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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,955 works

The Elephant

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Grey wash drawing of a park with tall poplars, a shaded allée, a seated statue and small figures near a wheelbarrow.

View of a Park

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1757-59

Pen and brown wash drawing of groups of walking figures in cloaks and hats across a grey-blue sheet.

Studies of Walking Figures

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Pen drawing of a decorated ballroom section with columns, arches, chandeliers and two thrones at the center.

Longitudinal Section of a Ballroom Decorated for the Marriage of the King of Naples to the Archduchess of Austria

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Ink and wash architectural elevation of a palace facade with arched windows, columns, statues and a central coat of arms.

Façade of Palace decorated for the Marriage of the King of Naples to the Archduchess of Austria

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-73

Etching of a seated woman with figs on a table, a bowl beside her, and a landscape with trees and a sailboat behind.

Woman with Figs

Paul Gauguin, 1894

Pencil drawing of ruined arched colonnades and vaulted stonework with overgrown plants and a small standing figure.

Architectural Ruins with a View of a Garden; Stage design for "Ballo don Parasol"

Carlo Ferrario, 1845-1907

Sepia drawing of Joshua raising his arm toward the sun over a walled city on cliffs, with armies in a valley below.

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still Upon Gibeon (Joshua: 10: 12-14)

John Martin, ca. 1822

Pencil drawing of boats moored by rocks in the Bay of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius and a city in the distance.

The Bay of Naples with Vesuvius in the Background

Christen Købke, 1843

Sepia print of a stormy mountain lake with sailboats, lightning in the sky, and figures beside a cart on the shore.

Lake of Thun, Swiss, part III, plate 15 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, June 10, 1808

Pen and brown ink sketch of a kneeling man gesturing toward a seated king in a chair before a curtain.

Uriah before King David

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a rocky waterfall with pine trees and mountains under a cloudy sky.

The Labro Falls

Thomas Fearnley, 1824-42

Sepia print of Martello towers on a shore below a white chalk cliff, with travelers, a donkey, and a beached boat under a sto

Martello Towers near Bexhill, Sussex, part VII, plate 34 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, June 1811

Grey wash drawing of a rock outcrop with a shadowed recess, framed by trees and shrubs above a water edge.

Design for rock-work at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park (recto); Two Architectural Plans (one partially cut off) (…

Thomas Sandby, 1780s (?)

Grayscale drawing of a columned courthouse with cupola at Richmond, Staten Island, with three men walking on a dirt road.

Courthouse at Richmond, Staten Island, New York

Augustus Köllner, ca. 1872

Pen and grey wash drawing of a skeleton beside a gothic arch with a spider web and mirrored lettering under a moon.

Study for frontispiece to "Les Jeunes France" by Théophile Gautier

Engraving of skaters in Victorian dress on a frozen Central Park pond, with onlookers on the hills and a Dangerous ice sign.

Skating on the Ladies' Skating Pond in Central Park, New York (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IV)

Winslow Homer, January 28, 1860

Etching of Hercules restraining a rearing horse while another horse tramples a fallen man beside a stone wall.

Hercules and the Mares of Diomedes: Hercules grasps the bridle of a rearing horse, a second horse tramples a figure i…

Antonio Tempesta, 1608

Print of a bacchanal with satyrs and putti dancing at left, a reclining man in front, and clothed figures at right.

Bacchanal with infant satyrs and putti at left, a naked male figure reclines in front of a pedestal carved in bas-rel…

Giulio Carpioni, 1633-78

Etching of centaurs and warriors fighting at a feast, with a fallen man and shield in the foreground.

Plate 116: The Battle of the Lapithae and the Centaurs (Caeneus in Perithoi nuptijs a Centauris interficitur), from O…

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Pen and wash drawing of a blind old man cursing a kneeling armored youth while a veiled woman and a girl stand nearby.

Oedipus at Colonus, Cursing his Son Polynices

Henry Fuseli, 1777

Etching of two women walking hand in hand past a tree with a bundle of sticks, a dog and hills in the background.

Jupiter and Calisto, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a crowd of soldiers and mourners around a figure carrying a cross, with a hill and city gate in the background.

Reverse Copy of Le Petit Portement de Croix (The Small Carrying of the Cross)

Jacques Callot, after 1620

Brown wash drawing of Socrates raising a finger beside a cup, surrounded by mourning men in a barred prison cell.

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, ca. 1782

Engraved family portrait: a bearded man in a military coat, a seated woman in a long gown, and a small child in a panelled ro

Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson and His Family ("Stonewall Jackson")

William Sartain, 1866

Engraving of nude children dancing hand in hand under a tasselled canopy, with horses at left and a banner at right.

Nude Children Dancing Under a Canopy, with Two Horses on the Left and a Banner on the Right

Heinrich Aldegrever, ca. 1532-33

Night watercolor of a lit stone bridge over a river, with illuminated pyramids, decorated boats, and smoke clouds over Paris

Fête pour la Paix Générale donnée à Paris le 18 Brumaire. Pont et Place de la Concorde

Francesco Piranesi, 1801-2

A Cow Lying in a Landscape

Pieter Gerardus van Os, early 19th century

Engraving of a winged figure playing lute with children, a lamb, fruit bowl and seated woman, with Latin text below.

Holy Family with Saint John

Lucas Kilian, 1605

Hand-colored print of men rowing a boat through ice floes on a river, with a standing officer and American flag.

Washington Crossing the Delaware - Evening Previous to the Battle of Trenton, December [2]5th, 1776

Currier & Ives, 1857-71