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The Metropolitan Museum owns approximately 11,000 drawings and 1.5 million prints, focusing primarily on works of graphic art produced after the Middle Ages in Western Europe and in North America. This screen saver illuminates twelve exquisite drawings and prints from the Museum's collection.
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Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, 15081512
Made by Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, b. Anchiano 1452d. Amboise 1519)
Italian
Charcoal, black and red chalks; traces of framing line in pen and brown ink at upper right
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1951 (51.90)
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), 150812
Made by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, b. Caprese 1475d. Rome 1564)
Italian
Red chalk (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924 (24.197.2)
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View of Heidelberg, ca. 158889
Made by Jan Brueghel, the Elder (Flemish, 15681625)
Pen and brown ink, brush and blue and brown washes, heightened with white; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1995 (1995.15)
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Cottage among Trees, 164850
Made by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 16061669)
Dutch
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.939)
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Giant, by 1818; 19th century
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, b. Fuendetodos 1746d. Bordeaux 1828)
Made Spain
Burnished aquatint; first state
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935 (35.42)
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Saada, the Wife of Abraham Benchimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters, 1832
Eugène Delacroix (French, 17981863)
Watercolor over graphite
Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971 (1972.118.210)
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The Lake of Zug, 1843
Made by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 17751851)
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper
Marquand Fund, 1959 (59.120)
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The Connoisseur, ca. 186065
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French 18081879)
Made France
Pen and ink, wash, watercolor, lithographic crayon, and gouache over black chalk on wove paper
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.200)
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Édouard Manet, Seated, ca. 186668
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 18341917); portrait of Édouard Manet (French, 18321883)
Made France
Black chalk on off-white wove paper
Rogers Fund, 1918 (19.51.7)
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A Corridor in the Asylum, late May or June, 1889
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 18531890)
Black chalk and gouache on pink Ingres paper
Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1948 (48.190.2)
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Woman Bathing, 189091
Etched by Mary Cassatt (American, 18441926)
Drypoint and aquatint, printed in colors, fourth state
Gift of Paul J. Sachs, 1916 (16.2.2)
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Tahitians, ca. 189193
Made by Paul Gauguin (French, 18481903)
Depicted Tahiti; made France
Charcoal on laid paper
Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1996 (1996.418)
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