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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Brown ink drawing of a man in an oval laurel frame, with enlarged flea and mite illustrations and a name cartouche below.

The Dutch Microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1734-1802

Brown wash drawing of a rider leaping into a chasm while onlookers in classical dress react beside columns.

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm (recto); Study of a Seated Crowned Female Figure (verso)

Luigi Garzi, 1638-1721

Pen and ink caricature of four 18th-century men in wigs and coats, one gesturing toward a small dome-topped architectural mod

The Marquis de Vandières, Abbé Jean-Bernard Le Blanc, Germain Soufflot, and Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the Younger

Pier Leone Ghezzi, ca. 1750

Pen and brown wash drawing of a columned Venetian building facade with figures and awnings in a square.

The Fenice Theater in Venice (recto); Fragment of a Larger Drawing Representing Part of a Column and a Cornice (verso)

Francesco Guardi, 1712-1835

Pen and wash drawing of an ornately decorated warship with carved stern and flying putti above, on a calm sea.

Design for the decoration of a Warship

Pierre Puget, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a picnic party on a bank: a man in a tricorn hat, a turbaned man pouring wine, and a woman drinking.

A Picnic Party

Claude Simpol, 1716

Gray wash drawing of a seated woman in a ruffled gown holding a mirror, with trees in a woodland setting.

Lady with a Mirror

Claude Simpol, 1716

Grey wash drawing of a man smoking a pipe and a seated woman with elaborate hair beside a tree.

Tête à Tête

Claude Simpol, 1716

Grey wash drawing of three women in a wooded landscape, one seated on rocks, one standing with folded arms, one kneeling.

Ladies Bathing

Claude Simpol, 1717

Pen and gray wash drawing of five men straining to push and lever a large stone block with wooden poles.

Five Men Pushing a Block of Stone

Jacques Stella, ca.1640-50

Pencil drawing of men clubbing cormorants at a pond while birds fly past a large window frame and a tree.

The Defeat of the Cormorants

Louis Testelin, ca. 1648-53

Chalk drawing of a reclining nude woman pointing right beside a companion, with a forest and a seated figure behind.

Diana and Acteon

François-André Vincent, 1778

Man Seated at a Keyboard Instrument

François-André Vincent, 1774

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated classical ruler with kneeling woman and attendants in an arcaded hall.

The Clemency of Augustus (Corneille, Cinna, V, 3)

François-André Vincent, ca. 1787-88

Caricature of the Artist's Younger Brother Marie-Alexandre-François

François-André Vincent, 1776

Brown ink and wash drawing of Hector embracing Andromache as a nurse holds a frightened infant in a colonnaded hall.

Hector taking leave of Andromache: the Fright of Astyanax

Benjamin West, 1766

Brown ink and wash drawing of two men, one in a turban and draped robe, the other bearded and leaning toward him.

Two Men Seen Three- Quarter Length

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Brown wash sketch of a woman seated on a scallop shell, twisting with billowing drapery and hair swirling around her.

Studies of a Reclined Woman on a Seashell, for the Triumph of Galatea (recto and verso)

Paolo de Matteis, ca. 1692

Brown ink and wash drawing of three nude men in twisting poses with studies of arms and legs, by Paolo Pagani.

Studies of Three Naked Men, a Right Arm and a Nude Figure Supported by Another (recto); Studies of a Figure with Left…

Paolo Pagani, 1700-1710

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling old man seen from behind, bending forward toward the upper left.

Old Man Kneeling Facing Upper Left

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin mourning the dead Christ across her lap, with a cross and ladder behind them.

The Virgin Lamenting over the Dead Christ

Pietro Testa, 1612-50

Pen and wash drawing of a robed deacon led by armed men through an arched architectural space toward martyrdom.

A Deacon Led to Martyrdom

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, 1575-1640

Red and black chalk portrait drawing of an elderly bald man with a beard, turned three-quarters, with an inscription below.

Portrait of a Man: Francesco Albani ?

Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a group of reclining nude women, with curly hair, overlapping in a tangle of bodies.

Group of Six Reclining Nude Women (Nymphs Bathing) (recto); Sketch of a Leg (verso)

Taddeo Zuccari, 1529-66

Pencil sketch of a seated figure and a standing figure beside a table, loosely drawn in light grey lines.

Study of two figures: one seated, the other standing (recto). Study of a head looking upwards (verso)

George Romney, ca. 1777

Pen and wash drawing of three rococo cartouche frames on pedestals decorated with cherubs, garlands and laurel, with a small

Design for Festival Decorations on the Bases of Piers

Carlo Marchionni, 1702-86

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated man turned left, seen from below, with foreshortened limbs and torso.

Seated Man Turned Towards the Left Seen from Below

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pen and wash drawing of two officers meeting before soldiers, flags and a city gateway, in a circular composition.

Captain de Bours handing over the Keys to the Citadel of Antwerp to the Estates General

Maerten de Vos, mid-16th-early 17th century

Graphite and white chalk sketch on blue-grey paper of a seated woman with drapery, a winged figure, and animals.

Venus Lamenting the Dead Adonis (or Diana and Endymion)

Januarius Zick, 1740-97

Illuminated letter B with a dragon, a knight with a sword, a tree, and figures being anointed in blue, red and gold.

Illuminated Initial "B"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62