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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,907 works

Red chalk drawing of a martyrdom scene with a seized woman, crowd of soldiers, classical building and two cherubs above.

Scene of Martyrdom, after Giovanni Angelo Canini

Jean-Robert Ango

Pen and ink drawing of a standing female saint with flowing hair holding a chalice and host, dated 1513.

St. Barbara with a Chalice and Host

Hans Baldung Grien, 1513

Circular pen and grey wash drawing of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, with a priest holding the infant at an altar.

The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Sebald Beham, early to mid-16th century

Pencil drawing of a crowned figure pointing at an infant held by a seated woman, with a bearded man and onlookers.

The Infant Moses before Pharaoh, after Giovanni Battista Ruggieri

Jean-Robert Ango

Drawing of seated Saint Catherine with curled hair and a spiked wheel, in brown ink on a dark blue ground.

Saint Catherine

Lucas Cranach the Elder, late 15th-mid-16th century

Pen and wash drawing in a circle of the Circumcision of Christ, with a priest holding the infant and the Virgin watching.

The Circumcision of Christ

Sebald Beham, 1510-50

Red chalk drawing of a bearded man reading a book beside a crucifix, a skull and a donkey in a rocky landscape.

Saint Francis Reading

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1747

Pencil sketch of a kneeling female nude above two studies of winged angels on pale paper.

Kneeling Female Nude and Two Studies of Angels

Georg Rafael Donner, early 18th century

Pen and ink drawing of winged angels playing lute, violin and wind instruments, with a monogram and the date 1521.

Music-Making Angels

Albrecht Dürer, 1521

Red chalk drawing of mourners lowering the dead Christ onto a stone tomb, with veiled women and a bearded man looking on.

The Entombment

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 18th century

Grey wash drawing in oval format showing a radiant monstrance among clouds and angels, with allegorical figures and a globe b

Veneration of the Eucharist by the Peoples of the World (Allegories of the Four Continents)

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1720-74

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Albrecht Dürer, 1490-1528

Grey wash drawing of a baroque design with a winged angel, a bishop, a haloed saint with a skull, and a coat of arms.

Design for a Stained Glass Window or Frontispiece with the Arms of a Cleric

Johann Heiss, mid-17th-early 18th century

Pen drawing of Christ carrying a cross through a crowd of soldiers, with a town and tower in the background.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Wolfgang Huber, 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of Saint John the Baptist with a lamb in a wooded wilderness, within a circular format.

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Hans von Kulmbach, ca. 1510-15

Brown wash drawing of Abraham raising a sword as a winged angel restrains him over a nude youth, Isaac.

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Johan Carl Loth, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling haloed woman looking up at a haloed barefoot figure holding a cross, with lilies behind.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Master of the Drapery Studies, ca. 1490

Loose pen and ink sketch of the Holy Family with St. John the Baptist over a faint grid.

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist

Anton Raphael Mengs, mid-18th century

Pencil drawing of the Lamentation of Christ with mourning figures, cypress trees and a distant landscape.

The Lamentation

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1840-45

Pen and gray wash drawing of a bearded saint presenting a young boy to the Virgin on clouds, with putti and columns.

Saint Stephen of Hungary Presenting his Son, Saint Emeric, to the Virgin

Franz Xavier Karl Palko, 1740-67

Brown ink and wash drawing of shepherds adoring the Virgin and Christ Child in a rustic stable interior.

Adoration of the Shepards

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Sepia drawing of Christ gesturing to sleeping disciples in a rocky garden, with an angel appearing in a cave behind.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1848

Grey wash drawing of Saint Ignatius of Loyola kneeling among angels and allegorical figures beneath a radiant dove in an oval

Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Allegories of the Four Continents

Felix Anton Scheffler, 1715-60

Brown ink drawing of a crowned king on steps before arches, with robed figures gathered below and a tree at right.

King Herod Receiving the Three Magi

Martin Schongauer, second half 15th century

Watercolor drawing of a winged archangel with a sword and shield, wearing a crown and halo, on an ochre background.

Decoration of an Arch: Archangel with a Sword

Eduard von Steinle, 1825-86

Brown wash drawing of Christ on the cross with two angels and two draped mourning figures below.

Christ on the Cross Between Mary and Saint John

Johann Christoph Storer, 1620-71

St. Matthew

Martin Schongauer, second half of the 15th century

Pen and ink drawing with white highlights on grey paper of a kneeling figure supported by an angel, with sleeping figures bel

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Paul Troger, 1712-62

Pen and ink drawing of Joseph being sold to merchants, framed by ornate cartouches, putti and classical columns.

Joseph Sold by His Brothers into Egypt

Daniel Lindtmayer, 1574

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded haloed St. Paul holding a sword, with small figures and a town in the background.

St. Paul

Jacques Callot, early 17th century