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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Chalk study of three men with exaggerated expressions: one shouting, one squinting, one wide-eyed, on brown paper.

Study of Three Heads

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1823

Ink and wash architectural elevation with pilasters, an arched niche, and a broken pediment above a stepped base.

Elevation of Wall Decoration in the Villa Medici

Antonio Visentini, 1688-1782

Ink and wash drawing of a domed rotunda facade with a Corinthian portico, pediment, and stepped drum beneath the dome.

Façade of a Rotunda

Antonio Visentini, 1688-1782

Architectural elevation drawing of a classical entrance with a central arch, fluted columns, niches, and a pediment, with a p

Plan and Elevation of an Entrance

Giovanni Battista Galliani, 1793

Watercolor and ink drawing of a domed temple on a hill beside trees, with a stormy sky and sea behind it.

Indian temple

George Chinnery, ca. 1808-12

Watercolor landscape of a hilltop town near Rome with tall stone pines in the foreground and distant mountains under a pale s

Frascati, near Rome

William Cowen, 1819

Pencil and white chalk studies of a seated woman reading a songbook, with hand studies and a red chalk head sketch.

Studies of a Couple Seated on the Ground, Looking at a Songbook

Nicolas Lancret, ca. 1740

Pen and wash drawing of monks watching workmen topple a seated statue of Apollo from a classical temple beneath a large tree.

Benedict of Nursia Orders the Destruction of the Temple of Apollo at Monte Cassino

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, mid-17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a standing young washerwoman in a headband, carrying a bundle of cloth against her hip.

A Standing Young Washerwoman

Jacob van Strij, late 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor drawing of a seated man reading a songbook with a woman and small child in a courtyard.

Parents Teaching Their Daughter a Song

Abraham van Strij, early 19th century

Watercolor of a small roadside shrine with a Madonna niche beside a sunlit road, framed by trees and a rocky bank.

A Roadside Chapel near Tivoli

August Lucas, 1835

Portrait of a Young Man

Wilhelm von Kügelgen, mid-19th century

Grey wash sketch of ruined Roman arches and masonry overgrown with shrubs and a tree, from a sketchbook page.

Roman ruins (recto). Three figures in classical robes (verso) (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 1)

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1774-75

Brown ink drawing of a distorted soldier on horseback in catoptric anamorphosis, arranged in an arc above a circle.

Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius)

Jean François Niceron, ca. 1620-40

Ink and pencil architectural plan with columns, piers, and a circular central space, study for San Giovanni in Laterano.

Studies for the Nave and Narthex of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome (recto and verso)

Francesco Borromini, ca. 1646-55

Pen and brown ink drawing of an altar design with a crucifix, columns, putti, and side elevations with handwritten notes.

Design for an Altar Surmounted by a Crucifix in Four Different Views

Vincenzo de' Rossi, 1546-47

Brown and white wash drawing of a bishop saint trampling fallen figures, with Christ in clouds above and bishops beside him.

Saint Lambert Trampling his Murderers, Surrounded by the Four Church Fathers

Antoine Sallaert, early 17th-mid 17th century

Drawing of a formal garden with a central pond, classical columns, statues, and a boat carrying figures.

View of a Palace Garden with a Central Pond Surrounded by Classical Architecture (Tapestry or Stage Design?)

Daniel Marot the Elder, ca. 1700-1720

Chalk drawing of a man with long hair, mustache and goatee, turned slightly to the side, on toned paper.

Portrait of Louis XIII

Simon Vouet, ca. 1632-35

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of Puritan townspeople in a market place, with a woman holding an infant before a wooden door.

The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Pen drawing of a crowd on a wooden scaffold in a village, with kneeling figures and a standing woman by a pillory.

Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Grey wash drawing of a stone farmhouse with an arched gateway, a hilltop fortified town, and two walking figures.

A landscape with a farm house and two figures, a fortified village seen beyond

Adriaen Fransz. Boudewijns, mid-17th-early 18th century

Botanical drawing of a Pancratium plant with two white spidery flowers on a tall green stem and long leaves.

Pancratium (American narcissus)

Georg Dionysius Ehret, ca. 1752

Watercolor of the Ponte Santa Trinità in Florence with workers, stone blocks, a boat on the Arno and a bell tower.

Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence

James Duffield Harding, before 1832

Grey ink drawing of a domed Dutch exchange building beside a canal, with boats, a rower, and people on the quay.

The Old Stock Exchange (Koopmansbeurs), Rotterdam, seen from the East, with the Kolk and the Beursplein in the Foregr…

Jan de Beijer, 1750

Pencil sketch of a leaning tree with spreading branches beside a winding dirt lane and shrubs in the foreground.

Study for Tree Trunks and Lane

John Crome, ca. 1812

Jean-Victor Moreau

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1806

Brown wash drawing of a hilltop town with a church spire, framed by a large tree and figures on a path.

View of Aix-en-Provence

called Constantin d'Aix Jean Antoine Constantin, ca.1773-92

Pencil sketch of a courtyard with a sloping roof, arched passage, ladder, and a figure at right.

View into a Courtyard

Adolph Menzel, ca. 1880-90

Watercolor landscape of flat terrain, shallow water, a red shrub, two small figures and blue-grey hills under a pale sky.

Landscape near Bangsbo, North Jutland, With Two Figures

Martinus Rørbye, 1830