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 black, red, and white chalk portrait of an aristocratic white woman gazing at the viewer. She has red flowers in her curly hair, a neck ruff, and pearl earrings.

Ottavio Leoni

Portrait of the Signora Licinia Leni Marchesa Martinenghi

A young woman standing erect seen from behind pointing her fan to her dressing table. She wears wide petticoats, corset, crown, and heels. Two small dogs play at her feet.

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Lady Dressing

A pen and ink drawing of a smiling, bewigged French knight. In uniform, he stands facing left, one arm holding a tri-corner hat, the other held up in greeting.

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Le Chevalier de La Motte

Red, white, and black chalk roundel-shaped portrait of a white woman with blue eyes wearing a white cloth head covering. She is in three-quarter view, looking directly at the viewer.

Gérard de Lairesse

Portrait of a Woman Probably Marie Salme, the Artist’s Wife

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

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 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)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Country Dance

Expressive and humorous self-portrait of Sue McNally scowling in a tank top. She is outlined in hot pink, and is framed by brushy marks in black and white.

Sue McNally

Tank Top

A drawing of a male figure engulfed in surging water or flames. His right hand extends out of the surge, and his mournful expression is barely visible in the tumult.

Steve Mendelson

#6

An inky black drawing of a deer with enormous antlers, which frame and mirror a crescent moon. Beneath the antlers and behind the deer, dramatic lightning illuminates the scene.

Steve Mendelson

#5

A muted painting of Saint Paul standing on an alter with his arms extended wide open in a moment of exaltation, dramatized by fine lines of black ink and watercolor.

William Blake

St. Paul Preaching at Athens

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Birthday Party

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino

A Young Man with an Owl on a Stick

Florence Leif

Untitled (Gill Franklin in the studio)

Paul Klee

Glance of the Possessed Animal (Blick des Besessenen Tieres)