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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Grey wash drawing of a flower arrangement in an urn inside an arched niche, with grapes and fruit on a stone pedestal.

Vase of Flowers

Willem van Leen, 1790s

Engraved design of an ornate rococo sofa with carved scrolls and a seated figure with a parasol on top.

Design for a Sofa, from: Nouvelle Iconographie Historique III, series Q

Duval, 1771 or after

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a standing friar in a long hooded robe, gazing upward with hands clasped.

Saint Francis

Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, ca. 1550-60

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed woman before a seated man, with a kneeling woman, flames, books and onlookers.

The Cumaean Sibyl before Tarquin the Proud

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Graphite study of a group of bearded men in turbans and robes standing and talking together, with loose figures at the sides.

Study for "Types de races algériennes"

Henri-Félix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1830-86

Red chalk drawing of a young man's bust with tousled wavy hair and a loose garment on a cream sheet.

Bust of a Young Man

Jean de Saint-Igny, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a baroque festival arch with a central statue niche, cherubs, a sunburst, fountains and candelabra.

Design for Festival Architecture for an Entry into Paris for the King of Sweden, Fredrerick I of Hesse

Guillaume Thomas Raphaël Taraval, 18th century

Watercolor view of a long French château with slate roofs and corner towers above a formal garden with figures.

View of a Château

Nicolas Pérignon the Elder, 18th century

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a rearing horse and rider, ornate chariot scrollwork, and studies of male heads.

Sheet of Sketches: Sculpture for a Banquet Honoring Queen Christina of Sweden

Giovanni Paolo Schor, early 17th-late 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a forest path framed by large trees, with small figures resting on the left and distant ruins beyond.

Wooded Landscape

Paulus van Liender, 18th century

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Engraving of Christ seated and crowned with thorns while soldiers mock him beneath a brick archway with a town view.

The Crowning with Thorns, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraved design of a tiered urn with garland swags, tassels, and a stepped pedestal base.

Design for a vase decorated with garlands

Jean Charles Delafosse, 18th century

Engraved title page with an urn wrapped in garlands, a shell fountain below, and two hunters beside the pedestal.

Title page from Cinquieme Livre de Trophées

Jean Charles Delafosse, 18th century

Engraved plate of a silver creamer and a covered teapot with fluted bodies, leaf bands, and catalogue numbers 10497 and 10498

Creamer and Teapot

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Engraved plate of a neoclassical hot water urn with fluted body, ram's head handles, side spigot, and ball feet.

Hot Water Urn

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Engraved print of an egg caddy with four cups on a stand, with a plan view of the tray below.

Egg Caddy

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Engraved design print of a neoclassical hanging ceiling lamp with urn-shaped body and two side lamps, labeled Japann Lamp.

Japan lamp for ceiling

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Etched interior view of St. Peter's Basilica showing the nave, columns, coffered vault and high altar with small figures on t

Interior view of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from "Vedute di Roma" (Roman Views)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etching of the nave of St. John Lateran in Rome, with towering columns, a coffered ceiling, statues, and a distant altar.

St. Giovanni in Laterano, Interior, from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1768

Engraving of a kneeling young man embraced by a bending older woman, with cattle, a pond and a thatched cottage behind them.

The Prodigal Son (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Pen and ink frieze design with two putti holding garlands around an empty oval cartouche, flanked by scrolls.

Design for a Frieze

Henri Sallembier, n.d.

Grey ink and wash drawing of a bearded man, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure and a torch in a stone interior.

Witch of Endor

Ary Scheffer, 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental vase with two female figure handles and a garland, within a ruled border.

Design for Vase

Jacques Francois Joseph Saly, mid-18th century

Grayscale drawing of two winged nude figures with comedy and tragedy masks above carved busts of playwrights.

Comedy and Tragedy

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1814

Pencil sketch of Mars with a rearing horse, a winged Victory figure behind him, and a veiled figure on the right.

Mars Crowned by Victory and Listening to Moderation

Antoine-Jean Gros, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of The Last Supper with apostles around a long table under a draped curtain.

The Last Supper

Master of the Egmont Albums, 16th century

Engraving of Europa riding a white bull by the sea, with nymphs, a piper, cattle, ships and an island in the background.

The Rape of Europa

Giulio Bonasone, 1546

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elderly monocled man examining a box beside a seated woman, with a servant and urn.

The Connoisseur

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1800

Watercolor drawing of a woman in a pink gown gesturing toward a horned beast holding a basket of jewelry beneath a tree.

Beauty and the Beast

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century