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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,003 works

Pen drawing of a pope handing a banner to a kneeling crusader, with clergy and ships with sails in the background.

Illustration for a Book: Pope Handing a Banner to a Crusader, with Ships in the Background

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pencil sketch of soldiers with shields and swords charging up a rocky shore beside a sailing ship on the sea.

Illustration for a Book: Battle by the Sea Coast

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen drawing of a figure offering keys on a bridge to mounted soldiers before a fortified city wall and tower.

Illustration for a Book: Surrender of the Keys of a City to an Emperor

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and wash drawing of figures talking in a garden promenade with an arched gateway and urns, a dog in the foreground.

Illustration for a Book: Figures in Conversation in a Garden

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pencil sketch of a pope in ermine robes meeting clerics and attendants in a street, with onlookers and buildings behind.

Illustration for a Book: Meeting Between a Pope and Doge

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pencil drawing of a mounted general meeting a cardinal at a stone city gate, with soldiers and onlookers nearby.

Illustration for a Book: Cardinal Receiving a General at a City Gate

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and brown wash drawing of a standing nude female figure with draped cloth, turning her head to the left.

Study of a Garden Sculpture: Iole

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Loose oil sketch of helmeted Minerva with shield facing a dark beast, with winged figure, nudes and cherubs above.

Minerva Combating Brute Force

Isidore Pils, 19th century

Graphite sketch of a standing woman in classical drapery holding a vessel, with a tree trunk behind her, on tan paper.

A Muse of Poetry

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded city street with robed figures on a raised platform and soldiers with shields.

The Departure of the Prodigal Son

James Tissot, 1862-63

Charcoal caricature of a tall standing man in a pointed hat, buttoned coat and breeches, head turned to the side.

Caricature of the Painter Pierre-Charles Jombert

François-André Vincent, 1773-75

Panoramic print of a fleet of steamboats and sailing ships preparing in line on a harbor, smoke and cannon fire on shore.

Grand Canal Celebration: View of the Fleet Preparing to Form in Line

Anthony Imbert, 1825

Watercolor perspective of two symmetrical neoclassical buildings with colonnades flanking a lawn, between brick townhouses un

Unexecuted Design for Cross-Block Terrace Development (perspective)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1831

Hand-colored panoramic print of New York harbor with a paddle steamer, sailboats, rowboats and a city skyline under a pale sk

Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River

Robert Havell Jr., 1844

Grey wash design for a ceiling with allegorical figures, putti and draped forms framing an open central sky.

Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1725

Pen and ink drawing of a standing male nude with one arm raised overhead, wrapped in loose drapery at the waist.

Nude Figure (Saint Sebastian?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of two standing men, one carrying a lamb over his shoulders, on pale paper.

Two Standing Men, One Carrying a Lamb

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red and black chalk sketch of trees and a small house with a chimney, drawn within a double-ruled border.

Trees and Houses

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink architectural design with a Corinthian column, ornate scrollwork, and an arched top on aged paper.

Design for an Altar

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and watercolor design for a panel showing a winged figure carrying a woman in an oval cartouche with putti.

Design for a Panel with a Depiction of Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash design for a decorative panel with a reclining woman and standing nude man in an ornate scrolled frame.

Design for a Panel with a Depiction of Bacchus and Ariadne

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental frieze with an oval figure medallion and a landscape panel with trees and a town.

Frieze

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental frieze with scrolls, flower garlands, putti, and a central shell motif.

Design for the Decoration of a Harpsichord

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, ca. 1640-80

Pen and brown wash drawing of Saint Joseph holding the Christ Child on clouds, with angels and a serpent below.

Saint Joseph and the Christ Child

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a kneeling bishop with a crozier, a standing robed woman, and cherubs among clouds.

A Bishop in Ecstasy

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of an arcaded loggia with caryatids, a central fountain, and a landscape visible through the arches.

Loggia with Caryatids before a Fountain and Landscape

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of sea deities with a trident-bearing Neptune, sea horses, nymphs and a putto among clouds.

Sea Deities

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of Bacchus and Ariadne with a reclining woman, a standing man, putti and trees on grey paper.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash sketch of figures hauling ropes beside a boat, with a crowd and wooden structure at right.

Various Figure Groups

Palma il Giovane, 1548-1628

Pen and brown wash drawing of a dense crowd of struggling men and draped women in a dynamic horizontal composition.

Rape of the Sabines

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1499-1543