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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,877 works

Ink and wash drawing of a frigate firing a salute beside rowboats and sailing ships on calm water under a cloudy sky.

A Frigate at Anchor, Saluting a Nearby Yacht

Willem van de Velde the Elder, 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a wooded valley with a stag hunt in the middle ground and mountains beyond.

Wooded Landscape with Stag Hunt

Tobias Verhaecht, late 16th-early 17th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of a rocky coast with a seated figure, an eagle, sailboats, and a distant town.

The Death of Aeschylus

Tobias Verhaecht, 1576-before 1606

Brown ink and wash drawing of an armored rider on horseback with a lion shield, a griffin, and a city behind.

Emperor Ninus

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

Ink and wash drawing of bare tree branches framing a church apse with arched windows on blue-grey paper.

Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a workshop interior with a lattice window, wooden table, sloping roof beams, and a bucket on the floor.

Workshop Interior

Thomas Wijck, 1629-77

Pen and brown wash drawing of a long city skyline with a church spire, rooftops, and small figures on the foreground bank.

View of Vienna

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1624-77

Engraving of the Birth of the Virgin: attendants bathe the infant beside a canopied bed while cherubs assist.

Birth of the Virgin (copy)

Julius Goltzius, 1581

Engraving of a spiral relief column and a ruined obelisk above a distant city, with a reclining figure and wolf in the foregr

Column of Antoninus and a Roman Obelisk

Enea Vico, ca. 1543-44

Brown ink and wash drawing of two carriages in a city street with a man in a long coat and servants by a building.

La scène des deux carrosses

Claude Gillot, ca. 1712-16

Brown ink and wash drawing of a donkey standing with a draped saddle cloth, seen from behind, mounted in a blue and gold bord

Study of a Donkey

Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer, early 17th century

Red chalk drawing of the Madonna and Child in an arched niche, flanked by prophets and robed figures on a stepped pedestal.

The Holy Kinship (Madonna and Child and St. John) with Prophets and Symbols of the Four Evangelists

Joachim von Sandrart, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of a kneeling haloed man receiving a chalice from an angel while three disciples sleep nearby.

Agony in the Garden

Caspar Strauss, 1600-1633

Pen and ink sketch of a robed saint holding the Christ Child, with a lily and two cherubs seated below.

Saint Anthony and the Christ Child Surrounded by Cherubs

Martin Johann Schmidt, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a seated scholar in a study with a globe, clock, books and cherubs above.

An Oriental Astronomer in His Study

Martin Johann Schmidt, 18th century

Red chalk sketch of Mary Magdalen rising on clouds with angels above, gazing upward.

The Assumption of the Saint Mary Magdalen

Cosmas Damian Asam, 1700-1739

Pen and grey wash drawing of a winged figure with cherubs among clouds, a chalice, and rays of light in an oval composition.

The Adoration of the Holy Lamb

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724-96

Grey wash drawing of Flora and Zephyr: a draped woman with a cornucopia beside a winged nude man lifting a cloth, with a putt

Flora and Zephyr

Josef Klieber, late 18th-19th century

Grey wash drawing of merchant ships and small sailboats in rough seas, with dolphins leaping among the waves.

Merchant Ships and Smaller Sailing Boats in a Strong Breeze, Dolphins in the Waves

Hendrick Rietschoof, ca. 1700

Red chalk drawing of a standing workman in a hat leaning on a plank of wood, looking down.

A Carpenter at Work

Jan Josef Horemans the Elder, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of skaters and horse-drawn sledges on a frozen canal, with a snowy village and bare trees beyond.

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Horse-Drawn Sledges on the Ice, a Village Below

Andries Vermeulen, n.d.

Raised white cut paper scene of a mounted man in a tricorn hat leading riders and soldiers past a cannon and bare tree.

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Robert Lovett, 18th-19th century

Black cut paper silhouettes of a family group standing and seated in a room with tall draped windows.

Thomas Williams, the Town Crier of New Bedford with Wife and Daughter

Samuel Metford, 19th century

Red chalk design for a triangular frontispiece with two seated allegorical women, a crown, and a winged figure in an oval car

Design for a Frontispiece with Figures of Faith and Hope

Martin Tyroff, 1704-59

Ink and wash drawing of a reclining woman watched by two bearded elders leaning over a stone balustrade.

Susanna and the Elders

Gerard van Honthorst, early 17th-mid 17th century

Pencil sketch of an arbor and pathway beneath cliffs and trees, with a building on the ridge and two small figures.

Italian View: A Pathway and Arbor at the Base of Cliffs

Friedrich Salathé, 1815-21

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned woman distributing gold from a chest to kneeling figures, with a raised sword and medieval

Kriemhild, in Mourning over Siegfried, Handing Out Treasures from the Nibelungen Hoard

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1854

Grey and white wash drawing of Christ crowned with thorns by a standing soldier, with another figure at lower left, on blue p

Christ Being Crowned with Thorns

Karl Dankwart, ca. 1700

Graphite study of a bearded standing man in draped robes holding keys, with bare feet and an outstretched arm.

Study for the Figure of Saint Peter

Daniele da Volterra, ca. 1545

Male Nude

Giovanni Battista Lombardi, 19th century