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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a goddess among clouds, warriors with torches, a lion, a reclining nude and a ship prow.

Cybele Prevents Turnus from Setting Fire to the Trojan Fleet by Transforming the Ships into Sea Goddesses

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of women gathered around a flower-crowned white bull, with cupids and an eagle above and a ruined column in

The Rape of Europa

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 18th century

Drawing of clergy with a banner tending a sick man among plague victims on stone steps, with a classical building behind.

St. Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague in Milan

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, ca. 1760

Drawing of an archbishop in a mitre being attacked by a dagger-wielding man in a colonnaded church interior.

The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, ca. 1748

Red chalk drawing of a lunette with grid lines showing figures in an arched hall, a preacher on a pulpit and students.

Saint Benedict at the School in Rome

Andrea Lilli, ca. 1630-35

Red chalk drawing of a nude standing youth beside a draped youth reading a book at a ledge.

Standing Youth with Hands Behind His Back, and a Seated Youth Reading (recto); Two Studies of Hands (verso)

Filippino Lippi, 1457/58-1504

Brown wash drawing of winged putti and flying figures in a ceiling design study by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Design for a Ceiling (recto); Bearded Man Standing (verso)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged Father Time with a scythe holding a reclining putto on clouds.

Time Seated, Clutching a Putto

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash caricature of an elderly couple, the woman in a bonnet and cloak, the man in a powdered wig and coat.

Caricature: An Elderly Couple

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash sketch of a bearded winged old man with a staff, a nude youth, and a reclining figure.

Time Seated, with Two Attendant Figures

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a turbaned man and a barefoot boy with a sword beside a stone pedestal.

Scherzo di Fantasia: Two Standing Orientals and a Standing Youth with a Sword

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining woman lifted by three nude putti in swirling poses.

Woman Transported by Three Putti

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown wash drawing of an executioner with a raised sword beside a kneeling figure, surrounded by onlookers in a stone prison.

Beheading of Two Male Saints

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Grey wash drawing of a large tree beside a brook where a washerwoman and another figure work, with hills behind.

Washerwoman by a Brook

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of a seated sea god with a trident embracing a woman, with a winged cherub on a cloud below.

Marine Deity with Attendant Female Figure

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Etching of a plumed trumpeter blowing a horn on horseback, with horsemen small in the distance across a flat landscape.

Trumpeter on horseback facing right, a group of horsemen in the background, from 'Various cavalry exercises' (Diverse…

Stefano Della Bella, 1642

Etching of a plumed rider on a rearing horse gesturing with a baton, with small horsemen in the distance.

A commander on horseback, giving orders and motioning to the right, other horsemen in the background, two of which ar…

Stefano Della Bella, 1642

Pen and watercolor drawing of an ice boat with a sail and skaters among stylized pine branches in a fantastical winter landsc

Fantastical Landscape with Exotic PLants, Two Skaters and a Man in an Iceboat

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1771

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

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman with a sceptre and a winged putto climbing on her shoulder, figures on clouds.

Seated Woman with a Winged Putto

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and brown wash drawing of an winged old man holding a nude woman, with a putto standing at right.

Time Holding a Nude Woman, a Putto at Right

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink wash sketch of two reclining women, a winged boy and a small child resting on clouds.

Two Women and a Winged Boy on Clouds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash sketch of two seated women and a boy resting on clouds, with pencil underdrawing visible.

Two Seated Women and a Boy on Clouds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated river god with a standing female attendant holding a staff, with a reclining figure be

Seated River God and Standing Female Attendant

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

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

Brown wash drawing of two women gesturing upward beside a lion, with a putto among clouds below.

Two Women, a Lion, and a Putto on Clouds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown wash sketch of two women, one holding an anchor, and a putto on clouds, drawn in ink over pencil.

Two Women, One Holding an Anchor, and a Putto on Clouds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman raising a sword, supported by two putti among clouds.

Seated Women Holding Aloft a Sword, and Supported by Two Putti

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown wash drawing of two women seated on a cloud with two putti in the lower right corner.

Two Women Seated on a Cloud, and Two Putti

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Sepia wash drawing of a winged putto crowning a seated woman who looks upward, with loose brown drapery.

Winged Putto Crowning a Seated Woman Who Looks Upward

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770