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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,358 works

Pen drawing of four tufted upholstered armchairs and sofas with turned legs and brass casters on a pale sheet.

Designs for Four Upholstered Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen and ink elevation of a Gothic cabinet with pointed arches, slender columns, carved panels and pinnacles on blue-green pap

Design for a Gothic Cabinet

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Etching of four ornamental vases with putti and seated figures, signed Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1754.

The Four Vases

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1754

Pen and wash design drawing of a four-poster bed with floral canopy valance, fluted posts, and fringed patterned coverlet.

Design for a Bed and Canopy

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1917

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling saint and a young boy, a curtain and column framing a distant mountain land

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1555-56

Engraving of a nude Venus seated on a bed with a bearded Vulcan behind her and three winged putti attending.

Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed and Three Putti

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1550s

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, sleeping Cupid in the foreground, and a city in the distance.

Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, winged Cupid resting in front, figures running toward a castle behind.

Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid res…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Pen drawing of dancing figures, a winged putto with garland, and ornamental lattice and scroll borders on paper.

Design with Dancing Figures

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pen sketch sheet of Egyptian-style figures, a harp, winged ornaments and architectural fragments arranged across the page.

Sketches of Miscellaneous Egyptian Details and Figures (recto and verso)

William Pitts, 1805-40

Woodcut of executioners killing prisoners on a rocky hillside, with a crowned ruler and onlookers in the foreground and a dis

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a bearded face composed of farming tools such as a sickle, rake, and baskets, with Italian verse below.

Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Agriculture

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Engraved composite bust made of cooking utensils such as ladles, a colander and chains, with Latin title and Italian verse.

The Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Cooking

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Engraving of a hunter with a spear carrying a woman with a bow on his shoulders, with hunting dogs and a retinue in the backg

Allegory of the Hunt; a hunter holding a large spear carrying a woman (Diana?) on his shoulders; five hunting dogs in…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Pastel head study of a man in a white wig and cravat, turned right, on a blue-grey background.

Préparation for a Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca.1745

Woodcut of an angel with keys standing over a dragon, with a walled city and mountains in the background.

The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Watercolor drawing of a curved staircase with green twisted balusters, carved wooden handrail and ornate moulded details.

Detail of Staircase at [Gerrard?] House, Gerrard Street, Soho, London

Charles James Richardson, 1825-71

Watercolor design of two heraldic coats of arms with crowns, draped banners and a laurel branch, above an unfinished cartouch

Design for a Coat of Arms

J. S. Pearse, 1858

Gray wash drawing of an allegorical tree with putti, lions, chariots, pouring figures and a city skyline behind.

An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Watercolor botanical study of a perennial pea plant with pink flowers, green leaves, buds and curling tendrils.

Perennial Pea

Jan Jansz. van der Vinne, mid-18th-early 19th century

Engraving of three seated muses reading a book beneath a winged putto playing a lyre in an arched cruciform frame.

Three Muses and a Putto with a Lyre, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Pri…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated muses reading a book beneath a winged putto playing a lyre in an arched upper panel.

Three Muses and a putto above with a lyre, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated draped women reading books beneath a flying winged putto in an arched frame.

Three Muses and a Gesturing Putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated muses playing instruments beneath a winged putto with cymbals in an arched niche.

Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Pr…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre and Pan beside him, with a flying putto blowing a horn in an arched panel above.

Apollo, Pan, and a Putto Blowing a Horn, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of a winged female allegorical figure in flowing robes holding a large sphere beside a niche.

Female Winged Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558/1559

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded older man with curly hair, set in an ornate architectural cartouche with Latin inscriptio

Portrait of Michelangelo

Giorgio Ghisi, after 1564

Engraving of Angelica and Medoro embracing beneath a tree while Medoro carves their names, with Cupid and a distant city.

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names in the bark of a tree; Cupid holding a torch in…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Engraving of the prophet Joel seated reading a scroll, with putti and architectural framing, after the Sistine Chapel ceiling

The Prophet Joel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the Eritrean Sibyl seated with an open book, surrounded by putti and architectural framing, after Michelangelo's

The Eritrean Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75