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.

Enter your search terms below or begin with a random object.

showing 20 works out of 1372

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)

Enea Vico

The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint Catherine

Francis Place

Dublin

Rembrandt van Rijn

Peasant Family on the Tramp

A pen and ink drawing inside an Italian restaurant. Two long tables filled with patrons recede towards the back door through which a waiter arrives with a heavy tray.

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Pinelli alla Trattoria (Pinelli at the Restaurant)

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

Joseph Anton Koch

Paliano Seen from the Campagna between the Volsker and Albano Mountains

Maerten van Heemskerck

Study for The Triumph of David

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