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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Engraving of an old man embracing a young woman by a bed, with a winged cupid, a dog, and a tower in the background.

Ogni cosa vince l'oro

Agostino Carracci, ca. 1590-95

Red chalk drawing of a nude man reclining on rocks while draped figures gesture toward him beside a tree.

The Drunkenness of Noah

Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661

Engraving of Venus leaning on a tree beside a sleeping Cupid, with harvesters working in a landscape behind.

Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus

Agostino Carracci, 1599

Grey wash drawing of Christ ascending into cloudy sky while kneeling apostles gaze upward from a hilltop.

The Ascension of Christ

Ventura Salimbeni, 1568-1613

Pen and wash drawing of apostles at the Virgin's tomb beneath a radiant sun, with two seated figures in the upper corners.

The Apostles at the Tomb of the Virgin, and Studies for Two Pendentives

Francesco Maria Salvetti, 1691-1758

Pen and wash drawing of mounted riders and a crowd in a triumphal procession entering a city gate, shown in a lunette shape.

Triumphal Entry into a City

Francesco Salviati, 1530s

Red chalk drawing of a seated male nude viewed from behind, head bowed, arm wrapped around bent knee.

Seated Male Nude

Francesco Salviati, 1510-63

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and a young John the Baptist in a tight group.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist

Francesco Salviati, ca. 1550

Pen and red chalk drawing of an allegorical scene with a muscular figure raising a sword above putti and clouds.

Allegory

Orazio Samacchini, 1532-77

Grey wash drawing of a symmetrical vault decoration with seated figures, putti, garlands and grotesque masks.

Study for the Decoration of a Vault

Orazio Samacchini, 1532-77

Pen and wash drawing of Saint Andrew with a transverse cross, book, and fish, standing in flowing robes with a halo.

Saint Andrew, Apostle, with Transverse Cross, Book, and Fish, (recto); Architectural sketch (verso)

Fabrizio Santafede, 1576-1623

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin and Child with two angels above and two saints below, on a brownish sheet.

Virgin and Child with two angels appearing to two saints

Fabrizio Santafede, 1575-1623

Brown ink and wash drawing of the crucified Christ above kneeling robed figures beside classical arches.

St. Thomas Aquinas Presenting His Work to the Crucified Christ

Santi di Tito, ca. 1593

Graphite drawing of the Holy Family with infant John the Baptist beside a tree, on grey-blue paper with grid lines.

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, 1609-85

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of two flying putti above studies of draped cloth, with faint grid lines.

Studies of Two Flying Putti and of Drapery (recto); Seated Virgin and Child, and Kneeling Child (verso)

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, 1609-85

Engraving of two women in a classical colonnade, one kneeling with a small box, a sleeping dog and stormy sky beside them.

Plate 27: Proserpina gives Psyche the box of beauty, from 'The Fable of Cupid and Psyche'

Master of the Die, 1530-60

The Virgin in profile facing right reading to the infant Christ

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of a satyr approaching a sleeping nude woman, with two crabs hanging from a rope near a herm and a tree.

A satyr discovering a sleeping woman; two crabs hanging from a rope which is strung between a term and a tree

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Etching of an elephant with curled trunk beside a camel, with monkeys and a dog among foliage in the background.

Elephant and Camel (reverse copy)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century (?)

Etching of two haloed women embracing beside a stone wall and balustrade, with church domes in the background.

The Visitation

Jacopo Ciuccio, 1604

Pencil sketch of Mount Vesuvius rising over shrubland, with an umbrella pine and handwritten notes on the slopes.

View of Vesuvius

John Robert Cozens, August 18 [1782]

Watercolor of a calm bay with wooded cliffs, a hilltop building at right, a rowing boat, and a distant mountain.

On the Gulf of Salerno near Vietri

John Robert Cozens, September 1782 or later

Grey wash drawing of a hilltop villa with arched loggia behind a wall and pine trees, under a blue-grey sky.

View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome

John Robert Cozens, 1782-83

Engraving of a skeleton holding an hourglass beside a bishop with a crozier, with a shepherd and sheep in the background.

Death and the Bishop, from "The Power of Death" (Allegory of Original Sin and Death)

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1541

Engraving of a standing woman holding a banner with a boar's head, with a boar, an owl and an obelisk nearby.

Gluttony, from "The Vices"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552

Engraving of a standing allegorical woman holding a banner with an eagle, with an obelisk and coat of arms beside her.

Charity, from "The Virtues"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552

Watercolor of a seated woman in a green dress and yellow shawl reading on a blue sofa beside a mantelpiece with porcelain.

Woman Seated on a Sofa

Walter Crane, 1865-1915

Watercolor of an Italian farmhouse with fig trees, an outdoor staircase, chickens and a pig in the yard.

Italian Farmhouse

Walter Crane, 1871-73

Watercolor of a narrow Italian courtyard with an arch, stairs, hanging laundry, terracotta pots, and a climbing vine.

A House at Sorrento

Thomas Hartley Cromek, mid-19th century

Watercolor of villas on a cliff above rocky sea shore, with a rowboat and sailboat on blue water.

Houses at Sorrento

Thomas Hartley Cromek, mid-19th century