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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,896 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling old man seen from behind, bending forward toward the upper left.

Old Man Kneeling Facing Upper Left

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Pen and wash drawing of a robed deacon led by armed men through an arched architectural space toward martyrdom.

A Deacon Led to Martyrdom

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, 1575-1640

Red and black chalk portrait drawing of an elderly bald man with a beard, turned three-quarters, with an inscription below.

Portrait of a Man: Francesco Albani ?

Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a group of reclining nude women, with curly hair, overlapping in a tangle of bodies.

Group of Six Reclining Nude Women (Nymphs Bathing) (recto); Sketch of a Leg (verso)

Taddeo Zuccari, 1529-66

Pencil sketch of a seated figure and a standing figure beside a table, loosely drawn in light grey lines.

Study of two figures: one seated, the other standing (recto). Study of a head looking upwards (verso)

George Romney, ca. 1777

Pen and wash drawing of three rococo cartouche frames on pedestals decorated with cherubs, garlands and laurel, with a small

Design for Festival Decorations on the Bases of Piers

Carlo Marchionni, 1702-86

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated man turned left, seen from below, with foreshortened limbs and torso.

Seated Man Turned Towards the Left Seen from Below

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and wash drawing of two officers meeting before soldiers, flags and a city gateway, in a circular composition.

Captain de Bours handing over the Keys to the Citadel of Antwerp to the Estates General

Maerten de Vos, mid-16th-early 17th century

Illuminated letter B with a dragon, a knight with a sword, a tree, and figures being anointed in blue, red and gold.

Illuminated Initial "B"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Pen and ink caricature of a scowling man's bust with a cigarette, captioned "Phil May's Bust. Has he?"

"Phil May's Bust. Has he?"

Phil May, ca. 1882

Etching of a woodland sacrifice to Pan, with a goat, satyrs, nymphs and a large tree beside an altar.

Sacrifice to Pan

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1762-63

Grey paper study with ink and wash sketches of winged female figures, a veiled central figure, and chalk studies of hands.

Studies of fairies with a pair of hands (possibly representing the Opening of Pandora's Box)

William Lock the Younger, 1784

Portrait of a man in profile

Cornelius Varley, 19th century

Head of a Man

Jan Lievens, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a young man in a beret, eyes looking upward, with curly hair and loose hatched shading.

Young Man Wearing a Beret

François Boucher, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ancient galley with carved prow and armored soldiers in classical dress.

Studies of Details from Trajan's Column

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1635

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a dark cap, head turned, with a sketched hand raised at left.

Sketch of Joseph Guichard

Félix Bracquemond, 1853

Watercolor of a crowded domed hall with dancing guests, potted trees, and a balcony audience beneath a glass ceiling.

Innere Ansicht des Deutschen Volks Winter Gartens. IInterior of the German Winter Garden. 45 Bowery, New York

Fritz Meyer, 1856

Etched head-and-shoulders portrait of a man in three-quarter view with a moustache, against dense diagonal hatching.

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, after his own design of 1848

Félix Bracquemond, 1869

Colour print of a seated man in a grey coat with a quill and inkwell on a café table, floral banquette behind him.

Viennese Café: The Man of Letters (Wiener Café: Der Litterat)

Moriz Jung, 1911

Colored print in six panels showing a courtly man and woman with a smiling sun, treasure chest, and handwritten German verse.

A Fulfilled Wish (Der erfüllte Wunsch)

Moriz Jung, 1911

Head of a Woman

Eugène Carrière, ca. 1904

Pen and ink sketch of a head and shoulders of a figure in a tall headdress, turned to the right, with loose hatching.

Study of Head and Shoulders of Woman with Headdress

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing man in a hat and long coat holding a gun, with a hatched shadow on the ground.

A sportsman with a gun

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Pen and ink sketch of a plumed rider with a baton on a horse with an ornate saddle cloth, seen from behind.

A mounted drummer from the front

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Engraved print of men in period dress gathered around a table in a classical hall with hanging flags.

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, July 4, 1776

Asher Brown Durand, 1823

Engraving of two women and a man in a field, with an ox-drawn hay wagon behind them at the edge of the trees.

The Last Load (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)

Winslow Homer, August 7, 1869

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly itinerant man in a wide-brimmed hat, leaning on a walking stick.

An itinerant

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Pen and ink drawing of a mounted drummer seen from behind, raising a drumstick beside a horse with a tasselled saddle cloth.

A mounted drummer from the back

Marcellus Laroon the Elder, 1670-1702

Woodcut print of two men beside a tangle of pale ribbons, with a framed picture above and title text below.

Gespräch eines Redakheurs mit einem Staatsmann (Editor's Conversation with a Statesman)

Moriz Jung, 1907