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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,695 works

Pencil drawing of an artist pointing at a wall while a crowd of men, women, and children watches in an arched composition.

An Artist Drawing on Wall of a Church Watched by a Crowd

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil and wash drawing of a robed speaker raising his arm before cloaked men, with a large female figure behind a fountain.

Speaker Addressing Male Figures Gathered at Night Around a Fountain

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil and wash drawing of a bearded man on horseback with a monkey behind him, passing a crowd in a medieval town.

A Man and a Monkey Riding on Horseback

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Grey wash sketch of a baby in a bonnet with a rooster and dog, centered on an album page.

A Baby in 16th century Dress with a Rooster and a Dog

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Grey wash drawing of two children kneeling by a bed with a pale sheet in a dim room, one looking up.

A Deathbed Scene

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch in a circle of a seated shepherd with a winged cupid behind him and a ram beside him.

Cupid and a Shepherd

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch in a circle of a seated Venus with a winged Cupid leaning against her shoulder, with clouds behind.

Venus and Cupid

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil drawing of four musical putti in a lunette frame, playing lute, violin and harp, one standing at centre.

Four Musical Putti

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of a group of naked children in loose scribbled background lines, on a sketchbook page.

A Group of Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil study on a sketchbook page: a large circle with flowing curved and horizontal lines crossing its interior.

Circular Diagram

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Sketches of Figures

Lord Leighton Frederic, 1840-60

Graphite sketchbook page with three studies of young children in varied poses, including a reaching child and a seated child.

Three Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of three seated children on a sketchbook page, one wearing a round cap, with a handwritten Bruxelles note.

A Group of Seated Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of a nude male figure leaning forward with outstretched arm, with two small standing figures to the right.

Male Figure Study

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of two seated children, one lifting a large jar and one holding out a bowl.

Two Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of a man with round spectacles and curly hair, head resting on a cushion, on a sketchbook page.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1850

Preliminary Studies for Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1855

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat and frock coat seated on a balloon-back chair, legs crossed, on a sketchbook page.

Man Seated on a Chair

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1855

Pencil sketch of a geometric chair-like form on an otherwise blank sketchbook page.

Geometrical Figure

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1855

Watercolor interior of a basilica with rows of columns, coffered ceilings, and kneeling figures in the foreground.

Interior View of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Anton Hallmann, 1833

Pen and wash design drawing of an arched rococo entrance portal with scrollwork, flower garlands and columns.

Design for an Entrance Portal with a Single Door

Michael Furtner the Elder, ca. 1720

Pen and watercolor design for a pulpit with a canopy, carved balustrade, staircase and floor plan on aged paper.

Design for a Pulpit

Michael Furtner the Elder, 1690-1720

Watercolor drawing of a circular domed market hall with a tall column, carts and figures in a cobbled street.

La Halle aux Blés, Exterior View

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, ca. 1810

Watercolor interior of a vaulted grain hall with brick arches, columns, a dome at left, and workers stacking flour sacks.

La Halle aux Blés, Interior View

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, ca. 1810

Pen and wash drawing of a tiered fountain with figures and cascading water, with a circular floor plan below.

Project for a Fountain for La Place Louis XV

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, ca. 1806

Portrait of Giovanni Ricasoli, aged 5

Luigi Sabatelli, 1808

Brown wash drawing of Roman figures in a colonnade, a youth embracing a dying man beside armor, soldiers watching.

Scene from Roman History, depicting a Youth receiving Armor from a Dying Man (Scipio Africanus and His Son?)

Mathieu-Ignace van Bree, late 18th-mid 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of two altarpiece wings with saints John the Baptist and Catherine in arched niches under angels.

Two Wings of an Altarpiece depicting Saints John the Baptist and Catherine in Niches Surmounted by Angels

Jan van Scorel, mid-16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Nativity with the Virgin, infant Christ, shepherds, an ox and a donkey under an arched port

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink, 1599

Brown wash drawing of Adam and Eve in a forest, Eve holding a branch as a serpent coils around the tree above.

The Temptation of Eve

Pieter van Lint, 1639