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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,702 works

Charcoal drawing of a seated bearded man looking up at a standing man holding beads, with a woman in a hat behind them.

Doctor and Patient

Adolph Menzel, 1899

Head of a Bearded Man

Adolph Menzel, 1884

Woman with a Crushed Velvet Hat

Adolph Menzel, 1894

Watercolor study of a butterfly, moth, strawberry, pea pod, currants, shells and a ladybug on pale paper.

Studies of Fruits, Insects and Shells

Georg Flegel, late 16th-mid-17th century

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated nude man gripping a staff, on blue paper.

Seated Male Nude Holding a Staff

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, mid-18th-late 18th century

Watercolor of a young woman resting on a stone wall beside a basket, with a hazy landscape and church spire behind her.

Returning Home

Johann Georg Meyer, 19th century

Pencil drawing of the Lamentation of Christ with mourning figures, cypress trees and a distant landscape.

The Lamentation

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1840-45

Sepia drawing of Christ gesturing to sleeping disciples in a rocky garden, with an angel appearing in a cave behind.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1848

Pen and gray wash drawing of a bearded saint presenting a young boy to the Virgin on clouds, with putti and columns.

Saint Stephen of Hungary Presenting his Son, Saint Emeric, to the Virgin

Franz Xavier Karl Palko, 1740-67

A Study of Two White Lilies

Antoine Berjon, n.d.

Ink drawing of a man adjusting an ornate cloth on a donkey-headed figure, with donkey heads and caricatured faces behind.

He Has Been Decorated (Y esta' Condecorado!)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Pen and ink drawing of two elderly women at a table with a skeletal figure behind them, with a Latin inscription below.

Dust to Dust (Et in pulverem reverteris)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Pen and ink drawing of two elderly women spinning thread, one holding a distaff, with the caption Bien lo hilan below.

They Spin Well (Bien lo hilan)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly woman with a feathered headdress holding a mirror, a monkey behind her, and a skull at her

She Doesn't Recognize Herself (No se conoce)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Ink drawing of a kneeling man, a standing woman, and a skeletal figure in a skirt covered with skulls.

They'll Get Their Desserts (Buen pelo echará)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Brown ink and wash drawing of a stout man peering at a closed door as shadowy figures stand behind him.

His Excellency is Not at Home (No recibe in Excel)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Pen and wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around Diana beside classical ruins, with a horned figure and dogs at right.

Diana and Actaeon

Georg Pecham, 1602

Pen and gray wash drawing in a circle: a woman in a robe by a canopy bed, a young man at a doorway, classical architecture.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Georg Pencz, 1510-50

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude figure leaning back on one arm, legs bent across the ground.

Study of a Nude Young Girl

August von Pettenkofen, 1838-89

Brown ink and wash drawing of shepherds adoring the Virgin and Christ Child in a rustic stable interior.

Adoration of the Shepards

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

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

Genoveva

Ludwig Richter, 1872

Watercolor of a woman and children in a forest clearing, a bearded man with a staff pointing, and blue mountains beyond.

Rübezahl

Ludwig Richter, 1872

Brown ink drawing of stags resting in a forest landscape with trees on the left and a rocky cliff on the right.

Stags in a Landscape

Johann Elias Ridinger, early to mid-18th century

Drawing of a cow lying on the ground, head raised toward the viewer, in soft grey shading on blue-grey paper.

Study of a Cow

Johann Heinrich Roos, mid 17th-late 17th century

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

Brown ink and wash drawing of a chaotic crowd of figures struggling in a classical city square with arches.

Rape of the Sabines

Hans Rottenhammer, 1600

Grey wash drawing of Pygmalion gesturing toward a nude statue on a pedestal, with a cupid and classical columns.

Pygmalion

Joachim von Sandrart, 1662

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

St. Matthew

Martin Schongauer, second half of the 15th century