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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,406 works

Pencil portrait sketch of a woman with a bob haircut looking toward the viewer on tan paper.

Portrait of Madame Paul Meurice, née Palmyre Granger

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1845-50

Etching of glass bottles, a funnel, quill pen and inkwell on a table with a sheet of paper, against a dark background.

Etching Tools

François Bonvin, 1861

Pen and wash drawing of a garden urn with a wolf head and two dogs perched on its rim, set on a stone pedestal.

Design for a Garden Vase with Hunting Theme

Paul Egell, ca. 1740

Botanical watercolor of a pink-flowered heath plant with needle-like leaves and numbered flower dissection details.

Erica Fulgida

Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1813

Pen and ink caricature of a balding older man in spectacles and cape, signed Henry Monnier and dated 1858.

Self-Portrait as Monsieur Prudhomme

Henry Bonaventure Monnier, 1858

Pencil sketch of David with a sling facing armored Goliath in chain mail, with handwritten French notes at lower right.

David and Goliath, after a Capital in Vézelay Abbey

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, ca. 1840

Etching of a standing man in evening dress and two seated women, one with a black fan, beside a printed program title.

Program for the Performance of' "L'Obole"

Henri Boutet, March 5, 1882

Etching of a young woman in a bustled dress with a bow at her collar, holding a wrapped gift box, by Henri Boutet.

Woman Holding a Gift Box

Henri Boutet, ca. 1895

Engraved triumphal arch with allegorical statues, flags and cherubs, carried through a crowd in a procession scene.

Triumphal arch erected in honor of Cardinal Mazarin after the Treaty of the Pyrénées

François Chauveau, ca. 1664-65

Sepia print of a kneeling haloed saint gazing up at the Madonna and child on clouds, with angels, in an arched interior.

Madonna and child appearing before a kneeling saint, after Bernardino Poccetti

Andrea Scacciati, ca. 1766

Study for Astyanax’s Nurse

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, ca. 1812

Brown ink drawing of a memorial design with a blank tablet, flanking allegorical women, military trophies, and a laurel wreat

Design for a memorial to Sir William Myers

Thomas Stothard, 1811

Chalk drawing on grey paper of a smiling woman in a wide-brimmed flowered hat, lace collar and shawl, turning over her should

Portrait of an elegant lady

Frans van der Mijn, 1750-70

Colored print of a couple in period dress holding hands on a snowy street with townspeople and brick houses behind them.

New Year's Day in Old New York, from "The Graphic" Christmas Number

George Henry Boughton, December 2, 1882

Pencil drawing of a man in a beret and frilled cravat, turned three-quarters to the left, with handwritten inscriptions below

Portrait of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Carl Witte

Samuel Amsler, 1819

Engraved portrait of William Shakespeare with a skull, a book, a coat of arms and a Latin inscription.

William Shakespeare

Charles William Sherborn, 1876

Pen and ink drawing of William Shakespeare in ruff and embroidered doublet within an ornate octagonal frame.

William Shakespeare

Samuel Ireland, 1795

Pencil sketch of a hunter with a rifle and hat, seen from behind, with a dog at lower left.

Roman Hunter with his Dog, seen from the Back

Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1845

Etching of a mustached man in a suit and tie, with a small street scene of buildings and a bare tree at upper left.

Portrait of John F. Weir

J. Alden Weir, 1890

Engraved oval portrait of William Shakespeare in a laurel wreath, with a verse and coat of arms on a pedestal below.

William Shakespeare

George Vertue, 1719

Etching of the crowned Virgin holding the Christ Child amid angels, with saints kneeling below in clouds.

Coronation of the Virgin by the Child Adored by Saints

Cornelis Schut, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a melancholic woman leaning on a ledge beside a skull, celestial globe, hourglass and sleeping dog.

Melancholia

Henri Simon Thomassin, ca. 1729-40

Blue-toned print of a woman with curled hair resting her hand on her chin, looking downward, with white chalk highlights.

Head of a Woman

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1767

Chalk drawing of a young man with curly hair, gazing upward, draped in classical cloth against a grey background.

Portrait of a Young Man

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1810-20

Pen and ink drawing with blue wash of the Holy Family with two infant children, Virgin Mary, and bearded Saint Joseph.

Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist (recto); large-scale cropped sketches of draperies and legs (verso)

Gregorio Pagani, 1590-92

Engraving of the Archangel Michael with spear and wings standing over a defeated demon in an architectural niche with columns

The Archangel Michael Defeating Satan, in a Niche

Lucas Kilian, 1588 or later

Engraving of a crowd of men and women beneath a flying allegorical figure holding flowers, with a hooded figure and scales in

Divine Justice

James Barry, 1808

Watercolor drawing of nude Adam and Eve by a tree with fig leaves, a parrot, an angel, and a mountain landscape behind.

The Expulsion from Paradise

Daniel Fröschl, late 16th-early 17th century

Engraving of a winged armored guardian with a spear and key on a cliff, watched by a crowd, with serpents below.

The Angelic Guards

James Barry, 1808

Red chalk drawing of a classically dressed figure in a cloak and armor, with faint inscribed lettering at lower left.

Louis XV as a Roman Emperor

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, ca. 1750-60