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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Pen and grey wash design of a rococo folding screen panel with scrolling ornament, shell motifs and a figure medallion at top

Design for a Folding Screen

Jacques de Lajoüe

Pen and watercolor drawing of a domed circular temple with robed figures gathered around a burning altar beneath trees.

Ancient Scene with a Funeral Ceremony for an Actor

Louis Jean Desprez, ca. 1777

Pen and brown wash drawing of two classical scenes with cherubs, clouds, columns and nude figures, designs for a box.

Designs for the Top and Bottom of a Small Rectangular Box

Louis-Félix Delarue

Brown wash drawing of an ornate urn with a lid, garlands and scrolled band on a pedestal, with foliage behind.

Study for a Vase in a Suite of Vase Designs

Louis Joseph le Lorrain

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a classical wall tomb with columns, a central sarcophagus, bust, and flanking armored figur

Elevation for a Wall Tomb

Jean-Michel Moreau

Pen and watercolor design of an ornate etui and a chatelaine with pendants, decorated with rococo scrollwork and ribbons.

Designs for an Etui and a Chatelaine

Watercolor design sheet with a snuff box lid, a floral frieze, and a circular rosette ornament in pastel colors.

Design for a Snuff Box

Colored design drawing of a decorative etui above a chatelaine with pink and blue panels, floral garlands and rococo ornament

Designs for a Chatelaine and an Etui

Ink and wash design for a fountain with two nude male figures supporting a basin, putti and garlands below.

Design for a Fountain

Charles Pierre Joseph Normand

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate Rococo cartouche with an empty oval center and scrolling foliage borders.

Study for a Cartouche

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Pen and ink drawing of a veiled woman reading in an ornate Baroque cartouche with rays of light and tablets below.

Study for a Decorated Initial A with the Annunciation

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Black chalk drawing of an ornate covered vase with scrolled brackets, foliage and a tall pedestal base on pale paper.

Design for a Vase

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Red chalk drawing of an imaginary garden with classical urns, a carved figure, a niche, and fountain-like architecture.

Study for a Garden Capriccio

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Pen and wash drawing of brackets, caryatids, scrolls and a bust in an oval medallion, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord.

Brackets, Caryatids and other Architectural Details (recto and verso)

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, ca. 1690-1710

Ink drawing of an ornamental urn with a grimacing Medusa-like face at centre and two serpent handles, on a pedestal.

Design for a Vase

Pencil sketch of Christ driving money changers from a temple, with a whip raised over a fleeing crowd.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1700-44

Ink and wash drawing of Neptune with a trident, spiked crown, and oval medallion showing horses and a chariot.

Design for Neptune with an Oval Medallion

Charles Percier

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman with putti, a helmeted figure and a lion in a circular composition.

Study of Justice Dispensing Rewards to the Arts (recto); Study of a Lunette and Spandrel (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Brown wash drawing of a ceiling design with a radiating Jesus monogram, clouds, angels and allegorical figures.

Ceiling Design with the Glorification of the Name of Jesus (recto); Aurora and Cephalus (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Brown ink drawing of allegorical figures with scales, a shield, a flute player, a trumpet and a putto.

Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1639-1709

Brown wash drawing of Elijah resting in the wilderness beside a jug as an angel flies down through clouds above.

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8)

Alessandro Magnasco, 1687-1749

Pen and wash drawing of Christ and the Virgin Mary joining hands in heaven, surrounded by angels and clouds.

Christ Receiving the Virgin into Heaven

Giovanni Battista Paggi, 1554-1627

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate tabernacle design with a cross, winged figures, cherubs, and animals at its base.

Design for a Tabernacle

Pierre Puget, ca. 1650-60

Red chalk drawing of a bishop with a crozier raising his hand before a tub holding three children, with rays of light behind.

Saint Nicholas of Bari Resuscitating Three Children Discovered in a Tub of Brine

Giovanni Agostino Ratti, 1699-1795

Black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man with curly hair pointing to his temple, resting a hand on a book.

Saint Peter

Bernardo Strozzi, 1581-1644

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing female allegorical figure with a serpent and spear in a niche.

Study for Allegorical Figure of Prudence

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Ink elevation drawing of the Fontaine Desaix in Place Dauphine, with lion-head spouts, inscribed pedestal and classical statu

Fontaine Desaix

Charles Percier

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourning women beside a tomb, with cypress trees, a lion and a flaming urn.

Landscape with a Memorial Scene

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, ca. 1760-80

Pen and wash drawing of a nude male figure supporting a large covered urn, beside a smaller ornamental vase design.

Two Designs for Vases (recto); Variant Design for a Vase (verso)

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

Fireworks burst above the round Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome as crowds gather on the bridge and riverbank below.

The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

Louis Jean Desprez, ca. 1781-1784