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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Pen and blue wash sketch of a seated man, standing couple and allegorical figures in an architectural interior.

Compositional Sketch for The Request for Admission into the Union, a Painting in the Town Hall of 's-Hertogenbosch. T…

Theodoor van Thulden, 1645?

Pencil sketch of two seated women in headscarves with a young girl resting at their feet on draped cloth.

Sketch of Two Seated Women with Young Girl Sitting at Their Feet; Verso: Sketch of a Woman

Charles Baugniet, 1830-86

Pen and ink drawing of a girl leaning over a garden fountain with cherub statues while a white cat walks nearby.

The Fountain

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1904

Ink and wash design for a fountain with two nude male figures supporting a basin, putti and garlands below.

Design for a Fountain

Charles Pierre Joseph Normand

Red chalk drawing of a bishop with a crozier raising his hand before a tub holding three children, with rays of light behind.

Saint Nicholas of Bari Resuscitating Three Children Discovered in a Tub of Brine

Giovanni Agostino Ratti, 1699-1795

Pen and ink drawing of three girls in a room with a door, coat on a hook, and a doll lying on the floor.

Three Little Girls in a Room Arguing and Spitting

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Etching of a seated woman in a headscarf with a curly-haired child reaching up to touch her face.

Virgin and Child

Giovanni David, 1776

Red chalk drawing in a circle of the Holy Family: kneeling Mary, seated Joseph, and the infant Christ on a cloth.

Holy Family in the Stable

Govert Flinck, mid-17th century

Pen and grey wash drawing with two maps of ancient Rome, a river god, a she-wolf and twins, framed by stone.

Two Maps of Ancient Rome with a River God and Romulus and Remus

Jan Goeree, before 1704

Black chalk drawing of a standing young peasant boy in a hat and wooden shoes, leaning on a post, on grey paper.

A Standing Peasant Boy in Hat and Wooden Shoes

Constant Troyon, 1825-65

Pencil and white chalk study of a child's head tilted downward, with curly hair, on a grey-toned sheet.

Bust-Length Study of a Child

Pompeo Batoni, 1728-87

Ink and wash drawing of a reconstructed Roman temple above, with ruins, allegorical figures and coins below.

A Reconstruction of the Aedes Concordiae (above) and a View of the Ruins (below)

Jan Goeree, before 1704

Engraving of Saint John writing on Patmos beside an eagle, with the Virgin and Child in light above and a sea view.

Saint John on Patmos

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Grey wash drawing of a young boy reclining with his arm on a lamb beside a cross-topped staff and rocks.

The Infant St. John the Baptist

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1618-82

Ink and wash drawing of two obelisks, one in the Vatican and one on the Esquiline, with a papal medallion and classical ornam

A View of Two Obelisks, One in the Vatican and the Other on the Esqualine Hill

Jan Goeree, before 1704

Woodcut of the Virgin and Child in a garden with angels holding a crown, a castle, a ship and rabbits in the landscape.

Virgin and Child

Hans Wechtlin I, ca. 1510

Studies of a standing man holding a hat and a girl in profile

Luis Paret y Alcázar, ca. 1766-1774

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin with the Christ Child holding a cross-topped staff, with a faint figure at left.

Half-length Virgin and Standing Child with Indications of a Young Saint John the Baptist at Left

Pedro del Pozo, ea. 18th century-1785

Engraving of a nude woman holding a sleeping baby beside a stag and deer in a wooded landscape with rocks and trees.

The Penance of Saint John Chrisostom

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Engraving of a crowd before a column and portico, with a figure hoisted in a basket up a castle tower in the background.

The Poet Virgil in a Basket

Lucas van Leyden, 1525

Engraving of the Virgin Mary embracing the infant Christ beside a tree, with a hanging monogram tablet in the upper right.

The Virgin and Child Seated at the Foot of a Tree

Jan Gossaert, 1522

Engraving of a flood with people fleeing on horseback and rooftops, a large ark in the background, and animals in the foregro

The Deluge

Dirck Vellert, 1544

Girl with a Cat

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, 1546

Engraving of a reclining infant beside an hourglass, with four skulls below on a stone ledge.

Dead Child with Four Skulls

Barthel Beham, mid-16th century

Engraving of a veiled woman leaning on a column in an arched temple interior, with figures and scattered coins behind her.

The Virgin Searching For Her Son in the Temple

Albrecht Altdorfer

Head of a Young Girl in Profile

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child on a crescent moon with putti and clouds around them.

Virgin and Child on Crescent Moon with Putti

Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652

Red chalk drawing of a helmeted female figure with a spear and a nude child at her side, in flowing drapery.

La Guerre

Edmé Bouchardon

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man reading a young woman's outstretched hand beside trees, with a child watching.

The Fortune Teller

François Boucher, ca. 1725-28

Grey-blue drawing with white highlights of a mythological triumph, with a sea goddess and nude figures amid clouds and cherub

The Triumph of a Sea Goddess

Bon Boullogne, n.d.