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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Watercolor stage set design with red and gold curtains, a arched proscenium, classical columns, and cherubs above a central c

Design for a Stage Set: Casino de St. Etienne

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Brown wash drawing of robed clerics, kneeling monks and a woman in an interior, one monk holding out an unrolled plan.

Scene 31: Foundation of a second Feuillant monastery in Rome, dedicated to Saint Bernard, in 1594, thanks to the gene…

Matthieu Elias, 1706

Sepia drawing of a robed monk gesturing to a kneeling man as clergy stand along a columned interior wall.

Jean de La Barrière blessing a cardinal

Matthieu Elias, 1706

Brown wash drawing of a man in period dress meeting a monk at a desk in a plain room, with a second monk by the door.

Scene 25: Fatally wounded, King Henry III informs the Blessed Abbot of his condition and recommends himself to his pr…

Matthieu Elias, 1706-07

Brown wash drawing of the Holy Family in an interior: haloed mother holding child, bearded man reading a book beside them.

The Holy Family in an Interior

E. La Touche, early 19th century

Drawing of a pink hat with white plumes and a hummingbird on it, displayed on a turned wooden stand.

A Hat on a Stand

Auguste Félix, 1863

Two watercolor sketches of a straw hat with wheat trim and ribbons, shown from side and front views.

Two Views (Side and Front) of a Hat on a Stand

Auguste Félix, 1866

Pen and watercolor drawing of a gray veiled hat with blue crossed ribbons and pink flowers and feathers on top.

A Hat on a Stand, Viewed from the Back

Auguste Félix, ca. 1865

Watercolor of a blue turban-style hat with white plume and red ornament on a brown wooden stand.

A Hat on a Stand

Auguste Félix, ca. 1865

Pen and watercolor drawing of winter skaters on a frozen river beside a tower and church spires, by Hendrik Meijer, 1772.

January

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and wash drawing of a windmill, workers with wheelbarrows, a rowboat on a canal, and a church tower under a grey sky.

February

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor landscape with thatched cottages, resting cows, peasants at work, and a distant church spire under a cloud

March

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of a church tower by a river with cows, a boat ferrying men and a cow, and a windmill.

April

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Watercolor village street with a church spire, thatched cottages, market vendors, children, a dog and chickens.

May

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of a thatched farmstead with shepherds tending and shearing sheep under trees.

June

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Watercolor of haymakers on a river with a haystack raft, windmill, sailing boats and a distant church tower.

The Twelve Months

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of a windmill, harvest workers, sheaves of grain and a castle under a cloudy sky.

August

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of figures harvesting fruit beside a river, with a rowboat and sailing boat nearby.

September

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor landscape of a grape harvest with figures resting by a barrel, a river, sailboat, and distant town.

October

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor village scene with a church steeple, thatched cottages, butchered pigs and villagers in the foreground.

November

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Pen and watercolor drawing of a windmill, church tower, and villagers with a horse cart and firewood.

December

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Brown ink drawing of a seated mother holding a child, a man behind her, and a grazing horse in a landscape.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1620-69

Pen and brown ink drawing of a circular border with seated female figures, musical instruments and draped figures around an e

Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)

Luca Penni, 1525-35

Oval watercolor of a formal reception with couples in evening dress in a room with red drapery and a framed print.

British Reception in Baghdad

W. Henry Pierson, 1865

Watercolor of a young woman with a croquet mallet on a lawn, with a turquoise door and flowers in a garden behind her.

Girl Playing Croquet

William Stephen Coleman, 1904-35

Sketch in black chalk and wash of men in period dress gathered around a table in an interior, one seated and examining an obj

Group of Artists in Jean-Baptiste Isabey's Studio

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1798

Chalk drawing of a helmeted bust of Minerva in a dark niche above a pedestal with a winged relief.

Bust of Minerva

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1798

Ink and wash design for a ceiling with an oval central scene of figures on clouds, surrounded by scrolls and panels.

Designs for the decoration of a ceiling

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, late 18th-mid-19th century

Watercolor of trees on a bank above a still lake, with a dirt path at lower right and a partly cloudy sky.

Trees by the lake, Peamore Park, near Exeter, Devon

Francis Towne, 1790-1810

Watercolor of two cattle resting on a hillside above a river and hazy mountains under a pale sky.

Cattle resting in a mountainous landscape, Bengal

George Chinnery, ca. 1808-12