Studies of a baby

Frederick Goodall

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Goodall's striking life-size study of a baby turns demonstrates academic training and admiration for Bolognese masters. After traveling to the Middle East in 1858, the artist painted a series of works centered on biblical mothers and children shown within oriental interiors, and adapted this pose for several paintings executed during the 1870s.

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