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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,695 works

Watercolor design of an ornate theater curtain with red drapery, green damask, gold tassels, and a procession frieze.

Design for a Theater Curtain

Aimé Chenavard, 1818-38

Chalk drawing of a French dragoon in plumed helmet and blue coat, lunging forward with a sabre on tan paper.

A French Dragoon, Study for "The Revolt of Cairo"

Anne-Louis Girodet, ca. 1809

Ink and wash drawing of robed figures, a kneeling man, sacrificial animals and onlookers beneath a palm tree.

The Return of Joseph

John Michael Rysbrack, 1720-70

Brown ink drawing of a tall tree beside a lake, with fishermen, two seated children, and distant buildings and hills.

Pastoral Scene

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 1626-80

Grey wash drawing of a winged putto riding a lion-like sea creature with a second head, highlighted in white on blue paper.

A Winged Putto Riding a Sea Horse and a Lion (recto); The Three Graces (verso)

Denys Calvaert, 1574

Brown ink and wash drawing of a turbaned woman holding a sword beside a severed head, after Ubaldo Gandolfi.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Ubaldo Gandolfi, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a long vaulted hall with arched niches, urns on pedestals, and several hanging candelabra receding in

Vaulted Hall with Candelabra

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, 1675-1743

Pen and wash drawing of a river waterfall between rocky banks and trees, with a ruined tower on a distant hill.

Corra Linn, the Falls of the Clyde

Joseph Farington, 1788

Red and black chalk drawing on blue paper of a classical funeral procession with a draped body, soldiers on horseback, and ar

Study for the Funeral of Pallas

Antoine Coypel, ca. 1716-17

Brown wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around a seated Diana in a forest, with a man watching from the trees.

Diana and Actaeon

Joseph Bergler the younger, late 18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of cattle and shepherds wading through water below a hilltop town and steep rocky mountains.

Cattle and Shepherds in a Southern Mountainous Landscape

Karel Dujardin, mid-17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of cavalry in battle, with rearing horses, raised swords, and fallen soldiers under a hazy sky.

A Battle Scene

Ferdinand Kobell, 1783

Grey wash drawing of a classical sacrificial scene with a priest at an altar and mourners supporting a fallen woman.

An Antique Sacrificial Scene (recto); Sketch of a Group of People (verso)

Johann Eleazar Zeissig, 1779 (?)

Pencil drawing of two wayfarers on a rocky path beside a ruin overgrown with ivy, with trees and hills in the background.

Wayfarers Near a Ruin in a Hilly Landscape

Victor Paul Mohn, 1863 (?)

Grey wash drawing of a house with a small doorway beside rocks, trees and a cliff on a hillside.

A House on a Hillside in a Southern Landscape

Adam Pynacker, mid-17th century

Watercolor of a wooden bridge with a standing man, thatched cottages, a windmill and hills under a blue sky.

Landscape with a Bridge Near Mosbjerg

Martinus Rørbye, 1833

Pen and brown ink drawing of two draped seated women, Nemesis and Themis, one holding a staff, by Abildgaard.

Nemesis and Themis

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of two kneeling nude men, one reaching toward the other, with faint pencil background details.

Two Nude Men Playing with Dice

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated figure in a headwrap feeding papers into a fire, with smoke rising behind.

An Old Woman Burning Papers

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Sepia ink and wash drawing of two studies of a crouching male nude hiding among bushes.

Two Studies of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) Hiding in a Bush

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a lake with a sailboat, walking figures on the shore, a manor on a hill, and trees.

View of Naesse castle with Lake Furesø from the West

Erik Pauelsen, ca. 1780-84

Pen drawing of Damocles raising his arm beneath a suspended sword while King Dionysius watches in a draped hall.

The Sword of Damocles; verso: Sketches of Man's Head and of a Figure with a Raised Arm

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1805

Watercolor of a young couple on a path under a ruined stone arch, with green trees and a sunlit ruin beyond.

A Young Couple Viewing Ruins near Bingen

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, 1801

Grey wash drawing of two riders with spear and bow, a winged horse, a lion and a hound on the ground.

Man's Fortitude

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, late 18th-early 19th century

Red chalk and brown wash sketch of a winged angel flying upward, holding a lily, with billowing drapery.

An Angel holding a Lily

Cosmas Damian Asam, early 18th century

Architectural drawing with elevations, sections and floor plan of a church, in ink and wash, with handwritten inscriptions.

Design for the Parish Church of Merkershausen

Balthasar Neumann, 1738

Watercolor of a sleeping woman in blue drapery reclining in a shadowy landscape beside a golden vessel and a tree.

Psyche Asleep in a Landscape

Karl Agricola, 1837

Brown ink and wash drawing of a landscape with cypress and pine trees, a stone arch, two figures, and a distant town.

View in Rome near the Colosseum

Michiel van Overbeek, mid-17th-early 18th century

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a domed cruciform capitol with columns, a rotunda, House and Senate chambers, and a

First Premium Design for the Capitol of Ohio at Columbus by Walter of Cincinnati

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a domed, colonnaded capitol building with colored legislative chambers, drawn in in

The Second Premium Design for the Capitol of Ohio, Columbus

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839