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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Drawing of a youth with two girls seated together, singing, with a potted plant and urn on a balustrade behind them.

A Youth and Two Girls Singing

Jacob Jordaens, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of robed figures gathered at an arched doorway beside a hilly landscape with a bathing figure.

Jacob Receiving Joseph's Blood-Stained Cloak (recto); Study of a Bearded Man and The Sacrifice of Isaac (verso)

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1653

Brown ink wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi with a kneeling elder, a mother and child, oxen, and a crowd.

The Adoration of the Magi

Nicolaes Maes, 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a river village with wagons on a road, thatched houses, moored boats and a distant church spire.

River Landscape with Wagons on a Road near a Village

Joos de Momper the Younger, 1586-1631

Pen and wash drawing of a bare-tree winter landscape with workers, a farmhouse, a road with carts, and distant mountains.

Allegory of the Months February and March

Joos de Momper the Younger, 1579-1635

Grey wash drawing of a river landscape with rocks, trees, goats, travellers, and a distant building under clouds.

A River Landscape with Travellers

Herman van Swanevelt, 17th century

Pencil sketch of a lively tavern scene with men drinking and feasting around a long table.

The King Drinks

David Teniers the Younger, 17th century

Studies of Hounds

David Teniers the Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of Roman ruins, cypress trees, figures on a road and hills under a cloudy sky.

Italian Landscape, perhaps the Monte Mario, Rome

Jacob van der Ulft, 1659

Ink and wash drawing of a frigate firing a salute beside rowboats and sailing ships on calm water under a cloudy sky.

A Frigate at Anchor, Saluting a Nearby Yacht

Willem van de Velde the Elder, 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a wooded valley with a stag hunt in the middle ground and mountains beyond.

Wooded Landscape with Stag Hunt

Tobias Verhaecht, late 16th-early 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of an armored rider on horseback with a lion shield, a griffin, and a city behind.

Emperor Ninus

Maerten de Vos, mid-16th-early 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a workshop interior with a lattice window, wooden table, sloping roof beams, and a bucket on the floor.

Workshop Interior

Thomas Wijck, 1629-77

Pen and brown wash drawing of a long city skyline with a church spire, rooftops, and small figures on the foreground bank.

View of Vienna

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1624-77

Brown ink and wash drawing of two carriages in a city street with a man in a long coat and servants by a building.

La scène des deux carrosses

Claude Gillot, ca. 1712-16

Pen and grey wash drawing of a winged figure with cherubs among clouds, a chalice, and rays of light in an oval composition.

The Adoration of the Holy Lamb

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724-96

Grey wash drawing of merchant ships and small sailboats in rough seas, with dolphins leaping among the waves.

Merchant Ships and Smaller Sailing Boats in a Strong Breeze, Dolphins in the Waves

Hendrick Rietschoof, ca. 1700

Grey wash drawing of skaters and horse-drawn sledges on a frozen canal, with a snowy village and bare trees beyond.

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Horse-Drawn Sledges on the Ice, a Village Below

Andries Vermeulen, n.d.

Raised white cut paper scene of a mounted man in a tricorn hat leading riders and soldiers past a cannon and bare tree.

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Robert Lovett, 18th-19th century

Black cut paper silhouettes of a family group standing and seated in a room with tall draped windows.

Thomas Williams, the Town Crier of New Bedford with Wife and Daughter

Samuel Metford, 19th century

Red chalk design for a triangular frontispiece with two seated allegorical women, a crown, and a winged figure in an oval car

Design for a Frontispiece with Figures of Faith and Hope

Martin Tyroff, 1704-59

Ink and wash drawing of a reclining woman watched by two bearded elders leaning over a stone balustrade.

Susanna and the Elders

Gerard van Honthorst, early 17th-mid 17th century

Pencil sketch of an arbor and pathway beneath cliffs and trees, with a building on the ridge and two small figures.

Italian View: A Pathway and Arbor at the Base of Cliffs

Friedrich Salathé, 1815-21

Male Nude

Giovanni Battista Lombardi, 19th century

Engraved frieze of acanthus scrolls with a winged siren at center and four nude children around her.

Frieze with Rinceaux, a Siren and Four Children

Enea Vico, 1541-43

Engraving of three horizontal bands with scrolling acanthus foliage, flowers, birds and a female figure with headdress.

Three Friezes with Ornamental Foliage

Enea Vico, ca. 1541-43

Pen and ink drawing of a walled river town with a castle, a sailing boat in the foreground, and rowboats on the water.

View of Lahnstein on the River Rhine

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1636

Pen and wash drawing of a sleeping duck beside a broken wheel and clay pot in a farmyard, with a chicken on a fence.

A Duck Sleeping near a Broken Wheel in a Farmyard, a Chicken beyond

Cornelis Saftleven, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of Diana embracing reclining Endymion in a forest, with a cupid, two dogs, and a glowing moon.

Diana and Endymion

Johann Heinrich Keller, 1700-1765

Pen and wash drawing of moored sailing boats on a calm river with distant hills and small animals on the left shore.

Tropical Coastal Landscape

Frans Post, 17th century