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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Drawing of the Virgin and Child with a pilgrim saint and two other male saints, brown ink with white highlights.

The Virgin and Child with Saint Roch and Two Other Male Saints

Bernardino Lanino, 1512-83

Brown ink drawing of Saint Catherine kneeling in a city square among crowds, with an arch, obelisk, and angels above.

Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Bernardino Lanino, 1512-83

Grey wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi with kneeling king, Virgin and Child, horses and attendants.

The Adoration of the Magi

Bernardino Lanino, 1553

Pen and wash drawing of a draped bearded man standing in a niche beside an urn, framed by ornamental scrollwork borders.

Draped Male Figure Standing in a Niche

Gregorio Lazzarini, 1655-1730

Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left

Leonardo da Vinci, 1490-94

Brown ink drawing of a lavish interior with crowned figures, a banquet table of coins and gold vessels, and a woman with a mi

Allegory of Wealth, Lust and Stupidity

Joos van Winghe, late 16th century

Brown wash drawing of Christ handing keys to a kneeling bearded man before a group of onlookers, with angels above.

The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter

Jan Boeckhorst, ca. 1660

Pen drawing of a panoramic mountain landscape with village, estuary, windmills and Christ with figures in the foreground.

Panoramic Mountainous Estuary Landscape, with Christ and the Woman of Canaan

Lucas Gassel, mid-16th century

Pencil sketch of a lakeside villa with cypresses above and a colonnaded temple ruin in a field below.

Studies of the Villa Cicerone at the Lago Lucrino near Naples and of the Temple at Paestum (Italy)

Pierre Louis Dubourcq, mid-19th century

Italian Farmer

Pierre Louis Dubourcq, mid-19th century

Red chalk study of a standing woman in a hooded cloak with an extended arm, on cream paper.

Study for "M. de Pourceaugnac"

Jean-Baptiste Pater, early 18th century

Pencil and watercolor study sheet showing a boat, figures in Dutch dress, and a stone gateway with trees and a church spire.

Study Sheet with Figures and Landscapes at Arnemuiden (near Middelburg, The Netherlands)

Pierre Louis Dubourcq, mid-19th century

Grey watercolor of fishing boats with masts on a winter beach, a woman and child walking in front, and a horse cart nearby.

Fishing Boats on the Beach in Winter

Anton Mauve, mid to late 19th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Gros Horloge clock in Rouen, with market women and townspeople in a cobbled street.

Rue du Gros Horloge, Rouen

Wijnand Jan Joseph Nuijen, early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of tangled galloping horses and riders at the start of a race in Rome, 1860.

Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1860

Watercolor of a coastal village with cottages on a cliff, sailing boats on the water, and figures on the shore.

View on the coast at Deal

Charles Bentley, ca. 1846

Charcoal drawing of a seated bearded man in a robe reading an open book, with a sketched head beside him.

Seated Male Figure with the Head of an Onlooker (recto); Standing Male Figure in a Monk's Habit (verso)

Bernardino Poccetti, 1548-1612

Interior of a rustic cottage with an old man eating beside a brick fireplace, bundled sticks and baskets nearby.

The Woodcutter's Breakfast (The Faggot Gatherer's Meal)

William Henry Hunt, ca. 1832-34 (?)

Drawing of a seated woman nursing a baby while a man in an animal skin leans on a staff beside a rock, with a landscape behin

The Family of Cain

Peter Oliver, ca. 1638-47

Pen drawing of seated goddess Cybele flanked by three attendants with garlands, wheat sheaves and an altar in a lunette.

Cybele and Three Attendants

Antoine Léonard Du Pasquier, 1801 or 1802

Red chalk drawing of figures around a table in a kitchen interior, with a woman leaning over and a seated man beside her.

Paté d'Anguille

Nicolas Lancret, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a woman and child on stairs beside a birdcage, a dog, and a hooded figure under a porch.

Woman and Child on Stairs

Pierre Lélu, n.d.

Chalk drawing of a barefoot man in draped clothing pulling back a curtain with one arm, on gray paper.

Man Pulling a Curtain Aside

Étienne Parrocel, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of an ornamental frieze with scrolling foliage, grotesque figures, and an empty oval cartouche.

Ornamental Frieze

Lelio Orsi, 1511-87

The Head of a Woman in Profile Facing Left

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, 1490-1500

Engraving of women and a lute player gathered in a garden with flying cupids overhead and a classical column at right.

The Garden of Love (left block)

Christoffel Jegher, 1630s

Black and white chalk portrait of a man with curly hair and a wide collar, drawn on blue-grey paper.

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Rossa

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1610-30

Chalk drawing of a man with a mustache and fur-trimmed collar, shown in three-quarter bust view on grey paper.

Portrait of Piermarino Bernabò

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1618

Seated Sibyl and Attendant Genius (recto); Study of the Head of a Horse in Profile (verso)

Pirro Ligorio, ca. 1540

Pen and brown wash drawing of two standing men in ornate costumes before columns, with inscribed names below.

Two Princes of the House of Este: Ernest VI and Francis II

Pirro Ligorio, 1513-83