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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a standing man in a loose tunic with a raised hand, plus a drapery study.

Standing Man

Eugène Leygue, 1830-77

Charcoal drawing of a draped figure falling diagonally, one arm raised, over faint red grid lines on tinted paper.

Falling Man

Eugène Leygue, 1830-77

Red chalk drawing of a plumed female figure in a chariot drawn by lions, with a flaming altar and tree behind.

Allegory of America

Louis Licherie de Beurie, mid-17th century

Red chalk drawing of a young woman with curly hair holding a curved horn, with an Italian inscription below.

Huntress with a Horn

Carle Vanloo, ca. 1733

Brown wash drawing of St. Gregory dictating to a secretary by candlelight in a book-lined room, inside an arched frame.

St. Gregory Dictating His Homilies to a Secretary

Carle Vanloo, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling figure held by a man amid a crowd, framed by a shield cartouche with two cherubs.

St. Gregory Reluctant to Accept His Election as Bishop of Rome

Carle Vanloo, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a man giving alms to a kneeling woman and child in a city street, within an arched frame.

St. Gregory Distributing His Worldly Goods to the Poor

Carle Vanloo, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a robed priest at an altar with a kneeling woman, candle, angels and cartouche frame.

The Mass of St. Gregory

Carle Vanloo, 18th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of elegant figures conversing in a colonnaded hall, with a servant carrying a tray and a small dog.

La Conversation espagnole

Carle Vanloo, 1754

Ink drawing of a bearded man in a cap and long coat standing on two crutches against a pale background.

A Man on Crutches

Édouard Manet, 1878

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man in period dress seated beside an ornate tray and jug.

Portrait of a Silversmith, Seated

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 19th century

Charcoal drawing of a reclining male figure draped in cloth, with limp arms, on pale paper.

Dead Man

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1830-91

Hand-colored woodcut of a haloed female saint holding a bowl of bread and wheat, against a red patterned background.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Wolfgang, ca. 1470

Hand-colored print of Christ beside a woman lowering a jug into a brick well, with a castle on the hills behind.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Master with the Cologne Arms, ca. 1460-70

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple, with a priest, columns and kneeling mother.

Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Charles Mellin, ca. 1643

Virgin Mary on clouds gestures to Saint Joseph with a lily while a kneeling nun looks up, with cherubs above.

The Virgin Placing St. Teresa of Avila Under the Protection of St. Joseph

François Guillaume Ménageot, ca. 1787

Brown wash drawing of a river with a rowing boat, a stone arched bridge, a round temple and a brick tower.

A View of the Tiber from the North Bank, with the Temple of Vesta, the Campanile of S. Maria in Cosmedin and the Pont…

Achille Etna Michallon, 1819

Brown and white wash drawing of a bearded man in robes gazing upward, holding an open book in an arched niche.

Saint Matthew

Domenico Beccafumi, 1538

Charcoal drawing of three laborers resting on a grassy bank beside a tree, with shovels and tools in the foreground.

Roadworkers at Lunch

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1850-52

Charcoal sketch of a peasant woman in a cap working at a churn beside a wooden tub.

Woman with a Churn

Jean-François Millet, 1854

Etching of a shepherdess in a cloak and cap beside a tree, with a grazing sheep flock in an open field behind her.

Shepherdess Knitting

Jean-François Millet, 1862

Charcoal sketch of a standing man leaning on a spade, with a study of a seated figure to the right.

Man with a Spade

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1855-58

Charcoal drawing of a shepherdess with a staff beside her grazing sheep flock, with tall trees on the right.

A Shepherdess with Her Flock

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1852

Black and grey lithograph of a bowed seated woman beside a standing man, with a tree and a figure in its branches above.

Human Misery, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

Paul Gauguin, 1889

Pen and watercolor drawing of a woman in a headscarf leaning on a pitchfork beside a smoky field fire.

A Woman Burning Weeds

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Drawing of a woman shearing a sheep beside a man in a hat under a large tree, with a fence and cottage behind.

Sheepshearing Beneath a Tree

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1854

Charcoal drawing of a woodcutter raising an axe over bundled faggots beside a stacked pile of wood, with a forest behind.

Woodcutter Trimming Faggots

Jean-François Millet, 1853-54

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling draped male figure leaning on a ledge, signed and dated 1776.

Kneeling Draped Male Figure

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1776

Grey wash drawing of a seated man refusing gifts from robed visitors beside a hearth, with onlookers above.

Manius Curius Dentatus Refusing the Presents of the Samnite Ambassadors

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1795-96

Pen and watercolor drawing of two women in bonnets and striped skirts chatting face to face.

The Two Gossips (Les Deux Commères)

Henry Bonaventure Monnier, 1832