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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Black chalk study of a standing cleric in a long robe pointing left, with a small figure sketched at lower right.

Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858); black ch…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Watercolor sketch of a woman in a pink dress and white hat with a red parasol, inside a blue-framed streetcar scene.

Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: The Huntington Avenue Streetcar

Maurice Prendergast, 1895

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a robed cleric with outstretched arms, with a separate study of a hand above.

Cleric with Raised Arms (lower register?; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Pari…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Black and white chalk drawing of a robed cleric with hands joined in prayer, seen from behind on grey paper.

Cleric with Joined Hands (lower register?); verso: (same figure); (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Red chalk and white highlight drapery study of a figure with faint graphite sketches of a soldier behind it.

Drapery Study for Sainte-Clotilde (upper register); verso: Standing Soldier; (studies for wall paintings in the Chape…

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Red chalk drapery study of two standing robed figures, one holding a book, on a pale sheet of paper.

Drapery Study for Sainte-Clotilde (upper register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Cloti…

Isidore Pils, 1830-75

Angel (upper register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Charcoal and white chalk study of a seated bearded man, bare to the waist, leaning on draped cloth on grey paper.

Seated Bearded Man, Nude to the Waist (Jupiter Seated)

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Watercolor of ruined Tuileries Palace colonnade and facade framing a view of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.

Ruins of the Tuileries Palace

Isidore Pils, 1871

Graphite sketch of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and cloak, smoking a pipe while resting his arms on a ledge.

Portrait of Théodore Ballu

Isidore Pils, 1842

Pencil sketch of a standing peasant man in a long coat and hat, hands at his waist, on lined paper.

Peasant

Camille Pissarro, second half 19th century

Pastel drawing of two women with buckets talking on a garden path beside a hedge and a brick cottage.

Two Women in a Garden

Camille Pissarro, 1888

Brown ink wash drawing of a violinist beside a seated figure, with sketched studies of heads along the bottom edge.

Paganini Playing and Studies of Heads

Henri-Louis-Hippolyte Poterlet, 1820-35

Brown ink drawing of a cinerary urn design with a blank cartouche, eagles, roosters and a mask among fruit garlands.

Cinerary Urn, after the Antique

Nicolas Poussin, 17th-19th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a sorcerer on a winged beast seizing a lady from a rearing horse beside a tree.

The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1635-38

Charcoal study of a reclining nude man, a horse head, a rearing horse, and a draped female figure on toned paper.

Sketch for War, painting in the Museum of Picardy at Amiens

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1861

Graphite study of a nude male figure with hand raised to chin, drawn over a blue grid on tan paper.

Study for Geometry in "The Sorbonne"

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1886-87

Graphite study of a nude seated figure, head bowed and arms around the knees, drawn over a squared grid on tan paper.

Seated Figure: Study for "A Vision of Antiquity"

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1883-85

Graphite sketch of a standing woman in classical drapery holding a vessel, with a tree trunk behind her, on tan paper.

A Muse of Poetry

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of figures unloading cargo beside sailing ships with masts, on tan paper.

Figures Unloading Cargo from Sailing Vessels

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 19th century

Pastel drawing of a young woman with bowed head holding a dark muff, wearing a grey bodice and pleated orange skirt.

Young Woman with a Muff

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1860-1919

Charcoal drawing of an executioner in a turban raising a severed head, with draped robes and white chalk highlights on grey p

Executioner Holding Up a Severed Head

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1682-1754

A Girl Reading (with a Sketch of Seated Woman)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a pensive young boy with his hand at his chin and a staff behind his shoulder, on toned paper.

Boy With a Staff

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1682-1754

Black chalk drawing of a young girl with lowered eyes and a hen perched on her shoulder, with white highlights.

Girl with a Hen

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1682-1754

Sketch of a seated hooded monk in a long robe reading an open book against a dark brown background.

Seated Carthusian Holding an Open Book

Jean Restout le jeune, 1711

Head of a Bearded Man

Jean Restout le jeune, ca. 1750

Black chalk and white heightening drawing of a seated male nude with one arm outstretched, on tan paper.

Seated Male Nude

Jean Restout le jeune, ca. 1740

Watercolor and ink drawing of tree trunks and foliage beside a pale blue pond with distant trees.

Trees Beside a Pond

Louis-Antoine-Léon Riesener, 1853-78

Watercolor of a stone prison gate with a guard, visitors in white dresses, and onlookers on a balcony above.

Visitors leaving a prison

Hubert Robert, 1794-95