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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Pen and brown ink drawing of a crowd of bearded men and onlookers in an arched composition, one figure pointing downward.

Raising of Lazarus

Lorenzo Lotto, 1480-1556

Head of a Bearded Man

Lorenzo Lotto, 1516-17

Watercolor drawing of an Arcadian landscape with a statue of Apollo, classical colonnade, pond, and bathing figures.

Arcadian Landscape with several Figures and a Statue of Apollo

Gerard Melder, 18th century

Pen and ink drawing of Saint Andrew bound to an X-shaped cross with a crowd of onlookers and a dog below.

Martydom of Saint Andrew (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of sea deities with a trident-bearing Neptune, sea horses, nymphs and a putto among clouds.

Sea Deities

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude warrior raising a weapon amid a battle with a rearing horse and fleeing figures.

Battle Scene (Samson Slaying the Philistines?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink and red chalk sketch of a standing man, a woman reaching upward, and a crowd of figures in the background.

Scene of Celebration with Dancing and Music-Making (Jephtha and his Daughter?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, ca. 1680-1720

Watercolor sheet of women in corsets and underclothing with gilt frames and handwritten French captions, 1882-90.

Etudes sur les femmes

Henri de Montaut, 1882-90

Pen and watercolor design of a reliquary supported by four nude male figures, with putti holding a crosier and mitre on top.

Design for a Gold and Silver Bishop's Reliquary

Luigi Valadier, late 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a helmeted soldier grasping a woman who raises her arm, with loose background sketches.

Soldier Stabbing a Woman

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pencil drawing of robed prophets and saints seated on clouds with cherubs, a harp, and tablets, framed by pilasters.

Prophets and Saints in Glory, after Bernardino Poccetti

Santi Pacini, 1735-90

Grey chalk drawing of a crowned king seated at right with attendants, a woman gesturing, and youths and a child at left.

King Charles VIII of France with the Dying Gian Galeazzo Sforza at Pavia

Pelagio Palagi, 1775-1860

Pencil drawing of an ornate architectural frame with a draped female figure holding a staff, with scroll and shell decoration

One Half of a Design for a Frame of a Stage Proscenium, with a Figure of Justice at the Right, and the Barberini Arms…

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 18th century

Pen and ink figure studies with red chalk head of a child, showing groups of figures, seated men and an old man.

Figure Studies: The Arrest of Christ?, Christ and the Canaanite Woman, Seated Male Figures, and Head of a Child (rect…

Palma il Giovane, 1548-1628

Pen and ink sketch of Christ at a table with a kneeling woman at his feet and onlookers in an interior setting.

Penitent Woman Anointing the Feet of Christ at the Table of Simon the Pharisee

Palma il Giovane, 1548-1628

Pen and brown ink sheet of figure studies: a robed woman, bearded male heads, a seated nude, and sketched cloud forms.

Figure Studies: Seated Female Holding a Book, Two Heads of Bearded Men, Seated Male Nude, and Four Sketches for Chris…

Palma il Giovane, 1548-1628

Trompe-l'oeil drawing of scattered prints on a table showing horses, cattle, a portrait, a bridge and walking figures.

Trompe-l'Oeil Exercise: Prints on a Table Top

Pietro Jacopo Palmieri, 1766

Grey wash drawing of a hilly lake landscape with two horsemen, a fisherman, a dog, and a large tree on the left.

Hilly Landscape with Two Cavaliers and Other Figures in the Foreground

Romolo Panfi, 1632-90

Brown wash drawing of a standing man in eighteenth-century dress lifting a tricorne hat overhead.

Man Shading His Face with a Tricorne

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1691-1765

Pen and brown ink sheet with many figure studies, reclining, flying and draped figures, by Paolo Veronese, c. 1570-75.

Studies for The Allegories of Love

Paolo Veronese, 1570-75

Grey wash drawing of a preacher gesturing to a seated crowd beneath tall Corinthian columns and an arched vault.

Saint Paul Preaching in Athens

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1733

Pen and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin and Child, shepherds, and angels in clouds.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Parmigianino, 1524-27

Head of Bearded Man (recto); Head of a Girl (verso)

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, 1503-40

Head of a Bearded Man in Profile to Left, possibly the Portrait of the Poet Giorgio Anselmi (ca. 1459-1528), with Fai…

Parmigianino, 1503-40

Brown ink drawing of a bearded bishop saint in a tall mitre, head turned down, one hand raised to his chest.

Bishop Saint in Bust-Length (Cartoon for an Altarpiece)

Parmigianino, 1529-30

Brown wash drawing of a saint ascending in clouds toward a cross with angels, while a veiled woman lies on a bed below.

The Ecstasy of the Blessed Giacinta Marescotti

Giuseppe Passeri, 1674-1714

Pen and brown wash drawing of two nude figures on a rocky ridge, one holding a lyre, with smoke and clouds around them.

Orpheus and Eurydice

Filippo Pedrini, 1763-1856

Sepia ink and wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman in a laurel wreath on clouds beside a column and a small child.

Allegorical Figure of Chastity

Filippo Pedrini, 1792-1816

Pen and brown ink sketch of a decorative wall panel with two female figures, a central garland, and a bull's skull.

Sketch for a wall panel in the Sala Paolina at Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome

Perino del Vaga, ca. 1546

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of two saints at a classical temple gate healing a seated cripple with a staff.

Saints Peter and John Healing a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47