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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Pen and ink design for a door knocker with a ram's head, scrolled arms, two lion heads and a small dog on an octagonal sheet.

Design for Door Knocker

Etienne Delaune, 16th century

Watercolor of a seated man with a sword as a kneeling woman in white pleads before him in a richly furnished room.

The Pardon Refused (from Sir Walter Scott's "Kenilworth")

Camille Roqueplan, ca. 1826-29

Drawing of two sailing squadrons flanking a monument with winged Victory, sea gods reclining in waves below.

Study for Decoration of the Obelisk at Port-Vendres

Charles de Wailly, 1783

Pencil sketch of two draped allegorical women with flying cherubs, a garland, and a lion below.

Design for a Book Illustration

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of an ornamental trophy with a ribbon bow, cherub heads, foliage, and a central cartouche.

Design for a Trophy

René Charpentier, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a distant town skyline with a church spire, windmills and masts along a flat shoreline.

Flushing from the Sea

Willem van de Velde the Younger, mid-17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of nude figures clinging to trees and a bank amid floodwaters in a wooded landscape.

The Flood

Jan Cossiers, 1615-71

Ink drawing of a seated writer with quill and inkwell, beside a flying bird-like figure carrying prey above a ground scene.

The Notaries Flew of With The Prey (Escribanitos volaron con la presa)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Ink wash caricature of grotesque riders on donkeys on a sunlit road, with a Spanish caption below.

They Don't Fall Off Their Donkey (They Don't Admit Their Error), (No caen de su burro)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Red chalk drawing of an ornamental ceiling design with scrolls, garlands, putti, and a seated female figure in an arch.

Ceiling Design

Matías Arteaga y Alfaro, 1633-1703

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated man in a tricorn hat holding a pipe, on blue-grey paper.

Seated Gentleman Holding a Pipe (recto); Half-Length Study of the Same Man (verso)

Francisco Bayeu y Subias, 1734-95

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling monk attacked by a swordsman, with cherubs above holding a banner, cross, and laurel wreath.

The Martyrdom of St. Peter Martyr

Francisco Camilo, 1615-73

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin on a cloud with cherubs above, interceding for souls in flames below, with a scroll inscrip

Virgin Interceding for Those in Purgatory

Alonso Cano, 1601-67

Sketch of a standing male figure supported by an angel, with putti in clouds above, drawn on aged paper.

Angels Ministering to St. Sebastian

Alonso Cano, 1601-67

Pen and brown ink sketch with wash showing putti holding a cross above two figures, with an annotation in the lower left corn

Three Putti Holding Cross Before Two Male Saints

Alonso Cano, 1601-67

Brown ink drawing in an arched frame of an auto-da-fé in a courtyard, with a cross, seated officials and a crowd of spectator

Auto-da-fé in a Courtyard

Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo, 1619-71

Drawing of a gilded star-shaped chandelier with sixteen lit candles on curved arms, with a German inscription below.

Design for a Chandelier with Sixteen Candles

Isaak Ehe, 1632

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of a veiled woman holding a nude infant in an oval frame.

Madonna and Child [?]

Alonso Cano, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a classical theatre building with a pediment and arched windows, framed by trees and a hill.

Design for a Theatre

Clemens Wenzel Coudray, 1800-1845

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo tomb design with an inscribed column, crown finial, putti and a seated draped figure.

Tomb Design

Ignaz Günther, 1740-75

Pen and ink drawing of a knight on horseback beside a helmeted landsknecht with a pole, with a dog in the foreground.

Knight on Horseback and Landsknecht

Albrecht Dürer, 1485-1528

Grey wash drawing of a kneeling woman being crowned by a turbaned man, with courtiers watching, over a numbered grid.

The Cornation of Esther by Ahasuerus

Bartolomé Carducho, 1560-1638

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned bearded king with a scepter above a heraldic shield labeled with Aragon arms.

The Kingdom of Aragon

Vincenzo Carducci, 1560-1638

Drawing of a woman with a dog on a lakeside path, with trees, misty mountains and a hilltop tower across the water.

Woman with a dog by a mountain lake

Alexandre Calame, early to mid-19th century

Pencil drawing of a Mediterranean coast with palm trees, a hillside village, a calm sea, and a figure on a path.

Mediterranean landscape (recto); Mountains (verso)

Alexandre Calame, 1830-64

Pencil drawing of a wooded landscape with several tall trees, dense foliage, and a cloudy sky on tan paper.

Trees (recto); Soldiers in a Wood (verso)

Alexandre Calame, early to mid-19th century

Brown wash drawing with white highlights showing sketched female figures in draped robes and studies of heads.

Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin

Juan Carreño de Miranda, 1657-60

Graphite drawing with white highlights of wind-bent fir trees, rocks, and a distant snowy mountain range.

Fôrets et Montagnes

Alexandre Calame, 1830-64

Charcoal drawing of a mountain valley with a windswept pine, rocky boulders, and three goats, with snowy peaks behind.

Three Goats in a Moutainous Landscape

Alexandre Calame, 1830-64

Grey wash drawing of a classical garden pavilion with a cupola, beside an iron gate and tall poplar trees.

Garden Pavillion