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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,714 works

Pencil drawing of a walled castle complex with steep roofs, a church spire and trees, dated 1690.

View of the castle at Oberbürg

Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger, 1690

Pencil study of two mourning draped women beside a tall tomb block, with a hanging cloth and a small winged figure at right.

Study for a Tomb

Antonio Canova, ca. 1790/91-95

Study of a Nude Man in Profile turned to the Right

Antonio Canova, n.d.

Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II as Military Commander

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, early to mid-18th century

Pen and wash drawing of Saint Benedict ascending on clouds, supported by angels and putti within an arched niche.

The Ascension of Saint Benedict; verso: Ornamental sketches

Hans Georg Asam, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a flooded monastery ruin with arched colonnade, a stone cross in water, and trees framing the scene.

Inundated Ruins of a Monastery

Carl Blechen, ca. 1824

Drawing of a family group with children, a seated woman in a lace bonnet, and a standing man in a powdered wig beside a table

Family Portrait

Georg David Matthieu, 1737-78

Still life drawing of pink rose and blossoms in a gold vase, with butterflies, a snail, caterpillars and a dragonfly.

Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects

Joris Hoefnagel, 1589

Watercolor landscape of a monastery beside a lake in a mountain valley, with trees framing the view and a shepherd with sheep

View of the Monastery in Tegernsee seen from the north-east

Johann Georg von Dillis, late 18th-mid 19th century

Pen and ink landscape drawing of a shepherd and dogs in foreground trees, with a hilltop town in the distance.

Roman landscape with figures near Paliano

Joseph Anton Koch, 18th-19th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a forest clearing with tall slender trees around a grassy mound.

Forest view in the Menterschweige district near Munich

Heinrich Dreber, 1841

Watercolor of a river winding past tall trees and misty wooded hills under a cloudy sky.

On the Wharfe, Bolton Abbey

William Callow, September 30, 1858

Grey wash drawing of a layered rock cliff with trees on top and an umbrella pine on the right, under a pale sky.

Near Santa Maria de' Monti, Naples

Thomas Jones, May 10, 1781

Brown-toned chalk drawing of a bright fountain jet rising from a stone basin in a park, with trees and a small seated figure.

A Fountain in the Park

Carl Blechen, 1831

Pen and wash drawing of Saint Peter with a rooster, a winged angel above, and a classical column beside steps.

Saint Peter

Lukas Stipperger, 1799

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a kneeling old man serving two seated nude men at a table in a rustic kitchen.

Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Baucis and Philemon

Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a seated putto on a corbel within a shell niche, with scrolls and sketched wings.

Study of a Putto Seated on a Corbel in a Shell Niche

Carlo Maratti, ca. 1674-76

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude putto seated on a ledge, reaching up toward an ornate garland on a frame.

A Putto Seated on a Frame

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, ca. 1538-40

Pen and wash design of a decorated wall with an urn in a niche, garlands, and a panel with putti and a female figure.

Design for a Wall Elevation

Simon Schijnvoet, late 17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of ruined castle walls with grazing cattle and sheep and a shepherd in a hilly landscape.

Italianate Landscape with the Ruins of Brederode Castle

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, mid-late 17th century

Colored drawing of an ornate organ under draped canopy with trumpets, a gilded lyre, and blue and pink curtains.

Design for a Fanciful Organ

Joseph Ignaz Gurk, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink drawing of an interlaced scrolling leaf ornament rising from a small pedestal, on aged paper.

Gothic Leaf Scroll (Top of a Crozier?)

J. Gruenwald, 1899

Pen and graphite drawing of a Gothic ornamental panel with putti, acanthus scrolls, tracery and flowers.

Gothic Ornament with Putti and Acanthus Leaves

Bernd, 19th century

Watercolor drawing of soldiers and a chariot procession through a classical colonnaded hall, with robed figures raising their

Allegory of Victory of Russians over Napoleon's Army, from a poem by Cremes

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, ca. 1814

Colored drawing of a crowned king on a throne with a bearded man and a young man in white gesturing before him.

Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 1815-83

Drawing of two figures on rocky ledges in a shadowed cave, one in armor holding a spear, the other with an arm raised.

Soldiers in a Cave Receiving Blessings from Heaven

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a priest before a radiant sun raising arms over a chained couple, with plumed guards and drapery.

Sun King Anointing a Bound Couple, from August von Kotzebue's Die Sonnenjungfrau

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of Roman figures gathered in a classical columned hall, with a seated elder and an arm gesture in the foreg

Assembly of Roman Figures, from Regulus, a play by Collin

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Watercolor of two mounted soldiers in blue uniforms beneath a classical colonnade with carved reliefs and a distant hilltop t

Two Mounted Soldiers in Classical Ruins, for a poem by Cremes

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 1812-83

Red chalk anatomical studies of shoulder muscles and a raised arm, with a faint graphite skull outline at left.

Ecorché: Two Studies of the Muscles of the Shoulder and of the Arm, Raised

Eugène Delacroix, 1810-63