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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Pen and ink drawing of a girl leaning over a garden fountain with cherub statues while a white cat walks nearby.

The Fountain

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1904

Pen and ink drawing of three girls in a room with a door, coat on a hook, and a doll lying on the floor.

Three Little Girls in a Room Arguing and Spitting

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Pen and brown ink drawing of an ornamental cartouche frame with scrolls and writhing monster creatures around a blank center.

Half of a Cartouche with Monsters

Pierre Quentin Chedel, 18th century

Drawing of a pastoral landscape with two large trees, a winding road, travelers, distant hills and birds in the sky.

Landscape

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain, 1730-58

Watercolor drawing of a formal garden with a statue in a circular basin, stone urns, and a long tree-lined avenue toward dist

Scenic View of Gardens

Antoine-Claude Fleury, n.d.

Pen drawing of a winged figure beside an eagle and a seated nude freed from broken chains, with distant mountains.

The Release of Prometheus

Max Klinger, late 19th-early 20th century

Pen drawing of the winged horse Pegasus with a young rider on its back, with German handwritten notes below.

Pegasus and the Young Bellephron

Max Klinger, late 19th-early 20th century

Loose painted sketch of mossy boulders, a fallen log and a stream bed under green foliage.

Landscape

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Red and grey chalk drawing of a rococo mantel and overmantel with scrolling foliage, candle sconces, and a central cartouche.

Study for a Mantel and Overmantel

Laurent Hubert, ca. 1740-60

Brown ink and wash design for a fireplace with a seated female figure, nude male supports and trophies of arms.

Design for a Mantlepiece

Christian Gottlob Mietzsch, mid-18th-late 18th century

Red chalk drawing of figures playing backgammon at a table within an ornate rococo frame with scrolling foliage.

Game of Backgammon

Johann Esaias Nilson, 1741-88

Pen and ink title page design for Brahms songs with a flute player, a reclining woman, a flowering tree and decorative letter

Design for a Title Page for Sheet Music

Max Klinger, late 19th-early 20th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a plumed-hat rider on a rearing horse, with a cloaked standing figure at left.

Study for an Equestrian Portrait, Possibly that of Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg; verso: Various Studies of Stat…

Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1628-32

Black chalk drawing on grey paper of a bearded older man with eyes turned upward, white highlights on the face.

Head of an Apostle

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Grey pencil study of birds on a branch above sheet music, a flute, flowers and a cloth on a grassy bank.

Study for a Pastoral Scene

Jean Baptiste Huet, n.d.

Colored architectural ground plan of a symmetrical palace with colonnades, a central courtyard, and a formal garden with a po

Architectural Ground Plan

Paul Guillaume Lemoine, n.d.

Watercolor design drawing of a classical table with female caryatid supports, a green urn-shaped central column, and gilded o

Design for a Table

Adrien Louis Marie Cavelier, ealry 19th century

Graphite drawing of a symmetrical ornamental headpiece with a crown, fleurs-de-lis shield, scrollwork and a banner.

Design for the Headpiece of the "Gazette de France"

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Pencil sketches of a winged cherub beside a draped pedestal inside two oval frames, one with lettering above.

Design for a Box-Lid

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Pencil drawing of a vertical ornamental jewelry design with a bow, flowers, scrolling leaves and a round medallion at the bas

Design for a Piece of Jewelry (Bracelet?)

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1730-50

Pen and gray wash drawing of a reclining nude sea figure with putti and a sea creature in a triangular pediment design.

Design for a Box-Front

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a bearded armored rider on a rearing horse in a landscape.

Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg, Prince of Brabançon (1600-1674)

Anthony van Dyck, 17th century

Sheet of Studies of Heads

Anthony van Dyck, 1615-41

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a large spreading tree and shrubs on a sloping bank above a path.

A Group a Trees

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Chalk drawing of Christ on the cross with arms raised, head bowed, and a draped cloth at the hips, on tan paper.

Christ on the Cross; verso: St. Jerome Reading by Candlelight, and Sketch of Male Torso (?)

Anthony van Dyck, n.d.

Chalk study on tan paper of a standing woman in a draped robe and headscarf, with studies of hands beside her.

Study for a Portrait of a Lady

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Pen and ink drawing with wash of a curly-haired standing male figure, partly draped, with handwritten notes on the sheet.

Study of the Christ Child and the Hand of the Madonna. Verso; Profile of a Man

Anthony van Dyck, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch with wash of robed bearded men and a figure with raised arm, possibly Christ confronting Pharisees.

Christ and the Pharisees (recto); Christ and a Pharisee (verso)

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a gnarled tree in the foreground and a farmhouse on the right under open sky.

Landscape with a Gnarled Tree and a Farm

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century

Drawing of a seated turbaned king beside a canopy bed, with a kneeling veiled woman and a standing attendant in an interior.

David's Promise to Bathsheba

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1642-43