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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

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

Pen and wash architectural design of an arched altarpiece niche beneath a garlanded dome with rococo cartouches.

Architectural Design with an Altarpiece Framed in a Niche and Surmounted by a Dome

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1755-1817

Ink and wash design for a Baroque altar in a niche with Corinthian columns, rococo frame and radiant emblem above.

Designs for an Altar in a Niche

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1755-1817

Pen and wash drawing with four panels of putti working with heraldic shields, drapery and pedestals.

Four Sketches of Putti Hanging Coat of Arms

Carlo Marchionni, 1702-86

Pen and wash drawing of a trompe l'oeil ceiling with Corinthian columns, ornate vault moldings, eagles and figures opening to

Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, ca. 1750-60

Pen and grey wash drawing of three rococo ornamental wall panels with scrollwork, an urn of flowers, and a cherub face.

Design for a Portable Screen

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and grey wash design drawing of a rococo canopy with scrolled cornice, central finial and swagged drapery.

Design for a Canopy (recto). Design for an Armchair (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

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

Brown ink drawing of Saint Lawrence with a halo, holding a book and palm, standing beside a gridiron on a grid-ruled sheet.

Saint Lawrence

Bartolomeo Cesi, 1619

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate rococo palazzo interior with arched niches, draped curtains, and large mirrors.

Design for a Stage Set: Interior of a Palazzo Decorated with Large Mirrors and Console Tables

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and grey wash design of a vaulted stage interior with a grand stairway, columns and a gallery.

Design for a Stage Set: Groin-Vaulted Stairway Leading to a Gallery with Another Stairway to a Second Story at Left (…

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and gray wash drawing of a stage set with a staircase, balustrade, classical columns and a gallery of connected barrel va

Design for a Stage Sets: Anteroom with Stairs Leading to a Gallery Composed of a Series of Connected Barrel Vaults

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and gray wash drawing of rococo ornament with draped canopy, scrollwork, clouds and pilasters.

Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (recto). Variant Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and wash elevation drawing of a palace wall with arched niches, columns, busts on pedestals, and ornate cornice.

Design for the Decoration of a Palace Interior

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1711-65

Pen and wash design for a rococo church ceiling with clouds, a cross, putti, scrollwork and religious medallions.

Design for a Church Ceiling

Vincenzo dal Rè, 1700-1762

Pen and wash elevation of a classical palace garden facade with a central dome, two flanking domed pavilions and arched openi

Design for the Garden Façade of a Palace

Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, 1695-1766

Brown ink drawing of a tiered architectural altar with a central niche, flanking seated figures, and a winged figure at top.

Design for an Altar Erected for the Holy Week

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750-66

Pen and brown ink drawing of an architectural altar design with columns, a statue niche, and a figure atop the pediment.

Design for the Left Half of an Altar

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750-66

Ink and watercolor design of a rococo cupola with coffered ceiling, floral bouquets, urns and carved balustrades.

Design for a Cupola Decoration

Giovanni Antonio Torricelli, 1736-81

Graphite drawing of a clenched right hand with shaded fingers and faint drapery lines on a cream sheet.

The Hand of Poussin, after Ingres

Georges Seurat, 1875-77

Pen and grey wash drawing of an oval ornamental design with Passion scenes, a crucifixion, and winged putti around a blank ca

Design for a Silver Vessel with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen, ca. 1600

Pen and red chalk drawing of The Last Judgment with a enthroned figure above angels, nude crowds, and architecture below.

The Last Judgment

Michael Herr, ca. 1620

Pen and wash drawing of a grand armory hall stage set with columns, coffered ceiling, armor trophies and statues.

Design for a Stage Set

Carlo Zucchi the Younger, ca. 1748-95

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

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 drawing with three architectural elevations of a parish church showing interior section, front facade with towers, and re

Drawing of Interior, Façade, and Rear of Church

Jacques Germain Soufflot, 18th century

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.

Monochrome drawing of a small hot air balloon drifting above layered clouds beneath a glowing moon in a dusky sky.

Drawing for an Illustration in "Voyages du Flandre"

Albert-Charles Tissandier, 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.

