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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Pen and grey wash drawing of two chained male atlantes supporting a cornice above an eagle, with draped fabric.

Design for a Decorated Console with Two Slaves on Top of an Eagle

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1782-1844

Pen and ink drawing of a helmeted warrior stripping armor from a fallen soldier among rocks, with a sword and shield nearby.

Stripping the Slain

John Hamilton Mortimer, ca. 1773

Black and white woodcut by Paul Gauguin titled Le Sourire, showing a seated woman, a bird, and stylized faces with carved let

Le Sourire

Paul Gauguin, 1899

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate rococo frame enclosing a scene of a seated woman, a standing man, and a cherub above.

Design for a Sculptured Frame with Garlands and Statues and a Painting of Two Human Figures with Puttis inside the Frame

Carlo Borrelli, 1776

Brown ink drawing of a central cuirass and helmet flanked by two ornate classical vases with relief figures.

Trophy with Two Vases and a Cuirass

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Pen and brown ink sketch of a bearded man with raised arm standing over a fallen figure on the ground.

Study of Two Male Figures Fighting

Luca Cambiaso, mid-16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a garden fountain with nude statues, a colonnade and seated figures in the foreground.

Susanna and the Elders

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Pen and wash drawing of seated allegorical female figures on an ornate sculptural architectural design with columns and arche

Studies for a Sculpture with Figures of Prudence, Industry and Economy Supported by Slaves and an Oval Plaque with Ca…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of a female face framed by ornate scrolls, acanthus leaves and curling tendrils in a decorative cartouche

Female Mask Surrounded by Tendrils

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a female face in a scrolled helmet topped by a winged dragon, on aged paper.

Design for a Helmet with a Dragon Presented in Frontal View

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate cartouche flanked by a bearded man, a laurel-crowned youth in armor, and four putti.

Drawing of Cartouche with Bearded Man Left, Young man crowned with Laurels Right, and Four Putti

Battista Franco Veneziano

Pen and ink drawing of a helmeted soldier with a round shield and sword striding across a grassy landscape.

A Soldier Brandishing a Shield in a Landscape

Monogrammist GK, 1586

Gray wash drawing of a seated ruler on a throne with courtiers, a fire at right, in an ornate Rococo frame.

A Scene of Judgment

Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730

Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right

Bronzino, 1545-55

The Archangel Gabriel Kneeling to the Right; Small Study of Head at Lower Left

Jacopo da Empoli, late 16th century

Pen and red chalk sketch of a man leaning on a staff beside a dog, with trees and landscape in the background.

Framed Sketch for a Man, a Dog and a Tree

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Watercolor design for a painted wall with a seated female figure, wheat sheaves, pheasants in a landscape, and floral borders

Design for Painted Wall Decoration for a Bakery

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraved frieze of a bacchanal with Silenus supported by revelers, satyrs, a reclining woman and a Priapus statue.

A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at right a female satyr reclining on a bed and another…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-13

Engraving of a seated bare-chested man holding a laurel branch, with two draped women, a tree, and a classical building behin

The Man with a Laurel Branch

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Pope Paul III in a Skullcap

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Watercolor of a Gothic church interior with a robed altar boy in the foreground and ribbed vaulted ceilings above.

View of Interior with Figures, Saint Clotilde

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraving of a Roman triumphal arch with three passageways, columns, relief panels, and a cherub holding a banner above.

The Arch of Constantine, Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Engraving of an artist's studio with bearded men and students drawing by candlelight beside classical statues and vessels.

Baccio Bandinelli in his studio holding a statuette of Venus, students sketching from a model by candlelight

Agostino Veneziano, 1531

Two watercolor ceiling designs with putti, allegorical figures, and ornamental scrollwork on a blue-grey mount.

Two Designs for Ceiling with Putti and Allegorical Figures of the Arts

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Two watercolor designs for ornamental panels, one with a lettered cartouche and figures, one with a seated trident figure in

Two Designs for Ornamental Panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraving of a chaotic battle with armored horsemen, fallen soldiers, chariots, and a burning city in the background.

Battle with a Cutlass

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Watercolor design of a chimney piece with a heraldic coat of arms above a grey mantel against a red wall.

Design for Chimney Piece, Château du Duc de Meternick, Johannisburg

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraving of a nude young man pointing toward sunbeams beside a tree, and an old man reclining in grass at right.

An old man reclining on the ground at right; at left a naked younger man standing pointing toward the sun with and le…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of a lion hunt with armored men, horses, lions and a reclining nude woman beneath trees, with Latin text below.

The Lion Hunt, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Three engravings on one sheet: a pensive seated woman under an angel vision, a woman with a child, and a reclining nursing mo

Vision of St. Helena [Pensive Woman]

Marcantonio Raimondi, n.d.