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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,907 works

Pen and brown ink sketch of a winged angel seated on clouds, head turned, one arm raised behind.

Angel Seated on Clouds

Pedro Duque Cornejo, ca. 1700-50

Loose oil sketch of a martyrdom scene with a nude figure, rearing white horse, soldiers and red drapery.

The Martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus

François Joseph Heim, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a robed saint raising a cross toward a demon, with winged figures and an open book nearby.

St. Anthony of Egypt Driving Away Devils

Grégoire Huret, 17th century

Engraving of the Virgin in a glory of angels, with cherubs, musician angels and clouds filling the composition.

The Apostles looking at Christ and the Virgin in a Glory of Angels (top left plate)

Léon Davent, 1546

Sketch of a bearded Saint Paul seated in drapery, with lightning and a conversion scene in the background.

Saint Paul Seated, with his Conversion in the Background (recto); Figure Sketch (verso)

Abraham Bloemaert, late 16th-mid-17th century

Pencil drawing of a standing robed figure with raised arms and a faint halo, study for a stained-glass window.

The Archangel Raphael (Study for a stained-glass window in the chapel of Notre-Dame de la Compassion-Saint-Ferdinand,…

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1842

Engraving of Christ with outstretched arms among winged angels and cherub heads in clouds.

The Apostles Looking at Christ and the Virgin in a Glory of Angels (top right plate)

Léon Davent, 1546

Red chalk drawing of St. Peter among sick figures and angels, with columns and grid lines across the sheet.

St. Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow (Acts 5:15-16)

Jean Jouvenet, ca. 1675

Pen and ink drawing of Christ's baptism in a river, with angels and cherubs in clouds above and onlookers below.

The Baptism of Christ

Raymond de La Fage, 1683

Engraving of bearded apostles in draped robes gazing upward with raised arms, set against hatched sky.

The Apostles Looking at Christ and the Virgin in a Glory of Angels (bottom left plate)

Léon Davent, 1546

Grey wash drawing of the Virgin rising among angels above figures gathered around a tomb, with white highlights.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Jean Jouvenet, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of soldiers and figures gathered around a fire in a classical courtyard at night.

The Denial of Saint Peter

Louis Lafitte, 1790

Engraving of bearded apostles leaning on a parapet, gazing upward with raised arms, one holding a key.

The Apostles Looking at Christ and the Virgin in a Glory of Angels (bottom right plate)

Léon Davent, 1546

Drawing of the crucified Christ on a cloud above a kneeling monk, with cherubs in grey and red chalk.

The Vision of St. John of the Cross

Charles de La Fosse, n.d.

Drawing of the Last Supper: a haloed figure at a long table in a columned hall, disciples around him, a kneeling servant with

The Last Supper

Louis Lafitte, 1790

Engraving of a nude woman looking at a sleeping muscular man with a winged Cupid, armor and a sword on the floor, and a fox.

Venus Finding Mars Asleep

Léon Davent, ca. 1545

Sepia drawing of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt: a seated mother and infant, a bearded man, and winged angels offering a g

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, n.d.

Drawing of the risen Christ above a tomb with soldiers and an angel, framed within a painted altar design with candles and to

The Resurrection

Louis Jean François Lagrenée, ca. 1760

Engraving of Mary Magdalene carried heavenward on clouds by winged angels, with rays of light above a rocky mountain.

Mary Magdalene Carried to Heaven

Léon Davent, mid-16th century

Grey wash drawing of Saint Roch with an angel, pointing to the Trinity in clouds above, with plague victims lying below.

St. Roch Interceding before the Holy Trinity for Plague Victims

Laurent de La Hyre, 17th century

Pencil sketch of a priest giving communion to a dying man while other clergy kneel among plague victims on the ground.

St. Charles Borromeo Giving Communion to the Plague-Stricken

Charles Le Brun, 17th century

Brown ink drawing of a haloed kneeling man looking up at a winged angel descending through clouds with a sword.

David Chooses Three Days of Pestilence (II Samuel 24:10-17)

Valentin Lefèbvre, 17th century

Engraving of Christ in Limbo with a cross-topped staff, nude figures, and winged demons in a stone-arched underworld.

Christ in Limbo

Léon Davent, 1546-47

Chalk drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with figures gathered around the Virgin and angels in clouds above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

François Lemoyne, 1720-21

Grey wash drawing with three religious scenes: a mystic marriage, clergy in a circular church scene, and an angel with a chil

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine; Saint Celestine V Renouncing the Papacy; Saint Catherine Touched by Divine Love

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, ca. 1780

Study for Saint Gervasius

Eustache Le Sueur, ca. 1652

Brown wash drawing of a praying deacon before a crowd, an angel above, and kneeling figures in an ornate cartouche frame.

Saint Gregory as Deacon Directing Prayers and Processions for the Cessation of the Plague

Carle Vanloo, 1762

Hand-colored print of Saint Wolfgang as a bishop holding a crozier and a church model, in red, green and yellow.

Saint Wolfgang

Casper, ca. 1460

Hand-colored woodcut of the Nativity with Mary kneeling, Joseph standing, an ox and ass, and an angel with a scroll above.

The Nativity

Wolfgang, ca. 1470

Brown wash drawing of St. Gregory dictating to a secretary by candlelight in a book-lined room, inside an arched frame.

St. Gregory Dictating His Homilies to a Secretary

Carle Vanloo, 18th century