Mary, Queen of Scots (from "Galérie historique des hommes les plus célèbres de tous les siècles et de toutes les nations...")

Charles-Paul Landon

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Outline portrait from Charles-Paul Landon's "Galérie historique des hommes les plus célèbres de tous les siècles et de toutes les nations: contenant leurs portraits, gravés au traits d'après les meilleurs originaux ..." with etchings after portraits of well-known figures by various artists. This portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots is after Pieter van Gunst's engraving in Isaac de Larrey's "Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande."

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art