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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,814 works

Oval drawing of Diana with stags, hounds, spears and hunting gear amid ornamental scrollwork.

Diana with Attributes of the Hunt

Antoine Caron, 16th century

Red chalk drawing of mounted riders and tents in a camp, with a distant city and smoke under a pale sky.

Louis XIV at the Siege of Cambrai, Seen from the South-West (March 20-April 19, 1677)

Adam Frans van der Meulen, probably 1680s

Circular drawing of an old bearded man by a hearth as a boy blows on the fire, with a street scene visible outside.

December: And Old Man Seated by a Hearth with a Young Man Blowing on the Fire

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, late 16th-mid 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a bearded armored warrior with a banner, with battle scenes and horsemen behind him.

Levi Avenging the Honor of his Sister Dinah

Crispijn van den Broeck, 16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a fox beside a glass vessel with fish, two herons, and a dead duck in a landscape.

Fox With Two Herons

Frans Snyders, ca. 1630-40

Brown ink and wash drawing of seated King David playing a harp with angels on clouds, over a red chalk grid.

King David with Angels

Morazzone, ca. 1625-26

Pen and ink sketch sheet with horses, riders, elephants, an ox and two dancing figures, with handwritten notes.

Various Studies

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of hunters and hunting dogs gathered in a crowded interior hung with game and filled with pottery.

Departure for the Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of armed riders and figures under a cloudy sky, with skeletal remains in the foreground.

After the Battle

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch sheet with studies of helmeted Roman soldiers, cavalry riders, and a battle scene with fallen figures.

Sketches of Roman Soldiers

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1842-85

Pen drawing of a cluttered peasant kitchen with a standing woman, a seated man, a dog, and fish hanging from the rafters.

Peasants' interior with spinner

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1860

Pen and ink study on tan paper showing a landscape with a village, mountains, soldiers, a flying bird and decorative sketches

Studies

Rodolphe Bresdin

Ink sketch of a mounted rider in a fur hat with a lance, leading a column of horsemen across open ground.

Muscovite Rider

Rodolphe Bresdin

Pen and ink sketch of riders on galloping horses chasing across a hilly landscape under clouds.

The Hunt

Rodolphe Bresdin

Engraving of a frightened naiad recoiling from a lion-headed fountain beside a palm tree and cypresses.

The Frightened Naïad (Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion)

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, ca. 1740

Ink and wash drawing of a stormy forest with lightning, a standing rider and a fallen dead horse in the foreground.

A Rider and a Dead Horse in a Landscape

Ink and wash drawing of a crouching grotesque figure reaching toward a cat, with a standing woman and an older man looking on

The Pampered Idiot (Niño zangolotino)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Etching of a child blowing a soap bubble beside a man holding a hat, a parrot perched on a chair, and a bowl on a table.

Soap Bubbles

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1799

Grey wash drawing of herdsmen with cattle, sheep and a goat resting in an Italianate landscape with trees and hills.

Herdsmen with Cattle and Sheep in Italianate Landscape

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, mid-17th-late 17th century

Pencil sketch of a family gathered around a table drinking, with a woman in an apron standing at right and a dog below.

A Family Carousing

David Teniers the Younger, 17th century

Engraving of a bearded rider on a prancing horse atop a stone pedestal, with a distant city and walls behind.

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Marco Dente, 1515-27

Engraving of Apollo seated with a lyre beside a cow and dog, with classical columns and a tree in the background.

Apollo Tending the Flocks of Admetus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Print of an older man playing with a toddler on a stone step, with a cat, a dog, and family members in a garden.

The Pleasures of Fatherhood

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, n.d.

Dog (A Foxhound Viewed from Behind)

George Stubbs, May 1, 1788

Grayscale lithograph of a lioness and two cubs on a hillside, with a male lion and carcass in the foreground.

Lioness and Cubs

Antoine-Louis Barye, possibly 1832

Etching of a maned lion walking left across flat ground beneath a dark, cross-hatched sky.

Lion walking

Charles Courtry, 1866-97

Engraving of a maned lion seated on a rock ledge overlooking a sea, with a palm tree and hills in the distance.

A Lion (A Lion Resting on a Rock)

George Stubbs, May 1, 1788

Pen and watercolour study sheet with a large death's-head moth, gentian flower, cats, birds, a chicken and decorative borders

Studies of a Gentian, Moth, Birds, Cats, Interlacing Motif, and Greek Frets (recto); Ornamental Studies with Figures…

Giorgio di Giovanni, 1530-40

Brown wash drawing of a haloed woman on an ornate chariot pulled by a winged bull, with a dove and procession of robed figure

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, 16th century

Brown ink drawing of a reclining woman in a hammock with a standing navigator, ships, an anteater, and the word America.

Allegory of America

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, ca. 1587-89