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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,907 works

Gilded crucifix painting with crucified Christ, Virgin Mary, Saint John, and two Franciscan saints in medallions.

Crucifix

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, 1370

Gilded panel painting of Christ's head with a golden halo, with two angels holding a canopy above him.

Head of Christ

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, 1350

Angular grey-blue figure with black eyes and a crescent moon in a dark sky, painted in watercolor and ink.

Angel Applicant

Paul Klee, 1939

Watercolor of the seated Great Buddha at Kamakura with eyes lowered, framed by a bamboo canopy, stone lantern and green folia

The Great Statue of Amida Buddha at Kamakura, Known as the Daibutsu, from the Priest's Garden

John La Farge, 1887

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourners carrying a body toward a stone tomb, framed by a double black border.

The Entombment

Nicolas Poussin, 1656

Engraving of Christ bearing the cross through a crowd of soldiers on horseback, onlookers and dogs, with rocky hills behind.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1475-80

Chalk drawing of a woman's head tilted down, eyes lowered, with soft wavy hair in shaded tones.

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

Leonardo da Vinci, 1510-13

Engraving of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a sword, palm frond, and wheel at her feet, amid flowing drapery and clouds.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Peter Paul Rubens, 1620

Etching of the crucifixion of Christ between two thieves, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below under radiating light.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653

Two turbaned figures meet in a rocky landscape, one on a black horse beside a man seated on a brown camel, framed by Persian

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)

Mustafa ibn Vali, ca. 1595

Pen sketch sheet with studies of the Virgin and Christ Child in arched niches, plus a perspective diagram and putti doodles.

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Dia…

Leonardo da Vinci, 1480

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining bearded male figure gazing upward, with hatched shading on tinted paper.

Ecstatic Christ

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1510-11

Brown ink and wash drawing of an executioner raising an axe over a kneeling man, with soldiers and a crowd watching.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari, ca. 1557-58

Brown ink drawing of robed onlookers, an armored man, and a reclining nude figure under a draped canopy.

Saint Anthony of Padua and the Miracle of the Miser's Heart

Antonio Lombardo, 1501

Red chalk drawing of the Last Supper with Christ and apostles seated at a long table in a sketched interior.

The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634-35

Brown wash drawing of a crowd gathered around a bearded man with a flowering staff and a veiled woman in an interior.

The Betrothal of the Virgin

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1770

Brown wash drawing of robed apostles gazing upward as winged angels point to the sky over a hilly landscape.

Study for "The Ascension"

John Singleton Copley, 1774

Watercolor of a couple and street figures before a classical church, with a street lamp and a spotted dog.

"Worldly Folk" Questioning Chimney Sweeps and Their Master before Christ Church, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Pen sketches on a page: seated man, three robed figures in an arch, a newsboy, a hat-wearing man, and a smoker.

Christ and Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Pen and ink drawing of the Madonna of Mercy with two saints under Gothic arches, flanked by narrative scenes and a decorative

Design for an Antependium: The Madonna della Misericordia with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the C…

Lorenzo Veneziano, ca. 1370

Black chalk drawing of a standing bearded man in a draped cloak holding a long staff, with white highlights on toned paper.

Saint John the Baptist

Innocenzo da Imola, early 16th century

Studies of Saint John the Baptist

Copy after Rogier van der Weyden, after 1455

Pen and ink drawing of the dead Christ mourned by women beneath a cross, with a standing figure and clouds behind.

The Lamentation of Christ

Circle of Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1513

Drawing of a bearded man in a billowing cloak carrying a child on his shoulders, with a staff and flowering branch.

Saint Christopher

Follower of Hans Baldung Grien, third quarter 16th century

Brown-ground drawing with white highlights showing the Holy Family, Saint Elizabeth and infant Saint John beneath a palm tree

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1513

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin and Child with an older man reading beside a table in an interior.

The Holy Family in an Enclosed Garden

Albrecht Dürer, 1512

Pen and ink drawing of a standing man in a draped robe and headdress, one hand raised, on a pinkish tan sheet.

Standing Scholar (Prophet?) Turned to the Right (Recto); Standing Scholar (Prophet?) Turned to the Left (Verso)

Middle Rhine Germany, ca. 1460-70

Pen and ink drawing of Saint John the Evangelist seated, holding a chalice, with a halo and Gothic canopy.

Saint John the Evangelist

Upper Rhine, ca. 1480

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child before classical arches and columns.

Adoration of the Magi

Unknown artist, first quarter 16th century

Brown ink drawing of a landscape with winged angels and kneeling figures beside a house, a town and mountains beyond.

Landscape with Abraham and the Angels

Copy after Hans Bol, ca. 1568