New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,834 works

Drawing of a kneeling man in fifteenth-century dress, head raised, hands bound behind him, in brown and white on gray paper.

A Kneeling Man in Fifteenth-Century Costume (recto); a small, fragmentary sketch of a recumbant boy, probably by a la…

Pinturicchio, ca. 1509

Brown ink drawing of armored warriors standing in a group, with helmets, swords and decorated breastplates.

Group of Warriors Standing

Pietro Perugino, late 15th-early 16th century

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a kneeling friar in a hooded robe, gazing upward with arm raised, haloed.

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Lo Spagna, early 16th century

Brown ink drawing of an elderly bearded man receiving communion from a robed priest, with two monks attending nearby.

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1491-1503(?)

Pencil drawing of two studies of a standing youth in Renaissance clothing, one holding a staff, on tan paper.

Two Studies of a Standing Youth in Quattrocento Clothing (recto); a cardinal's hat on a fragmentary coat of arms with…

Pietro Perugino, ca. 1504

Red chalk drawing with white highlights of a man in a tall cap with curly hair, head turned and eyes lowered.

Head of a Man Wearing a Cap

Domenico Ghirlandaio, ca. 1495-1505

Head of a Young Woman

Lorenzo di Credi, late 15th-early 16th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of two haloed robed figures standing side by side, one gesturing with raised hand.

The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

Bartolomeo di Giovanni, ca. 1485-90

Pen and brown ink drawing of Orpheus among classical ruins, with a lion, a deer and other animals gathered nearby.

Orpheus

Unknown artist, early 16th century

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk of the Madonna adoring the Christ child, with a kneeling angel beside them in a wooden she

The Madonna Adoring the Child, with an Angel

Lorenzo di Credi, early 16th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a hilltop city, horsemen and crowds, with a columned niche and steps in the lower left.

Page from a Sketchbook Depicting a City under Siege and a Scene of Homage(?) (recto); standing figures and a horseman…

Domenico Beccafumi, 1520s

Pen and brown ink drawing of Saint Sebastian, nude and bound to a tree, with an arrow and halo.

Saint Sebastian (recto); sketches of a male head and a standing figure in a short cape; a copy of the figure on the r…

Il Sodoma, early-mid-16th century

Black chalk drawing of a seated nude man with crossed legs, with a smaller sketch of a draped seated figure below.

Two Studies of a Seated Male Nude

Pontormo, mid-16th century

Pencil portrait drawing of a young woman with a veil, beaded necklace and loose gown on blue-grey paper.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Pier Francesco Foschi, 1520-39

Brown ink and wash drawing of two nude figures on clouds, with a cow, foliage and sketch studies, by Francesco Salviati.

Jupiter and Io (recto); sketch of a male figure stabbing himself in the chest (verso)

Francesco Salviati, mid-16th century

Pen and ink drawing of a seated man in draped robes holding an open book, with hair studies at upper right.

A Seated Man Declaiming from a Book

Baccio Bandinelli, mid to late 16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing bearded apostle with a halo and draped robe, hatched shading.

Standing Apostle

Giovanni Bandini, mid-16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a chaotic battle with horsemen, rearing horses, fallen soldiers, and a distant city.

Battle of Horsemen and Foot Soldiers

Guglielmo della Porta, mid-16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a frieze with draped male figures and two horses on the right.

Frieze with Male Figures and Two Horses

Polidoro da Caravaggio, mid-16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a symmetrical grotesque decoration with an armored figure, scrollwork, garlands, and sea monster

Design for a Grotesque Decoration

Luzio Romano, ca. 1543-45

Brown wash drawing of men in a boat carrying off a struggling woman, with a domed rotunda on the shore at right.

The Abduction of Helen

Giuseppe Salviati, mid-16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of three horses and horsemen in a frieze-like composition beside an obelisk.

Frieze with Three Horsemen

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1530s

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing man holding a staff and plumed cap, with a sword at his side and faint grid lines.

A Swiss Guard

Federico Zuccaro, late 16th-early 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a reclining female nude with curved body and soft hatched shading, inside a red and green ruled border.

Recumbent Nude

Emilia, early 17th century

A Young Woman Seated in a Chair

Central Italy, 17th century

A Seated Young Woman Looking Over Her Shoulder

Guercino, early-mid-17th century

A Falconer in Profile to the Right

Follower of Guercino, ca. 1640

Black chalk and white heightened drawing on tan paper of figures in a crowded scene, a woman embracing a child in the foregro

The Massacre of the Innocents

The Veneto, 17th century

Brown ink sketch of a muscular male nude seen from behind, arm outstretched, with faint grey underdrawing on aged paper.

Male Figure Seen from Behind

Alessandro Maganza, ca. 1603-10

Pen and wash drawing of a caricatured painter in a tall hat holding a brush at an easel beside a table.

Caricature of a Dwarf Painter at His Easel

Tuscany, early 17th century