Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 748 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 84,693 of them are available online. There are 1,596 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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A bearded and nude Hercules lays across the bottom of the drawing on his funeral pyre. The top half depicts his entering Olympus via chariot, welcomed by the gods.

Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck

Study for the Death of Hercules

A pen and ink and watercolor drawing of boisterous, aristocratic Englishmen seated in high-backed chairs. The bewigged men talk, sleep, and look around the art and marble-bust filled room.

Thomas Rowlandson

A Meeting of Cognoscenti (After Dinner)

John Hamilton Mortimer

Three Heads

A black chalk study of Malchus and the apostle Peter. An anguished Malchus stretches rightward as he fights against Peter’s outreached hand, which appears from off sheet on the left.

Anthony van Dyck

Study for Malchus

A pen and ink with brown wash gestural drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The faceless figures create a pyramid form.

Luca Cambiaso

Descent from the Cross

Elizabeth McGowan

Untitled

Unknown Maker, Turkish

Qur'an Pages

Unknown Maker, Egyptian

Page from a Qur'an

At the center of a cream paper, a drawing of a nude woman in gray with yellow hair. A skirt of white heads and arms juts out from her hips.

Chris Hammerlein

Untitled (Woman on pedestal)

Pietro Perugino

Study of Three Figures (saint Augustine Saint Monica, and the Virgin Mary)

A pen and ink and drawing of a deceased man's will being opened. Beside the deceased, one man reads off a paper as others fight for his possessions in anguish.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

The Opening of the Will

A black ink and wash drawing of a lone female figure wearing a gown leaning against a column. She looks off into the distance. The background is gestural and abstract.

George Romney

Study for the Portrait of Frances Woodley (Mrs. Henry Bankes)

Realistically rendered etching of a cast of characters inhabiting an 18th-century mental institution. The room is populated with institutionalized men, while two upper-class women shield their eyes with fans.

William Hogarth

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse)

Guido Reni

St. Sebastian

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Bencharong bowl

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Bencharong Bowl

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Bencharong Bowl

Bowl with a small base and wide, slightly flared mouth. Its turquoise interior’s rim features red and golden patterns. Its outside features sitting figurines against red, golden, and blue patterning.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Bowl

Unknown Maker, Thai

Bencharong

A decorative drawing depicting the winged allegorical figures of Love, Friendship, and Time. The figures, architectural ruins, and landscape reference ancient Greece.

Jean-Jacques Karpff, called Casimir

L’amour et l’amitié (Love and Friendship; design for printed toile fabric)