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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling draped figure seen from behind, head raised, cloak falling in hatched folds.

Kneeling Draped Figure

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes on a bed, with an elderly maid and cherubs above.

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes with a sword on a canopied bed, with a city view at left.

Judith Slaying Holofernes, from The Power of Women, plate 5

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1551

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical women, with a skull and small scenes below.

Portrait of Don Antonio Emanuel Ne-Vunda, Marchio de Wynth, Ambassador to the King of the Congo

Lucas Kilian, ca. 1608

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child as a kneeling king offers gifts beside standing attendant

Adoration of the Magi

Hendrick Goltzius, n.d.

Circular brown wash drawing with white highlights showing robed men in an arched interior with a tower beyond.

The Greatness of Mordecai

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of a crowned rider on horseback led past a kneeling robed figure, with onlookers and architecture.

Mordecai rides through the Streets in the Apparel the King has sent him

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of a bearded king reaching toward a kneeling veiled woman in an arcaded palace, with attendants and a balco

Queen Esther hears of the Decree against the Jews

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of a crowned king on a dais with scepter, surrounded by robed courtiers and armed men under a canopy.

King Ahasuerus in Council

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of two seated bearded men conversing in a classical colonnaded interior, with a third man leaning over a ba

Mordecai overhears the two Conspirators plotting against the King

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Portrait of Charles Kinnaird Sheridan

Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel D'Orsay, 1844

Grey wash drawing of a crowned king and seated woman at a banquet table, with a kneeling man, standing attendant and dog.

The King and Haman at Esther's Banquet of Wine

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Pink-washed drawing of shepherds approaching the infant Christ in a manger, with angels and ruined architecture behind.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Master of Liechtenstein, 1540-60

Woodcut of two women embracing before a stone archway, with a mountain landscape, trees, and a dog in the foreground.

The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, 1503-4

Woodcut of Joachim and Anna embracing at a Gothic arched gate, with onlookers and a town in the background.

Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, 1504

Woodcut of the Virgin Mary ascending on clouds, crowned by two figures above while apostles look up from an open tomb below.

The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Watercolor of a winged woman on a flying white horse lifting a baby from a sleeping figure on a green hillside at night.

Pity

William Blake, ca. 1795

Grey wash drawing of a feathered warrior with a parrot, crocodile and sugarcane, above a panel with a smoking cherub.

Allegory of America, from the Four Continents

Godfried Maes, 17th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a woman with a camel, pagoda and ornate scrollwork, labelled ASIA.

Allegory of Asia, from the Four Continents

Godfried Maes, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a crowned woman seated beside a lion with a palm tree, obelisk, and ornamental panel below.

Allegory of Africa, from the Four Continents

Godfried Maes, 17th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a helmeted allegorical woman with a spear and horse, labeled EUROPA, with putti and ornate scrol

Allegory of Europe, from the Four Continents

Godfried Maes, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a market scene with a seated man, standing women in headscarves, and onlookers around a basket.

The Scolding Fishwife

Nicolaes Maes, 17th century

Loose crayon sketch of a seated woman in a feathered hat and dark dress, looking to the side, on cream paper.

A Portrait: Mildred Howells

James McNeill Whistler, 1894-96

Pen and brown ink sketch of a standing man, a woman guiding a toddler, and a seated bearded man.

Studies of Two Men and a Woman Teaching a Child to Walk

Nicolaes Maes, 1645-50

Graphite portrait of a seated man in an overcoat holding a sketchbook and pencil, turning toward the viewer.

Portrait of Pieter Frederik van Os

Anton Mauve, 1855

Pencil sketch of a woman in a headscarf and long skirt leaning forward on a shore, with a tow rope trailing behind her.

Woman pulling a tow rope. verso: sketch of landscape with figures

Anton Mauve, mid to late 19th century

Pencil drawing of a mountain lake landscape with figures, a dog, donkeys and a distant castle under clouds.

Landscape with mountains and a lake, figures in the foreground

Jan van der Meer the Younger, 1687

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat, holding a paper, with a walking stick.

Seated Cavalier with Glass

Gabriel Metsu, mid-17th century

Grey wash drawing of horsemen riding past military tents toward a distant town with church spires under a cloudy sky.

Louis XIV at the Siege of Douai, Seen from the South-East (July 1-6, 1667)

Adam Frans van der Meulen, 17th century

Drawing of two soldiers in period dress lunging with swords, rendered in black chalk and white highlights on blue paper.

Study of Two Soldiers Swordfighting

Adam Frans van der Meulen, 17th century