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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,975 works

Colored design drawing of a theatre ceiling with a gilded lunette, classical figures, and a frieze labeled Aristophane and Te

Design for a Ceiling at Théatre Français, Paris

Aimé Chenavard, 1810-38

Etching of a woman and child riding a donkey led by a man with a staff through dark, wooded terrain.

The Flight into Egypt: Crossing a Brook

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of a gnarled pollard willow with a lion at its base and a kneeling bearded man in the lower right landscape.

St. Jerome beside a Pollard Willow

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Grey wash drawing after Giotto showing St. Francis on a bier, mourning monks, a procession and angels above.

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

William Young Ottley, 1795-1836

Pencil sheet with several sketched studies of muscular nude male figures in twisting, falling poses.

Figure Studies after Rubens's "The Fall of the Rebel Angels"

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1820-22

Pencil sketch on tan paper of bearded men, a nude female figure and an infant, studies after Rubens' Adoration of the Magi.

Adoration of the Magi, after Rubens

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1830

Engraving of a martyr on a gridiron over flames, surrounded by soldiers, with angels and clouds above.

Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

Cornelis Cort, 1571

Etching of a crowd gathered before a classical building as a figure is presented on a balcony between soldiers.

Christ Presented to the People

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655

Charcoal sketch of several nude figures intertwined in a circle, with soft gray shading against a dark background.

Sketch for "Jesus the Son of Man"

Kahlil Gibran, 1923

Etching of the Annunciation: a kneeling winged angel offers a lily to a haloed Virgin seated beside a fruit basket and table.

The Annunciation

Jacques Bellange

Woodcut of Saint Philip, a bearded elder holding a cross and a book, standing barefoot against a hatched dark background.

Saint Philip

Domenico Beccafumi, ca. 1540-1550

Grey wash drawing of a man in uniform lifted to the clouds by a winged figure, with allegorical figures and a classical tomb

Apotheosis of George Washington

Etienne Pallière, ca. 1799

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate architectural frame with a coat of arms, caryatids, garlands and a blank central panel.

Design for the Frame of a Funerary Plaque with the Coat of Arms of Roger II de Saint Lary, Duc de Bellegarde

Etienne Martellange, ca. 1619-30

Engraved religious allegory with crucified Christ on a grapevine cross, flanked by Lex Vetus and Lex Nova figures and biblica

Typus Utriusque S. Legis

Hieronymus Wierix, 1570-1619

Engraving of the Pietà with the dead Christ held by grieving Mary, two angels, and a large cross above.

Pietà with Angels in front of the Cross

Giulio Bonasone, 1546

Black chalk study of a seated elderly bearded man in a draped robe, with white highlights on grey paper.

Study for a Figure of Saint Joseph

Bartolomeo Schedoni, ca. 1595-1615

Circular pen drawing of Christ at the cross's foot, mourned by Mary and John, with a ladder and soldiers behind.

Christ at the Foot of the Cross, Mourned by Mary and John

Nicolaas Hogenberg, early 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a crowned saint beside a grape barrel, with angels above, putti at lower left, and vines.

Saint Wenceslas at the Vintage, Attended by Angels and Putti

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, mid-18th-late 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a winged archangel surrounded by flying putti and clouds, with a distant landscape below.

Flying Putti, Surrounding Archangel Raphael

Conrad Meyer, 1631-32

Engraving of a seated bearded man at a desk beside an angel, with a walled city, a swan, a boat and animals.

The artist Jean Duvet in the guise of St. John the Evangelist, sitting at a desk

Jean Duvet, ca. 1546-55

Pencil sketch of a female figure holding a cross and a flaming heart, with cherubs on clouds above a globe.

The Virgin of the Sacred Heart

Théodore Géricault, ca. 1820

Broadside with 48 numbered woodcut scenes of the life, passion and death of Jesus Christ, with Spanish verse captions.

Broadside with 48 scenes of the life of Jesus Christ

José Noguera, 1866

Gray wash drawing of crowned Saint Cecilia beside an organ, with winged angels playing cello and attending putti in an arched

Saint Cecilia at the Organ, Flanked by Angels Making Music

Johann Gottfried Schadow, late 18th-mid-19th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a crowd of muscular figures gesturing beneath classical arches and an elevated platform.

Ecce Homo

Maarten van Heemskerck, 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling friar gazing up at the Christ Child in clouds, with an altar table and procession at right.

The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua

Vicente Salvador Gómez, n.d.

Engraved panorama of a Venetian ceremonial procession with gondolas on the water and crowds in a city square.

Procession of the Doge to the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, with a View of Venice, ca. 1565

Jost Amman, 1697

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bound nude man at a column, attacked by turbaned figures with a torch, in an arched setting.

The Flagellation of Christ

Matthäus Gundelach, 1632

Etching of a figure in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a covered cup aloft.

Balthasar, from Three Magi series

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of Christ crucified between two thieves, lit from above, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1660

Woodcut of the Holy Family with angels holding a crown, three hares in the foreground, and a landscape with a castle.

The Holy Family with Three Hares

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497-98