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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

130 works

Brown wash drawing of a family group in 18th-century dress: a seated woman, a standing boy, a girl, and two standing adults.

Thomas Sandby and His Family

Paul Sandby, mid-1760s

Woodblock print of a geisha hurrying with a maid carrying a black shamisen box, with calligraphy and a riverside landscape.

Geisha Girl Hurrying with a Maid Servant Who is Carrying a Shamisen Box

Woodblock print of three women in patterned kimono, one dancing with a folding fan, with calligraphy above.

Three Girls Singing and Dancing

Kubo Shunman, probably 1815

Woodblock print of a courtesan bending beside a child attendant and a potted plum tree, with calligraphy above.

Courtesan and her Child Attendant with a Potted Plum Tree

Katsukawa Shuntei, ca. 1815

Woodblock print of a woman in a floral pink kimono on a green bank, gazing toward a horned demon's head in the water below.

A Girl on the Edge of a Stream Sees a Demon's Head in the Water

Komatsuken Shoshoken

Two women and a girl in patterned kimono look at painted leaves, one holding a lacquer tray, in a Japanese print.

Two Women and a Girl Looking at Paintings

Kubo Shunman, probably 1815

Circular pen and grey wash drawing of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, with a priest holding the infant at an altar.

The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Sebald Beham, early to mid-16th century

Red chalk drawing in a circle of the Holy Family: kneeling Mary, seated Joseph, and the infant Christ on a cloth.

Holy Family in the Stable

Govert Flinck, mid-17th century

Red chalk drawing of a nude boy kneeling with both arms raised toward the upper right.

Seated Nude Boy

Edmé Bouchardon

Circular chalk drawing of the Virgin and infant Christ with bearded onlookers leaning in, on a dark grey ground.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Hendrick Goltzius, 1600-1605

Red chalk drawing on a gridded sheet of a seated nude woman with two putti, one kneeling holding a bowl, by Poppi.

Study for a Virgin and Child with Two Angels (recto); Two Studies of Hands (verso)

Poppi, 1544-97

Pen and wash drawing in an oval frame showing figures in an interior with a barrel, hanging sausages, and a mouse on the floo

The Mock Visit of Ceremony

Faustino Bocchi, 1659-1742

Red chalk sketch of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling saint, showing drapery and hand studies on cream paper.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Simone Cantarini, 1612-48

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of the Virgin and Child enthroned with saints, one a bishop with a crosier.

The Virgin and Child with Saints

Girolamo da Treviso, 1498-1544

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child with saints and infant children, by Jacopo da Pontormo, 1514-22.

Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth, the Infant Baptist, Saint Anthony of Padua, and a Female Martyr

Pontormo, 1514-22

Brown wash drawing of a river god with an oar, a draped woman, and a standing nude boy on pale paper.

River God with an Oar, Woman Holding a Serpent, and a Standing Nude Boy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Circular sketch of a crowned seated woman, a bishop, a mother with infant, and putti on steps.

Nobility Presenting an Infant to Venice

Francesco Zugno, 1709-87

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with a kneeling saint and a small angel at the right edge.

Saint Adoring the Madonna and Child

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a winged woman, a bearded river god with a staff, and a nude boy among clouds.

Winged Female Figure, River God, and a Nude Boy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Engraving of a schoolmistress guiding a small child writing letters at a wooden desk, in a dark interior setting.

The School Mistress

François Bernard Lépicié, 1747

Pen and ink drawing of a veiled woman holding an infant, with a seated putto and angel holding a flowering branch.

St. Catherine of Siena with The Infant Jesus (recto); Warrior with Dead Lion? (verso)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Circular sketch of a bearded robed man gesturing toward a haloed child seated on rocks by the sea.

St. Augustine and the Child on the Seashore

Andrea Pozzo, 1642-1709

Engraved portrait of a young boy with curled hair at a desk, spinning a top beside an inkwell, quill and books.

Child with a Top

François Bernard Lépicié, 1742

Grey wash drawing of a seated mother in draped clothing nursing an infant at her breast.

Mother and Children (Charity?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink design sketch of an ornate fountain with a Madonna and Child, winged figures, a lion, and a monkey on the cornice

Design Fragment for the Left Side of the 'Fonte Gaia' in Siena

Jacopo della Quercia, 1415-16

Pen and brown ink sketches of seated women with infants, arranged as studies for a religious scene on a bordered sheet.

Studies for the Education of the Virgin

Agostino Masucci, 1692-1758

Wash drawing of two robed saints in clouds, with a cherub holding a papal tiara below and a crozier at right.

Two Saints (Pope and Bishop?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Circular print of the drunken Silenus reclining with satyrs, framed by putti in a grapevine wreath.

Wilton album, folio 41: The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)

Annibale Carracci, ca. 1597-1600

Pen and watercolor drawing of a woman in a white gown with red ribbons walking hand in hand with a child in blue ribbons.

Woman and Child

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Red chalk drawing of an elderly man gesturing to a kneeling woman beside a standing figure, with dark wash accents.

Abraham Dismissing Hagar

Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661