New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures on a grand staircase beneath a colonnaded arch with statues in niches.

Architectural Fantasy: Figures on a Grand Staircase

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Ink and wash drawing of figures on a grand staircase beneath a stone arch, with a palatial facade and statue beyond.

Architectural Fantasy: Figures on a Grand Staircase (recto); Studies for the Frame of a Shaped Field (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of a rocky landscape with sketched figures, one lying across stones in the foreground.

The Good Samaritan

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, 1699-1766

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man in a robe beside a child holding a flowering staff, with a stair at lower right.

Saint Joseph Seen with his Flowering Staff, which is Held by the Christ Child

Guercino, 1591-1666

Pen and brown ink drawing of a kneeling youth before a bearded prelate in a mitre, with sketched steps below.

Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (recto); Another Study of a Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (verso)

Guercino, ca. 1620

Engraving of the bearded prophet Jeremiah seated in thought, framed by architectural arches and putti, labeled HIEREMIAS.

The Prophet Jeremiah, from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of allegorical figures on clouds above a studio where a seated painter watches a radiant woman and artisans work.

The Lament of the Art of Painting

Cornelis Cort, 1579

Monochrome print of a bearded man in a draped robe holding a mirror that reflects a wrinkled face, against a dark background.

Socrates Looking in a Mirror

Bernard Vaillant, 17th century

Pen and brown ink study of a woman in a headscarf gazing upward, holding a scroll with written lines.

A Sibyl Holding a Scroll (Study for the Cimmerian Sibyl)

Red chalk drawing of a young man seen from behind, bending over a bowl with a draped cloth at his waist.

Standing Youth Seen from Behind Holding a Bowl (Ganymede?)

Guercino, ca. 1635-45

Etching of a windswept juniper tree on a rocky outcrop, with shrubs and ferns in the foreground and an open sky.

The Juniper Tree, Fontainbleu

Eugène Stanislas Alexandre Bléry, 1840

Brown ink and wash drawing of a veiled woman praying with clasped hands, gazing upward, standing on a crescent.

The Virgin Immaculate

Guercino, ca. 1656

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman with curled hair and a small winged child reaching toward her.

Saint Cecilia Playing the Organ

Guercino, 1650s

Pen and wash drawing of a plumed-hat youth in puffed breeches reaching upward, mounted on a pale blue-grey card mat.

Boy Chasing a Butterfly

Guercino, 1591-1666

Pen and ink sketch of a kneeling saint and seated bearded man looking up at a blank panel held by two flying angels.

Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Louis of France Venerating an Image of the Virgin

Guercino, ca. 1618

Pen and brown ink drawing of a frowning man with shoulder-length hair and a loose shirt, in half-length within a ruled border

Portrait of Morose Man in Half-Length

Guercino, 1591-1666

Pen and brown ink sketch of grotesque demons, a terrified figure and a scaly beast above swirling flames.

A Diablerie

Guercino, 1591-1666

Pen and ink sketch of four nude putti on clouds, one holding a bow, above a faint landscape with a tower.

Four Putti with Bow and Arrows on Clouds above a Landscape with a Tower

Guercino, 1610-66

Hand-colored drawing of three women in period dress with a drum, sword, shield, helmet and flag beneath a tree.

The Iron Age (L'Age de fer)

Nicolas Arnoult, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of an elderly bearded man writing at a desk beside open books and a leafy branch.

Saint Jerome Writing

Guercino, 1591-1666

Watercolor of an Italian courtyard with women working at a wooden sieve beneath a stone archway, a child seated nearby.

Italian Courtyard and Figures

Cavaliere Pio Joris, 1843-1921

Pen and ink drawing of Abraham receiving three winged angels at a table in an arched interior, with a kneeling figure in fron

Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels (Genesis 18:1-15) (recto); A Couple Embracing, and Other (verso)

Francesco Lamarra, 1710-80

Brown wash drawing of God the Father above clouds with allegorical female figures and a nude youth below.

Allegory of Religion (God the Father above, Faith, Hope, and Charity below)

Ludovico Lana, 1597-1646

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in flowing drapery, head raised, one arm across his chest, legs in motion.

Male Figure Running

Giovanni Lanfranco, 1582-1647

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded martyrdom scene with a nude central figure and gesturing onlookers.

The Martyrdom of the Apostle Thomas

Giovanni Lanfranco, 1638-46

Harper's Magazine Christmas 1898 cover: a bright star with rays over three robed figures on a dark plain.

Harper's Magazine, Christmas

Harvey Ellis, 1898

Pen and ink sketch of a priest at an altar beneath a ball of fire, with kneeling worshippers looking up in a church.

The Miraculous Mass of Saint Martin of Tours with the Apparition of a Ball of Fire above His Head

Giovanni Lanfranco, 1602-47

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated bearded man in draped robes, one hand raised, on grey paper.

Seated Draped Male Figure (recto); Rough Studies of Putti (verso)

Giovanni Lanfranco, 1582-1647

Drawing of the Virgin and Child with a pilgrim saint and two other male saints, brown ink with white highlights.

The Virgin and Child with Saint Roch and Two Other Male Saints

Bernardino Lanino, 1512-83

Brown ink drawing of Saint Catherine kneeling in a city square among crowds, with an arch, obelisk, and angels above.

Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Bernardino Lanino, 1512-83