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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,695 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of an executioner raising an axe over a kneeling man, with soldiers and a crowd watching.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari, ca. 1557-58

Watercolor night landscape with yellow stars and blue dashes above a dark silhouetted treeline.

Landscape with Stars

Henri-Edmond Cross, ca. 1905-1908

Pen and brown wash drawing of a rocky coast with a winged horse, figures, a large tree and a hazy sea.

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain, ca. 1671

Charcoal study of a standing nude figure with arms lowered, set against a dark textured background and a bench.

Study for "Poseuses"

Georges Seurat, 1886-87

Red and black chalk drawing of a seated woman turning her head and gesturing, with white highlights on tan paper.

Seated Woman

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1716-17

Pencil and wash drawing of a road lined with pollarded willows, with a figure sweeping in the foreground and walkers in the d

Road in Etten

Vincent van Gogh, 1881

Red chalk drawing of the Last Supper with Christ and apostles seated at a long table in a sketched interior.

The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634-35

Pen and ink drawing with wash of a bearded man's head and shoulders in the form of a classical bust, gazing upward.

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca

Peter Paul Rubens, 1600-1626

Pen drawing of men shoveling a pile of wooden chairs along a curved arch, with a large empty area in the center.

Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel)

Vranke van der Stockt, 1444-50

Pen and ink sketch of men in hats crowding around a painting on an easel, with a seated figure in the foreground.

Satire on Art Criticism

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644

Head of a Young Woman

Albrecht Dürer, 1522

Pencil portrait of a seated woman in a lace cap and ruffled dress with gold bracelets, resting her arm on a chair.

Madame Félix Gallois

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1852

Pen and ink drawing of an older man in a fur-trimmed hat gazing upward, rendered in brown hatching on tan paper.

Bust of a Man in a Hat Gazing Upward

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1480-90

Red-ground drawing with white heightening showing draped seated female figures, a standing figure with a staff, and small stu

Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1420

Brown ink drawing of Venice lagoon with gondolas, sailing boats, and a domed church on the distant waterfront.

Panaromic View of the Bacino di San Marco, Looking up the Giudecca Canal

Francesco Guardi, 1780-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of reclining Bacchus with a thyrsus staff, Ariadne, and putti among clouds.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Brown wash drawing of a crowd gathered around a bearded man with a flowering staff and a veiled woman in an interior.

The Betrothal of the Virgin

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1770

Pen and brown wash drawing of a thatched cottage and shed beside trees, with a figure in the doorway and a barrel nearby.

Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644

Sketch of a rider in a top hat on a brown horse in a circus ring, with two spectators in red at the barrier.

At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899

Watercolor of a woman in a lavender dress seated by a yellow fireplace with a fan, mirror and blue vase.

The Yellow Room

James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883-84

Pencil and chalk study of two female arms and hands on tan paper, one holding strands of hair.

Study of Arms for "The Cadence of Autumn"

Evelyn De Morgan, 1905

Grey chalk drawing of a woman in a voluminous gown and flowered powdered hair standing in a garden by a stone pedestal.

Marie Antoinette in a Park

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, ca. 1780-81

Painting of a narrow rocky ravine with ivy-covered cliffs, trees, and a glimpse of blue sky above.

Ravine at Sorrento

Édouard Bertin, 1821 or later

Loose oil sketch of oak trees and rocky ground in a sunlit forest clearing under a blue sky with white clouds.

Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1832 or 1833

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark hair on brown paper, with a sketched second face at upper right, by Edgar Degas.

The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841-1878)

Edgar Degas, 1873

Dark lava fields in the foreground, a town with red roofs beyond, and snow-capped Mount Etna rising under a pale sky.

Catania and Mount Etna

Edward Lear, 1847

Small oil landscape study of sunlit rocky banks, dark trees on the left, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Italian Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, ca. 1825-28

Pastel drawing of a nude woman bending over a shallow tub to dry her leg, with warm ochre and blue tones.

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub

Edgar Degas, 1885

Loose painted portrait of a man with a red beard in a dark jacket and striped cravat against a grey background.

George Moore (1852-1933)

Édouard Manet, 1879

Oil sketch of a curving lake below a green hillside with a pale hilltop town and tower under a pale sky.

Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1826-27