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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,661 works

Pen and gray wash drawing of a halberdier in Renaissance dress beside an unfinished scrolled coat of arms with a helmet.

Design for Stained Glass: A Halbardier by an Unfinished Coat of Arms

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1570-80

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling bearded man being crowned with garlands by a woman, with a winged figure, cherubs and a sc

Time Banished by Truth

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man with curly hair and a pipe, with loose figure studies beside him.

Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin (recto); Sketch of Head (verso)

Henry Somm, n.d.

Pen drawing with three architectural elevations of a parish church showing interior section, front facade with towers, and re

Drawing of Interior, Façade, and Rear of Church

Jacques Germain Soufflot, 18th century

Pen and watercolor caricature sheet titled Sanitorium des Airs, with airships, a central woman in a tall hat, and numbered vi

Sanitorium des Airs

Georges Tiret-Bognet, n.d.

Monochrome drawing of a small hot air balloon drifting above layered clouds beneath a glowing moon in a dusky sky.

Drawing for an Illustration in "Voyages du Flandre"

Albert-Charles Tissandier, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a symmetrical ornamental panel with an armored woman, putti, and scrolling decorative framing.

Study for an Ornamental Panel

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate architectural frame with an empty central panel, putti, and sphinxes.

Design for a title page

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Watercolor of two women in tiered evening gowns, one seated on a sofa and one standing by a piano in a gilded interior.

Fashion Study: Two Women in Evening Dress

Adèle-Anaïs Toudouze, ca. 1860

Ink sketches of figures in rain with umbrellas and an easel, above and beside a handwritten letter on folded paper.

Illustrated letter to M. Roland

Rosa Bonheur, 1840-99

Engraving of a woman pointing to a vision of the Virgin and Child in clouds while a kneeling man looks up, in a landscape.

Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro, 1557-86

Bearded Head, Looking Down to the Right

III Jacques de Gheyn, 1620-30

Pen and ink sketch of a boy balancing a tall weed on his nose beside a crate and a hat.

Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose

Jehan-Georges Vibert, ca. 1874

Grey wash drawing of a dying saint in bed with a kneeling woman and standing figures near a stepped doorway.

The Death of Saint Hilary (recto); Sketch of an Arm (verso)

Jan van Scorel, early-mid 16th century

Engraving of a standing woman in flowing robes holding a covered jar, on a rounded mound, in fine black line.

Mary Magdalen

Master i.e., ca. 1490

Pen and wash drawing on blue paper of a classical cavalry battle with rearing horses, armored riders and spears.

Classical Battle Scene; Verso: Peter and John Heal a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Bartholomeus Spranger, ca. 1590

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Deposition, with figures on a ladder lowering a body and mourners below beside a crucifixion

The Deposition from the Cross

Domenico Campagnola, 1537-1550

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling woman with a child before an armored figure on a pedestal, within a classical colonnaded h

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

Jean Cousin the Elder, ca. 1543

Grey wash drawing of a military convoy in disarray after an explosion, with fallen horses, soldiers, and an overturned carria

A Military Convoy Surprised by an Explosion

Dirk Langendijk, ca. 1790-1800

Sheet of pen and brown wash studies showing many nude male figures in seated and reclining poses.

Figure Studies

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a woman holding a child on a terrace beside a sleeping dog, with an inscription beneath.

O Bella Giovane

Fortunato Duranti, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a decorative ceiling design with grotesques, garlands, winged creatures and framed scenes.

Ceiling Design with Grotesques

Antonio Liverani, 19th century

Blue crayon sketch on brown paper of a robed figure with raised arms above an elephant in a decorative panel.

Preliminary Design for the Playbill to "Le Chariot de Terre Cuite"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

Carter, the Colorman

Charles Beale, ca. 1680

Sepia wash drawing in lunette shape of three seated women with putti holding a laurel branch and a torch.

The Three Virtues (after Raphael)

Jan de Bisschop, ca. 1665

Hand-colored print of fashionable visitors on a stone staircase, all gazing up at the ceiling.

Visitors to the Salon Exhibition, Admiring the Ceiling (Les Amateurs de plafonds au Salon)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, August 27, 1824

Watercolor design of an ornate altar flanked by a crowned saint and a nun, with a heavenly vision above the altar.

Altar Flanked by St. Louis and St. Theresa

Émile Charles Wattier, mid-19th century

Drawing of a man in a plumed tricorn hat and order badge in an oval frame on a pedestal inscribed Frédéric II de Prusse.

Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, after Antoine Pesne

Johann Georg Wille, 1730-1808

Pen and ink caricature of a bearded man's head on a pedestal, with a handwritten French inscription below.

Caricatured Head of a Spaniard

Jules Worms, 1880

Pen and gray wash drawing of a vast basilica interior with coffered vaults, Corinthian columns, and small figures below.

Interior of St. Peter's Basilica

Jean François Chalgrin, 1759-61 (?)