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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,711 works

Pencil and wash architectural elevation of a chimney-piece with cornice, pilasters and dimension notes on aged paper.

Drawings for a Chimney-piece for 25 Harley Street, Westminster, London

Sir William Chambers, 1740-96

Ink and wash architectural elevation of a classical chimney-piece with columns, a relief medallion, and a side view.

Designs for a Chimney-piece for Richard Barwell's Drawing Room at Esher, Surrey

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1760s

Graphite sketch of a standing woman with raised arm above a reclining man resting on the ground.

Study of a standing woman with a sitting man; study of a resting artist

François-Claudius Compte-Calix, 1830-80

Pencil sketch of a tall decorative panel with a niche holding draped figures, cherubs, a shield and garland ornament.

Decorative study of a play

François-Claudius Compte-Calix, 1830-80

Black chalk sketch on grey paper of a standing man in period coat seen from behind, with a seated man sketched at lower left.

Study of a standing man knocking; sketch of a sitting man

François-Claudius Compte-Calix, 1830-80

Red chalk drawing of standing Saint John the Baptist with a lamb at his feet, marked with a faint grid.

Standing Saint John the Baptist with The Lamb

Girolamo Macchietti, ca. 1575-76

Pen and wash drawing of a man gazing at framed portraits of a uniformed man and a woman while onlookers watch.

Illustration for Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d'une position sociale (Jérôme Patruot in Search of a Social Position)…

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, ca. 1846

Pen and grey wash drawing of a man and woman embracing, her bonnet with a blue flower, faint sketch above.

Illustration in Jérôme Paturot, by Louis Reybaud, Paris, 1846

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, ca. 1846

Pencil sketch of a woman raising a glowing champagne glass, seated beside a pedestal within a decorative circular frame.

Design for an advertisement for champagne

Jean-Roch Isnard, ca. 1900

Watercolor design for a neoclassical wall with blue and cream panels, classical figures, garlands and urn motifs.

Design for Wall, Hôtel de Beaujon, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1872

Grey wash landscape of a huge tree, waterfall and hills, with a family near a small monument at lower right.

Family Gathered Before a Monument in a Landscape with a Waterfall

Johann Heinrich Meyer, 1805

Graphite study of a seated nude woman seen from behind, with a fainter sketch of a second figure at the right.

Studies of a Seated Woman from Behind

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1811-89

Pencil sheet of figure studies including a nude boy playing a flute, a reclining male figure, and isolated arms and legs.

Studies of a Boy Playing the Flute; verso: Studies of Seated Man

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1811-89

Pencil studies on paper of a seated nude woman with raised arms, plus smaller sketches of a torso and draped figures.

Studies of a Sitting Woman; verso: Studies of Men

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1811-89

Pen drawing of a garden grotto under a terrace with statues in niches, fountains, a pergola and trees.

Grotto under a Terrace

Jean-Baptiste-Cicéron Lesueur, 1817

Watercolor of a spotted star-shaped Stapelia flower and spiny green succulent stems on a pale sheet with gold border.

A Stapelia Variegata

Nicolas Robert, 17th century

Red chalk study of a nude male figure with one arm raised, sketched on pale paper with loose contour lines.

Study for the Figure of Christ in a Deposition

Ventura Salimbeni

Ink and wash architectural elevation of a classical garden façade with fluted columns, arcades and a balustrade.

Design for the Garden Façade of the Palais Royal

Victor Louis, 1781

Watercolor design of a classical rotunda with colonnades, a rocky fountain, and figures in a garden framed by trees.

Project for a Fête Decor

Louis Pierre Baltard, n.d.

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a neoclassical public building with arched colonnade, sculpted frieze and seated sphinxes.

Project for a Public Monument

Alexandre Théodore Brongniart, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bacchanal with revelers, putti and baskets of grapes gathered around a wine vat.

Bacchanal: Arrival at the Wine Vat

Joseph-Marie Vien, ca.1755

Pen drawing of a scaffolded building, an equestrian statue, and pedestrians and carriages on a Paris street.

Place des Pyramides, Paris

Giuseppe De Nittis, ca. 1883

Colored caricature of historical rulers and revolutionaries waiting at a bus stop labeled Omnibus des Enfers, with a Peace Da

The Bus from Hell to Earth, Peace Day, 1919

Georges Tiret-Bognet, ca. 1919

Graphite portrait of a man with curly hair and a high collar, bust length within a ruled border.

Portrait of the Poet Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner

Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1810-19

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a classical relief tomb, two travelers on a path, and distant mountains.

Landscape with an Antique Tomb and Two Wayfarers

Salomon Gessner, 1768

Pen and wash drawing of a forest with large twisted trees and two men with a donkey and dog on a path.

A Forest with Two Men Conversing

Jacobus Pelgrom, 1842

Grey drawing of an ornamental border with a statue, flags, laurel, and a street gateway inscribed La Dépêche.

Design for a Certificate(?) sponsored by the French newspaper, La Dépêche

La Dépêche, 19th century

Watercolor perspective of a wooden cottage-villa with bracketed gables and veranda, with a floor plan below.

Design for a Cottage-Villa in the Bracketted Mode, Constructed in Wood (perspective and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1842

Sepia drawing of tall trees and travellers on a rocky path before a valley and distant mountains.

Mountainous landscape with travellers (Scene on the river Pellene Achaia)

Hugh William Williams, 1818-29

Chalk study of a reclining young goat in brown and white on blue paper, with a faint second sketch above.

Studies of a young goat

John Macallan Swan, 19th-20th century