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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Engraving of gods feasting on clouds with cherubs and winged figures, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1587.

The Feast of the Gods at the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Hendrick Goltzius, 1587

Pen and ink landscape drawing of trees, low farm buildings, walls and towers beneath a pale sky.

Landscape Study: Surburbs of Rome

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 1606-80

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a reclining satyr on a ledge, with drapery, on blue-grey paper.

Satyr Reclining on a Ledge, Facing Right (recto); Satyr Reclining on a Ledge, Facing Left (verso)

Jacopo Guarana, 1720-1808

Chalk drawing on blue paper of two putti supporting a large draped cloth, with white highlights on the folds.

Two Putti Supporting the Lower Part of a Draped Figure (recto); Two Putti (verso)

Jacopo Guarana, 1720-1808

Brown ink drawing of a busy Venetian canal with gondolas, rowers, palazzi, and a church tower under a pale sky.

The Grand Canal above the Rialto (recto); A Priest Celebrating Mass and Saint Vincent Ferrer Preaching (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and wash drawing of a lagoon with an obelisk, a pine tree, small figures on the shore, and sailboats in the distance.

Lagoon Capriccio with an Obelisk

Francesco Guardi, ca. 1750-70

Pen and ink sketch of men, dogs and a bull in a bullbaiting scene, with figures running and struggling across a sandy open sp

Bullbaiting in a Venetian Piazza

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and ink sketch of an ornate ceremonial galley with rows of oars on rippling water, with distant boats.

The Bucintoro Moving to the Left (recto); The Bucintoro Moving to the Right (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical villa with a pedimented facade, gate with statues, trees, and a broad lawn.

The Villa Loredan, near Treviso

Francesco Guardi, ca. 1778

Pencil sketch of four standing men in cloaks and tricorn hats below an architectural cornice.

Figure Studies (recto); Figures Along a Canal and on a Bridge; to the right, a Curtain and a Stool (?) (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of an imagined palace courtyard with tall arches, columns, and small figures.

Architectural Capriccio: Courtyard of a Palace (recto); Saint Aloysius Gonzaga Holding a Crucifix (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of men playing dice beside a sunlit gothic church and bell tower in a Venetian square.

Dice Players in a Venetian Square

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a palace garden entrance with steps, columns, an arched doorway, a tall tree and small figures.

Architectural Capriccio: Garden Entrance to a Palace (recto); Three Masked and Costumed Figures and Other Figure Stud…

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a vaulted arched passageway with columns, opening onto a distant square with small figures.

Architectural Capriccio: Vaulted Passageway Leading to a Square

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a vaulted passageway with arched niches, a shrine, a hanging lantern and a figure at left.

Architectural Capriccio: A Vaulted Passageway (recto); Ruined Loggia (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 18th century

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk of a vaulted colonnade with tall columns, small figures, and a statue niche.

Architectural Capriccio: Vaulted Colonnade of a Palace

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of an arched palace courtyard with staircases, balconies, columns and small figures.

Architectural Capriccio: Courtyard of a Palace

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures on a grand staircase beneath a colonnaded arch with statues in niches.

Architectural Fantasy: Figures on a Grand Staircase

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink drawing of a city fire with burning rooftops, smoke, and a crowd of onlookers in the street below.

The Fire at San Marcuola (recto); Roman Ruins (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a lagoon with a tall tower, a sailboat, small figures and low buildings under a cloudy sky.

Lagoon Capriccio with a Tower

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a formal garden with a ruined arch, classical pavilions, walls, statues, and strolling figures.

Gardens of the Villa Correr, near Strà (recto); Study for The Transverberation of Saint Teresa of Jesus and a Study o…

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a Venetian piazza with columns, arcaded buildings, a tall tower and small figures.

The Piazzetta, Looking Toward San Giorgio Maggiore (recto); Two Columns (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a lagoon shore with buildings, tall cypress trees, a figure, and a distant sailing boat.

The Island of Anconetta (recto); Two Feet Wearing Pointed Shoes (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Ink and wash drawing of figures on a grand staircase beneath a stone arch, with a palatial facade and statue beyond.

Architectural Fantasy: Figures on a Grand Staircase (recto); Studies for the Frame of a Shaped Field (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and green wash drawing of rococo scrollwork and leafy foliage forming an ornamental border around a blank center.

Design for a Framing Motif

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of groups of cloaked figures walking on blue-grey paper, signed Guardi at lower left.

Studies for Groups of Walking Dressed Figures

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen and brown wash drawing of a capriccio harbor with a stone bridge, ruined towers, classical columns, ships and figures.

Capriccio with a Seaport and Classical Ruins

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Grey wash drawing of a domed waterfront building with boats and sailing ships on calm water.

A Port near Venice: Chioggia (?)

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Ink and wash drawing of a lagoon town with tall bell towers, gondolas with rowers, and a sailing ship at left.

Quinta Valle at Castello

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of gondolas on a Venetian lagoon with buildings on both sides and a distant bell tower.

The Punta di San Giobbe, with the Island of San Secondo in the Distance

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of a Venetian-style canal with gondolas, buildings, a sailboat, and a distant bell tower.

The Island of Burano

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of a Venetian canal with gondolas, rowers, a sailboat, a bridge and a church with a bell tower.

