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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Grey wash drawing of a sunlit street with old buildings, a palm tree, an archway, and figures.

Oriental Street Scene

Eduard Hildebrandt, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a female musician with a lute, putti reading music, and a landscape with figures.

The Sense of Hearing

Joseph Heintz the Elder, 16th century

Brown ink drawing of a man with long hair and plumed hat riding a rearing horse in a sketched landscape.

Charles II of Spain on Horseback

Matías de Torres, late 17th century

Ink and wash design of an ewer and oval table with candelabra in a landscape, framed by putti and figures.

Design for an Ewer, table and candelabra within an ornamental frame

Abraham Drentwett the Elder, 1660-1727

Grey wash drawing of a winding road through rocky hills with conifers, enclosed in an ornate Rococo scrollwork frame.

Landscape with Ornamental Frame

Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730

Pen and ink nativity scene with Mary, Joseph, infant Jesus, shepherds, an ox and angels above, on toned paper.

Nativity

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, before 1761

Two nude women rise through a starry night sky reaching toward two glowing stars, with smaller floating figures and a flowing

Twin Stars

Luis Falero, 1851-96

Watercolor and ink drawing of reclining camels with saddlecloths and a seated rider before arched walls in Tangier.

Camels Reposing, Tangiers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1865

Loose watercolor of horsemen among trees beside a pale stretch of water under a blue sky.

Moors on Horseback

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1838-74

Watercolor of masked figures in period costume on a garden terrace with swans on a pond and autumn trees overhead.

Masquerade

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1868

Pen and wash drawing on blue paper of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross and figures on a ladder and below.

Crucifixion

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, early to mid-18th century

Ink and wash drawing of a mother holding an infant in an armchair, with a girl and standing woman beside her in a room.

The Young Family

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and wash drawing of a mother and two children playing under a large tree, with a tea table in the background.

A Mother and Two Children Playing Blind Man's Bluff

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and wash drawing of a woman with a stick and a child watching ducks by a pond, with trees and hills behind.

Woman and Child by a Duck Pond

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and ink drawing of a child kneeling on a chair reaching toward a white kitten, with a candelabra in the room behind.

Child Climbing a Chair to Reach for a Kitten

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and ink drawing of a toddler in a wicker basket with pillows, raising one hand, with toys and a doll nearby.

Child in a Crib

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and ink drawing of a mother kneeling by a basket as a child stands in a doorway, with a winged angel above.

Mother and Child

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and ink drawing of a girl leaning over a garden fountain with cherub statues while a white cat walks nearby.

The Fountain

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1904

Pen and ink drawing of three girls in a room with a door, coat on a hook, and a doll lying on the floor.

Three Little Girls in a Room Arguing and Spitting

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and brown ink drawing of an ornamental cartouche frame with scrolls and writhing monster creatures around a blank center.

Half of a Cartouche with Monsters

Pierre Quentin Chedel, 18th century

Drawing of a pastoral landscape with two large trees, a winding road, travelers, distant hills and birds in the sky.

Landscape

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain, 1730-58

Watercolor drawing of a formal garden with a statue in a circular basin, stone urns, and a long tree-lined avenue toward dist

Scenic View of Gardens

Antoine-Claude Fleury, n.d.

Pen drawing of a winged figure beside an eagle and a seated nude freed from broken chains, with distant mountains.

The Release of Prometheus

Max Klinger, late 19th-early 20th century

Pen drawing of the winged horse Pegasus with a young rider on its back, with German handwritten notes below.

Pegasus and the Young Bellephron

Max Klinger, late 19th-early 20th century

Loose painted sketch of mossy boulders, a fallen log and a stream bed under green foliage.

Landscape

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Red and grey chalk drawing of a rococo mantel and overmantel with scrolling foliage, candle sconces, and a central cartouche.

Study for a Mantel and Overmantel

Laurent Hubert, ca. 1740-60

Brown ink and wash design for a fireplace with a seated female figure, nude male supports and trophies of arms.

Design for a Mantlepiece

Christian Gottlob Mietzsch, mid-18th-late 18th century

Red chalk drawing of figures playing backgammon at a table within an ornate rococo frame with scrolling foliage.

Game of Backgammon

Johann Esaias Nilson, 1741-88

Pen and ink title page design for Brahms songs with a flute player, a reclining woman, a flowering tree and decorative letter

Design for a Title Page for Sheet Music

Max Klinger, late 19th-early 20th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a plumed-hat rider on a rearing horse, with a cloaked standing figure at left.

Study for an Equestrian Portrait, Possibly that of Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg; verso: Various Studies of Stat…

Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1628-32