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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Watercolor of sailors and men gathered on a steamship deck around a notice board, with rigging and signal flags overhead.

News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc.

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Watercolor of a harbor with tall ships, steamers, rowing boats with flags, and a crowd on a pier under cloudy skies.

The Cable Fleet Leaving Ireland, July 1858

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Etching of a seated woman seen from behind, surrounded by sketched fantastical creatures, a nude, a dog and inscriptions.

The Last Maja

Félicien Rops, second half 19th century

Hand-colored drawing of a green and black phaeton carriage in side view with yellow-trimmed spoked wheels, labeled No. 1003.

Phaeton #1003

Brewster & Co., 1865-1875

Figure Studies, from "Drawing Book"

Frederick Bloemaert, 1650-56

Engraving of a draped woman drinking from a vessel beside an old woman and a nude child at a rustic doorway, with foliage and

Ceres Seeking Her Daughter (The Mocking of Ceres)

Hendrick Goudt, 1610

Watercolor capriccio of Roman ruins with a monumental arch, columns, a rearing horse, and a distant triumphal arch.

Architectural Capriccio with a Monumental Arch

Jean Nicolas Servandoni, 18th century

Watercolor elevation of a domed temple with a columned portico and pediment, based on the Pantheon, with a scale bar below.

Architectural Project based on the Pantheon

Ahlsned, ca. 1847

Black chalk drawing of a kneeling cuirassier in plumed helmet and uniform, with white highlights on tan paper.

Kneeling Cuirassier

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1810

Drawn cover design for the Illustrirte Zeitung with a winged allegorical figure, the year 1860, and a pilgrim in a forest sce

Cover design for the "Illustrirte Zeitung"

Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren, 1860

Two Studies of Bearded Men; verso: Studies after Antique Sculpture

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of several draped female figures and a reclining male figure, with smaller figure studies in the margins

Studies of draped female and male figures; verso: Studies of draped female figures

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, 18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man, a seated woman and child looking up, with angels in clouds above.

The Holy Family (recto); Moses striking water from a rock (verso)

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, mid-18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of overgrown Roman ruins with arched openings, broken stone blocks, and dense vegetation.

Partial View of the Colosseum (recto); Sketch of the Temple of Minerva Medicea (verso)

Johann Christian Klengel, late 18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a haloed priest preaching to kneeling men, women, children and a dog beside classical ruins.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola Preaching

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, before 1761

Watercolor study of gnarled tree trunks with hanging aerial roots and sparse leaves against a pale, sandy landscape.

Study of a Stump with Aerial Roots

Woldemar Friedrich, mid-19th-early 20th century

Ink drawing of figures gathered at a tomb entrance under trees, with a wide hillside landscape and inscribed gravestones.

The Raising of Lazarus

Matthias Deigle, 18th century

Blue-toned drawing of a mountain valley with a lake, trees, clouds, and small figures near a wooden building.

View of the Ankl-Alpe and the Schliersee

Johann Georg von Dillis, 1817

Brown ink and wash drawing of a mountainous landscape with waterfalls, trees, and a reclining man in the foreground.

Reclining Man in a Mountainous Landscape with Waterfalls

Johann Georg von Dillis, 18th-early 19th century

Graphite and chalk drawing of a wooded valley with a shepherd, goats and cattle on a path beneath clouds.

Landscape near Ruhpolding

Cantius Dillis, late 18th-mid-19th century

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman holding an infant, with a donkey's head and a standing figure in the background.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Anton Raphael Mengs, mid-18th-late 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a castle courtyard with a stone tower, arched passage, stepped gable and cobblestones.

View of the Courtyard of the Castle at Döben

Carl Gustav Carus, 1800-1869

Sepia drawing of a dense woodland edge with tall trees and undergrowth in the foreground.

Edge of a Wood near Frascati

Ernst Fries, 1824

Charcoal and chalk study of a man looking upward with a woman behind him, raised hands visible, on tan paper.

A male and a female figures (study for 'Golgotha')

Otto Greiner, late 19th-early 20th century

Charcoal cover design by Otto Greiner showing a nude male figure, a helmeted warrior with spear, and a crowd before a mountai

Cover design for "Klassischer Skulpurenschatz"

Otto Greiner, late 19th century

Ornate framed drawing with ivy, a bust of King Ludwig, statues of Raphael and Dürer, and a still life of flowers and fruit.

Homage from Bavarian artists to King Ludwig I

Peter Herwegen, 1874

Pencil portrait of a young woman with hair in a high bun, looking left and smiling, wearing a draped bodice and full sleeves.

Portrait of a Young Woman; verso: Sketch of a Young Woman with her Hands Resting on a Table

Georg Friedrich Kersting, first half 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a river, distant mountains, two resting figures and a ruined tower.

Southern Landscape with Resting Wayfarers at a River

Ferdinand Kobell, 1760-99

Pen and brown ink sketch of three men beside a stone pedestal with sculptures and an urn among tall trees.

Three Men in a Landscape near Sculptures

Martin Johann Schmidt, 18th century

Pencil portrait of a young bearded man with curly hair wrapped in a cloak, looking toward the viewer.

Portrait of a Young Man

Adolf Senff, 1834