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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,988 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged angel and a young man with a staff walking beside a fish.

Tobias and the Angel

Hans von Aachen, 1552-1616

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

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

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

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

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

Pen drawing of a kneeling bearded man in prayer with an angel offering a chalice above him.

Christ in Gethsemene

Ferdinand Piloty, early 19th century

Etching of men on ladders lowering a body from a cross, lit by rays of light, with mourners and a turbaned figure below.

Descent from the Cross

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Bust portrait of Pope Pius V in profile facing left set within an elaborate architectural structure upon which sit al…

Mario Cartaro, 1567

Engraving of Saint Paul, a bearded old man in a hooded robe reading a book and holding a sword, in a rocky landscape.

An Old Man (Saint Paul)

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1530-66

Engraving of the Virgin Mary ascending on clouds with angels above, while apostles gather around an open tomb below.

Assumption of the Virgin

Aliprando Caprioli

Engraved full-length portrait of a bearded saint in armor and fur-trimmed cloak holding a falcon and sword.

St. Bavo, from the series Saints of North and South Netherlands

Pieter Soutman, 1650

Engraving of a bearded bishop in mitre and embroidered cope holding a crozier and star emblem, with a radiating halo.

St. Swithbert

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ Child on a donkey, with angels, a smoking altar, a boat and trees.

Joseph Adoring the Christ Child near a Smoking Altar, from the Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1752

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin seated with the Christ Child, flanked by two saints, one bearded and one young.

Virgin and Child with Two Saints (recto); Fragmentary Design of a Pietà (verso)

Domenico Puligo, 1515-20

Woodcut of St. Jerome kneeling with a lion in a forest landscape with a fountain and distant town.

The Penitence of St. Jerome

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Ink and wash design drawing of an ornate fountain topped by a statue of St. Christopher carrying a child, beside a building.

Design for an Elaborate Fountain Surmounted by a Statue of St. Christopher; verso: Studies of Architectural Details

the Elder Wendel Dietterlin, 1550-99

Engraving of a haloed saint at a window beside a richly furnished bedchamber with women and an older man seated within.

Saint Nicholas of Bari and the Three Poor Girls

Cristofano Cartaro, 1587

Black and red chalk drawing of a robed male figure looking upward, hand raised at his chest, mounted in a decorative border.

Deacon Saint (Stephen or Lawrence)

Jacopo Confortini, ca. 1640-50

Engraving of an elderly bearded man kneeling before a crucifix, with a skull and a lion beside him.

Saint Jerome kneeling before a crucifix, with a skull and lion

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1550-60

Engraving of the dead Christ supported by two angels in a rocky tomb, with dense crosshatched shading on the body.

Corpus Christi

Battista Franco Veneziano, before 1555

Engraving of a nude man in a rocky wilderness pointing upward, with a lamb, a wooden cross, and distant castles.

John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Giulio Sanuto, ca. 1545-55

Engraving of the Holy Family: Mary seated with the Christ child, and Joseph with a staff behind them under a draped curtain.

The Holy Family

Battista Franco Veneziano, 1510-61

Dark painting of a winged angel wrestling a man beneath a large twisted tree in an arched forest scene.

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Eugène Delacroix, 1850

Etching of a haloed figure with raised arms teaching a crowd, with kneeling sick and seated people in the foreground.

The Hundred Guilder Print

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Etching of a haloed figure preaching from a stone platform to a crowd in a dim arched hall, with kneeling figures in the fore

Christ Preaching, called La Petite Tombe

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1657