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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Engraved allegorical print of a seated woman with putti, a crown, compasses, draped cloth and classical columns.

Diploma of the Freemasons of Bordeaux, after François Boucher

Pierre Philippe Choffard, 1766

Engraved Masonic lodge diploma with a mother and infants, cherubs holding compass and square, and a list of officers in scrip

Diploma for the Freemasons of Bordeaux, after François Boucher

Pierre Philippe Choffard, 1766

Red chalk allegorical drawing of robed figures, a helmeted woman and a winged child beneath draped curtains and a coat of arm

Allegory of the Life of the Dauphin

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, ca.1765

Red chalk drawing of the Holy Trinity on clouds with a cross, a dove, and adoring angels and putti below.

Angels Adoring the The Holy Trinity

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1772

Red chalk drawing of saints and bishops gathered on clouds beneath a radiant triangle of divine light.

The Company of Saints in Glory

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1772

Pen and ink study sheet with many sketched figures, robed women and men, and a colonnade, for a judgment scene.

Figure Studies for a Judgment Scene

Michel Corneille the Younger

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds among angels, with praying figures gazing upward below.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Michel Corneille the Younger

Drawing of a kneeling bearded saint embracing an X-shaped cross, with an angel descending above and onlookers around.

The Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and brown ink drawing of nude men in combat, one raising a sword over a fallen figure, with figure studies around.

Combat of Nude Men, after Raphael

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1823

Watercolor of a knight in armor being dressed by a young page in blue, beside a helmet on a red cushion.

Goetz von Berlichingen Being Dressed in Armor by His Page George

Eugène Delacroix, 1826-27

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing robed male figure with hatched shading, hands clasped, looking downward.

Standing Saint (Apostle?)

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Brown ink drawing of a seated young figure pointing toward a haloed child in a rocky wilderness.

The Infant Saint John the Baptist with the Infant Christ in the Wilderness (recto); Fragment of Architectural Design…

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pen and chalk sketch of a robed woman standing on clouds, hands crossed at her chest, on pale paper.

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception Standing on Clouds

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Pencil and ink sketch of the Virgin seated on clouds with angels around her, drawn on pale paper.

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception Seated on Clouds, Supported by Four Angels

Pedro Duque Cornejo, 1700-50

Red chalk study of a man in a draped cloak, head turned toward the viewer, arms extended outward.

Study for a Portrait of a Man

Guillaume Courtois, 17th century

Drawing of an elderly bearded man with tousled hair and a furrowed brow, rendered in brown wash and white highlights.

Head of a Bearded Man

Giovanni Serodine, 1600

Red chalk drawing of a man's head with curly hair and wide eyes on a grey-toned sheet.

Study of a Man's Head

Pontormo, 1520-25

Woodcut of a winged woman crowned with stars facing a crowned seven-headed dragon, with God and angels in the clouds above.

The Apocalyptic Woman, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Ink sketch of a bridled horse in three-quarter view with a saddle and plumed harness on toned paper.

Goetz van Berlichingen's Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1842

Brown wash drawing of a tomb with a carved figure in a church interior, with Gothic window tracery studies below.

A Tomb and Studies of Windows in the Church of Valmont Abbey (recto); Four Studies of Horses (verso)

Eugène Delacroix, 1829-31

Pencil and blue wash sketch of an armored rider on a white horse beside a young attendant, with sketched figure studies behin

The Wounded Goetz von Berlichingen Takes Refuge in a Gypsy Camp

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1836

Brown wash drawing of a church interior with shadowed pointed arches, lit gothic windows, and stone columns.

Interior of the Church of Valmont Abbey

Eugène Delacroix, 1829-31

Pencil drawing of a kneeling friar in a hooded habit holding the Christ Child, with a faint halo and hatched background.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Pedro Duque Cornejo, 1700-50

Pen and ink sketch of a standing draped woman holding a large oval medallion, dated ca. 1700-50.

Standing Female Figure with Large Medallion

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Lithograph of Macbeth in plaid dress facing three witches who gesture over a bubbling cauldron in a dark, smoky setting.

Macbeth Consulting the Witches

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Pen and ink study of a seated male nude with an extended arm, drawn on pale paper.

Seated Male Nude with Open Book

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Lithograph bust portrait of a young man in dark jacket and white cravat against hatched dark background, with Latin inscripti

Baron Schwiter (Louis Auguste Schwiter, 1805-1889)

Eugène Delacroix, 1826

Pen and ink sketch of a nude male figure tied to a tree, one arm raised, body turned in contrapposto.

Saint Sebastian (?) Tied to a Tree

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Lithograph of Faust offering his arm to Marguerite on a medieval street, with Mephistopheles walking behind them.

Faust Trying to Seduce Marguerite (Goethe, Faust)

Eugène Delacroix, 1825-27

Pencil drawing of a standing nude male figure, Saint Sebastian, with raised arm and loincloth, on pale paper.

Saint Sebastian

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50