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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Pen and ink sketch sheet with horses, riders, elephants, an ox and two dancing figures, with handwritten notes.

Various Studies

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of a convalescent in a canopy bed attended by visitors in a room with a clock and folding screen.

The Convalescent

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of hunters and hunting dogs gathered in a crowded interior hung with game and filled with pottery.

Departure for the Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Colored design with Virgin and Child in clouds above a landscape scene, framed by an ornate blue patterned border.

Design for a Stained Glass Window

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of crowded figures, horsemen, a camel, dogs and a walled city on an arched sheet.

Sketches of Classical or Biblical Figures

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of mounted warriors with spears moving through a narrow mountain pass between steep rock walls.

Warriors in a Mountain Pass

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of armed riders and figures under a cloudy sky, with skeletal remains in the foreground.

After the Battle

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen drawing of travelers with a child and donkey in a rocky landscape with skulls in the foreground and hills beyond.

Flight to Egypt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen drawing of a cluttered peasant kitchen with a standing woman, a seated man, a dog, and fish hanging from the rafters.

Peasants' interior with spinner

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1860

An Aga of the Janizaries

Robert Blyth, July 19, 1779

Ink sketch of a mounted rider in a fur hat with a lance, leading a column of horsemen across open ground.

Muscovite Rider

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of riders on galloping horses chasing across a hilly landscape under clouds.

The Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and wash drawing of the crowned Christ displayed before soldiers and a crowd under a classical arcade.

Ecce Homo

Hans von Aachen, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of a frightened naiad recoiling from a lion-headed fountain beside a palm tree and cypresses.

The Frightened Naïad (Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion)

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, ca. 1740

Charcoal drawing on grey paper of a woman's head and shoulders with heavy drapery and one arm extended to the right.

Half-Length Figure of a Woman with Outstretched Arms

François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Graphite drawing of a standing man in a long robe and cloak, gazing upward with one hand on his chest.

Standing Figure of a Robed Man

François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Charcoal drawing on grey paper of a standing male figure in a long robe, one hand raised to the chest.

Three-Quarter View of a Standing Male Robed Figure

François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Ink drawing of a woman in a ruffled period dress holding a crosshatched parasol, with hatched shading on pale paper.

Lady with a Parasol

Achille Devéria, 1838

Watercolor sketch of a bearded man in a dark fur hat framed in gold, surrounded by handwritten French verses on paper.

Satirical Drawing of the Sâr Joséphin Peladan

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin, 1891

Pen and ink drawing with blue wash of a costumed male figure with a sword, framed by radiating drapery and an ornate border.

A Costumed Actor in Front of a Curtain

Ink and wash drawing of a stormy forest with lightning, a standing rider and a fallen dead horse in the foreground.

A Rider and a Dead Horse in a Landscape

Ink and wash drawing of a crouching grotesque figure reaching toward a cat, with a standing woman and an older man looking on

The Pampered Idiot (Niño zangolotino)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Grey wash drawing of herdsmen with cattle, sheep and a goat resting in an Italianate landscape with trees and hills.

Herdsmen with Cattle and Sheep in Italianate Landscape

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, mid-17th-late 17th century

Black chalk study on blue paper of a standing peasant man in a fur hat and long coat, leaning on a ledge.

Study of a Standing Peasant

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Charcoal drawing on blue paper of a bearded saint in draped robes standing beside a diagonal cross.

St. Andrew

Juan Carreño de Miranda, 17th century

Brown and green wash drawing of a military trophy with draped figure, ornate shields, helmet, urn and goblet.

Design for a Military Trophy

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1752-1821

Engraving of Lot led by two winged angels away from a walled city, with women following behind and a tree on the left.

Lot's Flight from Sodom

Hendrick Goltzius, 1582

Engraving of a Venetian wedding: elegant figures in a columned hall overlooking a lagoon with boats and a distant city.

The Venetian Wedding

Hendrick Goltzius, 1584

Engraving of Christ bound to a column while executioners with rods and a torch surround him in a city square.

The Flagellation, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraving of Ecce Homo: a crowned figure shown on a balcony above a crowd, with a man carrying a cross below and a city tower

Ecce Homo, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597