Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,436 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,135 of them are available online. There are 1,863 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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William Spratling

Portrait of Diego Rivera

Francis Towne

A View of the Town and Lake of Lugano

A satirical watercolor of a wedding divided into two horizontal registers on the sheet. The bride and groom are in the middle surrounded by family. Illegible text accompanies each figure.

George Moutard Woodward

Study for Symptoms of Matrimony

A loosely drawn pen and ink sketch of Saint Jerome and Saint John. Jerome is with a lion and cherub and John, to his right, looks downward toward a lamb.

Donato Creti

Studies for Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

Pen and ink drawing of fifteen whimsical yet grotesque monsters scattered across the page. They are hybrid mixes of human, avian, reptilian, and amphibian parts.

Hieronymus Bosch

Model Sheet with Monsters

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

A pen and ink drawing of a smiling, bewigged French knight. In uniform, he stands facing left, one arm holding a tri-corner hat, the other held up in greeting.

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Le Chevalier de La Motte

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

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Study after Alessandro Vittoria's Bust of Giulio Contarini

A brown ink and wash depicting three female allegories. From left to right: Charity breastfeeding an infant, Justice holding a sword, and Prudence pointing to a mirror.

Elisabetta Sirani

Study for Allegory of Justice Charity, and Prudence

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

John Hamilton Mortimer

Three Heads

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 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 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

Realistically rendered etching of a cast of characters inhabiting an 18th-century mental institution. The room is populated with institutionalized men, while two upper-class women shield their eyes with fans.

William Hogarth

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse)

An expressive print of Yvette Guilbert. Wearing long gloves and a dress, her body fades into the stage behind her. To her left is the dark silhouette of another figure.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Sur la Scène (Yvette Guilbert on Stage)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Country Dance