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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,714 works

Graphite and white chalk drawing of a seated nude man with curly hair leaning on a cushion over a stone block.

Study of a Seated Male Nude

Philipp Otto Runge, late 18th-19th century

Moonlit bay with a distant volcano, a small sailboat, and dark trees framing the foreground in a blue-gray drawing.

Virgil's Tomb with a View of the Bay of Naples in the Moonlight

Carl Georg Anton Graeb, 1860-84

Brown wash drawing of a classical landscape with a river, rocky cliffs, large trees, resting figures and a shepherd with shee

Classical Landscape with Figures

Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell, 1749-1822

Grey wash drawing of a bare-chested figure and kneeling men in a prison courtyard with mosque minarets behind.

An Islamic Prophet Appearing in the Courtyard of a Prison in Alexandria

Jan Goeree, ca. 1706

Pencil drawing of bearded Moses seated between an open book and stone tablets, with flaming torches behind him.

Moses

Gustav Jäger, 1828-71

Brown wash drawing of a forest scene with a young girl in a hat beside a waterfall beneath a large tree.

Landscape with a Young Girl at a Waterfall

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, late 18th-19th century

Graphite and white chalk studies on blue paper of a woman's head, arms, hands, and draped fabric.

Studies of a woman, her hands and arms and drapery

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, late 18th-19th century

Pen and ink portrait of a young man with curly shoulder-length hair, buttoned coat and cravat, with handwritten notes below.

Portrait of the Postillion Johann Heinrich Matheis

Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern, 1800-1865

Pencil sketch of a courtyard with a picket fence, stone wall, arched doorway, a large tree, and a timber house.

View of a Courtyard in Loschwitz (?)

August Heinrich, early 19th century

Pen and gray wash drawing of an armored warrior with a spear among clouds, with nude figures and a skeleton below.

Allegorical Scene (Temptations of a Wealthy Man?)

Master of the Stockholm Wolf Huber Copies, first half 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Baptism of Christ with a nude figure in a river, angels in clouds, and onlookers.

Baptism of Christ

Hans Rottenhammer, late 16th-17th century

Watercolor study of gnarled tree branches with moss-covered limbs and broad green leaves against a pale sky.

Tree Branches

Charles Reginald Aston, 1860-1900

Watercolor of a seated young woman with a grape basket on her back beside a rocky slope with wildflowers.

Young Woman in the Vaudois after the Grape Harvest

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, 1821

Pen and ink drawing of a martyrdom scene with a mother embracing a child, soldiers with spears, and a robed ruler pointing.

The Martyrdom of the seven brothers; verso: Sketch of two men wrestling (?)

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1826

Brown wash drawing of an allegory with a helmeted goddess, robed women, cherubs with wreaths, and classical columns.

Allegory of the Arts

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1796

Pen and ink drawing of a female figure on clouds holding a dove aloft, with billowing drapery behind her, on blue-grey paper.

Venus with a Dove

Nicolai Abildgaard, ca. 1780

Pencil drawing in an arched frame of two seated men in conversation, with a standing figure in shadow at right.

Christ and Nicodemus

Christen Købke, 1810-48

Drawing of a haloed kneeling shepherd lifting a lamb onto a rock ledge in a rocky landscape.

The Good Shepherd (recto); Cloud Studies (verso)

Friedrich von Olivier, late 18th-19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a rocky river with boulders, shrubs and conifer trees along the banks.

Landscape with Rocks in a River (near Kronau?)

Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels, late 19th-early 20th century

Black chalk and white heightening on blue paper: two seated male figures in a wooded landscape beside a lying cow.

Mercury and Argus

Januarius Zick, mid-18th-late 18th century

Gray wash drawing of a horseman talking to two seated figures by a river, with trees and a village in the distance.

Landscape with Horseman Talking to Seated Figures

Johann Christoph Dietzsch, 1730-68

Sepia drawing of a farewell: a man in a boat, a grieving man, embracing women and children, with a domed interior scene above

"The Farewell"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Pencil drawing of a seated man in loose draped robes, head bowed, one hand raised to his face, on pale paper.

A Drapery Study of a Seated Man

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, early 19th century

Pencil study of a man's left arm and shoulders seen from behind, with draped cloth falling over the shoulder at right.

Left Arm and Shoulders of a Man Seen from the Back

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, early 19th century

Pencil drawing of a rocky path with trees, a village, a calm bay and distant hazy mountains under an open sky.

A view of Pozzuoli, seen from the Northeast

Robert Kummer, early 19th-late 19th century

Watercolor of three nude boys bathing by a wooded riverbank with dense trees and leafy plants.

Riverside with Three Bathing Boys

Christian Friedrich Gille, 19th century

Watercolor and pen drawing of the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice, with Gothic arches and two tall columns under blue sky.

View of the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice

Wilhelm Gail, 19th century

Pen and blue wash drawing of Apollo and the Nine Muses with poets in a wooded clearing on Mount Parnassus.

Apollo and the Nine Muses surrounded by Poets on Mount Parnassus

Karel Škréta, later 17th century

Grey wash drawing of robed figures performing a ritual offering before tents and mountains, within an ornate scrolled frame.

'The law of the leper in the day of his cleansing'

Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730

Grey wash drawing of crucified Christ above an armored warrior, allegorical figures, a lion, and Latin inscriptions.

Allegory of Christian Virtues

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1746