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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate funerary monument with arched niche, staircases, candles and a crowned statue.

Designs for a Funerary Monument with Stairs (recto); Various Funerary Monument Designs (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink sketch of rococo console tables, a niche, and a funerary monument with candlesticks on aged paper.

Sheet with Various Designs for Tables and a Funerary Monument

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink sheet with designs for ornate archways, baldachins, and decorative columns with scrollwork and drapery.

Designs for Archways and Baldachins with Caryatids and Coats of Arms (recto); Design for a Monument with Statues of P…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and watercolor design of a palace interior with green drapery, gilded garlands, an oval frame and a console table.

Design for a Palace Interior

Leonardo Marini, 1730-97

Pen and grey wash design drawing of a rococo canopy with scrolled cornice, central finial and swagged drapery.

Design for a Canopy (recto). Design for an Armchair (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Etching of a seated nude man among classical ruins, with rising flames and a statue on a column behind him.

The Righteous Man

Giovanni David, ca. 1775

Pen and gray wash drawing of rococo ornament with draped canopy, scrollwork, clouds and pilasters.

Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (recto). Variant Ornament Design with Alternate Suggestion (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and red chalk drawing of The Last Judgment with a enthroned figure above angels, nude crowds, and architecture below.

The Last Judgment

Michael Herr, ca. 1620

Pen and gray wash drawing of a halberdier in Renaissance dress beside an unfinished scrolled coat of arms with a helmet.

Design for Stained Glass: A Halbardier by an Unfinished Coat of Arms

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1570-80

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling bearded man being crowned with garlands by a woman, with a winged figure, cherubs and a sc

Time Banished by Truth

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man with curly hair and a pipe, with loose figure studies beside him.

Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin (recto); Sketch of Head (verso)

Henry Somm, n.d.

Pen and watercolor caricature sheet titled Sanitorium des Airs, with airships, a central woman in a tall hat, and numbered vi

Sanitorium des Airs

Georges Tiret-Bognet, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a symmetrical ornamental panel with an armored woman, putti, and scrolling decorative framing.

Study for an Ornamental Panel

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate architectural frame with an empty central panel, putti, and sphinxes.

Design for a title page

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Watercolor of two women in tiered evening gowns, one seated on a sofa and one standing by a piano in a gilded interior.

Fashion Study: Two Women in Evening Dress

Adèle-Anaïs Toudouze, ca. 1860

Ink sketches of figures in rain with umbrellas and an easel, above and beside a handwritten letter on folded paper.

Illustrated letter to M. Roland

Rosa Bonheur, 1840-99

Bearded Head, Looking Down to the Right

III Jacques de Gheyn, 1620-30

Pen and wash drawing on blue paper of a classical cavalry battle with rearing horses, armored riders and spears.

Classical Battle Scene; Verso: Peter and John Heal a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Bartholomeus Spranger, ca. 1590

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Deposition, with figures on a ladder lowering a body and mourners below beside a crucifixion

The Deposition from the Cross

Domenico Campagnola, 1537-1550

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling woman with a child before an armored figure on a pedestal, within a classical colonnaded h

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

Jean Cousin the Elder, ca. 1543

Brown wash drawing of a woman holding a child on a terrace beside a sleeping dog, with an inscription beneath.

O Bella Giovane

Fortunato Duranti, n.d.

Carter, the Colorman

Charles Beale, ca. 1680

Sepia wash drawing in lunette shape of three seated women with putti holding a laurel branch and a torch.

The Three Virtues (after Raphael)

Jan de Bisschop, ca. 1665

Hand-colored print of fashionable visitors on a stone staircase, all gazing up at the ceiling.

Visitors to the Salon Exhibition, Admiring the Ceiling (Les Amateurs de plafonds au Salon)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, August 27, 1824

Drawing of a man in a plumed tricorn hat and order badge in an oval frame on a pedestal inscribed Frédéric II de Prusse.

Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, after Antoine Pesne

Johann Georg Wille, 1730-1808

Watercolor design for a ceiling with an oval sky scene of clouds, figures and cherubs framed by ornate scrollwork.

Design for a Ceiling

Daniel Marot the Elder, ca. 1712

Grey wash drawing of a bacchanal with reclining revelers, cherubs, a fountain and classical columns.

Bacchanal

Michel Dorigny, 17th century

Lithograph of five heads crowded together, each making an exaggerated grimace, with a pointing hand in the foreground.

The Grimaces

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1823

Pencil drawing of an artist sketching under a tree beside reclining cattle and a stone wall with an inscription.

Artist Drawing in an Italianate Landscape

Jan van Ossenbeeck, 17th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of Christ being crowned with thorns by soldiers, with architecture and putti in background.

The Crowning with Thorns

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520-30