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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,970 works

Watercolor of a woman in white and a young man in grey drapery holding hands within an ivy-covered rocky grotto.

The Invention of the Art of Drawing (the daughter of Butades of Sicyon and her Lover)

Ferdinand Olivier, 1804

Pen drawing of Roman bandits with women and children resting by a campfire beneath a rocky overhang, one man smoking a pipe.

A Group of Roman Bandits with Their Families and Companions after a Robbery

Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau, 1824

Grey wash drawing of a seated king on a throne in an arched hall, with standing courtiers, spectators and onlookers.

King Christian IV of Denmark Judging Christoffer Rosenkrantz; verso: Don Quixote and Others Attending Master Peter's…

Wilhelm Marstrand, ca. 1865

Pencil portrait sketch of an elderly man with wavy hair, high collar and cravat, head and shoulders turned toward viewer.

Portrait of John Ruskin

Hubert von Herkomer, 1879-81

Charcoal drawing of two seated women in headscarves beside a baby lying in a woven cradle.

Two Seated Italian Women with a Baby in a Cradle

Kristian Zahrtmann, 1889

Pen drawing of a mounted hunter, a spearman, hunting dogs, a dead boar and fleeing deer in a landscape with trees.

Medieval Hunting Scene

Franz Pforr, ca. 1807

Hand-colored view of 1851 Great Exhibition hall with a white marble statue, United States display, and visitors in period dre

View in the East Nave; The Greek Slave, by Power [sic], from "Recollections of the Great Exhibition, 1851"

John Absolon, 1851

Oval bust portrait of a woman with powdered hair and lace collar, grey tones on cream paper.

Anne de Chaumont-Guitry, Comtesse d'Amblimont

Pierre-Michel Alix, 1780-1817

Oval colored print portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a powdered wig and gray coat, inscribed with his name below.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pierre-Michel Alix, 1791

Lithograph of a young man with folded hands seated on a window sill, framed by climbing vines and potted flowers.

Melancholy, young man with folded hands sitting on window sill

Marie Alexandre Alophe, 19th century

Brown ink drawing of a kneeling woman, a horned figure pointing upward, an angel above, and winged figures on the right.

Faust: Part 1. Last Scene

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1846-48

Engraved oval portrait of a curly-haired boy in a red liberty cap holding an axe, with a guillotine scene below.

Joseph-Agricol Viala

Pierre-Michel Alix, ca. 1794

Engraving of a helmeted figure fleeing a palace hall past lion statues, with a bird landing near a bowl on the floor.

The Flight of Adrammelech, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Arthur Murch, 1865-81

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded painter working at an easel in a cluttered studio with a skull and bust.

A Painter at Work in his Studio

Thomas Wijck, 1663-77

Line drawing of a woman in a hat writing at a small table, beside the printed title A Saint-Lazare by Aristide Bruant.

A Saint-Lazare par Aristide Bruant

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Ink and wash drawing of a seated king receiving kneeling women and a child under classical arches and columns.

Pyrrhus in the House of Glaucias

Augustin Pajou, ca. 1752-56

Engraving of robed men and a boy beside a spread patterned coat and a dog, with a hilly landscape behind.

Joseph's Coat, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Ford Madox Brown, 1864-81

Engraving of a bearded seated ruler on a throne as a cloaked man approaches across a tiled palace floor.

The Death of Eglon, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Ford Madox Brown, 1865-81

Engraving of women pleading before elderly men in an interior, with a hilly cloudy landscape visible through an opening behin

The Daughters of Zelophehad, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Frederick Richard Pickersgill, 1865-81

Engraving of an elderly bearded man with a staff seated among women in robes, with hills and small figures in the background.

The Passage of the Jordan, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Frederick Richard Pickersgill, 1865-81

Engraving of a woman in a robe holding a wooden door, glancing back at two crouching figures on stone steps beside a clay jar

Rahab and the Spies, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Frederick Richard Pickersgill, 1865-81

Engraving of an older woman in a headscarf holding an infant beside a veiled young woman in a dim interior with flowers.

Naomi and the Child Obed, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Simeon Solomon, 1863-81

Engraving of a bearded man in a robe standing before workers building a wooden ark under a cloudy sky.

Noah Building the Ark, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

George Frederic Watts, 1881

Engraving of a veiled woman and a young boy walking past a tent, with a bearded man peering from behind a curtain.

Hagar and Ishmael, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Simeon Solomon, 1863-81

Engraving of a priest in a mitre blessing a bowed man as an attendant watches in a robed interior scene.

Melchizedek Blesses Abram, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Simeon Solomon, 1863-81

Engraving of an elderly bearded man blessing a young man in a fur-trimmed cloak, with a veiled woman in the background.

Isaac Blessing Jacob, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Edward Armitage, 1880-81

Engraving of two men embracing in a hilly landscape, one with arrows at his hip, with sheep and shepherds behind.

Esau Meeting Jacob, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

George Frederic Watts, 1881

Pen drawing of a seated shepherd in a broad hat holding a small child on his lap against rocky terrain.

A Seated Italian Shepherd with a Small Child on his lap; verso: A Southern Landscape with a Woman Carrying a Jar on h…

Franz Horny, ca. 1820

Engraving of a bearded patriarch raising a knife by a smoking altar as kneeling figures gesture in worship.

Noah's Sacrifice, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

George Frederic Watts, 1881

Engraving of soldiers and trumpeters before a collapsing walled city, with veiled women and an ark-like chest in the foregrou

The Fall of the Walls of Jericho, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Henry Hugh Armstead, 1881