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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,744 works

Engraved print of a sibyl with a tray and three women inside an ornate frame decorated with putti and satyr masks.

The Cumeaean sibyl walking to the right and carrying a tray, followed by three women, set within an elaborate frame

Battista d'Agnolo, ca. 1540-80

Grey wash sketch of ruined Roman arches and masonry overgrown with shrubs and a tree, from a sketchbook page.

Roman ruins (recto). Three figures in classical robes (verso) (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 1)

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1774-75

Brown ink drawing of a distorted soldier on horseback in catoptric anamorphosis, arranged in an arc above a circle.

Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius)

Jean François Niceron, ca. 1620-40

Ink and pencil architectural plan with columns, piers, and a circular central space, study for San Giovanni in Laterano.

Studies for the Nave and Narthex of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome (recto and verso)

Francesco Borromini, ca. 1646-55

Pen and brown ink drawing of an altar design with a crucifix, columns, putti, and side elevations with handwritten notes.

Design for an Altar Surmounted by a Crucifix in Four Different Views

Vincenzo de' Rossi, 1546-47

Brown and white wash drawing of a bishop saint trampling fallen figures, with Christ in clouds above and bishops beside him.

Saint Lambert Trampling his Murderers, Surrounded by the Four Church Fathers

Antoine Sallaert, early 17th-mid 17th century

Drawing of a formal garden with a central pond, classical columns, statues, and a boat carrying figures.

View of a Palace Garden with a Central Pond Surrounded by Classical Architecture (Tapestry or Stage Design?)

Daniel Marot the Elder, ca. 1700-1720

Etching of a dense forest with a large oak, where a figure pursues another among reeds beside a stream.

Landscape with Pan and Syrinx, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Anthonie Waterloo

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees, a cow, two standing figures with a staff, and rolling hills under a cloudy sky

Landscape with Mercury and Argus, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Etching of a wooded landscape with a nude figure running on a riverbank and another bathing in the water.

Landscape with Alpheus and Arethusa, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Etching of a dense forest with tall trees, a reclining figure, a spear and hunting dogs, with hills under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Venus and Adonis, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees, a path, two running figures, and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Apollo and Daphne, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Etching of a large oak tree over a forest clearing with a fallen hunter, a spear, a sitting dog, and running animals.

Landscape with the Death of Adonis, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Anthonie Waterloo

Etching of a gnarled tree and a hunter with dogs in a hilly landscape with pines and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a hunter and his dogs

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Engraving of a long vaulted cloister with checkered floor, arches and robed figures, a religious painting at the far end.

View of the cloister of the Church of the monastery of El Escorial, from "Views of El Escorial"

Manuel Alegre, ca. 1790-1800

Chalk drawing of a man with long hair, mustache and goatee, turned slightly to the side, on toned paper.

Portrait of Louis XIII

Simon Vouet, ca. 1632-35

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of Puritan townspeople in a market place, with a woman holding an infant before a wooden door.

The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Pen drawing of a crowd on a wooden scaffold in a village, with kneeling figures and a standing woman by a pillory.

Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Grey wash drawing of a stone farmhouse with an arched gateway, a hilltop fortified town, and two walking figures.

A landscape with a farm house and two figures, a fortified village seen beyond

Adriaen Fransz. Boudewijns, mid-17th-early 18th century

Engraved design of an ornate candlestick with a lit candle, radiating rays, and decorative reliefs on the stem and base.

Candlestick with Lighted Candle from: Insigne Ac Plane Novum Opus Cratero graphicum; Ein new kunnstbuch (...) von all…

Matthias Zündt, 1551

Lithograph of a banyan tree over a domed shrine, with an elephant, riders and figures in a rocky Indian landscape.

View in Behar [Bihar], in an Anglo-Indian Album associated with Sir Charles D'Oyly

Charles D'Oyly, ca. 1828

Engraved rococo plate of a woman on a swing under garlands, with a man pushing her and a landscape cartouche below.

L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux…

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1740

Botanical drawing of a Pancratium plant with two white spidery flowers on a tall green stem and long leaves.

Pancratium (American narcissus)

Georg Dionysius Ehret, ca. 1752

Watercolor of the Ponte Santa Trinità in Florence with workers, stone blocks, a boat on the Arno and a bell tower.

Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence

James Duffield Harding, before 1832

Grey ink drawing of a domed Dutch exchange building beside a canal, with boats, a rower, and people on the quay.

The Old Stock Exchange (Koopmansbeurs), Rotterdam, seen from the East, with the Kolk and the Beursplein in the Foregr…

Jan de Beijer, 1750

Pencil sketch of a leaning tree with spreading branches beside a winding dirt lane and shrubs in the foreground.

Study for Tree Trunks and Lane

John Crome, ca. 1812

Etching of an ancient urn with a Bacchanalian relief of dancing satyrs and maenads on a fluted base.

Vase decorated with a Bacchanalian frieze, from "Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti a…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778-80

Engraved interior with figures at a table, a dog, an overturned chair, and a river view through an open window.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, April 1, 1745

Engraving of an elegant 18th-century interior with seated and standing figures, paintings on walls, and a draped bed alcove.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV

the elder Simon Francis Ravenet, April 1, 1745

Engraving of a cluttered interior with a seated man, a girl, a standing woman, an older man in a wig, and a skull.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III

Bernard Baron, April 1745