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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,170 works

Pencil sketches of sculptural figures on tracing paper: a seated woman with a dog, two seated figures, and a woman with a chi

Sketches of seven statues: Faith, Paolo and Francesca di RImini, Charity, Ceres, Heavenly Venus, Dancer, and Sleeping…

John Gibson, ca. 1850

Pen sketches of five classical statues including a standing youth labeled Amore, a bearded draped figure, and reclining putti

Sketches of five statues: Love, Aristides, Putto with a Cat, Psyche, and Putto with a Dog

John Gibson, ca. 1850

Pen drawing of a sarcophagus design with a winged figure, a mourning figure, and an hourglass with wings above.

Design for a sarcophagus with two mourning figures

John Gibson, ca. 1850

Pen and ink sketch of two draped classical female statues on pedestals, one wearing a floral wreath, numbered 22 and 23.

Sketch of two statues: Ballerinas by Canova

John Gibson, ca. 1850

Etching of a skeleton Death behind two card players, one raising a knife and the other gripping his arm.

Death and Card Players

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

Man in a Turban

Jan Lievens, 17th century

Etched portrait of a curly-haired man in a draped cloak holding a lute, with a Latin inscription below and a landscape behind

Jacques Gaultier

Jan Lievens, 17th century

Etched bust portrait of an elderly bearded man with a bald crown and high collar, signed Jan Lievens.

Portrait of Robert South

Jan Lievens, mid-17th century

Pencil drawing of a classical ceiling panel with acanthus scrolls, a central rosette, and corner flower roundels.

Classical Ceiling Moldings with Floral Ornament

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Red chalk drawing of classical molding with acanthus foliage and a large rosette with a central flower.

Classical Molding with Floral Elements

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pencil study of classical ornament with acanthus scrolls, a rosette, fluted panels and a leafy frieze on pale paper.

Classical Border Elements with Vines and Leaves

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pencil drawing of a symmetrical classical frieze with a central shield cartouche, rosettes, acanthus leaves and crown motifs.

Classical Design Element with Leaves and Vines

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pen drawing of three ornamental friezes: putti holding a garland, putti and scrolling foliage, and carved acanthus leaves.

Three Frieze Designs with Young Satyrs, Leaves, Vines, and Putti

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pencil drawing of classical vase, hooded female figures with urns, nude women supporting a vase, and embracing figures in a n

A Vase and Classical Monuments Carved with Hooded Women Carrying Urns, Two Females Embracing Beneath a Vase and Two N…

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Etching of a woman in a headscarf leaning on a stone ledge, holding a pear beside an arched doorway.

Woman with a Pear

Ferdinand Bol, 17th century

Engraving of the Lamentation: Christ's body lies on the ground, supported by a man, with grieving women and a walled city beh

The Lamentation

Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, ca. 1475

Engraving of a knight on a rearing horse lancing a dragon, with a kneeling princess and lamb on a cliff above skulls.

St. George

Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, ca. 1480-90

Engraving of a skeleton with a serpent in its mouth reclining in an arched niche, draped in cloth and a long banderole.

Memento Mori: a skeleton in a niche

Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, late 15th century

Engraving of a sick man on a canopied bed attended by a physician and women, with a candle and shelves of vessels.

An allegory of sickness, man laying prostrate on a bed surrounded by figures

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate standing frame on tripod base, with a small sketched woman figure inside the frame.

Design for a Standing Frame

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Engraving of a crowd of soldiers and captives in a colonnaded hall, with spectators watching from an upper gallery.

The Mocking of the Prisoners

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Engraving of two women in a boat on water, one holding an infant, beside a tree and grassy bank.

Danae and the infant Perseus cast out to sea by Acrisius

Giorgio Ghisi, 1543

Engraving of armored warriors on a riverbank, a kneeling figure reaching toward a bearded man, and a horse figure in the back

Sinon Deceiving the Trojans

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of Perseus with a severed head beside a winged figure, and draped nymphs among fruit trees in a garden.

Perseus in the Garden of the Hesperides

Cherubino Alberti, 1628

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris: nude youth among goddesses, winged figures and putti in a landscape, with gods on clouds

The Judgment of Paris

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-60

Engraving of a woman on a rearing white horse leaping into a river while women and children watch from the shore.

Cloelia on horseback crossing the Tiber

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1540-60

Engraving of nude figures swirling in a storm vortex, with lovers at the center and a robed figure on a ledge at right.

The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Etching of satyrs playing pipes on a rocky hillside with a winged horse above and a crowd of onlookers below.

Parnassus, frontispiece to Les Oeuvres de Scarron

Stefano Della Bella, 1649

Reddish-brown ink drawing of a symmetrical scrolled ornamental border with central and end urns and leaf motifs.

Design for Panel Decoration

J. Hulme, 1828-40

Pen drawing of an ornate two-handled vase with a charioteer and two horses in a central panel, framed by scrolling foliate or

Design for a Vase

J. Hulme, 1828-40