San Biagio on the Giudecca

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of a brick tower and low buildings on a lagoon shore, with gondolas and rowing boats on the water.

The Tower at Marghera

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Pen and wash drawing of an arcaded square with elegantly dressed figures and dogs in the foreground.

Piazza San Marco Decorated for the Festa della Sensa

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Pale watercolor of Venetian lagoon with gondolas and sailboats before the domed church of San Giorgio Maggiore.

View of the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Watercolor drawing of a busy city piazza with flagpoles, market tents, a clock tower and strolling figures under a blue sky.

View of the Piazza di San Marco Toward the South (showing the now destroyed church of San Geminiano)

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Grey wash drawing of San Giorgio Maggiore church across Venetian lagoon, with gondolas, rowers and sailing ships.

The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Giacomo Guardi, 1764-1835

Brown ink and wash drawing of a rocky landscape with sketched figures, one lying across stones in the foreground.

The Good Samaritan

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, 1699-1766

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man in a robe beside a child holding a flowering staff, with a stair at lower right.

Saint Joseph Seen with his Flowering Staff, which is Held by the Christ Child

Guercino, 1591-1666

Pen and brown ink drawing of a rocky landscape with cliffs and small figures walking along a path.

Rocky Landscape with Eight Figures

Brown ink and wash sketch of a young woman leaning over a youth who points outward, with loose drapery lines.

Youth in a Chariot with Attendant Young Woman

Guercino, ca. 1621-23

Pen and brown ink drawing of a kneeling youth before a bearded prelate in a mitre, with sketched steps below.

Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (recto); Another Study of a Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (verso)

Guercino, ca. 1620

Engraving of the bearded prophet Jeremiah seated in thought, framed by architectural arches and putti, labeled HIEREMIAS.

The Prophet Jeremiah, from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of allegorical figures on clouds above a studio where a seated painter watches a radiant woman and artisans work.

The Lament of the Art of Painting

Cornelis Cort, 1579

Engraving of Apollo standing nude with a laurel wreath, beside the flayed Marsyas, with onlookers including horned Midas.

Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgment of Midas

Melchior Meier, 1581

Monochrome print of a bearded man in a draped robe holding a mirror that reflects a wrinkled face, against a dark background.

Socrates Looking in a Mirror

Bernard Vaillant, 17th century

Woodcut procession of crowned captives and armored soldiers walking past a Latin caption, titled Triumphus Caesaris.

The Triumph of Caesar

Jacob of Strasbourg, after 1503

Engraved bird's-eye view of Tivoli palace with formal gardens, mazes, a central fountain and terraced stairs.

Tivoli Palace and Gardens, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne Dupérac, 1573

Etched landscape of a sandy rural road, a large tree, a thatched cottage, a seated figure with a dog, and distant farm buildi

Wheat Field

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1772

Pen and ink drawing of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome with fireworks above it, boats on the river and watching figures.

Figures Watching a Display of Fireworks at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome (recto); A Distant View of the Fireworks Seen fro…

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 1606-80

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child while kneeling and turbaned figures appr

The Adoration of the Magi

Guercino, 1625-30

Pen and brown ink study of a woman in a headscarf gazing upward, holding a scroll with written lines.

A Sibyl Holding a Scroll (Study for the Cimmerian Sibyl)

Pen and ink sketch of two studies of a kneeling male figure in flowing drapery, one facing left and one seen from behind.

Two Studies of a Kneeling Male Figure (recto); Handwritten letter (verso)

Guercino, ca. 1652

Brown ink and wash drawing of a robed figure pointing upward beside a seated bearded man, with onlookers and radiating light.

The Raising of Lazarus

Guercino, ca. 1619

Red chalk drawing of a young man seen from behind, bending over a bowl with a draped cloth at his waist.

Standing Youth Seen from Behind Holding a Bowl (Ganymede?)

Guercino, ca. 1635-45

Etching of a pond edge with broad leaves, flowering plants, reeds, a large tree, and a rustic fence under a pale sky.

The Pond

Eugène Stanislas Alexandre Bléry, 1857

Pen and brown ink drawing of a nude youth sleeping under a crescent moon, head resting on his arm beside a staff.

Endymion Sleeping

Guercino, 1635-50

Etching of a windswept juniper tree on a rocky outcrop, with shrubs and ferns in the foreground and an open sky.

The Juniper Tree, Fontainbleu

Eugène Stanislas Alexandre Bléry, 1840

Brown ink and wash drawing of a veiled woman praying with clasped hands, gazing upward, standing on a crescent.

The Virgin Immaculate

Guercino, ca. 1656

Half-Figure of a Nude Man Facing Right

Guercino, 1640's

Red chalk drawing on blue paper of a bearded old man with raised right arm, with sketched studies around him.

Seated Old Man with Right Arm Upraised (Tithonus) (recto); Seated Nude Youth (figure of Day) (verso)

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman with curled hair and a small winged child reaching toward her.

Saint Cecilia Playing the Organ

Guercino, 1650s

Pen and wash drawing of a plumed-hat youth in puffed breeches reaching upward, mounted on a pale blue-grey card mat.

Boy Chasing a Butterfly

Guercino, 1591-1666

Pen and ink sketch of a kneeling saint and seated bearded man looking up at a blank panel held by two flying angels.

Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Louis of France Venerating an Image of the Virgin

Guercino, ca. 1618