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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Pen and ink drawing of a horizontal rinceau frieze with scrolling leaves and blossoms, mounted with ruled borders.

Design of Rinceaux

Andrea Mantegna, 1470-1510

Brown ink drawing of a seated curly-haired man in draped cloth holding a long staff, with a standing figure and column beside

Seated Man Holding a Club or Other Implement (recto); Two Heads of Grotesque Men in Profile (verso)

Andrea Mantegna, 1484-1500

Red chalk drawing on blue paper of a woman with raised arm and draped garment, gripping an object in her other hand.

Jael Slaying Sisera

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Brown ink and wash drawing on blue paper of two women and a winged figure in an allegorical composition.

Virtue Crowned by Honor

Carlo Maratti, 1670-76

Red chalk drawing of a crowned seated female figure in an architectural niche with putti and radiating light lines.

Seated Allegorical Figure of Divine Wisdom

Carlo Maratti, 1674-77

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man looking upward to the left on blue-grey paper.

Head of a Bearded Man Looking to Upper Left (Saint Ambrose)

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Pen and red chalk drawing of the Virgin Immaculate above angels, with four Doctors of the Church below in an arched frame.

The Virgin Immaculate with the Four Doctors of the Church, Study for the Dispute over the Immaculate Conception

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin in clouds above a female attendant and four male saints, one holding a crozier.

The Virgin with Female Attendant Appearing to Four Male Saints

Carlo Maratti, 1680-95

Pen and ink sketch of four male figures in period dress with gesturing arms and exaggerated expressions.

Studies of Four Englishmen, after James Gillray

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1817-25

Pen and ink figure studies on brown paper: a bearded man, a seated draped woman, and flying putti.

Studies of Figures

Parmigianino, 16th century

Design for a Ceiling

Leonardo Marini, 1774-78

Pen and wash drawing of an allegorical figure with a laurel branch, a winged putto, and a reclining nude in a spandrel.

Allegorical Figure of Peace

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Red chalk drawing of robed figures, an angel with a tablet, and a chalice in an allegorical scene.

Allegory of the Old and New Dispensations

Carlo Maratti, 1700-8

Brown wash drawing of allegorical figures, a river god and Rome, presenting a portrait medallion held aloft by angels amid cl

Rome and the Tiber Paying Homage to a Pope (Clement XI ?)

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Black chalk and white highlight study of a seated robed prelate looking upward on grey paper.

Study for a Seated Prelate (Saint Gregory the Great)

Carlo Maratti, 1685-86

Study for a Head of a Man

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Studies of Two Helmets and of Two Soldiers Wearing Helmets

Marco Marchetti, 1553-88

Hand-colored drawing of labeled classical figures including Agamemnon, Helen, Paris, Hector and Jason, arranged in rows on ag

Famous Men and Women from Classical and Biblical Antiquity

Barthélémy d' Eyck, 1450s

Red chalk drawing of a robed figure reaching from clouds toward figures in a boat tossed by waves and rigging.

Christ Stilling the Tempest ?

Paolo de Matteis, 1662-1728

Brown ink drawing of a crowded Last Judgment scene with nude figures swirling around a central standing figure.

The Last Judgment

Michelangelo, 1570-90

Pen and wash drawing of Christ gesturing at a column as men carry a struggling figure through a crowded classical street.

Christ Healing a Possessed Man

Aureliano Milani, 1675-1749

Drawing of an old man on his deathbed tempted by demons, with an angel reaching toward him from above.

An Old Man on His Deathbed Tempted by Demons (recto); Back View of a Male Nude (verso)

Aureliano Milani, 1675-1749

Watercolor of a windblown woman in yellow beside a red-cloaked man leaning on a tree with a lyre, distant castle and mountain

Tasso Contemplating Beauty

Tommaso Minardi, 1823

Red chalk drawing of two allegorical figures flanking an inscribed stone pedestal, one helmeted and one bearded with a staff.

Allegorical Figures of Experience and Time

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1677

Brown ink wash drawing of an exaggerated elderly man in a cap leaning forward to read a small book.

Caricature of a Seated Man Reading

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Brown wash drawing of a youth in a turban seated beside a book, pointing with one hand, by Pier Francesco Mola.

Youth Reading

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded man in a turban and draped robe, standing and looking toward the viewer.

Figure of a Man

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Pen and grey wash drawing of caricatured men gathered around a table, one seated figure drawing at the lower center.

Group of Caricatured Figures with an Artist Drawing

Guercino, 1612-66

Brown ink and wash drawing of a leaning tree with two figures at its base, a ruined building at right, and a distant landscap

Landscape with Two Men Under a Tree

Pier Francesco Mola, 1632-66

Pen and brown wash drawing of a kneeling man lifting a beam, with robed figures on each side in an interior setting.

The Discovery of the True Cross

Moncalvo, 1568-1625