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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ speaking with the Woman of Samaria at a well, with onlookers and a column behind.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Annibale Carracci, 1560-1609

Charcoal sketch on blue paper of a bearded old man in a headcloth with folded hands, beside a bare tree branch.

Study of an Old Man

Giacomo Cavedone, 1577-1660

Brown ink and wash drawing of animals and figures gathered before a large structure under a cloudy sky.

Animals and Figures before the Ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1660-64

Portrait of a Man

Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1755-65

Brown wash drawing of nomads herding sheep and an ox with a woman and children riding on its back beneath trees.

Pastoral Scene: Nomads with Sheep and Cattle

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1609-64

Brown wash drawing of shepherds driving a flock of sheep past a laden mule and a palm tree under a cloudy sky.

Pastoral Scene: Shepherds and Their Flock

Michel Corneille the Younger, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of two seated bearded men, one looking upward wrapped in a red-brown mantle, with white highlights on the

Two Seated Bearded Male Figures

Sigismondo Caula, 1637-1713

Profile Head of a Youth Looking to Upper Left, and Study of Clasped Hands

Giacomo Cavedone, 1577-1660

Black chalk drawing of a kneeling youth in loose drapery, arm extended left, on blue-grey paper.

Kneeling Youth Facing Left

Giacomo Cavedone, 1577-1660

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man's head turned to the upper right, with curly hair and shoulder outline.

Head of a Bearded Man Looking to Upper Right (recto); Head of an Old Man and a Drapery Study (verso)

Giacomo Cavedone, 1577-1660

Painted study of an elderly bearded man with white hair, head bowed, against a dark brown background.

Head of a Bearded Man (Nicodemus)

Giacomo Cavedone, 1577-1660

Youth Gazing Upwards in Profile

Francesco Montelatici, 1621-61

Pen and brown ink drawing of an enthroned allegorical woman with putti and scales, framed by laurel garlands and scrollwork.

Allegory of Venetian Power

Andrea Celesti, 1637-1712

Engraved sheet with two strips of winged putti above medallions and two strips of ornate flaming urns with garlands.

Sheet of border segments: two candelabra and two horizontal pieces with putti, two corners, from Life of the Virgin a…

Francesco Rosselli, 1490-1500

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child in clouds above a kneeling man, with a skeleton and plague victims below.

The Virgin and Child Intervening for Victims of the Plague (recto); Seated Female Figure (verso)

Geronimo Cenatiempo, 1705-41

Engraved architectural study of a classical cornice and pediment with a winged figure, acanthus scrolls and a lion mask.

Temple of Serapis, pediment and cornice, projection view

Master AP, 1555

Pen and wash drawing of a martyrdom scene with an angel descending above a crowd, columns, and fire in a cartouche frame.

The Martyrdom of Saint Anastasia

Michelangelo Cerruti, 1721

Red chalk drawing of a bearded old man with wild hair, turned to the right, shaded with fine hatching.

Profile of a Bearded Old Man Looking Right

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1765-1810

Sepia drawing of a bearded old man with tousled hair looking upward, signed Schmutzer 1804.

Head of Bearded Old Man

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1804

Standing Man

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1765-1810

Two Male Heads in Profile to Right

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1765-1810

Red chalk drawing of a man's head with wavy hair and a frilled collar, eyes looking upward, shaded background.

Head of a Man

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1765-1810

Red chalk drawing of an idealized female head with curly hair, turned three-quarters toward the viewer, on cream paper.

Idealized Female Head, Copied after the Antique

Johann Evangelist Kastner, late 18th-early 19th century

Red chalk drawing of an idealized male head turned right, with curly hair and drapery at the shoulder.

Idealized Head Looking Right, copied after the Antique

Johann Evangelist Kastner, 1800

Head of a Bearded Old Man in Profile to the Right

Johann Evangelist Kastner, 1800

Etching of a sleeping man at a desk surrounded by owls, bats and a cat, with a Spanish caption reading the sleep of reason pr

Plate 43 from "Los Caprichos": The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of an old woman spinning thread beside a hunched man, with hanging cherubs in the upper right corner.

Plate 44 from "Los Caprichos": They spin finely (Hilan delgado)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Engraved sheet of twenty-six decorative capital letters filled with scrollwork, grotesques, putti, and flowers.

Ornamented Roman Majuscule Alphabet

Daniel Hopfer, ca. 1520

Red chalk drawing of a standing nude man with curly hair, one hand on his hip, turned slightly to the right.

Standing Nude Man (Bacchus)

Giuseppe Cesari, ca. 1590-1600

Brown ink drawing of a nude figure rising with a banner above startled armored soldiers beside a reclining body.

The Resurrection

Giuseppe Cesari, ca. 1600