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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pen and gray wash drawing of six ornamental designs with urns, garlands, a nude figure in a medallion, and draped figures.

Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular and Horizontal reliefs

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1782-1844

Black and white woodcut by Paul Gauguin titled Le Sourire, showing a seated woman, a bird, and stylized faces with carved let

Le Sourire

Paul Gauguin, 1899

Pen and grey wash drawing of six ornamental designs with urns, scrolls, garlands and a laurel wreath in rectangular panels.

Six Designs for the Decoration of Rectangular Reliefs

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1782-1844

Pen and wash design of a Roman interior wall with columns, niche statues, painted landscape panels and an inscription below.

Design for a Painted Wall Decoration for Palazzo Massimo all'Aracoeli (Rome)

Basilio Briccio, 1683

Oval brown ink drawing of a stage set with an arched bridge, fountain, statues, columns and small figures.

Architectural Perspective for a Stage Set with a Bridge, Statues and a Fountain in the Background and Human Figures i…

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, 1660-1710

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of an armorial trophy with a plumed helmet, spears, shield and lion head.

Armorial Trophy

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Brown ink drawing of a central cuirass and helmet flanked by two ornate classical vases with relief figures.

Trophy with Two Vases and a Cuirass

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Pen and brown wash drawing of a draped central figure flanked by two ornate classical ewers with putti and a griffin.

Trophy with Two Ewers

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Brown ink drawing of two ornate vases flanking a draped trophy with a helmet, one with dancing figures in relief.

Trophy with Two Vases

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Pen and brown ink drawing of two ornate ewers with figural reliefs, scrolling handles and pedestal bases.

Two Designs for Ewers

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Gray wash drawing of a recumbent lion with a curled mane resting its head over a rectangular stone pedestal.

Drawing after a Lithograph of a Recumbent Lion

Antonio Canova, n.d.

Pen and wash design of a church frieze with acanthus scrollwork, a seated putto, a Corinthian column and handwritten Italian

Design for Painted Corner and Frieze of the Choir in the Church of the Servi in Bologna

Giovanni Andrea Castelli, December 11, 1629

Two pencil and watercolor sketches of five-light and four-light candelabras with blue and red accents and handwritten notes.

One of Twenty-Three Sheets of Drawings of Glassware (Mirrors, Chandeliers, Goblets, etc.)

Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, 1850-80

Catalogue sheet with watercolor drawings of white and colored Venetian glassware, numbered and priced in lira.

Specimens of White and Colored Glassware

Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, 1866-1880

Watercolor sheet of numbered Venetian glass goblets, decanters and vases with gold and blue decoration and handwritten prices

Specimens of Tinted Glassware with Decorations in Gold and Blue

Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, 1866-1880

Watercolor drawing of a brambling perched on a twig above grass, with orange breast and black and white wing markings.

Bramling (Fringilla Montifringilla)

Gerardus van Veen, 1679

Pen and brown ink drawing of a dune landscape with a large tree, shrubs, a ruined tower and birds in the sky.

Dune Landscape with Trees

Adriaen Hendriksz. Verboom, 17th century

Drawing of a wooded river landscape with two cattle in shallow water beside rocks, under a dramatic cloudy sky.

A wooded river landscape with cattle

the younger Benjamin Barker, 1826

Pen and brown ink drawing of grotesque ornament with putti, satyrs, vases and architectural niches in tiered rows.

Sketches of Grotesques

Giovanni Antonio Dosio, 1533-1609

Grey wash drawing of a vaulted stone crypt with arches, columns, a staircase, and a hanging lantern.

Design for a Stage Set of a Crypt (for the Opera 'La Morosina' ?)

Carlo Ferrario, 1833-1907

Pen and brown ink drawing of three arched ceiling panels with robed figures, clouds and landscape scenes.

Drawing for Ceiling Decoration Consisting of Three Panels Each Showing a Different Scene with Figures

Ciro Ferri, 1634-89

Pen and ink drawing of a female face framed by ornate scrolls, acanthus leaves and curling tendrils in a decorative cartouche

Female Mask Surrounded by Tendrils

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Watercolor stage design for the ballet Don Parasol showing an ornate proscenium, draped curtains, gilded dome and garden back

Stage Set Design for a Ballet: Don Parasol

Carlo Ferrario, 1869

Ink and wash drawing of a stage set with high vaulted arches, stone columns, and a staircase rising at right.

Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right

Domenico Fossati, 1743-84

Pen drawing of an arched lunette design with putti, grotesque masks and scrolls framing a blank central cartouche.

Design for the Decoration of a Lunette with a Large Central Cartouche

Battista Franco Veneziano

Brown ink and wash drawing of The Last Supper with a haloed Christ at a long table surrounded by gesturing apostles.

The Last Supper

Philips Koninck, late 1650s

A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left

Virgilius Solis, 1549

Red chalk drawing of Roman rooftops, a domed church and a tall column above a stone bridge and grassy slope.

View of Rome

François Lemoyne, 1724

Pen and red chalk sketch of a man leaning on a staff beside a dog, with trees and landscape in the background.

Framed Sketch for a Man, a Dog and a Tree

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Watercolor design for a decorative ceiling with an octagonal central panel, scrolled borders and foliate ornament in pink, gr

Ceiling design, Castle Blayney

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century