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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pen and ink sketch of a convalescent in a canopy bed attended by visitors in a room with a clock and folding screen.

The Convalescent

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a mountainous valley with rocky cliffs, a village on a ridge, and a winding path.

Mountainous Scene

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of armed riders and figures under a cloudy sky, with skeletal remains in the foreground.

After the Battle

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of a rock dwelling with a wooden door and steps, with a family group of adults and children in the foregro

House in the Rocks

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1839

Pen drawing of travelers with a child and donkey in a rocky landscape with skulls in the foreground and hills beyond.

Flight to Egypt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen drawing of a Gothic church with spires beside a busy harbor with boats, a crane, cargo, and cloudy sky.

The Church and the Port

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1869

Pen and ink study on tan paper showing a landscape with a village, mountains, soldiers, a flying bird and decorative sketches

Studies

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of a steep rocky mountainside with cliffs, shrubs in the foreground, and light horizontal sky strokes.

Mountainous Site

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of riders on galloping horses chasing across a hilly landscape under clouds.

The Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Architectural elevation drawing of a neoclassical building with columns, fountains, a winged statue, and a cascading waterfal

Design for a Neoclassical Building, Thought to be a School of Arts for the City of Stockholm

Louis Gustave Taraval, ca. 1770-94

Charcoal drawing on grey paper of a woman's head and shoulders with heavy drapery and one arm extended to the right.

Half-Length Figure of a Woman with Outstretched Arms

François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Pencil sketch by Gustave Doré of figures in a crowd beside a figure on a cross, with draped cloth above.

Sketch of a Draper's or Upholsterer's Shop

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical scene with a reclining man surrounded by a crowd beneath an arched portico.

The Death of Socrates

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, ca. 1749

Etching of a child blowing a soap bubble beside a man holding a hat, a parrot perched on a chair, and a bowl on a table.

Soap Bubbles

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1799

Pencil sketch of a family gathered around a table drinking, with a woman in an apron standing at right and a dog below.

A Family Carousing

David Teniers the Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a lunette with two kneeling saints flanking a central pedestal, angels and putti above in cloud

Two Saints in Adoration

Ventura Salimbeni, n.d.

Engraving of Lot led by two winged angels away from a walled city, with women following behind and a tree on the left.

Lot's Flight from Sodom

Hendrick Goltzius, 1582

Engraving of a Venetian wedding: elegant figures in a columned hall overlooking a lagoon with boats and a distant city.

The Venetian Wedding

Hendrick Goltzius, 1584

Engraving of a beached pilot whale on a sandy shore, with men pulling ropes and onlookers and boats in the distance.

A beached pilot whale near Zandvoort on 21 November, 1594

Hendrick Goltzius, 1594

Engraving of Laocoön struggling with serpents beside a pedestal, with a Minerva temple, ships, and the sea behind.

Laocoön and his two sons being attacked by serpents upon a pedestal, a temple to Minerva behind them, another temple…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of emaciated figures gathered around a skeleton on the ground, with a winged skeleton of Death holding an open book

The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death…

Marco Dente, 1515-27

Engraving of a robed priest and attendant at a flaming altar as a nude man restrains a horned ram between two trees.

The Sacrifice of a Ram, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of a satyr with goat legs wrestling a horned ram before an obelisk and classical buildings.

A Satyr and a Ram Clashing, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of Apollo seated with a lyre beside a cow and dog, with classical columns and a tree in the background.

Apollo Tending the Flocks of Admetus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of a nude man in a flowing cloak reaching toward a reclining naiad with a winged cupid beside a tree.

Naked Man Pursuing a Naiad, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of a classical frieze with three winged cupids, a dragon, hanging drapery and columns, 1519.

Bas-Relief with Three Cupids, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 1519

Brown wash drawing of a dying man on a couch in a classical colonnaded hall with mourners, soldiers and a scribe.

The Death of Seneca

Jean Guillaume Moitte, ca. 1770-90

Watercolor of riders and a shepherd driving sheep along a track under a cloudy sky, with distant water and cattle.

Riders with sheep near an estuary

David Cox, 1830

Colored print of a crowded tree-lined public promenade with fashionably dressed men and women strolling and sitting at tables

The Public Promenade

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1792

Pen and wash drawing of putti beside an urn above an arch, framed by garlands and a decorative border.

Design for Over Door

Guillaume Boichot, ca. 1760-80