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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple, with a priest, columns and kneeling mother.

Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Charles Mellin, ca. 1643

Circular chalk drawing of the Virgin and infant Christ with bearded onlookers leaning in, on a dark grey ground.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Hendrick Goltzius, 1600-1605

Etching of a woman seen from behind holding a small child wrapped in a shawl, with loose hatched lines.

The Little Girl

Édouard Manet, 1861-62

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child in clouds with kneeling saints and angels below, looking upward.

The Holy Family Appearing to St. Francis, St. Augustine, and St. Roch

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of the enthroned Madonna and Child with two saints and a kneeling donor in an arched setting.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Basil the Great and Saint John the Baptist and Donor

Niccolò dell' Abate, 1540-50

Lithograph of a boy with a sack over his shoulder looking down at a shaggy dog, by Edouard Manet, 1868.

The Urchin

Édouard Manet, 1868

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin gazing at a sleeping infant in a cradle while a winged angel plays a lute.

Virgin and Child Adored by a Lute-Playing Angel

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1820-52

Pen and brown ink sketch of a kneeling woman seen from behind, holding a small child turned toward the right.

Woman and Child Kneeling (recto); Head of Child (verso)

Andrea del Sarto, 16th century

Pen and ink study sheet with horses, a chariot, a falling nude figure, and reclining women with children.

Studies after the Antique: The Fall of Phaëthon, Horses, Reclining Women with Children (recto); Studies after the Ant…

Amico Aspertini, 1474-1552

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Holy Family with angels, showing a woman, an older bearded man, and a child in flowing robe

Return of the Holy Family from Egypt (recto); Studies for the Return from Egypt (verso)

Giovanni Baglione, 1599-1600

Red chalk drawing on a gridded sheet of a seated nude woman with two putti, one kneeling holding a bowl, by Poppi.

Study for a Virgin and Child with Two Angels (recto); Two Studies of Hands (verso)

Poppi, 1544-97

Black chalk drawing of the Virgin seated holding the Christ Child, both with haloes, in soft tonal shading.

The Virgin and Child

Fra' Bartolomeo, ca. 1515-17

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman embracing a small child while draped figures watch from the left and a standing woman tu

Andromache and Astyanax

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, ca. 1798

Ink and wash drawing of a skeletal death figure striding forward with billowing drapery and a raised arm above.

Death Carrying a Child

Stefano Della Bella, 1610-64

Black chalk drawing of a veiled seated woman holding a child, with two study heads in the upper corners.

Seated Woman with a Child on her Lap (Study for a Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria)

Étienne Parrocel, 18th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Holy Family resting with an angel, the Virgin seated beside a bearded man with a staff.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1762-1844

Pen and wash drawing in an oval frame showing figures in an interior with a barrel, hanging sausages, and a mouse on the floo

The Mock Visit of Ceremony

Faustino Bocchi, 1659-1742

Woodcut title page showing the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, crowned by stars and angels, with rayed border and Latin he

Virgin on a Crescent, title page from Pelbartus de Temesvar's "Stellarium corone"

Daniel Hopfer, 1502

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowned Virgin holding the Christ Child, with a serpent, angels, and clouds.

The Virgin Immaculate with the Christ Child

Giuseppe Cades, 1770

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of the Holy Family with the infant Baptist, a seated woman holding a child beside a stand

The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist

Luca Cambiaso, 1527-85

Red chalk drawing of a child's head tilted downward, with lowered eyes, pinned-up curled hair, and a tied ribbon at the neck.

Child's Head

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Drawing of the Virgin holding the Christ child, with a palm frond, halo and rocky landscape behind them.

Virgin and Child

Giuseppe Cades, 1750-99

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman holding a child while another woman reaches toward them beside a tree.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John

Luca Cambiaso, 1527-85

The Upturned Head of a Young Boy in Profile

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child appearing to a kneeling friar and a seated hermit among clouds.

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Anthony of Padua and a Hermit

Giovanni Angelo Canini, 1615-66

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ and young Saint John, with loose hatched background lines.

Mary, Infant Christ and Saint John

Luca Cambiaso, 1527-85

Red chalk sketch of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling saint, showing drapery and hand studies on cream paper.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Simone Cantarini, 1612-48

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed figures and a seated woman with child beneath draped fabric, with faint grid lines.

Old Testament Scene

Giovanni Andrea Carlone, 1639-97

Pen and ink sketch of a haloed female figure surrounded by nude putti and flowing drapery.

Apotheosis of Saint Mary Magdalen

Luca Cambiaso, 1527-85

Red chalk drawing of an older woman with braided hair and high collar, gazing forward with a faint smile.

Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman (recto); Bust-Length Study of a Girl (verso)

Agostino Carracci, 1577-1602