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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,352 works

Ink and wash drawing of an eagle fighting a coiled serpent, with a putto holding a banner and sun rays above.

Design with an Eagle Fighting with a Serpent and a Putto in the Sky Holding an Inscribed Banner

Pietro da Cortona, 17th century

Bust of a Man Facing Right

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca.1777-85

Grey wash drawing of a man in a fur coat raising a dagger before two women on a couch in an ornate draped room.

Comme ils en étaient là, arrive l'oncle

Jean-Michel Moreau, ca. 1778

Pen and ink drawing of a standing male nude with curly hair holding drapery, shaded with fine hatching on blue paper.

Standing Male Nude

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1506

Pen and wash design drawing of a rococo fountain niche with reclining figures, caryatids, and ornamental scrollwork.

Design for an Arabesque with Cupid and Psyche

Claude Gillot, 1720-40

Pen and grey wash drawing of a bishop saint with crozier above clouds and putti, with a city and smoking volcano below.

Saint Januarius Saving Naples from an Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Verso: Small sketch of similar scene

Anton Domenico Gabbiani, 1724

Grey ink and wash architectural section of a two-storied hall with an arched entrance, balcony balustrade and vaulted ceiling

Design for a Stage Set: Design in Section of a Two-Storied Entrance Hall (Recto). Elevation Design for a Monumental E…

Giovanni Battista Galliani, 1794

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate rococo mace design with two seated female figures, putti, and a tiara at its top.

Design for a Mace

Giovanni Giardini, 1646-1722

Pen and wash drawing of a footed drinking cup with a lobed bowl and two intertwined serpent handles.

Design for a Decorated Drinking Cup with Floriated Heads around Large Mouth, Intertwined Serpents as Handles

Giulio Romano, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of two candlesticks, one with a base of putti and one with a spiral-fluted pedestal.

Design for Two Candlesticks with decorated Bases

Giulio Romano, early 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate octagonal frame with cherub heads above a goblet stand with angel heads.

Design for a Sculptural Frame Decorated with Angel Heads, Volutes and Leaves (for a Ceiling ?); Design for a Base Dec…

Giulio Romano, early 16th century

Brown wash drawing of an altar design with a crucifix, candlesticks, putti in clouds, angels and hanging chandeliers.

Design for an Altar for Easter Week Celebrations Decorated with Putti and Chandeliers

Jacopo Guarana, 1783

Pen and brown wash design for a wall decoration with empty central panel, scrollwork, an eagle cartouche and reclining figure

Design for a Wall Decoration with the Coat of Arms of the Borghese Family

Giovanni Guerra, 1590-1618

Black chalk portrait drawing of a woman with curled hair, feathered headdress and drop earring on blue-grey paper.

Portrait of a Woman

Ottavio Mario Leoni, n.d.

Gray wash drawing of a rococo design with acanthus scrolls, a reclining laurel-crowned woman, sleeping children, and a rooste

Design for Rear Decoration of a Coach

Agostino Letterini, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a slumped nude figure held up by two winged angels, with a bearded figure at upper left.

Design of Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels a Saint

Marco Marchetti, 1553-88

Pen and ink drawing of ornamental panels with interlaced knotwork, scrolling foliage and stylized flowers in grey wash.

Design for Panels (Textile?) Decorated with Moresque and Knotwork Ornament

Master F, ca. 1525-40

Pen and ink sketches of a funeral monument, niche, helmet, entablature, and a draped female statue on paper.

Sketches of a Funeral Monument, a Niche with Statues, a Helmet in the Shape of a Human Head, an Entablature and a Fem…

Michelangelo, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a foreshortened ceiling corner with columns, urns, putti and garlands, in ornate Baroque style.

Foreshortened View of a Ceiling Corner Decorated with Columns, Urns and Putti Handing Garlands

Agostino Mitelli, 1609-60

Pencil drawing of ornamental cartouches with scrolls, shells, garlands and an urn on a pedestal.

Design for Cartouches Decorated with Sea-Shells, Garlands, Foliage, Volutes and Urns

Agostino Mitelli, 1609-60

Pencil drawing of floral scrollwork ornaments on the left and a half cartouche with laurel and a lion on the right.

Left Part of the Drawing: Floral Ornaments; Right Part of the Drawing: Half Cartouche Decorated with Leaves, Arms and…

Agostino Mitelli, mid-17th century

Pencil drawing of an ornate teapot with fluted body, leaf-carved spout and handle, and scrolled footed base.

Design for a Tea Pot Removed from the Factory Record Book

Haviland & Co., 1850

Gouache design of a gold pendant with a pink fish head, blue and pink leaves, and curling gold scrollwork on grey paper.

Design for a Pendant

Eugène Grasset

Engraved auricular cartouche with grotesque figures, putti, a lion mask and fruit garlands within a strapwork frame.

Auricular Cartouche with Figures within a Strapwork Frame, from "Veederley Veranderinghe van grotissen ende Compertim…

Cornelis Floris II, 1556

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a columbarium with rows of arched niches and a central dome, with a scale bar below.

Elevation of the Interior of a Columbarium

Pietro Paolo Coccetti, 1710-27

Ink and wash drawing of two rectangular boxes in elevation with two handwritten scale bars labeled in Italian at the bottom.

Elevations and Plans of Two Boxes

Pietro Paolo Coccetti, 1710-27

Drawing of an angel restraining an old bearded man above a blindfolded young man on an altar beside a tree.

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Willem van Mieris, 1694

Brown wash drawing of a nude youth carried skyward by an eagle through clouds, with drapery streaming behind him.

Jupiter and Ganymede

Joseph Heintz the Younger, 1626

Pen and brown wash design for an arched sepulchral monument with statues above and a bas relief panel below, dated 1826.

Design for a Sepulchral Monument Divided in Two Parts with Bas Relief Surmounted by Statues and Foliate Decoration Below

Guiseppe Colignon, 1826

Pen and wash elevation drawing comparing the Column of Antoninus Pius and the Column of Trajan with spiral reliefs.

Elevation of Column of Antoninus Pius and Elevation of Column of Trajan

Antonio Visentini, 1688-1782