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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Drawing of a ceiling design with the Presentation in the Temple, angels in clouds, and ornate rococo scrollwork around an arc

Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Pen drawing of a woman between two bearded men under an ornate arch, with skeletons and inscribed banners, dated 1628.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Ganting the Younger, 1628

Circular ceiling design in blue watercolor with winged dancing figures around a central chariot scene with horses.

Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours

Angelica Kauffmann, 1760-1807

Pen and wash design drawing of a stove and wall fountain with paneled sections, arched niche, urn and carved figures.

Design for a Stove and Wall Fountain (?)

Friedrich Sustris, 1598

Pen and watercolor caricature of an engraver as a draped urn figure with a face, open books, feathers and medallions.

Caricature of an Engraver (recto); Sketch for a Caricature (verso)

Jean Charles Delafosse

Grey wash architectural elevation of a palace façade with columns, arched windows, and statues along the roofline.

Design for a Palace Façade

Carl Hårleman, early-mid 18th century

Watercolor interior design sketch with a grey floor, a black ornamental frieze, and a pink and blue patterned rug in the corn

View of Interior for Paris Exhibition 1925, with Rugs

Erik Gunnar Asplund, 1824

Grey wash drawing of a cliffside monastery with cypress trees, two robed monks on a path, and a stormy sky.

Monastery of Mega Spileon, Greece

Peter Toft, 1896

Pen and wash drawing of a papal tiara and crossed keys within an ornamental cartouche with a blank tablet below.

Papal Cartouche

Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, ca. 1740-41

Pen and grey wash drawing of a goddess of music among clouds with a winged harpist, putti, and crowds below in a rococo frame

The Goddess of Music Distributing Her Gifts to the Nations

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Pen and ink allegorical design: a seated woman offers a laurel wreath to a nude male figure with a torch, amid classical arch

Design for an Allegorical Print

Louis Lafitte, ca.1800-02

Pen and wash drawing of a heaped pile of armor, banners, a trumpet, chains and books under a cloudy sky.

The House of York

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1796

Brown ink and wash drawing of two classical urns with serpent handles, relief figures, and a lion mask detail.

Designs for Two Urns

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin

Pen and wash architectural elevation of a room wall with two windows, a central statue niche and garland relief, with a plan

Section and Plan of the Small Dining Room of the Hôtel de Montholon

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1785-86

Pen and wash design drawing of a wall with an ornate chimneypiece, caryatids, framed paintings, and two standing male figures

Design for a Wall Decoration with Chimneypiece and Two Figures

Antoine Le Pautre, ca. 1650-70

Decorative drawing of a telegraph office with interior hall scenes, operators at apparatus, a street facade and framing ornam

The main telegraph office newly built in St. Petersburg and opened 14 October 1862

Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagne, 1862

Ink and wash drawing of the Holy Family in a carpenter's shop, with Joseph at a workbench and the child on the floor.

The Childhood of Christ, in the carpenter's shop

Hans Bol, 1534-93

Pen and blue wash sketch of a seated man, standing couple and allegorical figures in an architectural interior.

Compositional Sketch for The Request for Admission into the Union, a Painting in the Town Hall of 's-Hertogenbosch. T…

Theodoor van Thulden, 1645?

Red chalk design of a bearded herm figure with four putti and garlands of fruit and foliage in an arched panel.

Design for a Panel with Four Putti Decorating a Herm (Terminal Figure) with Garlands of Fruit and Foliage

Jacob de Wit, ca. 1720-40

Pencil sketch of two seated women in headscarves with a young girl resting at their feet on draped cloth.

Sketch of Two Seated Women with Young Girl Sitting at Their Feet; Verso: Sketch of a Woman

Charles Baugniet, 1830-86

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate bucket with a scrolled handle, lion mask, and decorative engraved panels.

Design for a Bucket

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design sheet showing ornate spoon, fork, crossed knives, scissors, ear spoon and toothpick with decorated handle

Design for Spoon, Fork, Two Knives (Crossed over scissors), Scissors, Ear Spoon and Toothpick

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pencil sketch of women and a child gathered before a fireplace in an interior, with a standing figure at right.

Interior with Figures before a Fireplace

Charles Baugniet, 1871

Ink and wash drawing of a mermaid-like figure holding a scallop shell, with three putti on a sea serpent base.

Design for Serving Piece

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a footed dish with a flower-shaped cover surrounded by foliage, with smaller studies below.

Design for Single Footed Dish with Cover Shaped like Flower and Foliage

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design drawing of a decorative silver-gilt flask with strapwork, masks and scrollwork ornament.

Design for a Silver- gilt Flask Decorated with Strapwork, Masks, Moresques

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design for a circular silver plate with crabs linked by ribbon swags around a central rosette.

Design for Silver Plate Decorated with Crabs

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a shallow dish from above with a central female mask, and a tall ornate pedestal below.

Shallow Round Dish on tall Pedestal Decorated with Fruit and Female Masks

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash design drawing of a shallow round dish on three scrolled legs with arched openings around the rim.

Design for Shallow Round Dish on Three Legs

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and grey wash design for an oval platter showing tritons and sea nymphs battling around a central cartouche.

Design for a Platter with Battling Tritons and Sea Nymphs

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century