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate architectural frame with an empty central panel, putti, and sphinxes.

Design for a title page

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

Engraving of a woman pointing to a vision of the Virgin and Child in clouds while a kneeling man looks up, in a landscape.

Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro, 1557-86

Bearded Head, Looking Down to the Right

III Jacques de Gheyn, 1620-30

Pen and ink sketch of a boy balancing a tall weed on his nose beside a crate and a hat.

Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose

Jehan-Georges Vibert, ca. 1874

Grey wash drawing of a dying saint in bed with a kneeling woman and standing figures near a stepped doorway.

The Death of Saint Hilary (recto); Sketch of an Arm (verso)

Jan van Scorel, early-mid 16th century

Engraving of a standing woman in flowing robes holding a covered jar, on a rounded mound, in fine black line.

Mary Magdalen

Master i.e., ca. 1490

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

Grey wash drawing of a military convoy in disarray after an explosion, with fallen horses, soldiers, and an overturned carria

A Military Convoy Surprised by an Explosion

Dirk Langendijk, ca. 1790-1800

Sheet of pen and brown wash studies showing many nude male figures in seated and reclining poses.

Figure Studies

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

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.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a decorative ceiling design with grotesques, garlands, winged creatures and framed scenes.

Ceiling Design with Grotesques

Antonio Liverani, 19th century

Blue crayon sketch on brown paper of a robed figure with raised arms above an elephant in a decorative panel.

Preliminary Design for the Playbill to "Le Chariot de Terre Cuite"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

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

Watercolor design of an ornate altar flanked by a crowned saint and a nun, with a heavenly vision above the altar.

Altar Flanked by St. Louis and St. Theresa

Émile Charles Wattier, mid-19th century

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

Pen and ink caricature of a bearded man's head on a pedestal, with a handwritten French inscription below.

Caricatured Head of a Spaniard

Jules Worms, 1880

Pen and gray wash drawing of a vast basilica interior with coffered vaults, Corinthian columns, and small figures below.

Interior of St. Peter's Basilica

Jean François Chalgrin, 1759-61 (?)

Red textile design with large white roses, oak leaves, fern sprays and trailing vines in a repeating floral pattern.

Design for Patterned Silk

Jean François Bony, ca. 1780-1825

Green broadsheet with twelve skeleton vignettes in couples and comic scenes, with Spanish verses under each image.

The great pantheon of love

José Guadalupe Posada, ca. 1910-15 (published)

Ink and wash elevation of a neoclassical garden front with colonnade, arches, sphinx statues, and a sculpted pediment group.

Elevation for the Garden-Front of the Hotel de Brunoy, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris

Etienne-Louis Boullée, ca. 1779

Architectural floor plan with a central rotunda, courtyard, and angled wings with labeled rooms, drawn in ink on paper.

Floor Plan for the Renovations of the Château de Rambouillet

Jean Augustin Renard, ca. 1783

Pen and brown ink drawing of a funeral catafalque under a draped canopy, flanked by rows of seated mourners in a grand hall.

Funeral of the Grand Condé

Jean Bérain, ca. 1687

Watercolor frontispiece of garden ruins with columns, a waterfall, statues and an inscribed cartouche, by Claude Louis Châtel

Design for a Frontispiece

Claude Louis Châtelet, 1782

Ink and wash architectural floor plans of the Chateau of Marly with room labels and staircases, drawn by Ange Jacques Gabriel

Plans of the Ground and First Floors of the Chateau of Marly

Ange Jacques Gabriel, 1764

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a classical Paris townhouse facade with fluted Ionic columns and arched windows.

Façade of the Hôtel de Chavannes, Paris (recto); Plan of a Circular Room (verso)

Pierre Louis Moreau Desproux, 18th century

Grey wash architectural elevation of a wall with Corinthian columns, a statued niche, round window and putti garlands.

Elevation of a Wall

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1776

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

Watercolor of a towered castle on a cliff above a winding river valley with distant snowy mountains.

Chatel Argent and the Val d'Aosta from above Villeneuve

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1836