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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,796 works

Pen and wash drawing of a robed figure driving money changers from a columned temple, with overturned tables and scattered co

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Matthias Scheits, ca. 1665-70

Etching of the Virgin embracing a child beside a cat and cradle, with Joseph at a sunlit window behind them.

Virgin and Child with the Cat: and Joseph at the Window

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Ink and wash drawing of a seated goddess in a chariot pulled by lions, with attendants, satyrs and a basket of fruit.

The Triumph of Cybele, after Paolo Fiammingo's "Triumph of Earth"

Hans Friedrich Schorer, 1634

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of two crouching lions and several leaping animals in loose hatched lines.

Studies of Animals

Eugène Delacroix, 1810-63

Brown ink drawing of a dense battle scene with swordsmen, shields, and fallen warriors in a horizontal frieze.

Battle Scene

Lelio Orsi, 1531-87

Red chalk drawing of a martyrdom scene with a seized woman, crowd of soldiers, classical building and two cherubs above.

Scene of Martyrdom, after Giovanni Angelo Canini

Jean-Robert Ango

Pen and wash drawing of rococo ornamental designs with scrollwork, garlands, a sunburst medallion, and doves.

Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling

Claude Audran III

Central watercolor of a busy Munich square with twin church towers, surrounded by fifteen small architectural city views on g

Fifteen Architectural Subjects: Views of Munich

Heinrich Adam, 1835

Pen and grey wash drawing of an armored rider on a rearing, ornately decorated horse against a sparse landscape.

Equestrian Portrait of Henry IV

Auvrest, late 18th-early 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of two horses pulling a chariot beside a shielded warrior, with white highlights.

Triumphal Scene

Lelio Orsi, 1531-87

Circular pen and ink drawing with wash of a garden of love, with bathing women, courting couples, musicians and a town skylin

The Garden of Love

Jörg Breu the Younger, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a uniformed rider on an ornately decorated horse crossing a hilly landscape.

Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon as First Consul

Brown wash drawing of a man in a tricorn hat pointing forward beside a horse, with a flag and rocky ground behind him.

Portrait of Prince Henry of Prussia

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of rococo pediments, scrolls and an arched niche with a cartouche and musical instruments.

Preparatory Studies for Plates 90 and 91 of "Maisons de plaisance," Volume II

Jacques-François Blondel, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a man in military uniform and bicorne hat on an ornately decorated horse in a landscape.

Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon

Grey wash drawing of cavalry riders and rearing horses around a fallen soldier, with trees and a rocky landscape behind.

Cavalry Engagement

Francesco Monti, 1646-1712

Graphite drawing of a crowned woman on a horse with flying putti, figures below, and a wheelbarrow of tools in the foreground

Allegory of Europe, from the Four Continents

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1728-74

Circular drawing of Neptune raising a trident in a shell chariot pulled by sea horses over waves, with cliffs behind.

Neptune in his Chariot

Pieter de Jode, late 16th-mid 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a decorative arch with a flower basket, floral swags, a putto head, a bird, and trophy objects.

Preparatory Study for Plate 41 in "Maisons de plaisance," Vol. II

Jacques-François Blondel, 18th century

Pencil drawing of a crowned woman riding a lion under a parasol, with feathered figures and palm trees in the landscape.

Allegory of Africa

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1728-74

Watercolor of a seated woman and child with a deer in a forest clearing, surrounded by birds and rabbits.

Genoveva

Ludwig Richter, 1872

Brown wash drawing of a turbaned herdsman seated on rocks with goats, a child, and a dog beneath a tree.

Pastoral Scene: A Herdsman and His Family, with Goats

Philipp Peter Roos, late 17th-early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of Saint Ignatius of Loyola kneeling among angels and allegorical figures beneath a radiant dove in an oval

Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Allegories of the Four Continents

Felix Anton Scheffler, 1715-60

Brown ink drawing of a crowned king on steps before arches, with robed figures gathered below and a tree at right.

King Herod Receiving the Three Magi

Martin Schongauer, second half 15th century

Watercolor of a live horse in harness beside an abandoned cart, with dead horses on muddy ground under a grey sky.

Abandoned: Marshes of the Danube

Adolf Schreyer, before 1887

Pencil sketch of a man in a fur cap smoking a pipe, seated in a attic room with dogs, cats, and hanging laundry.

Der Hundefreund (The Dog's Friend)

Moritz von Schwind, mid-19th century

Red chalk drawing of a horseman with hunting dogs and a figure carrying a pole on a rural path beside a house.

November (one of a series representing the labors of the months)

Jonas Umbach, 1690 or slightly earlier

Pen and grey wash drawing of a seated woman with a bow resting among hounds beneath a radiating sunburst and clouds.

Diana Resting with Her Hounds (recto); Flora Seated by a Vase with Two Harks on the Ground, after Jost Amman (verso)

Hermann Weyer, 1607 (verso)-ca. 1615 (recto)

Watercolor of a pale armored warrior on a rearing horse beside nymphs in glowing water and a hooded figure.

Hagen and the Nymphs of the Danube

Henry Fuseli, 1802

Red chalk drawing of figures shearing sheep outside a farmhouse, with a flock and rolling landscape in the background.

June (one of a series representing the labors of the months)

Jonas Umbach, 1690 or slightly earlier