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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling bearded man being crowned with garlands by a woman, with a winged figure, cherubs and a sc

Time Banished by Truth

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man with curly hair and a pipe, with loose figure studies beside him.

Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin (recto); Sketch of Head (verso)

Henry Somm, n.d.

Pen and watercolor caricature sheet titled Sanitorium des Airs, with airships, a central woman in a tall hat, and numbered vi

Sanitorium des Airs

Georges Tiret-Bognet, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a symmetrical ornamental panel with an armored woman, putti, and scrolling decorative framing.

Study for an Ornamental Panel

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Watercolor of two women in tiered evening gowns, one seated on a sofa and one standing by a piano in a gilded interior.

Fashion Study: Two Women in Evening Dress

Adèle-Anaïs Toudouze, ca. 1860

Ink sketches of figures in rain with umbrellas and an easel, above and beside a handwritten letter on folded paper.

Illustrated letter to M. Roland

Rosa Bonheur, 1840-99

Bearded Head, Looking Down to the Right

III Jacques de Gheyn, 1620-30

Pen and wash drawing on blue paper of a classical cavalry battle with rearing horses, armored riders and spears.

Classical Battle Scene; Verso: Peter and John Heal a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Bartholomeus Spranger, ca. 1590

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Deposition, with figures on a ladder lowering a body and mourners below beside a crucifixion

The Deposition from the Cross

Domenico Campagnola, 1537-1550

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling woman with a child before an armored figure on a pedestal, within a classical colonnaded h

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

Jean Cousin the Elder, ca. 1543

Brown wash drawing of a woman holding a child on a terrace beside a sleeping dog, with an inscription beneath.

O Bella Giovane

Fortunato Duranti, n.d.

Carter, the Colorman

Charles Beale, ca. 1680

Sepia wash drawing in lunette shape of three seated women with putti holding a laurel branch and a torch.

The Three Virtues (after Raphael)

Jan de Bisschop, ca. 1665

Hand-colored print of fashionable visitors on a stone staircase, all gazing up at the ceiling.

Visitors to the Salon Exhibition, Admiring the Ceiling (Les Amateurs de plafonds au Salon)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, August 27, 1824

Drawing of a man in a plumed tricorn hat and order badge in an oval frame on a pedestal inscribed Frédéric II de Prusse.

Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, after Antoine Pesne

Johann Georg Wille, 1730-1808

Watercolor design for a ceiling with an oval sky scene of clouds, figures and cherubs framed by ornate scrollwork.

Design for a Ceiling

Daniel Marot the Elder, ca. 1712

Grey wash drawing of a bacchanal with reclining revelers, cherubs, a fountain and classical columns.

Bacchanal

Michel Dorigny, 17th century

Lithograph of five heads crowded together, each making an exaggerated grimace, with a pointing hand in the foreground.

The Grimaces

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1823

Pencil drawing of an artist sketching under a tree beside reclining cattle and a stone wall with an inscription.

Artist Drawing in an Italianate Landscape

Jan van Ossenbeeck, 17th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of Christ being crowned with thorns by soldiers, with architecture and putti in background.

The Crowning with Thorns

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520-30

Pen and brown wash drawing of Saint Thomas standing barefoot in a long cloak beside a carpenter's square and tools.

Saint Thomas

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527

Circular drawing of an old bearded man by a hearth as a boy blows on the fire, with a street scene visible outside.

December: And Old Man Seated by a Hearth with a Young Man Blowing on the Fire

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, late 16th-mid 17th century

Drawing of a mustached man in a ruffled collar and embroidered doublet, within an oval frame with painter's tools below.

Portrait of the Painter François Gysels

David Bailly, ca. 1620-30

Grey wash drawing of a bearded armored warrior with a banner, with battle scenes and horsemen behind him.

Levi Avenging the Honor of his Sister Dinah

Crispijn van den Broeck, 16th century

Brown ink drawing of an armored warrior standing beside a robed figure holding up a cloth, with a rocky landscape behind.

David Showing Saul the Tip of His Coat

Ferdinand Bol, 1636-41

Portrait of Honoré Daumier

Étienne Carjat, 1861

Drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, Christ child, shepherds, oxen and a ruined stone structure.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Aertgen van Leyden, early 16th-mid 16th century

Oval pencil drawing of a young woman in a bonnet beside a metal milk churn and rose bush, with a tree behind her.

Perrette, ou la petite laitière

Montbrian De Chateauvieux, 1786

Ink drawing of a standing soldier in a tricorn hat holding a musket with bayonet, on a rocky ground, brown ink on tan paper.

Standing Soldier

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, 1812-45

Brown wash drawing of a draped female figure holding a fluted bowl overhead as a torchère on an ornate pedestal.

Design for a Torchère

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, ca. 1770-90