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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Pen and brown ink drawing of ornamental scrollwork, a face mask cartouche, and a herm support for a chimney piece.

Designs for Ornamental Motifs and for a Herm Supporting a Chimney Piece

Moncalvo, 1568-1625

Red chalk drawing of a nude male figure with one arm raised overhead, shown in a twisting standing pose.

Man Sheathing a Sword

Francesco Montelatici, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a seated winged figure in drapery beside a flaming stone pedestal, in a lunette shape.

Seated Allegorical Female Figure

Morazzone, 1593-1626

Studies for a Costume

Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540

Bust Of an Old Woman in Profile to Right

Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540

Gray wash drawing of the Virgin rising on clouds above apostles at an open tomb, with angels and putti in light.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Francesco de Mura, 1751

Gray wash drawing in a circle: a kneeling man beside a bed, a crowned woman reclining, a bearded king and attendant at right.

Haman begs Esther for his Life

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Brown wash drawing of a haloed Christ seated under a canopy, preaching to kneeling figures in a columned architectural hall.

Christ Preaching

Federico Zuccaro, 16th century

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling bearded man in draped robes, arms outstretched and face turned upward, on aged paper.

Kneeling Male Figure with Outstretched Arms (recto); Semi-Nude Seated Male Figure seen from Behind (verso)

Giovanni Battista Naldini, 1537-91

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of an old bearded man with a staff and a young woman with a bundle before a classica

The Dismissal of Hagar

Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, 1657-1736

Chalk drawing of a man in a dark monastic habit, gesturing with one hand, inside an oval frame with a blank scroll below.

Portrait of a Man in a Monastic Habit

Bartolommeo Nazari, 1699-1758

Grey chalk drawing of a man in a wig and jacket, shown in an oval cartouche with rococo scrollwork.

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Wig

Bartolommeo Nazari, 1699-1758

Black and white chalk drawing of a man in a dark cap and buttoned jacket, arms folded, within an oval vignette on grey paper.

Portrait of a Man in a Cap

Bartolommeo Nazari, 1699-1758

Pen and ink sketch of a banquet with a seated warrior attended by servants carrying goblets and trays.

Banquet Scene: A Seated Warrior Attended by a Number of Servants (recto); Back View of a Standing Man in a Long Cloak…

Cesare Nebbia, 1536-1614

Watercolor of a standing officer in armor holding a pink banner, with a bow and arrows on his back.

An Officer of the Corps of Bowmen

William Alexander, 1797-1805

Pen drawing of a seated woman in a patterned gown beside a table with flowers, with a dark stylized border below.

Madame Réjane

Aubrey Beardsley, 1894

Ink drawing of a young woman in a pale gown among briars, flame-like lightning, and roses on a black ground.

Young Woman Surrounded by Briars, Lightning and Roses (Chapter Heading, "Le Morte d'Arthur," J. M. Dent 1893-94, Part…

Aubrey Beardsley, by May 30, 1893

Watercolor interior of a woman in a white gown and a kneeling man in blue, with a figure watching from a doorway.

The Proposal (recto); Unfinished drawing of a horse and rider (verso)

Richard Parkes Bonington, after 1820

Watercolor and pencil sketch of three women in traditional red-capped costumes with handwritten notes, by Edward Lear.

Peasant women from Ragusa

Edward Lear, 1866 (?)

Watercolor drawing of a towering nude angel raising one arm before a sunburst, holding an open book, feet in flame above the

Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10)

William Blake, ca. 1803-5

Ink and wash drawing of veiled women with lamps, kneeling figures, and a trumpeting angel in a night sky.

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

William Blake, ca. 1799-1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending over a sarcophagus, with angels in clouds and robed apostles below.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Cesare Nebbia, 1536-1614

Red chalk and ink drawing of a procession of nude and draped male figures carrying long staffs across a horizontal sheet.

Procession of figures

Carlo Urbino, 1510-85

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling saint interceding before Christ and the Virgin, with souls reaching up from below.

Saint Gregory the Great Interceding for Souls in Purgatory

Giovanni Odazzi, 1663-1731

Black chalk and white highlight study of a muscular reclining male figure with curly hair on blue paper.

Study after Michelangelo's Giorno (recto and verso)

Jacopo Tintoretto, ca. 1550-55

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Circumcision of Jesus, with a kneeling Virgin, a priest at an altar and onlookers in a temp

The Circumcision of Jesus

Giovanni Battista Trotti, 1555-1619

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling woman in draped robes with an outstretched arm, on squared grid paper.

Woman Kneeling Facing Left (recto); Seated Woman Facing Right (verso)

Giovanni Battista Trotti, 1555-1619

Pen and ink drawing of four draped female saints below three angels with palms and crowns among clouds.

Saint Cecilia, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Saint Agnes, Angels with Palm Branches and Cro…

Panfilo Nuvolone, ca. 1609

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man pointing to a monstrance on an altar, with a group of men and a column.

A Male Saint Followed by a Group of Men, Pointing to a Monstrance on an Altar

Giovanni Battista Trotti, 1555-1619

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin Mary on a globe with angels and God the Father above, and Adam and Eve with a serpent below.

Allegory of the Immaculate Conception with the Fall of Man

Alessandro Turchi, 1578-1649