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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Engraving of a robed priest and attendant at a flaming altar as a nude man restrains a horned ram between two trees.

The Sacrifice of a Ram, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of a satyr with goat legs wrestling a horned ram before an obelisk and classical buildings.

A Satyr and a Ram Clashing, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of Apollo seated with a lyre beside a cow and dog, with classical columns and a tree in the background.

Apollo Tending the Flocks of Admetus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of a nude man in a flowing cloak reaching toward a reclining naiad with a winged cupid beside a tree.

Naked Man Pursuing a Naiad, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of a classical frieze with three winged cupids, a dragon, hanging drapery and columns, 1519.

Bas-Relief with Three Cupids, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 1519

Engraving of the Laocoon sculpture group, with a bearded man and two sons struggling against entwining serpents.

Laocoon, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Brown wash drawing of a dying man on a couch in a classical colonnaded hall with mourners, soldiers and a scribe.

The Death of Seneca

Jean Guillaume Moitte, ca. 1770-90

Watercolor of riders and a shepherd driving sheep along a track under a cloudy sky, with distant water and cattle.

Riders with sheep near an estuary

David Cox, 1830

Hand-colored print of a kneeling man offering a pink rose to a seated woman in a garden beside a cupid statue.

The Rose

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1788

Print of an older man playing with a toddler on a stone step, with a cat, a dog, and family members in a garden.

The Pleasures of Fatherhood

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a nude risen figure with a banner above a tomb, with startled soldiers around its base.

Resurrection

Luca Cambiaso, 16th century

Print of a woman descending a building wall with a baby in a sling, escaping flames from an upper window.

The Fire

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, n.d.

Colored print of a crowded tree-lined public promenade with fashionably dressed men and women strolling and sitting at tables

The Public Promenade

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1792

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a seated draped man holding a chalice, with an eagle beside him.

Saint John the Evangelist (recto; Cartoon for a Fresco); Saint Mark (verso; Cartoon for a Fresco)

Francesco Salviati, 1548-49

Pen and wash drawing of putti beside an urn above an arch, framed by garlands and a decorative border.

Design for Over Door

Guillaume Boichot, ca. 1760-80

Ink and wash drawing of an eagle fighting a coiled serpent, with a putto holding a banner and sun rays above.

Design with an Eagle Fighting with a Serpent and a Putto in the Sky Holding an Inscribed Banner

Pietro da Cortona, 17th century

Dog (A Foxhound Viewed from Behind)

George Stubbs, May 1, 1788

Mezzotint of a striped tiger stalking forward out of a dark cave, head turned toward the viewer.

A Tyger

John Murphy, 1790

Grayscale lithograph of a lioness and two cubs on a hillside, with a male lion and carcass in the foreground.

Lioness and Cubs

Antoine-Louis Barye, possibly 1832

Etching of a maned lion walking left across flat ground beneath a dark, cross-hatched sky.

Lion walking

Charles Courtry, 1866-97

Engraving of a maned lion seated on a rock ledge overlooking a sea, with a palm tree and hills in the distance.

A Lion (A Lion Resting on a Rock)

George Stubbs, May 1, 1788

Pen and wash drawing of allegorical figures in ornate frames with a hilltop town in the distance, by Jacopo Zucchi, 1563.

Study for the Allegory of San Gimignano and Colle Val d'Elsa

Jacopo Zucchi, 1563

Bust of a Man Facing Right

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca.1777-85

Pen and ink drawing with blue wash of a rocky mountain valley with a riverside village, watermills and a castle on a cliff.

Mountainous Landscape

Tobias Verhaecht, 1576-1631

Grey wash drawing of a man in a fur coat raising a dagger before two women on a couch in an ornate draped room.

Comme ils en étaient là, arrive l'oncle

Jean-Michel Moreau, ca. 1778

Pen and ink drawing of a standing male nude with curly hair holding drapery, shaded with fine hatching on blue paper.

Standing Male Nude

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1506

Watercolor still life of a watermelon, two pomegranates, a covered tureen and a jug on a yellow tabletop.

Still-Life with a Watermelon and Pomegranates

Paul Cézanne, 1900-1906

Pen and watercolour study sheet with a large death's-head moth, gentian flower, cats, birds, a chicken and decorative borders

Studies of a Gentian, Moth, Birds, Cats, Interlacing Motif, and Greek Frets (recto); Ornamental Studies with Figures…

Giorgio di Giovanni, 1530-40

Pen and wash design drawing of a rococo fountain niche with reclining figures, caryatids, and ornamental scrollwork.

Design for an Arabesque with Cupid and Psyche

Claude Gillot, 1720-40

Brown wash drawing of a haloed woman on an ornate chariot pulled by a winged bull, with a dove and procession of robed figure

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, 16th century