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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,710 works

Grey wash drawing of fashionable figures in a garden with a fountain, statue niche, stone steps and urns.

Gallant Company in a Park

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, mid-18th century

Grey wash drawing of a canal with classical palazzo buildings, statues, and small boats with figures in the foreground.

Canal Scene with a Palazzo

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, mid-18th century

Interior of a cathedral with carved choir stalls, a lone robed figure on stone floor, and light through stained glass windows

The Choirstalls in the Mainz Cathedral

Adolph Menzel, 1869

Watercolor of cattle and sheep resting under beech trees, with shepherds and a distant castle on hills.

Cattle and sheep at resting at the edge of a forest

the younger George Barret, ca. 1840

Watercolor of cattle drinking at a pool in a valley flanked by rocky cliffs, with sheep grazing on the slopes.

Cattle at a watering hole in a valley

John Henry Mole, 1846-86

Pencil drawing of two children seated on a grassy hillside with a racquet, a village and open landscape behind them.

Children Seated on a Hillside with a Racquet

Charles-Emmanuel Serret, 19th century

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated woman in a full dress with curled hair, on blue paper.

Seated girl

George Jones, 1820-40

Brown wash drawing of a bacchanal with nude revelers, a central woman raising a goblet and holding a spear, in a wooded setti

Milton's Comus

Joseph Noël Paton, 1842-48

Watercolor of a black caterpillar, white moth and cocoon on a twig, with a patterned moth and a pink-winged moth above.

A Caterpillar and Two Moths on a Branch and Two Butterflies

Nicolaas Struyk, early 18th-mid 18th century

Seated woman with curled hair holding a spindle beside a lamp stand and wool basket, drawn in chalk on toned paper.

Lachesis

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a gaunt man in a nightshirt reaching for a bottle labeled Fountain of Youth in a cluttered room.

Man in a Nightshirt Reaching for a Bottle Labeled "Fountain of Youth"

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1803-47

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a shepherd couple resting under a tree beside a flock of sheep in a forest.

Tending the Sheep

Charles Émile Jacque, 1830-94

Sepia drawing of a semi-nude woman and a winged cupid on a crescent moon boat drifting through clouds.

La Folie l'égare (Folly Adrift)

Jean-Baptiste Mallet, ca. 1808

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a ruffled bonnet with dark bangs, looking toward the viewer, with a handwritten inscription

The Head of a Young Woman Wearing a Bonnet

Max Klinger, ca. 1880-82

Pen and wash drawing of figures and a carriage on steps overlooking a formal park with a pond and statue.

View from the Portico of the House to the Park at Stowe, Buckinghamshire

Jacques Rigaud, 1733-34

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a man leaning back with arm outstretched, with a second head study above.

Study of a Female Dancer

Otto Greiner, late 19th-early 20th century

Pencil drawing of an angel with a staff beside two embracing men at a stone doorway under a vine pergola, with a dog.

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

Carl Gottlieb Peschel, 1829

Kneeling woman and child in blue praying before a gilded image of the Virgin in a sunlit stone church interior.

Mother and Daughter in Prayer

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, ca. 1811-17

Pen sketch sheet with studies of fantastical woodland creatures, gnarled roots, and figures in cloaks and tall hats.

Studies of Imaginary Woodland Creatures and Other Figures

Moritz von Schwind, mid-19th century

Pen drawing of an ornate gallery with glass display cases, a glazed roof, and visitors in 19th-century dress.

Gallery Lined with Display Cases

John Gregory Crace, 19th century

Pencil drawing of an elderly man in a wig and long coat seated in an armchair, holding a walking stick.

Uncle Toby, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1852

Sepia drawing of an elderly man with a cane reaching toward a window while a family sits at a dining table behind him.

Uncle Toby and the Fly, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1847

Brown ink drawing of an elderly man in a wide hat and ruffled collar holding a paper, beside a stone wall.

Portrait of Jan Hus

Christoffel van Sichem, mid-16th-early 17th century

Red chalk drawing of four Old Testament scenes framed by rococo scrollwork, including Adam and Eve and Moses with tablets.

Four Scenes from the Old Testament

Paul Decker the Younger, early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a fallen rider beneath a vision of Christ on clouds with angels holding a cross, watched by soldiers.

The Conversion of St. Paul (recto); The Execution of the Prisoner (verso)

Dominik Kindermann, 18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a birth scene with attending women, an infant, and angels with flowering branches among clouds.

Birth of St. John the Baptist

Valentin Lefèbvre, 17th century

Charcoal study of an elderly woman in a draped shawl, gazing upward, with soft shading on her face and garments.

Study of an Old Woman

August von Pettenkofen, 1886

Oval drawing of a bearded satyr playing pipes beside nude nymphs, with white highlights on a tan ground.

Satyrs and Nymphs; verso: partial counterproof of Heintz's "Studies for the Flight into Egypt" in The Courtauld Galle…

Joseph Heintz the Elder, ca. 1599

Brown ink drawing of a garden grove with a ruined classical temple, a stairway, a crowd of figures and tall trees.

Veduta del Boschetto d'Arcadia dalla parte del Tempio

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing with blue wash of a bearded man holding a stag's head beside an armored knight standing over a dragon.

Saint Eustace and Saint George

Hans von Kulmbach, ca. 1511