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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,349 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of a satyr and satyress lifting a tall vase on a scrolled pedestal.

Design for a Statue consisting of a Satyr and Satyress Lifting a Vase

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate two-handled urn with acanthus scrolls, egg-and-tongue band, and fluted body on a pedestal.

Design for a Two-Handled Urn with Acanthus, Shell, and Egg-and-Tongue Motif

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of an ornamental pedestal with scroll brackets and a central framed cartouche panel.

Design for a Pedestal (recto); Design for the Plan of a Monument (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate lectern with scrolling volutes, floral garlands, and a curved base.

Design for a Lectern (recto); Design for a Cartouche (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate niche fountain with flanking terms, putti, and a shell-shaped crown above a tiered basin.

Design for a Fountain in a Niche flanked by Terms

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative lidded urn with scrolled handles and a flower garland, with a smaller vase design at low

Two Designs for Vases (recto); Design for Candle Stick (?) (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate lidded vase with scrolling handles and foliate decoration on a pedestal base.

Design for a Vase with a Cross-section of its Neck (recto); Design for a Vase with studies of a Muscular Nude Male Fi…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a tiered funerary monument with draped allegorical figures, flaming urns, and a cross-topped spire.

Design for a Funerary Monument

Ignaz Günther, ca. 1710-40

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate ceiling design with cherubs, scrolling stucco ornament and architectural frames.

Design for a Decorated Ceiling with Statues and Stucco

Vittorio Maria Bigari, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a footed cup with a shell-shaped bowl and a large scrolling volute ornament.

Design for a Cup or Reliquary Composed of a Shell and S-Volute

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of the sea nymph Galatea on a shell chariot drawn by two dolphins through swirling waves.

Galatea on her Chariot drawn by Dolphins

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Engraving of a bearded herm-like figure on a pedestal flanked by two horned grotesque figures and hanging torches.

Designs for Terms

Jean Mignon, ca. 1543-45

Engraving of a bearded man and a seated woman handling a monkey beside a tree, with a parasol on the ground.

The Five Senses

François Boucher, 1720-70

Engraving of a woman in a flowing robe beside a birdcage and a parrot on a branch, with a bowl and umbrella in the garden.

The Four Elements

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1738-49

Pen and ink sketch of a standing draped male figure with spear, surrounded by reclining figures on rocky ground.

New Book of Various Figures

François Boucher, 1751

Engraved print of a woman in layered robes holding a fan, standing in a garden with a pavilion and bridge.

Suite de Figures Chinoises. . . Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel, 1755-76

Gray wash drawing of a neoclassical candelabrum with two draped female figures holding laurel wreaths and a flaming urn.

Candelabrum with Two Victory Figures (for 'Ornamenti Diversi')

Giocondo Albertolli, ca. 1782

Red chalk study of four robed saints on a gridded sheet, with a bearded elder and a figure holding a staff.

Study of Four Saints

Antonio da Correggio, 1525-34

Pen and gray wash drawing of a seated woman, putti, a crown and lambs above an ornate cartouche, with a dove above.

Cartouche with a Crown, the Virgin (?) and the Holy Ghost, and Four Putti

Johann Matthias Kager, early 17th century

Ink and blue wash sheet of caricatured theatre performers with title lettering Les Jocrisses de L'Amour, signed Luc Leguey 18

Les Jocrisses de L'Amour

Luc Leguey, 1897

Pen and brown wash drawing of a musical trophy with a lyre, crossed wind instruments, leaves, and ribbon bows.

Musical Trophy

Charles Monblond, 19th century

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist, on a pinkish tan ground.

Virgin Adoring the Christ Child with Saint John the Baptist (recto); The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist (verso)

Agnolo del Mazziere, ca. 1500-1515

Red chalk drawing of a seated prelate in a cape and cap, hands resting in his lap, on a cream sheet.

Seated Prelate

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Red chalk drawing of a standing woman seen from behind, arms outstretched in loose sleeves and a flowing robe.

Back View of Standing Woman

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling robed figure with flowing drapery and a cushion, with a loose study at upper left.

Kneeling Prelate Holding a Cushion

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Drawing of a winged cloud-seated allegorical woman with an eagle above, and a seated turreted woman over a distant town.

Allegory of Air and Earth

Bartholomäus Reiter, 1618

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes on a bed, with an elderly maid and cherubs above.

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes with a sword on a canopied bed, with a city view at left.

Judith Slaying Holofernes, from The Power of Women, plate 5

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1551

Painted design for an ornate frame with a dragon, peacock, bird, frog, sconces and flowers on tan paper.

Design for a Frame

Edouard [?] Bouvenne, 1843

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical women, with a skull and small scenes below.

Portrait of Don Antonio Emanuel Ne-Vunda, Marchio de Wynth, Ambassador to the King of the Congo

Lucas Kilian, ca. 1608