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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Alexander Cozens

A Wooded Stream

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'

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

Gaspare Galliari

Double-sided sheet: Recto: Stage setting in antique funerary hall; Verso: Stage design for a ruined portico

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 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

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

Rembrandt van Rijn

Landscape with a Cottage and Haybarn: Oblong

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

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