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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,003 works

Red chalk design of a bearded herm figure with four putti and garlands of fruit and foliage in an arched panel.

Design for a Panel with Four Putti Decorating a Herm (Terminal Figure) with Garlands of Fruit and Foliage

Jacob de Wit, ca. 1720-40

Pen and grey wash design of a rococo folding screen panel with scrolling ornament, shell motifs and a figure medallion at top

Design for a Folding Screen

Jacques de Lajoüe

Colored design drawing of a decorative etui above a chatelaine with pink and blue panels, floral garlands and rococo ornament

Designs for a Chatelaine and an Etui

Grey wash drawing of a harbor with a sailing ship, crates and barrels, and a central oval monogram cartouche.

Design for a Vignette: Harbor Scene

Charles Percier

Brown ink drawing of the Château d'Amboise seen from a street with a stone wall, pedestrians, and large trees.

Veue et Perspective du Chasteau d'Amboille

Nicolas Perelle

Pen drawing of a tiered tomb with a reclining effigy in elevation, with an oval floor plan below.

Design for a Freestanding Tomb Seen in Elevation and Plan

the Younger Antonio da Sangallo, 1530-35

Pen and ink study of three nude warriors, two on rearing horses, one raising a sword and another holding a spear.

Three Warriors and Their Horses, Study for a Bas Relief Sculpture in the Chateau de Tervueren

François Rude, first half 19th century

Ink drawing of a tall Gothic pinnacle elevation with tiered arches and finials, plus a small hexagonal plan below.

Elevation of a Gothic Pinnacle with a Hexagonal Plan

Wenzel von Olmütz, 1490-99

Engraved print of a vertical strip of curling, serrated foliate ornament on a cross-hatched ground.

Foliate Ornament

Master W with the Key, ca. 1465-90

Engraved decorative border of hares roasting a hunter on a spit above a fire, surrounded by foliate scrolls.

Hares Roasting the Hunter

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Engraved ornamental panel with dancing figures, a standing woman, a piper, and a dog among curling foliage scrolls.

Panel of Ornament with Dance of Lovers

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a harbor with a large sailing ship, a stone tower, and two seated figures on the quay beneath clouds.

Framed Port scene with two figures

Dominique Barrière

Engraved frieze of a Bacchic triumph with centaurs, satyrs, a chariot and putti moving across a landscape strip.

The Triumph of Bacchus

Engraved dagger sheath design with an armored standing man above a panel of dense acanthus scrollwork.

Design for a Dagger Sheath, with Executioner and Head of John the Baptist

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1529

Four quick pen and ink studies of horses in varied poses on a pale sheet of paper.

Four Studies of Horses

Jacques Callot, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a wide sandy landscape with scrubby bushes, a distant walled city by the water, and small figures restin

Distant View of Syracuse and its Harbor

Claude Louis Châtelet, late 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded mythological battle scene with horsemen, soldiers, kneeling figures and tents.

Cassandra preventing Deiphobe from killing Paris

Jean Cousin the Elder, 16th century

Vertical drawing with three circular panels labeled Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, showing a couple, a ballot box, and a nurse

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

Engraving of a draped woman in classical dress with a veil, turning her head over her shoulder while standing on a pedestal.

Woman Looking over Her Shoulder

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a standing classical female figure in draped robes holding a tall ornamented staff, on a pedestal.

Melpomene, from the Mattei sarcophagus, Rome

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Grey wash drawing in a long horizontal frieze of soldiers and struggling women in a crowded scene.

The Rape of the Sabines

Jacques Gamelin, n.d.

Drawing of a haloed bearded saint in flowing robes writing on a tablet, graphite and white chalk on tan paper.

Saint Matthew

Camille-Auguste Gastine, 1835-67

Grey-toned drawing of a veiled standing woman with a halo, one hand on her chest and a sprig in the other hand.

Mater Dolorosa

Camille-Auguste Gastine, 1835-67

Standing Gentleman, three-quarter length profile facing right

Anne-Louis Girodet, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of Saint Peter's dome silhouetted over Rome's rooftops beneath stormy clouds and slanting rain.

Saint Peter's Seen From the Pincio, Rome

Henri Harpignies, 1856

Narrow engraving of a kneeling king before a stone altar, flanked by musicians playing trombones, flutes and violin.

A King Kneeling Before an Altar

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45

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

Pencil drawing of Rome's rooftops, domes, bell tower and ruined arches seen from a terrace with cypress trees.

View of Rome from the Palatine

Pierre Charles Jombert, ca. 1775

Pen and ink drawing of a nude putto holding a fish beside a column and scrolling grotesque ornament.

Fragment of a Grotesque Decoration with a Term and Putto

Andrés de Melgar, ca. 1545-60

Brown ink frieze drawing of acanthus scrolls, hybrid creatures and a winged putto on a pale sheet.

Frieze Design with Acanthus Scrolls, Hybrid Creatures and a Winged Putto

Andrés de Melgar, ca. 1545-60