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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,034 works

Pen and ink sketch of a draped woman, a man in a plumed hat with a sword, and several figure studies on paper.

Sheet with Figure Studies (double sided)

called Il Monrealese Pietro Novelli, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a priest in a mitre circumcising an infant at an altar, with a kneeling child, a praying woman and onloo

The Circumcision

Gérard de Lairesse, mid-17th-early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a crowd beneath classical columns, with flames above their heads and seated women in the foreground.

The Pentecost

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Engraved portrait of an older bearded man in a ruff collar and skullcap, framed by an arch with classical ornaments.

Portrait of Hendrick Goltzius

Jan Müller, ca. 1617

Engraved self-portrait of John Kay seated beside a bust, with a cat on the chair and drawing tools on the table.

Portraits of Eminent Scotch Characters

John Kay, 1784-1819

Dense engraving of allegorical scenes of human folly, with a central globe, ladder, fighting figures and a skeleton with a sc

The Cage of Fools (La gabbia de' matti)

Sebastiano di Re, 1557-63

Engraved oval portrait of a cardinal with curled hair and white clerical collar, inscribed border above and below.

Le cardinal Pierre de Bonzi

Robert Nanteuil, 1678

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled wig, dark robe and white collar, within an inscribed border.

Le chancelier Louis Boucherat

Robert Nanteuil, 1676

Oval engraved portrait of a bewigged man in a dark robe and white collar, inside a laurel wreath border.

Le chancelier Louis Boucherat

Robert Nanteuil, 1677

Oval engraved portrait of a man with long curled wig and white collar, inscribed border, 1671.

Le cardinal Guillaume-Égon de Fürstenberg

Robert Nanteuil, 1671

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled hair, white collar and cross insignia, within a Latin inscribed border.

François de Harlay de Champvallon

Robert Nanteuil, 1673

Pencil sketch of three women in long dresses talking beside a croquet field, with two croquet players at the left.

Three women in conversation beside a croquet field (recto); Studies of a ballet dancer, a woman's profile, and a seat…

Louisa Starr Canziani, ca. 1865

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed woman before a seated man, with a kneeling woman, flames, books and onlookers.

The Cumaean Sibyl before Tarquin the Proud

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Graphite study of a group of bearded men in turbans and robes standing and talking together, with loose figures at the sides.

Study for "Types de races algériennes"

Henri-Félix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1830-86

Red chalk drawing of a young man's bust with tousled wavy hair and a loose garment on a cream sheet.

Bust of a Young Man

Jean de Saint-Igny, n.d.

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Engraving of Christ seated and crowned with thorns while soldiers mock him beneath a brick archway with a town view.

The Crowning with Thorns, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraving of a kneeling young man embraced by a bending older woman, with cattle, a pond and a thatched cottage behind them.

The Prodigal Son (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Grey ink and wash drawing of a bearded man, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure and a torch in a stone interior.

Witch of Endor

Ary Scheffer, 19th century

Grayscale drawing of two winged nude figures with comedy and tragedy masks above carved busts of playwrights.

Comedy and Tragedy

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1814

Engraving of Europa riding a white bull by the sea, with nymphs, a piper, cattle, ships and an island in the background.

The Rape of Europa

Giulio Bonasone, 1546

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elderly monocled man examining a box beside a seated woman, with a servant and urn.

The Connoisseur

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1800

Watercolor drawing of a woman in a pink gown gesturing toward a horned beast holding a basket of jewelry beneath a tree.

Beauty and the Beast

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Hand-colored caricature of an elderly antiquarian in pink coat examining a classical bust through a magnifying glass.

An Antiquarian

Frederick George Byron, October 23, 1789

Hand-colored caricature etching of a seated man watching two dancing women behind a sheer curtain, while a uniformed man peek

Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797…

James Gillray, February 20, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of four elderly gentlemen in wigs peering at a reclining nude painting on an easel in a classical int

Connoisseurs

Thomas Rowlandson, June 20, 1799

Engraving of King Lear on his throne pointing at Cordelia as courtiers and attendants watch in a columned hall.

King Lear Casting Out His Daughter Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)

Richard Earlom, first published 1792; reissued 1852

Red chalk drawing of Christ carrying the cross amid a crowd of soldiers and mourners, with a colonnade and hilltop crosses be

Christ Carrying the Cross

Pierre Mignard I, ca. 1684

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd carrying stones past a palm tree, with an obelisk and a cloud-borne figure above.

The Jews Collecting the Twelve Stones from the River Jordan

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ca. 1535-38

Engraving of a banquet inside an arched hall, with a ragged beggar and a dog in the foreground by a doorway.

Lazarus at the Rich Man's Gate, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1554