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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated female figure in clouds, a putto, a draped figure, and a boar on a title page.

Title Page

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Watercolor design for a rococo painted ceiling with a gilded central medallion, scrolls, musical instruments and floral urns.

Design for a Painted Ceiling

Giovanni Antonio Torricelli, 1716-81

Pen and ink design sheet with grotesque figures, urns, scrolling foliage, birds and drapery for a wall decoration.

Design for a Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Pen and ink design sketch of a decorated wall with garlands, urns, a bird, medallions, and grotesque panels.

Design for Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, early 16th century

Pen drawing of ornamental scrollwork with a central putto and two figures riding dolphins over waves below.

Designs for Ornamental Motifs with Figures, Real and Imaginary Animals, and Coats of Arms of the Medici Grand Dukes

Stefano Della Bella, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a female head in an ornate scrolled helmet topped by a winged sphinx and plumes.

Design for a Helmet with a Sphinx presented in 3/4 View

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Design for a Helmet with an Elaborate Plume

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman and children watching a standing woman with a small dog in a garden.

The Education of a Dog

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Pen and ink design of a rococo cartouche with an Annunciation scene above and a robed figure with a staff below.

Design for a Cartouche with an Annunication above and a Kneeling Figure with Staff Below

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of a pilaster ornament and a rococo cartouche with scrolling foliage on aged paper.

Designs for a Pilaster Ornament and Cartouche (recto); Design for a Window or a Wall Plaque (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of Baroque scrollwork ornament with urn and baluster details on a sheet with construction lines.

Design for the Crowning Decorations of a Gate (recto); Sketches of Stone Blocks with Measurements (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of an ornamental pedestal with scroll brackets and a central framed cartouche panel.

Design for a Pedestal (recto); Design for the Plan of a Monument (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a tiered funerary monument with draped allegorical figures, flaming urns, and a cross-topped spire.

Design for a Funerary Monument

Ignaz Günther, ca. 1710-40

Engraving of a bearded man and a seated woman handling a monkey beside a tree, with a parasol on the ground.

The Five Senses

François Boucher, 1720-70

Engraving of a woman in a flowing robe beside a birdcage and a parrot on a branch, with a bowl and umbrella in the garden.

The Four Elements

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1738-49

Pen and ink sketch of a standing draped male figure with spear, surrounded by reclining figures on rocky ground.

New Book of Various Figures

François Boucher, 1751

Engraved print of a woman in layered robes holding a fan, standing in a garden with a pavilion and bridge.

Suite de Figures Chinoises. . . Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel, 1755-76

Gray wash drawing of a neoclassical candelabrum with two draped female figures holding laurel wreaths and a flaming urn.

Candelabrum with Two Victory Figures (for 'Ornamenti Diversi')

Giocondo Albertolli, ca. 1782

Sepia drawing of a rocky river landscape with fishermen, a ruined castle on a cliff, and distant mountains.

Landscape with Fishermen

Gaspard Dughet, 17th century

Painted river landscape with a fisherman standing in a rowboat beside rocks, framed by dense trees under a cloudy sky.

A wooded river landscape with a fisherman in a boat

the younger Benjamin Barker, 1826

Ink and blue wash sheet of caricatured theatre performers with title lettering Les Jocrisses de L'Amour, signed Luc Leguey 18

Les Jocrisses de L'Amour

Luc Leguey, 1897

Pen and brown wash drawing of a musical trophy with a lyre, crossed wind instruments, leaves, and ribbon bows.

Musical Trophy

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Red chalk drawing of a standing woman seen from behind, arms outstretched in loose sleeves and a flowing robe.

Back View of Standing Woman

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Red chalk drawing of two kneeling figures in draped garments, one with clasped hands, on grey paper.

Two Kneeling Figures

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling draped figure seen from behind, head raised, cloak falling in hatched folds.

Kneeling Draped Figure

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes on a bed, with an elderly maid and cherubs above.

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes with a sword on a canopied bed, with a city view at left.

Judith Slaying Holofernes, from The Power of Women, plate 5

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1551

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical women, with a skull and small scenes below.

Portrait of Don Antonio Emanuel Ne-Vunda, Marchio de Wynth, Ambassador to the King of the Congo

Lucas Kilian, ca. 1608

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child as a kneeling king offers gifts beside standing attendant

Adoration of the Magi

Hendrick Goltzius, n.d.

Circular brown wash drawing with white highlights showing robed men in an arched interior with a tower beyond.

The Greatness of Mordecai

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?