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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Graphite sketch sheet with studies of draped women and heads, drawn as preparation for a Lamentation composition.

Studies of the Virgin and Holy Women for "The Lamentation"

Eugène Delacroix, 1842-43

Ink and wash design for a funeral monument with draped allegorical women, a skull, a trumpeting angel and an inscribed cartou

Design for a Funeral Ticket

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Graphite sketch of two seated draped men holding scrolls and a nude upper torso with raised arm.

Study of Figures

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, n.d.

Pencil sketch of an engraver in a broad hat working at a table in a cluttered workshop with shelves and a candle.

An Engraver

Edouard Jeanmaire, n.d.

Colored design drawing of a symmetrical arabesque with cherubs, grapevines, scrolls, and three recumbent lions at the base.

Design for an Arabesque

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, ca. 1780-93

Pen drawing of a draped woman asleep in a curved chair beside a column and brazier, with a handwritten dedication below.

Vestal Maiden Asleep in a Chair

Louis-Hector Leroux, 1879

Watercolor landscape with a waterfall, herder and cattle beneath trees, and distant hills under a cloudy blue sky.

Shepherdess near a Waterfall

Louis Gabriel Moreau, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of a woman in a pleated 1830s gown beside a table with two feathered hats and handwritten notes.

Costume Design

called Numa Pierre-Numa Bassaget, 1836-37

Watercolor fashion drawing of a woman in a turban leaning on a sofa, with a man in a green coat and a child in a bonnet.

Fashion Drawing with a Woman Seated in a Chair with a Boy and Girl

called Numa Pierre-Numa Bassaget, 19th century

Design for a Monument to a Military Leader

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, ca. 1690-1740

Colored drawing of a pulpit design with a robed preacher, winged angel, cherub on clouds and crimson drapery.

Design for a Pulpit

Augustin Pajou, n.d.

Etching of Othello pushing away a kneeling woman in an interior, with a standing woman and draped curtain beside him.

"Away!": plate 7 from Othello (Act 3, Scene 4)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Head of a Bearded Man

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1518-19

Engraving of a kneeling man feeding pigs at a trough in a village yard with gabled houses and a barn behind.

The Prodigal Son

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1496

Woodcut of Christ kneeling before an angel with a chalice while disciples sleep nearby and soldiers approach in the distance.

Christ on the Mount of Olives, from The Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497-99

Etching of Abraham entertaining angels at a table with bread and a ewer, a servant, and a doorway with a landscape beyond.

Abraham Entertaining the Angels

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1656

Etching of a bearded elderly man in a turban gesturing to a standing boy carrying wood, with rocky ground and trees.

Abraham and Isaac

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1645

Etching of the Supper at Emmaus showing a bearded figure at a table with radiant light, companions, and an elderly woman at l

The Supper at Emmaus

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Charcoal bust portrait of a woman in a dark hood and pince-nez, turned to the left against a shaded background.

Bust of a Woman Wearing a Pince-nez (Wife of the Artist)

Théodule Augustin Ribot, ca. 1875

Chalk drawing of a woman in a white bonnet and apron spinning flax at a wooden wheel against a dark background.

A Woman Spinning Flax

François Bonvin, 1861

Pen and ink design for an ornate cartouche showing a religious scene of figures beside a draped curtain.

Design for a Cartouche with a Religious Subject in the Central Compartment

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of soldiers in tall shakos marching through shallow water with rifles and knapsacks.

Soldiers Marching in Water

Charles-Henri Pille, 19th century

Two dancers in feathered costumes and striped pleated skirts, one holding a fan, drawn in pen and watercolor on paper.

Drawing of Two 'Americans' for Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut

Daniel Rabel, 1626

Sepia wash drawing of a seated man and a standing woman in a hilly landscape with a distant spire and birds.

Man and woman in a landscape (Faust and Marguerite)

Richard Parkes Bonington, ca. 1826-27

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Annunciation: an angel with a lily faces the kneeling Virgin Mary beside a draped curtain.

Annunciation

Filippo Bellini, 1560-1600

Pen and ink study of a bearded prophet-like man in draped robes raising one arm, on a grey-toned sheet.

Study for the Prophet Jeremiah (recto); Studies of a Horse Seen from Below and of a Man Seated on a Chair, Probably a…

Henry Fuseli, 1764-70

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Entombment, with Christ's body held by mourners in an arched architectural setting.

Entombment

Maso da San Friano, 16th century

Pen and watercolor design of a palace interior with green drapery, gilded garlands, an oval frame and a console table.

Design for a Palace Interior

Leonardo Marini, 1730-97

Etching of a seated nude man among classical ruins, with rising flames and a statue on a column behind him.

The Righteous Man

Giovanni David, ca. 1775

Pen and gray wash drawing of a halberdier in Renaissance dress beside an unfinished scrolled coat of arms with a helmet.

Design for Stained Glass: A Halbardier by an Unfinished Coat of Arms

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1570-80