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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Brown wash drawing of a rustic kitchen interior with stone arches, barrels, a wooden table, and a staircase.

Design for a Stage Set Showing Interior of Rustic Kitchen ("Cucina Rustica")

Lorenzo Sacchetti, 1759-1829

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tiered ornamental stand with reclining nudes, garlands, and a winged putto on top.

Design for an Inkstand

Ottavio Strada, ca. 1540-60

Pen and wash drawing of a funerary monument with a skeleton, scythe, hourglass, skulls and mourning winged figures.

Design for a Funerary Monument

Francesco Salviati, 1510-63

Ink and wash drawing of a classical door frame with arched pediment, rosette pilasters and stepped moulded surround.

Drawing for a Door Frame

Lorenzo Sarti, 18th century

Pen and watercolor architectural drawing of a gallery with elevations, a wall section, and a floor plan with statue niches.

Plan "della nuova Galleria"

Giovanni Battista Silvestri, 1796-1873

Architectural elevations of a ballroom in pen and watercolor, with blue drapery, a statue, and an arched vault section.

Elevation "della nuova Galleria"

Giovanni Battista Silvestri, 1796-1873

Pen and wash drawing of a winged angel in green drapery above a mass of falling figures among clouds.

Study for the Fall of Simon Maqus, S. Paolo Maggiare, Naples

Francesco Solimena, 1690

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate rococo cartouche with an empty oval center and scrolling acanthus ornament.

Design for Cartouche

Fortunato Tesi, 18th century

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate palace interior with arched vaults, classical columns, and decorative scrollwork.

Design for a Stage Set: Highly Decorated Interior of a Palace

Giuseppe Valeriani, 1740-70

Pen drawing of ornamental scrollwork with a central putto and two figures riding dolphins over waves below.

Designs for Ornamental Motifs with Figures, Real and Imaginary Animals, and Coats of Arms of the Medici Grand Dukes

Stefano Della Bella, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental frame with scrolling foliage, winged cherubs, and an empty central panel.

Design for a Carved or Openworked Frame with a Variant

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman and children watching a standing woman with a small dog in a garden.

The Education of a Dog

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of a blank oval cartouche framed by palm fronds and curling scrolls.

Two Variants for a Cartouche with Palm Leave Decoration

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink design sheet with a rococo shell frieze above two angled corner ornaments of scrolls and foliage.

Designs for the Decoration of a Frieze and Corner Motifs (recto); Design for Two Frames Decorated with Volutes, Garla…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink sketch of an ornamental frieze with scrolling acanthus leaves and a fan-shaped palmette on paper.

Design for a Frieze Decorated With a Palmette and Tendrils (recto); Two Designs for a Rosette (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of Baroque scrollwork ornament with urn and baluster details on a sheet with construction lines.

Design for the Crowning Decorations of a Gate (recto); Sketches of Stone Blocks with Measurements (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental panel with acanthus scrolls, a floral motif and part of an oval medallion.

Left Side of a Panel Decorated with Acanthus Scrolls and an Oval Medallion

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and grey wash drawing of an oval basin supported by two male sirens with scrolling tails.

Table or Basin Supported by Male Sirens (recto); Sketch for the same subject (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink design of a lion's head flanked by two putti on scrolled ornament, with grey wash shading.

Design for a Lion's Head flanked by Satyrs

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Engraved catalogue plate of a fluted cream jug (10497) and covered teapot (10498) with leaf-patterned bands.

Manufacturer's Catalogue of Silver Plated Ware

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Sepia drawing of a rocky river landscape with fishermen, a ruined castle on a cliff, and distant mountains.

Landscape with Fishermen

Gaspard Dughet, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a foreshortened ceiling corner with putti, garlands, scrollwork and a seated figure, with blue sky.

A Foreshortened View of a Ceiling Corner Decorated with Statues, Putti and Garlands

Luigi Garzi, n.d.

Painted river landscape with a fisherman standing in a rowboat beside rocks, framed by dense trees under a cloudy sky.

A wooded river landscape with a fisherman in a boat

the younger Benjamin Barker, 1826

Hand-coloured drawing titled Loi Lunaire, 1856, with a Napoleon medallion, a tripod brazier and a crescent moon in an ornate

Lunar Law

Charles Meryon, 1856

Pen and grey wash drawing of a central anchor with crossed swords, laurel branches and ribbons inside an octagonal frame.

Devise with Anchor

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Red chalk sketch of several draped figures kneeling and bent in supplication, with hooded heads and hands.

Four Figures Kneeling in Supplication

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Ink and wash drawing of a covered footed serving dish with scroll handles, knotted finial, and lion-paw feet.

Design for a Covered Footed Serving Dish

Henri Auguste, ca. 1770-1816

Pen and wash drawing of castle ruins with a spired tower, stepped gables, a wooden jetty and water in the foreground.

The Ruins of Castle Merxem, near Antwerp

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1610

Pen and brown ink drawing of a canal with moored boats, wooden buildings, and trees reflected in the water.

Landscape with a Canal in the Foreground

Johannes Leupenius, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a dense tree-lined forest with a wooden fence and a pale path opening under a cloudy sky.

Large Forest (recto); A tree-lined lane with figure (verso)

Johannes Leupenius, 17th century