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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,710 works

Pen and ink drawing of a seated musician playing a lyre beside tumbling stone blocks and city walls.

Amphion Building the Walls of Thebes

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of monks carrying a cross in procession below a standing Christ figure among clouds.

Members of a Monastic Order Carrying the Cross for Christ to Heaven

Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a man in contemporary dress lifted on clouds by winged figures, with a trident-bearing sea god below.

Glorification of the Widmann Family

Gaspare Diziani, ca. 1755

Brown wash drawing of a muscular man leaning on a long staff, wearing draped cloth, looking to the left.

A Man Resting on a Staff

Paolo Farinati, n.d.

Watercolor sketch of an elderly man in a tall hat leaning over a cider stand while two men watch outside a shop.

Sketch to Illustrate the Passions - Senility or Peevishness

Richard Dadd, 1855

Red chalk study of three nude women grouped together, one arm raised, beside a stone bench, by Jacques Louis David.

Study for the Wife and Daughters of Brutus (recto); Study of a Male Nude (verso)

Jacques-Louis David, ca. 1788

Red chalk drawing of a muscular male nude seen from behind with raised arms, plus studies of a head, hands and feet.

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)

Michelangelo, 1510

Watercolor botanical study of a purple cockscomb celosia plant with feathery flower heads and green leaves on pale paper.

Study of a Hanekam (Celosia argentea)

Drawing of a nude reclining man on rocks with two draped figures reaching toward him, white highlights on tan paper.

The Drunkenness of Noah, Genesis 9:21-23

Daniel Seiter, 17th-early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a woman with a cup leaning over a sleeping bearded man beside a candle and draped cloth.

Jael and Sisera

Leonaert Bramer, 1611-74

Pencil drawing of an equestrian statue on a pedestal before a Gothic church and Venetian palazzi in a city square.

View of the South side of the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, with Verrocchio's statue of Bartolomeo Coll…

Friedrich Nerly, 1807-78

Pencil drawing of a standing man in a tall top hat and fur-collared overcoat, with a German inscription at lower left.

Portrait of H. Gluckmann of Poland

Bartolomeo Pinelli, n.d.

Watercolor of two winged cherubs lifting a palm frond near a seated nude woman with flowers and arrows in a landscape.

Eros and Anteros with Psyche Looking at Them

Johannes Riepenhausen, 1810-60

Standard Bearer

Urs Graf, 1500-30

Brown ink and wash sheet of many studies of birds, including hawks, ducks and waders, with handwritten notes.

Studies of Birds (recto); Village Scene with Skaters (verso)

Albert Flamen, mid-17th century

Pencil sketch of a castle with pointed towers and steep roofs against an empty pale sky.

A Castle (on the Rhine?)

Jan van Goyen, early 17th-mid 17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a commander kneeling before a crowned ruler on a throne, with soldiers and vessels in the foreg

Holofernes before Nebuchadnezzar (Judith 2:4-13)

Maerten de Vos, 1587

Grey wash drawing of a rider, horse-drawn wagon, and dog on a road, with an obelisk and tower in the distant landscape.

Travellers and wagons fording a river in a Southern landscape

Hendrik Verschuring, ca. 1646-62

Pen and brown ink drawing of a mountainous river landscape with trees, hills, figures, and a distant village.

Mountainous River Landscape

Jacob Esselens, 17th century

Night scene in blue wash of helmeted soldiers with a torch chasing a nude running fugitive through a dark landscape.

Night scene with soldiers chasing a fugitive (Mark XIV, 5-52)

Leonaert Bramer, 1611-74

Pencil drawing of travelers on a dirt road beside large trees, with a horse-drawn carriage and hills in the distance.

Figures on a Road

Pieter de Molijn, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a village on an estuary with trees, figures, a rowing boat on the shore, and a distant sailboat under a clo

Village on an estuary, with a rowing boat on the shore

Pieter de Molijn, 17th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a nude male figure with a staff beside a ruined tower and arched bridge, dated 1616.

Neptune and Amphitrite

the Elder Elias Wolff, 1616

Pencil drawing of two men resting on a log by a lake under a large spreading tree, with boats on the water.

Two Men Resting by a Lake (recto); Studies for Soldiers Mounted on Horseback (verso)

Alexandre Calame, early to mid-19th century

Pen and wash drawing of two children playing on a floor while a mother reads at a table near a window.

Mother Watching Over Two Young Children Playing (recto); Baby in a Bassinet (verso)

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pencil drawing of a windswept tree on a rocky cliff above a shadowed gorge with mountains and clouds behind.

Broken Tree in Moutainous Landscape

Alexandre Calame, early to mid-19th century

Brown ink study of two seated women with children and a flying angel above, framed by a ruled border.

Study Sheet with Two Seated Children and an Angel

Hendrick Goudt, early 17th century

Architectural drawing of a domed church with Ionic portico and bronze doors, with floor plan below, by Alexander Jackson Davi

Church of the French Protestants (Eglise Français du Saint Esprit), New York (front elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1832

Watercolor section and floor plans of the Church of the French Protestants in New York, showing a domed interior with columns

Church of the French Protestants (Eglise Français du Saint Esprit), New York (section and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1831-34

Red chalk drawing of a nude central figure with bound arms flanked by two studied figures, with sketched drapery and limbs.

The Flagellation of Christ

Bernardo Cavallino, 17th century