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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Pencil sketch of a pope in ermine robes meeting clerics and attendants in a street, with onlookers and buildings behind.

Illustration for a Book: Meeting Between a Pope and Doge

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Boy with an Egg, Girl with a Hen, and a Watching Woman

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1682-1754

Brown wash drawing of a satyr leading a centauress carrying a satyr child through a landscape with a distant town.

Satyr Leading a Centauress Who Holds a Satyr Child

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Brown ink and wash drawing of Venus with a winged figure, a child, and a cherub pulling a wheel on a cloud.

Venus Entrusting an Infant to Time

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

A Girl Reading (with a Sketch of Seated Woman)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a pensive young boy with his hand at his chin and a staff behind his shoulder, on toned paper.

Boy With a Staff

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1682-1754

Brown ink and wash drawing of a turbaned man and a barefoot boy with a sword beside a stone pedestal.

Scherzo di Fantasia: Two Standing Orientals and a Standing Youth with a Sword

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Watercolor of a stone prison gate with a guard, visitors in white dresses, and onlookers on a balcony above.

Visitors leaving a prison

Hubert Robert, 1794-95

Black chalk drawing of a young girl with lowered eyes and a hen perched on her shoulder, with white highlights.

Girl with a Hen

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1682-1754

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated warrior holding a serpent beside a standing youth and a classical column.

Scherzo di Fantasia: Seated Warrior Holding a Serpent, and Standing Youth

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Red chalk drawing of a seated artist sketching while a woman stands nearby and a young girl stands at right.

Artist Sketching a Young Girl

Hubert Robert, ca. 1773

Watercolor of a woman in a feathered hat with three children gathered beside her against a wooded landscape.

Lady Smith and Her Children

Simon Jacques Rochard, 1800-1872

Pen and brown wash drawing with red chalk showing two seated satyrs and a child satyr in overlapping poses.

Two Seated Satyrs and a Child Satyr

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a nude young woman bending forward, head turned toward the viewer, by Auguste Rodin.

Young Girl Kneeling

Auguste Rodin, 1900-1910

Two women hold hands on a cobbled street beside a donkey laden with flower baskets, with townspeople and a church in the back

The Flower Girl (La Petite Marchande de Fleurs)

Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a river god with an oar, a draped woman, and a standing nude boy on pale paper.

River God with an Oar, Woman Holding a Serpent, and a Standing Nude Boy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Black chalk drawing of a nude man embracing a draped woman on a pedestal, with a child holding a garland at lower right.

The Golden Age

Auguste Rodin, 1871-78

Brown ink and wash drawing of four robed figures and a child grouped together, with white highlights on tinted paper.

Group of Four Standing and Seated Figures and a Child

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink wash sketch of two reclining women, a winged boy and a small child resting on clouds.

Two Women and a Winged Boy on Clouds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Black chalk and white highlight sketch of robed figures tending an infant before classical columns on blue-grey paper.

St. Benedict Resuscitating an Infant

Pierre Subleyras, ca. 1745

Watercolor of a woman in blue gown and seated man watching an infant on a sofa in an ornate fireplace room.

The First Babe

Jehan-Georges Vibert, 1872

Brown ink and wash sketch of two seated women and a boy resting on clouds, with pencil underdrawing visible.

Two Seated Women and a Boy on Clouds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pencil drawing of a young boy seen from behind, hands on hips, wearing a jacket, breeches and boots.

Back View of a Roman Servant Boy

François-André Vincent, 1771-75

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated man gesturing beside a woman with an infant, children and a dog under a tree.

Young Father Distressed by His Growing Family

called Watteau de Lille Louis Joseph Watteau, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a winged woman, a bearded river god with a staff, and a nude boy among clouds.

Winged Female Figure, River God, and a Nude Boy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Circular sketch of a crowned seated woman, a bishop, a mother with infant, and putti on steps.

Nobility Presenting an Infant to Venice

Francesco Zugno, 1709-87

Red chalk drawing of the Madonna and Child on clouds with angels, kneeling saints and a child below.

Madonna and Child with Saints

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with Saint Sebastian, a kneeling Franciscan saint, and an angel.

The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saint Sebastian and a Franciscan Saint

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling saint holding the Christ Child, with the Virgin and cherubs in clouds above.

Saint Cajetan of Thiene Holding the Infant Jesus

Gaetano Zompini, 1730-40

Black chalk drawing of a nude cherub seen from behind, rising upward, with a sketched head beneath it.

Cherubs

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century