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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Decorative design drawing of two intertwined swans among lily pads and yellow flowers, with dripping lines below.

Design for a Haircomb

Jacques Caillot, n.d.

Watercolor design for a round plate showing cyclamen flowers and mottled leaves within a fluted rim and geometric border.

Design for a Plate with Cyclamens

Amédée de Caranza, ca. 1877-85

Red chalk drawing of Susanna seated by a fountain as two elders lean over a balustrade behind her under a tree.

Susanna and the Elders

Laurent Cars, 18th century

Pen and wash design for a frieze with a central censer, two sphinxes, and symmetrical acanthus scrolls with blue ribbons.

Design for a Frieze with a Censer, Sphinxes and Acanthus Scrolls

Gilles Paul Cauvet, ca. 1760-80

Architectural elevation drawing of a symmetrical classical building with central pedimented entrance and iron railing, in gre

Design for the Collège de France, Paris: Elevation of Court Front Showing Entrance Screen

Jean François Chalgrin, ca. 1772

Grey wash drawing of a stone building with arched doorways and a tiled roof, partly hidden by trees and an iron gate.

View of the Palazza Madama, Rome (?)

Charles Michel Ange Challe, mid-18th century

Grey ink and wash drawing of an imagined piazza with an obelisk, classical columns, a great arch and a domed building.

An Architectural Capriccio; a View Through a Great Arch with an Obelisk in a Piazza in the Middle Distance

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 18th century

Grey ink and wash drawing of a Parisian-style building facade with a crowd, framed by allegorical figures and a banner readin

Drawing for title page "Le Petit Journal"

Hubert Clerget, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a hilly landscape with a horse buggy on a road, seated figures, arched buildings and distant mountains.

Landscape Prospect with a Buggy and a Herd of Goats

Giuseppe Zocchi, 1711-67

Watercolor interior of a salon with red curtains, gilt mirror, console table and red upholstered chairs.

Interior of a Small Salon

Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux, mid-19th century

Ink and wash architectural drawing of a pavilion elevation and octagonal ceiling plan with a clock dial and roof trusses.

Plan of the Roof and Section of a Pavilion in the Gardens of the Château de Saint-Cloud (recto); Study for the Exteri…

Pierre Contant d'Ivry, 1750

Brown wash drawing of a seated young woman beside a tree, with a distant village and path in the landscape.

Seated Girl in a Landscape

Francesco Zuccarelli, 1722-88

Painted ornamental frieze with floral garlands, a central oval portrait of a woman with a basket, and scrollwork.

Design for a Tapestry Seat of a Sofa

Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1721

Architectural drawing of a classical facade with arched openings, flanked by sectioned wings showing interior rooms and roof

Design for the Collège de France, Paris: Elevation of Court Front with Traverse Sections Through Side Court Wings

Jean François Chalgrin, ca. 1772

Architectural elevation drawing of a classical building with arcaded ground floor and a cut-away section showing interior flo

Design for the Collège de France, Paris: Elevation of the Wings of the Court with a Transverse Section through Main F…

Jean François Chalgrin, ca. 1772

Architectural elevation drawing of a rusticated entrance with three arched doorways, columns, urns and stepped brick terraces

Architectural Design for a Rusticated Entrance

Degana, 1760

Etching of Saint Jerome kneeling in a wilderness with a halo, a lion, an open book and a cross beside him.

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Annibale Carracci, ca. 1591

Watercolor elevation of a symmetrical two-story palace facade with central portico, balustrade and brick chimneys.

Elevation for a Palace Façade

Degana, 1770

Ink and wash ground floor plan of a palace with labeled rooms, an oval vestibule, a central salon, and a scale bar.

Ground Plan for a Palace

Degana, n.d.

Architectural floor plan of a palace upper level in grey ink, showing rooms, a central oval hall, and staircases with a scale

Ground Plan for Second Floor of a Palace

Degana, n.d.

Ink and wash design of a triumphal arch with a quadriga, beside ships and walls, with a ground plan below.

Design for Colossal Triumphal Arch Surmounted by a Quadriga

Jean Charles Delafosse, 18th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a rococo-style chimney-piece with a central shell cartouche and carved scroll legs.

Drawing for a Chimney-piece

Delorme, ca. 1850

Pen and ink drawing of a seated man in a long coat and cap playing flute beside a music stand, with handwritten dedication.

Flutist

Charles Édouard Delort, 1880

Engraving of Orpheus and Eurydice embracing amid flames and smoke, with a lyre on the ground.

Orpheus and Eurydice

Agostino Carracci, ca. 1590-95

Pencil and brown wash sketch of a standing man in a tricorn hat and fur-trimmed coat, shown in three-quarter view.

Man Standing in Three-Quarter View Facing Left

Francesco Zuccarelli, 1702-88

Brown ink and wash drawing of five women in classical dress grouped among rocks and trees in a landscape.

Five Young Women in a Landscape

Francesco Zuccarelli, 1702-88

Pen and wash drawing of kneeling figures praying before a burning altar, with a bearded figure in clouds above.

The Sacrifice of Noah

Lazzaro Baldi, 1642-1703

Engraving of a warrior carrying an old man on his back as a boy follows, with a woman and a burning city behind them.

Aeneas and his family fleeing Troy

Agostino Carracci, 1595

Etching of the Holy Family resting under trees, with an angel bending from a palm tree and the infant Christ on the Virgin's

The Holy Family resting on their flight into Egypt

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1637-39

Woman in Half-Length, Profile View Facing Left and Reading a Piece of Paper Signed "Catarina"

Francesco Zuccarelli, 1702-88