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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pen and ink drawing of an elderly itinerant man in a wide-brimmed hat, leaning on a walking stick.

An itinerant

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Pen and ink drawing of a mounted drummer seen from behind, raising a drumstick beside a horse with a tasselled saddle cloth.

A mounted drummer from the back

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Pen and ink drawing of a young medieval warrior with sword and shield framed by ornate foliate scrollwork.

The Young Siegfried

Julius Hübner, 1839

Watercolor of two children outdoors, a girl in white with a pink sash standing beside a seated boy in a brown jacket.

Portrait of two children

George Richmond, 1837

Arched grey-wash drawing of the Holy Trinity with angels, clouds, kneeling bishops and saints around an altar.

The Adoration of the Holy Trinity in the New Covenant

Friedrich Sustris, 1588 or before

Pen and ink sheet of sketches with animal-human figures, caricatured heads, soldiers and a battle scene in a wood.

Sheet of Studies, Including for Reineke Fuchs; verso: Studies of Soldiers and of a Battle in a Wood

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, mid-19th century

Grey wash drawing of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven over apostles gathered around a stone tomb.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Johann Christoph Storer, 1641

Grey wash drawing with white highlights of two tall overgrown tree trunks, vines, flowers and rocks on tan paper.

Study of Overgrown Trees; verso: Study of a Cypress and Two Overgrown Trees

Joseph Werner the Younger

Watercolor of a riverside quay with workers, a wooden crane, moored boats, a domed church and a long palace facade.

View of Berlin with the Dome and Castle

Ludwig Eduard Lütke, 1824

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd of robed figures around a man carried on another's shoulders.

Christ Healing the Paralytic

Jacob Jordaens, ca. 1616-20

Pen and wash drawing of people feasting and boating on a river, with swans and a leafy canopy under a cloudy sky.

July: Amusements on the Water, (Juillet : les Divertissements sur l’eau)

Claude Simpol, ca. 1700

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling robed figure in ecstasy beside a column, crown and skull, with light rays above.

The Blessed Aloysius Gonzaga in Ecstasy

Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1629

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a ruffled dress seated in a chair, head turned to one side.

Portrait of a young woman seated

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1760

Brown ink and wash drawing of two waterfalls tumbling between rocks into a pool, shaded by overhanging trees.

A View of Lower Rydal Falls, Cumbria

Thomas Fearnley, 1837

Watercolor and pen drawing of tall trees over parkland with grazing cattle and a distant treeline under a pale sky.

The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park

Thomas Sandby, ca. 1754

Brown wash drawing of a spired castle on a hill under a dark stormy sky, with small figures on rocks in the foreground.

Souvenir of a Castle in Vosges

Victor Hugo, 1857

Watercolor of a man in a red jacket riding a bay horse, with two mounted attendants and a mountain landscape behind.

Sir John Floyd on horseback

Richard Westall, 1800-14

Grey wash drawing of a ruined castle with stone towers and a half-timbered house on a rocky cliff above a valley.

The Ruin of Liebenstein Castle near Bornhofen am Rhein, Seen from the North-West

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, 1803

Watercolor botanical study of caper and yellow gorse branches with a red beetle on the leaves, on cream paper.

Study of Capers, Gorse, and a Beetle

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1693

Watercolor of brown-sailed boats on a tidal estuary at low tide, with wooden piers, a crane and a town under clouds.

A town on an estuary at low tide

Edward Duncan, 1868

Pencil drawing of a young woman in a bonnet and draped cloak, standing with one hand at her hip, dated 1850.

Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Cloak and Bonnet

Théodore Chassériau, 1850

Graphite drawing of a standing officer in uniform with medals, holding a plumed hat, with a city skyline behind him.

General Louis-Étienne Dulong de Rosnay

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1818

Pencil portrait of a woman with ringlet curls, lace collar and gloved hands, signed Ingres and dated 1843.

Madame Armand Bertin, née Marie-Anne-Cécile Dollfuss

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1843

Graphite portrait drawing of a seated man in a frock coat holding a top hat, with a handwritten inscription in the lower righ

Armand Bertin

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1842

Graphite portrait drawing of a man in a high-collared waistcoat holding a hat, looking over his shoulder at the viewer.

The Lawyer Paul Grand

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1834

Graphite portrait of a young man in a double-breasted coat and cravat, with the inscription À L'amitié above.

Jean-Joseph Fournier

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1815

Pastel and charcoal portrait of a woman with curled dark hair, maroon dress, and gold necklace, dated 1907.

Portrait of a Woman (probably Anna Vilhelmine Johanne Dorthea Halberg, married Bjørner, later Larsen)

P.S. Krøyer, 1907

Pen and wash drawing of a bacchanal with nude women, wreathed revelers, putti, grapevines and classical columns in a garden.

Bacchanal

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, ca. 1765-66

Circular drawing of Christ preaching in an arcaded synagogue, with a crowd and figures bringing forward a woman at right.

Christ Preaching in the Synagogue, with the Pharisees Bringing the Woman Taken in Adultery

Dirck Vellert, 1523 (?)

Watercolor drawing of a fiddler in a grey coat playing violin in a tavern, with three men by a fireplace behind him.

A Fiddler in a Tavern, with Three Men in the Background

Johannes Hendrik van West, mid-19th century