Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,434 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,191 of them are available online. There are 1,867 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Francesco Vanni

Study for Fall of Simon Magus

Felice Giani

Vestal Virgins Showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate

An ink and wash drawing of scenes from Saint Joseph’s life, including Jesus’ birth and childhood. The scenes are presented within an ornate wall with figurative sculptures at the top.

Marco Tullio Montagna

Scenes from the Life of Saint Joseph

Pieter Jansz. Pourbus

Study for The Last Judgment

Francis Towne

A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris

Baccio Bandinelli

Early Design for the Tomb of Pope Clement VII

Rembrandt van Rijn

Landscape with a Cottage and Haybarn: Oblong

Thomas Potts

Designs for Curtain Pins Curtain Poles, Drawer Handles, Knob Cupboard Turns, Bed Caps, Clock Pins, Doorknobs, etc.

Anselm Kiefer

Unternehmen "Seelowe" VI (Operation "Sea Lion" VI)

A red chalk drawing of a woman sitting on a cane and wood chair. She wears an 18th century gown and looks to the right side of the drawing, smiling.

Louis Rolland Trinquesse

Seated Woman

Unknown Maker, Flemish

Double-sided sheet: Recto: Six Figures Copied from Albrecht Dürer's Presentation of the Virgin; Verso: fragment of a portrait sketch

Sara Balbach-Lane

Design for Coffeepot and Creamer

Elisabetta Sirani

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist

Kenojuak Ashevak

Magical Owl

Red chalk drawing of a smiling satyr’s head with delicate marks throughout and vigorous crosshatching at the chest. He has pointed ears and curly hair and beard.

Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d’Arpino

Head of a Satyr

Jonathan Lyndon Chase

Young Man Wearing Dickies

A reed pen and black ink drawing of the interior of a tavern in Pompeii. A figure peers in the doorway at the ruins of the stone vats and bar.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior of a Tavern in Pompeii

A pen and ink drawing of Hercules and other figures in a physical. Floating in the sky above and behind him are three female allegories: Victory, Honor, and Fame.

Carlo Maratti

Double-Sided Sheet with Studies of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

A sketchy brown pen and ink study of an older, dapper gentlemen surrounded by a mass of ill-defined bowing supplicants. The image is overlaid with a grid, presumably for transfer.

James Gillray

Study for An Old English Gentleman Pester’d by Servants Wanting Places

Preparatory sketch done in black chalk with many ill-defined figures circumscribed by minimal marks. At center is a seated figure being presented a bolt of cloth by two faceless others.

François Boucher

Hecuba Presents a Garment as a Gift to Athena