Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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A brown ink and wash depicting three female allegories. From left to right: Charity breastfeeding an infant, Justice holding a sword, and Prudence pointing to a mirror.

Elisabetta Sirani

Study for Allegory of Justice Charity, and Prudence

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 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 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 and white chalk drawing of two male on blue-toned paper. The figure in the foreground is seated, collapsed backwards onto the man behind him who is pointing leftward.

Louis de Boullogne the Younger

Two Male Nudes

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Country Dance

A highly realistic yet surreal drawing of a young, male-presenting figure. Looking into the distance with a neutral expression, their hand appears to reach out of the frame.

Claudio Bravo

Portrait of a Young Man

A loosely rendered black and white chalk sketch of a landscape. In it is a cottage surrounded by trees. Figures and cows hide are barely visible within the landscape.

Thomas Gainsborough

Wooded Landscape with Cottages Figures, and Cows

A pen and ink with brown wash drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The Cross is centered in the drawing.

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Deposition

Hubert Robert

Landscape. Tomb and Turreted Archway

Sebastian Schyz

Double-sided sheet: Recto: Perseus and Andromeda; Verso: Man in a hat with four lines of verse and the word 'Enswih'

Henry Fuseli

Head of a Lady

An illusionistic drawing of sheets of printed papers haphazardly piled on a speckled green surface. The papers look convincingly three dimensional but are in fact renderings on a two-dimensional surface.

Willem Robart

Trompe l’Oeil with Printed Matter

Esaias van de Velde I

Frozen Canal before a Farm in Winter

A sheet with various pen and ink study drawings. At left is a nude Hercules. At right are various annotations and sketches, including of a man wearing a plumed helmet.

Giovanni Battista Bertani

Double-Sided Sheet: Study for Hercules Victorious over the Hydra (recto); Study of Hercules a Roman Soldier’s Head, and Ornament (verso)

A lightly drawn pen and ink rendering of a triumphal procession from the Old Testament. Abigail kneels in supplication at enter left. David stands proudly in the middle right.

Hendrik de Clerck

David and Abigail

Francesco Solimena

Alexander's Defeat of Darius at the Battle of Arbela

Maerten van Heemskerck

Study for The Triumph of David

Angelica Kauffmann

Portrait of Stanislas III Poniatowski

Gaetano Gandolfi

Assumption of the Virgin