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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with angels in the clouds above soldiers on a hillside with a distant walled cit

The Virgin Intervening during a Siege of Madrid

Luca Giordano, ca. 1699

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man with a staff among kneeling and gathering figures, including women and children.

Moses Striking the Rock

Luca Giordano, 1634-1705

Pen and ink drawing of men carrying a woman by a rocky shore, with sea creatures, cherubs and winged figures in the sky.

The Abduction of Helen

Luca Giordano, 1634-1705

Pen and ink sketch of a reclining semi-nude man surrounded by soldiers and onlookers in a landscape.

Fragment of a Composition with a Reclining Semi-Nude Man Surrounded by Soldiers and Other Onlookers in a Landscape

Luca Giordano, 1634-1705

Brown wash drawing of a seated ruler receiving a kneeling man before courtiers, with a nude figure and sword at right.

The Painter Rewarded

Luca Giordano, 1634-1705

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet of ornamental scrolls, acanthus leaves, a winged putto, and grotesque decorative motifs.

Sketchbook Sheet of Ornamental Studies, (recto and verso)

Giovanni da Udine, 1487-1564

Pen and ink drawing of ornamental designs with winged griffins, putti, scrolls and drapery on aged paper.

Sheet of Figure Studies, Probably after the Antique (recto); Ornamental Designs (verso)

Girolamo da Carpi, 1501-56

Pen and brown ink drawing of three muscular men carrying large urns, sketched with hatched shading.

Soldiers Carrying Urns

Girolamo da Carpi, 1501-56

Red chalk drawing of several nude male figures in twisting poses, one leaning over another, by Nicola Grassi.

Studies of Nude Men

Nicola Grassi, 1682-1750

Watercolor landscape with a blue mountain, a hillside village, a leaning tree, and fishermen hauling a boat on rocks.

Landscape with Fishermen

Théodore Géricault, 1818

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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)

Pen and brown ink drawing of a frowning man with shoulder-length hair and a loose shirt, in half-length within a ruled border

Portrait of Morose Man in Half-Length

Guercino, 1591-1666

Pen and ink sketch of a muscular male torso with a raised arm and hand, with faint grid lines and studies of limbs.

Man Stabbing Himself

Guercino, 1591-1666

Hand-colored drawing of three women in period dress with a drum, sword, shield, helmet and flag beneath a tree.

The Iron Age (L'Age de fer)

Nicolas Arnoult, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of an ornamental wall design with allegorical women, a striped heraldic shield, and scrolled frames above a

Design for a Wall Decoration over an Arched Doorway with Grimani Arms

Bernardino India, 1528-90

Watercolor of an Italian courtyard with women working at a wooden sieve beneath a stone archway, a child seated nearby.

Italian Courtyard and Figures

Cavaliere Pio Joris, 1843-1921