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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of nymphs bathing, a horned hunter with a dog, and winged figures in clouds.

Diana and Actaeon

Bartholomeus Spranger, ca. 1580-85

Hand-colored caricature of a dancing Napoleon between two pillars, with a violinist, a rooster, and ships at sea.

Napoleon Dance in Holland

Charles Williams, 1814

Hand-colored 1816 print of a butcher flirting with a fashionable woman before a shop hung with meat.

A Neck of Lamb, a Round of Beef, and a Scrag of Mutton

Charles Williams, 1816

Hand-colored caricature of a small plumed Napoleon figure on a map meeting a stout John Bull figure with an oak stick.

Boney Bothered or an Unexpected Meeting

Charles Williams, 1808

Watercolor drawing of three young women resting among classical ruins with an obelisk and broken stone fragments under a blue

Three Young Girls by Ruins

Hubert Robert, ca. 1790

Pen and ink drawing of the Madonna and Child with a mitred bishop and a standing youth in a cloak, on aged paper.

Madonna and Child with Saints Martin and Maurice (?)

Gaudenzio Ferrari, ca. 1530

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan with ornate hairpins holding a round fan beside a writing desk and books.

The Oiran Hinazuru of Chōjiya Holding a Round Fan (Uchiwa)

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1794

Japanese print of a court lady in a patterned robe on a veranda beside a bare tree in snow.

Court Lady Looking at a Blooming Cherry-Tree

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a court lady with a pink fan on a staircase beside a bare cherry tree.

Court Lady with a Fan - a Cherry-Tree in Bloom

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan in a patterned kimono reading a letter, with calligraphy and flowers beside her.

The Oiran Komurasaki of Kadotamaya Reading a Letter

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1794

Woodblock print of two women in an interior, one reaching for a green curtain, the other holding a fan beside a lattice scree

A Yoshiwara Analogue of the Story of Koko (Huang Xiang) one of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety

Chōkyōsai Eiri, ca. 1791

Woodblock print of a courtier with a brush and two court ladies in kimono, with a poem in cloud cartouches above.

Courtier and Two Ladies of the Court, with a Poem by Mibu no Tadamine

Rekisentei Eiri, ca. 1791

Three women in kimono stand by rippling water among yellow flowers in a Japanese woodblock print.

Mountain Roses of Ide (Ide no Yamabuki), from the series A Parodic Six Jewel Rivers (Yatsushi Mu-Tamagawa)

Rekisentei Eiri, ca. 1795

Bust Portrait of a Man with a Beard

Gilles Antoine Demarteau, 1776

Woodblock print of a standing man in a cream kimono and a kneeling woman in an orange floral robe, with a sword on the floor.

Rikiya and Konami, from the series A Program with Music about Loving Couples (Ongyoku hiyoku no bangumi)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1798

Woodblock print of a seated woman holding a hand mirror, with shadows cast on a lattice shoji screen behind her.

Shadows on the Shoji

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woodblock print of an older woman combing long hair while a child clambers over her shoulder, in pink and cream tones.

Yamauba Combing Her Hair with Kintarō

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1801

Woodblock print of a long-haired woman playing with a laughing red-faced child wrapped in a patterned garment.

Yamauba Playing with Kintarō

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a wild-haired woman tying the topknot of a boy who sticks out his tongue.

Yamauba Tying Kintarō’s Topknot

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a red and grey plum-patterned kimono with arms raised beside a black stage prop.

Portrait of Sanjō Kantarō in the Female Role of Yaoya Oshichi in the Play "Fuji no Takane" ("The High Peak of Mount F…

Torii Kiyomasu II, ca. 1730-40

Japanese woodblock print of a kneeling woman with gold hairpins beside a rolled paper, with a basket and maple branch above.

"Hanazuma of Hyōgoya, Kenbishi of Sakagami” from the series The Peers of Saké Likened to Select Denizens of Six House…

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1794

Woodblock print of two women in kimono beside a birdcage and screen, one holding a hand mirror, with calligraphy above.

Two Ladies

Suzuki Harunobu, 1764-72

Japanese woodblock print of two women, one holding a black lacquered mirror and one kneeling with a lacquer tray.

Two Ladies, Each with a Portion of a Lacquered Mirror

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woman in floral kimono tends a crawling baby while another woman gazes into a mirror beside a black vanity box.

Mother and Child

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1793

Woodblock print of a woman bending over a stone basin where a child sleeps, with a dog and leafy plants nearby.

Mother and Child

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

Woodblock print of a woman poling a boat with a reclining bearded Daruma figure, reeds and water behind them.

Daruma in a Boat with an Attendant

Suzuki Harunobu, late 1760s

Ukiyo-e print of two women beside a black lacquer box, one holding a fan with a caricatured face.

Fan Vendor

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1797

Woodblock print of a woman before a mirror with two girls playing nearby, one blindfolded, in patterned kimono.

Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman tending a brazier while a standing man in a striped robe watches beside a screen.

The Seventh Hour of the Night

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

Japanese woodblock print of a bowing young man, two women beside a shoji screen, and a framed inset scene with a samurai.

A Young Man at the Side of a House

Kitagawa Utamaro