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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,695 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of a covered wagon with spoked wheels and a canvas tilt tied with cords.

Study of a Covered Wagon

Isaac van Ostade, ca. 1646-49

Pen and brown ink drawing of a horse lying on its side with legs extended and head resting on the ground.

A Horse Lying on its Side

Sinibaldo Scorza, 1620s

Standing Male Nude

Agostino Ciampelli

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin Mary seated among apostles looking up at a dove with rays of light above.

The Pentecost (The Descent of the Holy Spirit)

Cesare Nebbia, ca. 1576

Drawing of a costumed theatrical troupe on a horse-drawn cart with painted canvases, a mounted rider and a guitarist.

Theatrical Troupe on the Road

Eugène Delacroix, 1818

Portrait of Sir Sidney Smith in the Temple Prison

Philippe Auguste Hennequin, 1796

Sepia wash allegory of a seated woman and winged figure pointing to a Washington memorial inscription, 1800.

Allegory on the Death of George Washington

Jacques Kuyper, 1800

Sepia wash drawing of a church bell tower, an obelisk and a staircase on a Roman terrace, with city domes at left.

The Church of the Trinità dei Monti and the Villa Medici, Rome

François Marius Granet, ca. 1808

Watercolor of a coastal path with grazing cows, a wooden gate, autumn shrubs, and the sea under clouds.

Bonchurch Downs

John Brett, December 1865

Pencil portrait sketch of a woman with a bob haircut looking toward the viewer on tan paper.

Portrait of Madame Paul Meurice, née Palmyre Granger

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1845-50

Pen and wash drawing of a garden urn with a wolf head and two dogs perched on its rim, set on a stone pedestal.

Design for a Garden Vase with Hunting Theme

Paul Egell, ca. 1740

Botanical watercolor of a pink-flowered heath plant with needle-like leaves and numbered flower dissection details.

Erica Fulgida

Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1813

Pen and wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with infant John the Baptist, three women, and a winged angel on steps.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, Three Women, and an Angel

Adriaan de Weerdt, mid 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of two sailboats on a river beside a cottage, trees and walking figures on the right bank.

Riverscape with Two Sailboats and Several Figures; verso: A Mountainous Landscape near a River with a Horse-Drawn Bar…

Cornelis Claesz. van Wieringen, early 17th century

Pen and ink caricature of a balding older man in spectacles and cape, signed Henry Monnier and dated 1858.

Self-Portrait as Monsieur Prudhomme

Henry Bonaventure Monnier, 1858

Pencil sketch of David with a sling facing armored Goliath in chain mail, with handwritten French notes at lower right.

David and Goliath, after a Capital in Vézelay Abbey

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, ca. 1840

Study for Astyanax’s Nurse

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, ca. 1812

Brown ink drawing of a memorial design with a blank tablet, flanking allegorical women, military trophies, and a laurel wreat

Design for a memorial to Sir William Myers

Thomas Stothard, 1811

Grey wash drawing of an explosion near a village, with horses and soldiers scattered, smoke clouds, and a church spire at lef

An Explosion near a Village

Dirk Langendijk, 1805 (?)

Chalk drawing on grey paper of a smiling woman in a wide-brimmed flowered hat, lace collar and shawl, turning over her should

Portrait of an elegant lady

Frans van der Mijn, 1750-70

Grey wash drawing of a melee of soldiers and fallen horses in a woodland clearing, with a distant village spire.

The Capture of Lieutenant General Johann Hermann von Fersen During the Battle of Bergen (19 September 1799)

Dirk Langendijk, 1803

Grey wash drawing of cavalrymen charging with sabers against running infantry, with smoke, a tower and a fallen soldier.

A Battle Between Cavalrymen and Infantry

Dirk Langendijk, early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of soldiers and workers loading boats and mules by a rocky coast, with a large ship and stone tower.

Soldiers Loading Barges for a Large Sailing Ship Along the Coast

Dirk Langendijk, 1784

Grey wash drawing of horsemen and horses at a cottage, a covered coach on a hill, and a couple at right.

A Gathering of Horsemen and a Coach near a Watering Place

Dirk Langendijk, 1776

Semicircular fan design with white cats holding gilded sunflowers on stems, edged with a green and gold scalloped border.

Fan Design with Cats and Sunflowers

Henri Charles Guérard, ca. 1885-90

Pencil drawing of a man in a beret and frilled cravat, turned three-quarters to the left, with handwritten inscriptions below

Portrait of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Carl Witte

Samuel Amsler, 1819

Grey-wash drawing of riders and horses at a riding school with a visiting family, dogs, a statue and a carriage.

A Riding School with a Visiting Family

Dirk Langendijk, 1778

Watercolor of a figure with a dog on ancient stone walls overlooking a plain, a winding road, and a distant sea under stormy

View of Norba from the North, towards San Felice Circeo

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner, 1856

Grey wash drawing of soldiers fighting a skirmish beside a cannon and farm building, with smoke and a mounted officer at left

A Skirmish with Soldiers Near a Farm (recto); Sketch with Soldiers (verso)

Dirk Langendijk, ca. 1790-1800

Watercolor of weathered stone ruins overgrown with plants, with two figures in the foreground under a partly cloudy sky.

Ruins on the Right of the Via Appia

Carlo Labruzzi, ca. 1789