barlow, ca. 1668

Pen and brown ink drawing of robed figures with staves struggling over a reclining nude, with a rocky landscape and ruins beh

The Age of Iron

Alonso Berruguete, 1520s-30s

Study of the Right Leg of a Male Child

Red chalk drawing of a prophet, King David and two putti in decorative cupola compartments.

Design for the Decoration of a Cupola with a Prophet, King David and Two Putti

Drawing of a bearded man in a gray robe and white collar, gazing upward, rendered in chalk on blue-gray paper.

Bust-Length Portrait of an Ecclesiastic

Carletto Caliari, 16th century

Pen and ink sketch of a draped woman, a man in a plumed hat with a sword, and several figure studies on paper.

Sheet with Figure Studies (double sided)

called Il Monrealese Pietro Novelli, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a priest in a mitre circumcising an infant at an altar, with a kneeling child, a praying woman and onloo

The Circumcision

Gérard de Lairesse, mid-17th-early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a crowd beneath classical columns, with flames above their heads and seated women in the foreground.

The Pentecost

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Watercolor of skaters on a frozen canal under a brick bridge, with a snowy thatched cottage and windblown tree beneath stormy

Winter Landscape with Skaters on a Frozen Canal

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of a rainbow over a farmhouse, grazing cows and a distant village under a stormy sky.

Landscape with a Rainbow over a Farmhouse and Distant Village

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, n.d.

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a colliery winding wheel at a town edge, with a castle on a hill and a bare tree.

View of a colliery at the edge of a town

George Price Boyce, 1865-75

Black chalk and white highlight study of a draped angel seated on a cloud, one arm raised, with extra hand studies.

Angel Holding a Banderole

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Pen and brown ink study sheet with several nude figures, intertwined couples, and a winged cupid at upper left.

Studies for Apollo and Daphne, Zeus and Juno, Orpheus and Eurydice and other figures (recto and verso)

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, n.d.

Pen and wash study of a fountain with a seated woman, dancing figures, statues and an ornate scrolled frame.

Study for The Allegory of Spring

Federico Zuccaro, 1579

Pencil sketch of three women in long dresses talking beside a croquet field, with two croquet players at the left.

Three women in conversation beside a croquet field (recto); Studies of a ballet dancer, a woman's profile, and a seat…

Louisa Starr Canziani, ca. 1865

Grey wash drawing of a flower arrangement in an urn inside an arched niche, with grapes and fruit on a stone pedestal.

Vase of Flowers

Willem van Leen, 1790s

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a standing friar in a long hooded robe, gazing upward with hands clasped.

Saint Francis

Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, ca. 1550-60

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed woman before a seated man, with a kneeling woman, flames, books and onlookers.

The Cumaean Sibyl before Tarquin the Proud

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Graphite study of a group of bearded men in turbans and robes standing and talking together, with loose figures at the sides.

Study for "Types de races algériennes"

Henri-Félix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1830-86