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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,003 works

Torn brown and grey wash drawing of a crowd of robed figures in procession, attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio.

Roman Procession

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1499-1543

Red chalk drawing of an angel standing on a cloud, holding two flowing ribbons with white highlights.

Angel with a Banderole

Camillo Procaccini, 1575-1629

Wash drawing of a bearded Franciscan saint holding a crucifix, standing in an arched niche with a scalloped shell behind him.

Standing Franciscan Saint in a Niche

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 1650-1700

Pen and brown ink landscape with rolling hills, a lake, tall trees on the right, and small figures in the foreground.

Landscape with hills and a lake, trees in right foreground

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Pen and ink drawing of a horizontal rinceau frieze with scrolling leaves and blossoms, mounted with ruled borders.

Design of Rinceaux

Andrea Mantegna, 1470-1510

Four Caricatured Heads

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Brown ink and wash drawing of a forest landscape with trees, a hunting party at left, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Forest Scene, a Halt at the Left, a Hunt at the Center

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

Brown wash drawing of trees beside a river, with a ruined tower on the left and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landscape

Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, 1770-1812

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded heavenly scene with clouds, angels, and saints arranged in four numbered sections.

Paradise

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1519-94

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin appearing to a bearded Saint Jerome, with angels and sketched heads around him.

The Virgin Appearing to Saint Jerome (recto); Head of a Young Woman with Braided Hair

Flaminio Torre, 1621-61

Pen and ink design drawing of a tall ornate candlestick with nude figures, scrollwork, and a portrait medallion on the base.

Design for a Candlestick

Pietro Torrigiano, 1472-1528

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bearded god receiving offerings from figures, with a goat, a reclining woman, and a distant c

The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn

Giorgio Vasari, 1555-56

Grey wash drawing of a rolling landscape with clusters of trees, a winding path, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Derbyshire landscape

John Constable, ca. 1801-2

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 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

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

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

Architectural Design for a Rusticated Entrance

Degana, 1760

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bearded prophet in a turban and robes, standing in a narrow niche holding a book.

Standing Prophet in a Niche, Holding a Book

Taddeo Zuccari, 1529-66

Pen and ink drawing of skeletons and kneeling penitents around an altar with candles, tombstones and putti.

Allegory of Penance and Death

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Sepia drawing of a heavenly assembly with an enthroned central group, angels, saints, and putti in lunettes.

Paradise

Federico Zuccaro, 1565-77

Panoramic print of a city skyline with a military procession, cannons firing, tents, and soldiers across open fields.

Entry of Charles V into Munich, June 10, 1530

Sebald Beham, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a classical frieze with bearded men, draped women, nude youths, a horse and two lion heads.

Design for a Frieze, after a Roman Sarcophagus: The First Visit of Bacchus to Ariadne

John Flaxman, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of ancient galleys in battle, with rowers, armored warriors on decks, and a faint blue grid overlay.

Antique Naval Battle (recto); A Battle Scene (verso)

Lattanzio Gambara, ca. 1550-55

Pen and wash drawing of three men and a dog on a hill overlooking a walled city and distant sea with ships.

Three Men and a Dog on a Hill

Ercole Bazicaluva, 1600-1638

Procession of Six Horsemen in Profile View Facing Left

Stefano Della Bella, 1610-64

Pen drawing of an ornamental vignette with a grotesque mask, two birds, scrolls and a banner reading Alph: Grecum.

Design for a Vignette Accompanying a Publication on the Greek Alphabet

Stefano Della Bella, 1630-64

Pen and brown ink drawing of a crowded procession of robed and nude figures in a horizontal frieze.

Procession (left-hand portion of border below Sacrifice of Isaac, inlaid-marble pavement, Siena Cathedral)

Domenico Beccafumi, 1520-50

Pen and wash drawing of robed saints ascending through clouds toward light, with angels and palm fronds.

Apotheosis of Four Martyred Saints (Four Crowned Martyrs?)

Antonio Cavallucci, 17th century

Engraving of a nude male figure seated on a tree stump in an arched niche, playing pan pipes.

Olympus naked seated on a tree stump holding pipes, set within a niche

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27