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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged putto crowning a seated woman who looks left, with flowing drapery.

Winged Putto Crowning a Seated Woman Who Looks to the Left

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a woman crowning a bearded man, with a winged figure and a small putto in the sky.

Virtue Crowning a Bearded Man

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of an elderly man with allegorical women, a serpent on a staff, and a putto on a ledge.

Aged Dignitary Attended by Mercury and Prudence

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted soldier bending toward a woman with a staff, attended by two figures beside an urn.

The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and brown wash drawing of a standing bearded man in a long coat and high hat with a medallion.

Standing Man in a Full Coat and High Hat with a Medaillon

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Head of a Man Wearing a High Collar

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Loose charcoal-toned portrait of a bearded man in a dark jacket, with handwritten caption Stéphane Mallarmé below.

Stéphane Mallarmé, from "Vers et Prose"

James McNeill Whistler, 1892

Brown wash drawing of a turbaned man reclining with a horse, a standing figure under a tree, and a striped-clothed man at lef

An Oriental Chieftain Resting

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Brown ink and wash drawing of a turbaned horseman with a lance on a rearing horse in a open landscape.

An Oriental Horseman

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Sepia drawing of a turbaned lancer on a rearing horse, with onlookers at right and a hillside town and mountains behind.

Turkish Lancer and Onlookers Approaching a Town

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1760-70

Brown ink and wash drawing of acrobats performing handstands before a crowd of spectators behind a wooden fence.

Scene of Contemporary Life: The Acrobats

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing gentleman with a cane, surrounded by caricature head studies.

Caricature of a Gentleman and Other Studies

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Orange and black poster of a woman with a poppy beside her face, with the title Folly or Saintliness below.

Folly or Saintliness by José Echegaray

Ethel Reed, 1895

Charcoal and white chalk study of a male nude with praying hands and flowing drapery on grey paper.

Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Charcoal and white chalk drapery study on toned paper, showing folded cloth falling from an upper edge.

Drapery Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Par…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Pencil studies on a mounted sheet: praying hands, a nude male torso, and two hooded friars, one with a halo.

a. Study for Clovis (middle register); b. Study for Clovis (middle register); c. St. Dominic and another Friar, after…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Acolyte with Open Book (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Charcoal and white chalk study of a robed standing man gazing upward with one arm outstretched on toned paper.

Saint Remi (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils, 19th century

a. Hands of Saint Remi (lower register); b. Head of Saint Clotilde (upper register); c. Head of Saint Clotilde (lower…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Red and white chalk study of a kneeling cleric raising one hand and gazing upward, holding a book, on grey paper.

Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Charcoal and white chalk drapery study of a cleric's sleeve and hand holding a book on blue-gray paper.

Drapery Study for a Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Pa…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a standing cleric in a flowing robe, studied on grey paper.

Drapery Study for a Cleric (lower register); verso: Sleeve of a Cleric; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Black chalk study of a standing cleric in a long robe pointing left, with a small figure sketched at lower right.

Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858); black ch…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a robed cleric with outstretched arms, with a separate study of a hand above.

Cleric with Raised Arms (lower register?; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Pari…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Black and white chalk drawing of a robed cleric with hands joined in prayer, seen from behind on grey paper.

Cleric with Joined Hands (lower register?); verso: (same figure); (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Charcoal and white chalk study of a seated bearded man, bare to the waist, leaning on draped cloth on grey paper.

Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated)

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Graphite sketch of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and cloak, smoking a pipe while resting his arms on a ledge.

Portrait of Théodore Ballu

Isidore Pils, 1842

Pencil sketch of a standing peasant man in a long coat and hat, hands at his waist, on lined paper.

Peasant

Camille Pissarro, second half 19th century

Pastel drawing of two women with buckets talking on a garden path beside a hedge and a brick cottage.

Two Women in a Garden

Camille Pissarro, 1888

Pen and brown ink drawing of a sorcerer on a winged beast seizing a lady from a rearing horse beside a tree.

The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1635-38