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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Red chalk drawing of a young man's bust with tousled wavy hair and a loose garment on a cream sheet.

Bust of a Young Man

Jean de Saint-Igny, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a baroque festival arch with a central statue niche, cherubs, a sunburst, fountains and candelabra.

Design for Festival Architecture for an Entry into Paris for the King of Sweden, Fredrerick I of Hesse

Guillaume Thomas Raphaël Taraval, 18th century

Watercolor view of a long French château with slate roofs and corner towers above a formal garden with figures.

View of a Château

Nicolas Pérignon the Elder, 18th century

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a rearing horse and rider, ornate chariot scrollwork, and studies of male heads.

Sheet of Sketches: Sculpture for a Banquet Honoring Queen Christina of Sweden

Giovanni Paolo Schor, early 17th-late 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a forest path framed by large trees, with small figures resting on the left and distant ruins beyond.

Wooded Landscape

Paulus van Liender, 18th century

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Pen and ink frieze design with two putti holding garlands around an empty oval cartouche, flanked by scrolls.

Design for a Frieze

Henri Sallembier, n.d.

Grey ink and wash drawing of a bearded man, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure and a torch in a stone interior.

Witch of Endor

Ary Scheffer, 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental vase with two female figure handles and a garland, within a ruled border.

Design for Vase

Jacques Francois Joseph Saly, mid-18th century

Grayscale drawing of two winged nude figures with comedy and tragedy masks above carved busts of playwrights.

Comedy and Tragedy

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1814

Pencil sketch of Mars with a rearing horse, a winged Victory figure behind him, and a veiled figure on the right.

Mars Crowned by Victory and Listening to Moderation

Antoine-Jean Gros, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of The Last Supper with apostles around a long table under a draped curtain.

The Last Supper

Master of the Egmont Albums, 16th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elderly monocled man examining a box beside a seated woman, with a servant and urn.

The Connoisseur

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1800

Watercolor drawing of a woman in a pink gown gesturing toward a horned beast holding a basket of jewelry beneath a tree.

Beauty and the Beast

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Letter by Edouard Manet with a watercolor of two apples casting soft shadows, handwritten in French ink.

A Letter to Eugène Maus, Decorated with Two Apples

Édouard Manet, August 2, 1880

Red chalk drawing of Christ carrying the cross amid a crowd of soldiers and mourners, with a colonnade and hilltop crosses be

Christ Carrying the Cross

Pierre Mignard I, ca. 1684

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd carrying stones past a palm tree, with an obelisk and a cloud-borne figure above.

The Jews Collecting the Twelve Stones from the River Jordan

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ca. 1535-38

Colored design drawing of a theatre ceiling with a gilded lunette, classical figures, and a frieze labeled Aristophane and Te

Design for a Ceiling at Théatre Français, Paris

Aimé Chenavard, 1810-38

Diary page with pen-and-ink floor plan of Tarrytown house additions and numbered list of drawings and fees, 1864.

A. J. Davis "Diary"

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1829-82

Scrapbook page with two architectural floor plans, a President's House study and a plan for four government departments aroun

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook VIII

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1835-92

Watercolor architectural drawing of a Gothic-style front door with glazed tracery panels beneath a pointed stone arch.

Front Door for Whitby, William P. Chapman House, Rye, New York

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1853

Pencil and wash drawing of Gothic window tracery with a central rose design, lancet arches and quatrefoil ornament.

Design for window tracery for Chapman - full size

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1853-55

Pen drawing of a theatre stage set with draped curtains, a heraldic crest with winged figures, and ornamental panels.

Design for a Stage Set

Aimé Chenavard, 1810-38

Watercolor design of an ornate gilt gas lamp with a glass globe, fluted base and scroll handles, on cream paper.

Design for a Gas Lamp with Gilt Base and Glass Globe

Guérard, 19th century

Watercolor elevation of a spiral staircase lighthouse with smoking fire at the top, flanked by walls and distant ships.

Design for a Lighthouse (Margate?)

Debenne, ca. 1815

Pencil sketch of a group of wigged men in period dress gathered at a table with wine glasses and a decanter.

Group of Figures at a Table

Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1732-33

Watercolor design of an ornate gilded candelabra with six candles, putti, and jeweled base on a pale ground.

Design for a Candelabra

Aimé Chenavard, 1810-38

Pencil drawing of a mechanical stylus with hexagonal nut and knurled knob on a curved metal base.

Stylus of a Machine Used for Engraving Bank notes

Cyrus Durand, 19th century

Pencil and chalk drawing of a woman in a lace bonnet seated with a young fair-haired boy leaning against her.

Mrs. Papendiek and Her Son

Thomas Lawrence, 1789

Watercolor landscape of a snowy mountain range over a winding river plain, with three robed figures on a hill in the foregrou

Mount Olympus from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece

Edward Lear, 1850-85