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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,957 works

Saint Cecilia with a halo, holding an ornate harp beside a tree, in a green gown and red mantle, with a river and crescent mo

Saint Cecilia

Gustave Moreau, ca. 1890-95

Pen and wash drawing of a stone staircase under a stone arch, with a woman in a long dress climbing the steps.

The Curving Stair

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1778-79

Seated man in red coat and powdered wig beside a bookstand in an elegant room with a window and fireplace, drawn in watercolo

Jean-Pierre de Bougainville

Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, 1760

Graphite portrait drawing of a young woman with hair pulled back, wearing a frilled collar and lace shawl, signed Ingres.

Madame Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, née Madeleine Chapelle

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1814

Chalk drawing on tan paper of a shirtless man with bowed head, one hand raised to his neck.

Half-Length Study of a Man

François Boucher, 18th century

Etching of a dead nude body lowered by mourning figures, with a bearded man at right under a stormy sky.

Entombment Facing Left

Parmigianino, 1529-30

Brown ink and wash drawing of two standing figures beside a group of camels, with sketched figures and architecture behind.

Rebecca at the Well

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 17th century

Etching of a bearded street vendor in a wide-brimmed hat behind a table with glasses and flasks, beside a wooden fence.

Brandy or Cure Seller, plate 3 from "Cries of Paris" (Les Cris de Paris)

Abraham Bosse, mid to late 17th century

Engraving of a kneeling woman vendor holding a bottle and glass, with a basket of glasses and a large flask beside her.

Brandy Seller

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737

Etching of a young man in a wide hat playing a hurdy-gurdy against a hatched landscape background.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737

Sheet of nine small religious prints by Parmigianino showing saints, Madonna and Child, and interior scenes with handwritten

St. Thais

Parmigianino, ca. 1524-30

Page of nine small prints, several showing Nativity and Holy Family scenes with Mary, the Christ Child and Joseph.

The Nativity

Parmigianino, ca. 1524-30

Album page with engravings, including a sleeping winged Cupid reclining on drapery and other figure scenes.

Cupid Sleeping

Parmigianino, ca. 1524-30

Engraving of a man with a sword reaching his hand into billowing flames beside a stone altar.

Mutius Scaevola placing his hand in the flames (left half of a composition, the right half of which shows a woman ext…

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540

Page of nine small prints showing seated figures, a youth between two old men under a tree, and religious interior scenes.

A Youth with Two Old Men

Engraving of helmeted Minerva with a spear and shield among nude muses with musical instruments under trees.

Minerva and the Muses

Andrea Schiavone, n.d.

Engraving of a woman grasping a young man at a bed, with a billowing cloth, on an album page with other prints.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Master F. P., 16th century

Woodcut of a reclining woman as a draughtsman sights her through a grid at a table beside a window with a plant.

Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Reclining Woman

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1600

Album page with several etchings: a reclining figure, two embracing figures, and a crowd gathered around an embrace in a door

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Georges Reverdy

Engraving of a bearded man with a dagger leaning over a nude woman on a draped bed, with a servant behind curtains.

Tarquin and Lucretia

Cornelis Cort, 1571

Pietro Aretino

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Engraved print of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a kneeling figure, a seated judge, and classical columns and steps.

The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1527

Etching of Othello's final scene: a kneeling man with a sword beside a dead woman on a bed, with cloaked men holding torches

"O Spartan dog": plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Circular ink and wash drawing of a prophet amid skeletons and nude figures beneath clouds and a divine figure.

Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones

Georg Pecham, late 16th-mid-17th century

Pencil drawing of an officer in a tricorn hat and his wife leaning on a stone balustrade, study by Arthur Devis.

Study for a Portrait of an Officer and His Wife

Arthur Devis, ca. 1756-58

Lithograph titled Pantheon Nadar showing hundreds of caricatured male figures arranged in tiers on a slope.

Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar)

Nadar, 1854

Oval graphite and chalk drawing on blue paper of a young man with curled powdered hair and a buttoned coat.

Oval, bust-length portrait study of a young man

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Drawing of a wigged man in 18th-century dress, hand on hip, rendered in white chalk on blue-grey paper.

Half-length portrait study of a wigged man

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Ink and white chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated man in a wig with a dog and a book beside him.

Three-quarter length portrait study of a man seated at a desk with a dog

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60

Chalk drawing of a woman in a lace cap and satin dress with bows, shown in an oval frame on grey paper.

Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60