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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Antoine Coypel

Study for a Religious Painting

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

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

Pieter Withoos

Study of Four Butterflies and a Bumblebee

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 charcoal drawing of a sculptural, nude male torso seen from behind. The figure is heavily shaded and detailed, and fine lines express detailed contours of the body.

Anton Løvenberg

Study after a Plaster Cast of a Male Torso

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 red crayon and graphite drawing of six seated women. Each performs an action to mark the time of day: awaken, wash, weave, wine, play the lyre, and sleep.

Edward Burne-Jones

The Hours

A black ink and wash drawing of a lone female figure wearing a gown leaning against a column. She looks off into the distance. The background is gestural and abstract.

George Romney

Study for the Portrait of Frances Woodley (Mrs. Henry Bankes)

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

Guido Reni

St. Sebastian

A graphite and black chalk drawing of Galatea and Cupid. The sea nymph Galatea stands gazing leftward, wearing only a sheet. Cupid kneels at her feet, stringing his bow.

Willem van Mieris

Galatea and Cupid

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

A primarily black print with sections of yellow and white. At the center is the possibility of the obscured face of a figure with a white beard.

Peter Doig

Fisherman

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

Red-toned print of a figure in a long, deep-red garment. Behind them, gray dots are scattered across a light pink background with black and gray horizontals.

Peter Doig

Figure by a River

James H. Draper

BECK: Ernie Bushmiller's Aunt Fritz