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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,460 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of a decorative wall elevation with two saint statues in niches and putti above.

Wall Elevation with a Window and Statues of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Peter in Niches

Lazzaro Tavarone, 1576-1641

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ on the cross with the Virgin, Mary Magdalen and Saint John grieving below.

Christ Crucified, Attended by the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint John the Evangelist

Lazzaro Tavarone, 1556-1641

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin crowned by two angels, with two angel musicians playing instruments below.

The Virgin Immaculate Crowned by Two Angels, with Angel Musicians in the Foreground

Domenico Fontana, 1555-1630

Pen and wash drawing of a classical facade with columns, an obelisk, and ruined arches under a pale sky.

Façade and Ruins

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750-66

Pen and wash drawing of a winged figure with a cornucopia and crown beside a seated nude and a reclining man under windy clou

Allegory of Fortune

Pietro Testa, 1632-50

Pen and ink drawing of a standing male figure in draped cloth, one hand resting on a large oval shield.

Standing Male Figure Supporting a Shield

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Pencil study of a nude male figure in a running pose on tinted paper, signed Pietro Testa.

Nude Youth Running (recto); Standing Draped Old Man with Left Hand Upraised (verso)

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Pen and brown ink sketch of allegorical figures on a rocky hillside with trees, including standing women and reclining old me

Allegorical Figures on Mount Parnassus: Study for the etching Triumph of Painting

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Watercolor drawing of a costumed male performer in a plumed headdress swinging two bells with feathered streamers.

Franconi, Twirling Flaming Cones

Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, 1768-1810

Child Holding a Doll

John Downman, 1780

Pen and ink drawing of a crowned, armored seated king holding a scepter, with winged figures above.

A Seated King in Armor (King David?)

Orazio Samacchini, 16th century

Pen and wash study of a tapering Last Judgment scene with saints above, angels in clouds, and damned nude figures and demons

Scene from the Last Judgment, Study for the Fresco Decoration of One of the Segments of the Cupola of the Cathedral o…

Federico Zuccaro, 1576-79

Miss Mary Cruikshank, only sister of James Cruikshank

John Downman, 1781

Portrait of a young boy in a blue double-breasted jacket with a calm sea and distant ship behind him.

Memento Portrait of a Young Midshipman

John Downman, 1769-1824

Drawing of three children with a kite, a girl seated in a cart, and a boy in a brown coat under a tree, in an oval vignette.

The Dyson Children

John Downman, 1787

Elizabeth Ford, later Lady Colville of Culross

John Downman, 1785

Oval drawing of a woman in a pale gown holding a dove beside a tree trunk, in soft tan and blue tones.

Isabella Hunter, Cousin of the Artist

John Downman, 1781

Drawing of a seated woman in a white dress with her hand on a girl in a bonnet holding a flower basket, under a tree.

Mrs. Morgan and her Child

John Downman, 1785

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed and nude figures before an arched colonnade and a seated figure on a pedestal.

The Plague of Flies (Exodus 8:21)

Federico Zuccaro, 1540-1609

Thomas Jackson

John Downman, 1780

Red chalk sketch of a standing nude child with raised arm, surrounded by draped women and figures on clouds.

Standing Nude Child Surrounded by Women and Children

Antonio da Correggio, 1489-1534

Graphite portrait of a man in a buttoned coat and cravat, turned to the left, with hair tied back.

Captain Downman, the artist's brother

John Downman, ca. 1776

Mrs. Downman, sister-in-law of the artist

John Downman, 1776

Etching of a warrior asleep on his shield while a bearded river god points upward beside an urn in a wooded landscape.

Dream of Aeneas: Aeneas rests his head on his hands atop his shield, while the river god Tiber leans on a vessel and…

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1663-64

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a jacket and boots playing a violin, with his bow resting on his knee.

Violinist: study from life

George Du Maurier, second half 19th century

Etching of an armored man bound with rope to a tree trunk, with dense foliage and roots around him.

Saint William of Maleval, hands tied with rope fastened to a tree

Salvator Rosa, 1661

Etching of a standing draped woman reaching toward a seated male figure with a lyre beside a leafy tree under clouds.

Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1661

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a striped suit and waistcoat, looking upward, drawn on cream paper.

Conductor: study from life

George Du Maurier, second half 19th century

Etching of Jason in flowing drapery wrestling a winged dragon beneath trees, with shield and sword.

Jason and the Dragon

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1663-64

Brown ink and wash drawing of an arched allegory with heavenly figures above, monks and standing men in the foreground.

Allegory of the Trinitarian Order

Alessandro Tiarini, 1577-1668