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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,820 works

Etching of a large tree with exposed roots by a stream, a man walking with cattle, and hills under a cloudy sky.

Tree with roots laid bare alongside a stream, a hilly landscape and a man walking behind quadrupeds beyond

Karel Dujardin, 1659

Etching of Saint Mark with a winged lion, an angel, and putti among clouds, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Saint Mark

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1761-65

Engraving of allegorical Africa with elephant headdress, lion, crocodile and serpents, labeled L'Afrique.

L'Afrique, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of two men presenting a grey horse to a crowd of seated and standing onlookers in a stone-walled room, with a dog.

Standing men presenting a horse before a group of seated men

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, ca. 1725-83

Etching of two ornamental panels with putti, acanthus scrolls, grapevines, satyr figures and a candelabra.

Two Designs for Panels with Candelabra Decorations, from "Montants d'ornement"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Etching of a hilly landscape with two figures and a horse-drawn cart beside a wooden building corner at right.

Landscape with corner of building and awning at far right, two figures and a horse-drawn cart are positioned with bac…

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Etching of a seated man with staff and dog beside a pack horse, viewed from behind, with distant riders in a landscape.

Pack-horse, seated man with staff in right hand, and dog, all viewed from the rear, from "The Small Landscapes"

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Etching of a seated woman holding a child, a turbaned man, a cow, and an owl on a branch beneath a tree.

The Family of the oriental Peasant, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of two bearded magicians and a child around a skull, with a dog and fire at right.

Two Magicians and a Child, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of three men beside a horse, with a bird perched on a raised bare branch in a sketchy landscape.

Three Men standing beside a Horse, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Pen drawing of a frontispiece with an Italian text cartouche, putti, an owl and birds, dated 1653.

Frontispiece with Putti and Animals

Valerio Spada, 1653

Lithograph of a dog groomer kneeling on a street trimming a dog while an elderly woman watches with clasped hands.

Le Tondeur de chiens, plate 21 from "Bohémiens de Paris"

Honoré Daumier, February 15, 1842

Circular woodcut of Judith holding a severed head before a tent, with a battle and walled city in the background.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Israhel van Meckenem

Engraving of Cupid on a chariot drawn by four horses, with figures on foot, a temple and a hilltop town behind.

Triumph of Love: four horses draw a carriage with Cupid standing upon a smoking platform, preceded by gods and goddes…

Georg Pencz, ca. 1539

Engraved ornament print of a candle chandelier with horse-headed arabesques and scrollwork, numbered 39.

A fantastic chandelier with burning candles and arabesques, some ending in fantastic horse forms, from "Neue Grotessk…

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1610

Etching of a chaotic battle in a forest, with rearing horses, armored foot soldiers with shields and spears, and a flag.

Battle between cavalry and infantry in a wood

Hieronymus Hopfer, 16th century

Engraving of a spotted horse with flowing mane in a landscape, with two horses and distant buildings behind it.

Horse

Johann Elias Ridinger, 17th-18th Century

Engraved architectural ornament plate with an arched gated doorway, columns, a lion, winged figures and grotesque masks.

Ornament plate, from "Architettura"

the Elder Wendel Dietterlin, 1598

Engraving of a rider on a mule with men gathering coins beneath it, crowds around a stepped platform, Latin inscription below

Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding i…

Johann Theodor de Bry, 1592-1614

Etching of an ornate architectural facade with a central doorway, hunting dogs, animal heads, and an archer atop the pediment

Design for an Architectural Structure with a Hunting Theme, plate 74 from "Architettura"

the Elder Wendel Dietterlin, 1598

Engraving of an armored warrior with raised sword and shield, a goat at his feet, labeled MARS, 1528.

Mars, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B., 1528

Engraving of a crowned nude man with a scepter, seated by a tree beside a lion and shield, labeled SOL.

Sun, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B., 1528

Engraving of Venus with long curly hair holding an arrow and flaming heart beside a tree, with a bull at her feet.

Venus, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B., 1529

Woodcut of a bearded horseman drawing his sword beside a kneeling beggar, with trees and a distant castle.

Saint Martin on Horseback

Hans Baldung Grien, 15th-16th century

Etched plate of Roman military trophies with a winged Victory, shields, spears, ram heads and a Medusa mask, 1656-58.

Plate 1: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1656-58

Engraved portrait of William Hogarth in a feathered hat, beside a pug dog, with a painter's palette and books.

William Hogarth

Benjamin Smith, June 4, 1795

Engraved allegorical print of a young man in armor in an oval medallion, with cherubs, a lion, allegorical women and a city v

Portrait of the future Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II as the Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany

Carlo Faucci, ca. 1760-67

Etching of Roman arms trophies with shields, an eagle, a grotesque mask, lion and boar heads, and scrollwork.

Plate 4: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1656-58

Etching of ornate Roman military trophies with plumed helmets, a griffin, lion heads and feathers, with Italian inscription.

Plate 5: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1658

Engraving of nude figures, animals and a cornucopia in an idyllic wooded landscape, The Golden Age after Adriaen Matham, 1620

The Golden Age

Adriaen Matham, 1620