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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,975 works

Brown ink drawing of a mountainous valley with a hilltop town, travelers with staffs, a bridge, and a watermill.

Mountainous Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

Tobias Verhaecht, 1575-1631

Brown ink drawing of the Baptism of Christ with a bearded figure pouring water, a crowd of onlookers, and angels in clouds.

Baptism of Christ

Maerten de Vos, 16th century

Engraved landscape with a rocky hill, hermitage chapel, kneeling saint, lion, crucifix, and village in the valley.

Landscape with Saint Jerome

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Pen and wash drawing of a Baroque altar design with a Nativity scene below and God the Father among angels above.

Design for an Altar with a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds and God the Father Above

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Engraving of a landscape with two windmills, a haloed shepherd figure with sheep in the foreground, and village houses.

Landscape with Windmills and Christ as Good Shepherd

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Sepia pen and wash drawing of mourners lowering a shrouded body into a stone tomb, with a fainting woman at right.

The Entombment, after Mantegna

Rembrandt van Rijn, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with Virgin, Christ child, angels and classical architecture.

The Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Sketches (verso)

Maarten van Heemskerck, ca. 1532-37

Etching of a haloed bearded figure raising his hand before a crowd of sick and kneeling people in a town street.

Healing the Infirm (Jésus-Christ guérit plusieurs malades en Galilée)

Etching of Christ healing a paralytic lowered through a roof while a crowd watches, with a Latin caption below.

Healing the Paralytic (Jésus-Christ prouve en guérissant un paralytique, qu'il a le pouvoir de pardonner les péchés)

Brown wash drawing of riders falling beneath a divine light beam, with angels in clouds above a city wall.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Ludovico Carracci, ca. 1587-89

Engraved frontispiece showing a bearded God figure above a winged angel writing and a veiled seated woman holding a book.

Frontispiece to the Bible

Claude Mellan, 1642

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns by soldiers, inside a circular border of scrollwork and putti, dated 1509.

Christ Crowned with Thorns, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Pen and ink drawing of Pilate washing his hands before a crowd of soldiers, with a column, drapery and city behind.

Pilate Washing his Hands

Bernard van Orley, early 1530s

Ink and gray wash drawing of a haloed rider on horseback sharing his cloak with a beggar at his knee.

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Vittore Carpaccio, 1493-1500

Drawing of an elderly bearded man with flowing hair in brown wash and red chalk against a dark background.

Study for the figure of Moses

Jacob de Wit, 1730-37

Pen and wash drawing of Ecce Homo: a crowned figure on a balcony above a crowd, framed by a border of birds, flowers and urns

Ecce Homo

Maerten de Vos, 1584

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with cherubs and an angel holding a cross, heightened with white.

Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso)

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Brown wash drawing of the risen Christ rising above a tomb as startled soldiers recoil below.

The Resurrection of Christ

Denys Calvaert, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a woman with long hair leaning over a reed-covered basket among bulrushes, with figures and a balustrade beh

Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes

Simeon Solomon, February 22, 1859

Red chalk drawing of a prophet, King David and two putti in decorative cupola compartments.

Design for the Decoration of a Cupola with a Prophet, King David and Two Putti

Grey wash drawing of a priest in a mitre circumcising an infant at an altar, with a kneeling child, a praying woman and onloo

The Circumcision

Gérard de Lairesse, mid-17th-early 18th century

Etching of a beheading scene with a severed head on the ground, a mounted horseman, soldiers and onlookers in hatched shading

The Beheading of St. Paul

Michael Lucas Leopold Willmann, n.d.

Black chalk and white highlight study of a draped angel seated on a cloud, one arm raised, with extra hand studies.

Angel Holding a Banderole

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Pen and wash study of a fountain with a seated woman, dancing figures, statues and an ornate scrolled frame.

Study for The Allegory of Spring

Federico Zuccaro, 1579

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a standing friar in a long hooded robe, gazing upward with hands clasped.

Saint Francis

Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, ca. 1550-60

Engraving of Christ seated and crowned with thorns while soldiers mock him beneath a brick archway with a town view.

The Crowning with Thorns, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraving of a kneeling young man embraced by a bending older woman, with cattle, a pond and a thatched cottage behind them.

The Prodigal Son (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Pen and brown ink drawing of The Last Supper with apostles around a long table under a draped curtain.

The Last Supper

Master of the Egmont Albums, 16th century

Red chalk drawing of Christ carrying the cross amid a crowd of soldiers and mourners, with a colonnade and hilltop crosses be

Christ Carrying the Cross

Pierre Mignard I, ca. 1684

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns, hands bound, holding a reed, with two men beside him against a radiating halo.

Christ Crowned with Thorns (copy)

H. Johnston, 1671