Works on paper

With more than 90,000 artworks, our collection of works on paper is one of the largest in the world.

Highlights

Saint Matthew with two Angels (Design for a lunette), ca. 1485-1490

Pintoricchio (Bernardino Pinturicchio)
Saint John the Evangelist Meditating the Gospel, 1645-1650

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Salt Flats at Le Croisic, ca. 1671-1673

Lambert Doomer
Young Men in Ancient German Costumes, 1570

Melchior Lorch
A Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) with a Tiger Moth, a Butterfly, a Snail, and a Beetle, ca. 1730

Barbara Regina Dietzsch
Study of a man with upraised hand (Orator), ca. 1625

Jusepe de Ribera
La Furlana, no. 31 from the series Divertimento per gli ragazzi (Entertainment for Children), ca. 1800

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Portrait of a Lady as Diana, ca. 1720

Rosalba Giovanna Carriera
Portrait of a Woman, known as the 'Marquise d'Anglure', ca. 1780

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

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