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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling draped figure seen from behind, head raised, cloak falling in hatched folds.

Kneeling Draped Figure

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Drawing of a winged cloud-seated allegorical woman with an eagle above, and a seated turreted woman over a distant town.

Allegory of Air and Earth

Bartholomäus Reiter, 1618

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes on a bed, with an elderly maid and cherubs above.

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes with a sword on a canopied bed, with a city view at left.

Judith Slaying Holofernes, from The Power of Women, plate 5

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1551

Ink and wash drawing of a covered footed serving dish with scroll handles, knotted finial, and lion-paw feet.

Design for a Covered Footed Serving Dish

Henri Auguste, ca. 1770-1816

Painted design for an ornate frame with a dragon, peacock, bird, frog, sconces and flowers on tan paper.

Design for a Frame

Edouard [?] Bouvenne, 1843

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical women, with a skull and small scenes below.

Portrait of Don Antonio Emanuel Ne-Vunda, Marchio de Wynth, Ambassador to the King of the Congo

Lucas Kilian, ca. 1608

Watercolor design for an ornate frame with gilded lattice, blue columns, green drapery and a seated bearded figure at top.

Design for Frame

Edouard [?] Bouvenne, ca. 1843

Red chalk drawing of twelve allegorical scenes in a grid, each labeled in French with classical figures and cupids.

Illustrations for an Allegorical Pattern Book

Antoine Borel, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of castle ruins with a spired tower, stepped gables, a wooden jetty and water in the foreground.

The Ruins of Castle Merxem, near Antwerp

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1610

Dark green leather book cover with gold tooled foliate border and a small embossed coat of arms at center.

Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings of Kew

Sir William Chambers, 1763

Pen and brown ink drawing of a canal with moored boats, wooden buildings, and trees reflected in the water.

Landscape with a Canal in the Foreground

Johannes Leupenius, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a dense tree-lined forest with a wooden fence and a pale path opening under a cloudy sky.

Large Forest (recto); A tree-lined lane with figure (verso)

Johannes Leupenius, 17th century

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child as a kneeling king offers gifts beside standing attendant

Adoration of the Magi

Hendrick Goltzius, n.d.

Circular brown wash drawing with white highlights showing robed men in an arched interior with a tower beyond.

The Greatness of Mordecai

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of a crowned rider on horseback led past a kneeling robed figure, with onlookers and architecture.

Mordecai rides through the Streets in the Apparel the King has sent him

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of a bearded king reaching toward a kneeling veiled woman in an arcaded palace, with attendants and a balco

Queen Esther hears of the Decree against the Jews

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of a crowned king on a dais with scepter, surrounded by robed courtiers and armed men under a canopy.

King Ahasuerus in Council

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of two seated bearded men conversing in a classical colonnaded interior, with a third man leaning over a ba

Mordecai overhears the two Conspirators plotting against the King

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Portrait of Charles Kinnaird Sheridan

Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel D'Orsay, 1844

Grey wash drawing of a crowned king and seated woman at a banquet table, with a kneeling man, standing attendant and dog.

The King and Haman at Esther's Banquet of Wine

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Pink-washed drawing of shepherds approaching the infant Christ in a manger, with angels and ruined architecture behind.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Master of Liechtenstein, 1540-60

Woodcut of two women embracing before a stone archway, with a mountain landscape, trees, and a dog in the foreground.

The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, 1503-4

Brown ink drawing of a wide landscape with a tree, figures, and a donkey on a path, with trees receding to the horizon.

Landscape with figures

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

Brown ink drawing of a milkmaid milking a cow in a forest clearing, with resting cattle and a farmhouse.

Landscape with Milkmaid

Jan Lievens, 1622-74

Brown ink drawing of a shepherd with sheep beside willow trees, with a small church on a distant hill.

Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock

Jan Lievens, 1622-74

Woodcut of Joachim and Anna embracing at a Gothic arched gate, with onlookers and a town in the background.

Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, 1504

Woodcut of the Virgin Mary ascending on clouds, crowned by two figures above while apostles look up from an open tomb below.

The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Grey and white chalk drawing of a classical female nude statue on blue paper, with a skull at lower left.

Venus de' Medici; view from the front

Pieter van Lint, 1640

Watercolor of a bearded God in flames pointing toward a nude Adam beside a fiery horse, c. 1795.

God Judging Adam

William Blake, ca. 1795