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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Red chalk drawing of a nude boy kneeling with both arms raised toward the upper right.

Seated Nude Boy

Edmé Bouchardon

Grey wash drawing of a seated mother with cherubs, draped cloth, inscribed banners, candles and putti with music.

Diploma of the Freemasons of Bordeaux

François Boucher

Pen and ink drawing of the Madonna holding the infant Christ seated on clouds, with an angel and rays of light.

Madonna and Child Seated on Clouds (recto); Madonna and Child in Reverse (verso)

Vicente Salvador Gómez, 1637-1700

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with a young Saint John and two adoring angels.

Madonna and Child with Saint John, Saint Anne, and Two Angels in Adoration

Francesco Stringa, 1635-1709

Black and white chalk drawing of a woman with a basket and a small boy holding her skirt, on blue-gray paper.

Woman and Boy

François Boucher

Engraved allegorical print of a seated woman with putti, a crown, compasses, draped cloth and classical columns.

Diploma of the Freemasons of Bordeaux, after François Boucher

Pierre Philippe Choffard, 1766

Pen and brown wash drawing of satyrs, nymphs and an infant beside a goat in a forest with an altar and urn.

The Nurture of Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Corneille

Brown ink and wash drawing of bearded men beside a tent, with reclining figures and children in the foreground.

Laban Searching for his Idols (Genesis 31: 19-37)

François Boucher

Engraving of a witch riding an animal skeleton with nude men, a goat, horn-blowing boy, and monstrous creatures in tall grass

Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn,…

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1515-25

Graphite sketch of bearded men in draped robes and nude figures arranged within a triangular pendentive composition.

The Tribute Money

Eugène Delacroix, 1843

Pencil drawing of a kneeling friar in a hooded habit holding the Christ Child, with a faint halo and hatched background.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Pedro Duque Cornejo, 1700-50

Etching of a smiling young girl holding a dark cat in her arms against a pale background.

Young Girl with a Cat, after a portrait of Julie Manet by Renoir

Berthe Morisot, 1889

Graphite sketch of a little girl with hair ribbon leaning on a railing, skirt loosely hatched, signed upper right.

Little Girl

Félicien Rops, 1873

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Holy Family with attendant women and cherubs in clouds above a classical landscape.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Adrien Dassier, 1666

Engraving of a crowded classical sacrifice scene with a flaming altar, nude figures, bearded priests and a large tree.

The Sacrifice

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1542

Ink and wash drawing of Christopher Columbus in an oval frame, surrounded by navigational instruments, allegorical figures an

Christopher Columbus

Jean-Baptiste Dedéban, 1805-49

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ child, kneeling king, attendants, horses and classical arch

Adoration of the Magi

Jean Mignon, ca. 1545

Pencil sketches of women and a child among tree trunks, two compositional studies on one sheet of paper.

Two studies for a figure composition, including three women and a child

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1820-76

Etching of a seated young woman in a headscarf with a child leaning on a stone wall beneath a branch, by François Boucher.

The Young Girl Resting

François Boucher, 1756

Pencil drawing of villagers dancing and gathering outdoors under a large tree, with a horseback rider and dogs at left.

Peasants' Dance Outdoors

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Richard, 1745-70

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a woman holding a child, beside a bending female figure.

Mother and Child and a Female Figure

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 19th century

Engraving of a seated woman in drapery gesturing toward two children on a bed, with a tower and pyramid in the distance.

Seated woman with two children (Virgin with Christ and St John the Baptist?)

Léon Davent, 1540

Etching of a boy pulling a loaded cart with children and a woman beside a river, with trees and a sailboat behind.

Moving into the Boat

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Head of a Young Girl

called le Romain Jacques Dumont, 18th century

Engraving of mythological figures in a classical interior, a hero holding a torch beside a reclining woman and a bearded man.

Hercules surprising Fanus who mistook him for Omphale

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Etching of children pulling a small cart past a woman, with trees, a fence and a dirt path in the background.

The Heirs to the Cart

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Drawing of a seated woman in an orange sleeve holding a child, with grey draped fabric and white chalk highlights.

Kneeling Female Figure Holding a Child

Louis Galloche, ca. 1747

Drawing of a woman in a long dress carrying a child on her shoulders, with figures and trees in a brown landscape behind.

Hail Mary (Ia Orana Maria)

Paul Gauguin, ca. 1893-95

Etching of a man towing a covered boat along a river bank, with ducks swimming and trees on the far shore.

The Cabin Boy Tows the Boat

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Pen and ink sketch of six figure studies, including seated mother and child, reclining figure and standing nude.

Six Figure Studies, including four for "The Poor Italian Family"

Théodore Géricault, 1816-17