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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Red chalk and white highlight drawing on blue paper of a kneeling draped figure seen from behind, bare feet visible.

Study of a Draped Figure

Jean-François de Troy, ca. 1736-39

Pen and watercolor drawing of a chained prisoner in a vaulted stone cell, surrounded by armed guards and a monk.

Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen

Pierre Révoil, 1819

Red chalk sketch of a young man bent over a reclining figure, on an arched-top cream sheet.

A Young Man Seated, Bent over a Reclining Figure

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1845-50

Brown ink drawing of a wide dune landscape with a herdsman and sheep under a cloudy sky.

A Panoramic Landscape with a Herdsman and His Flock

Jan Ruischer, 17th century

Engraved oval portrait of a man in steel armour with a white collar, framed by laurel wreaths and initials.

Oliver Cromwell

Jan van de Velde IV, after 1653

Imaginary portrait head of a man wearing a cap and fur-trimmed coat; from the series of 22 imaginary portrait heads a…

Johann Lorenz Haid, ca. 1730-50

Blue monochrome print of a man in a feathered hat and ruff collar holding a sword hilt, after Piazzetta.

Imaginary portrait head of a man in a feathered hat; from the series of 22 imaginary portrait heads after Giovanni Ba…

Johann Lorenz Haid, ca. 1730-50

Watercolor botanical study of an orchid with rose and cream flowers, long green leaves and pale roots on paper.

Study of an orchid, "Vanda Roxburgia"

James Sowerby, before 1822

Botanical watercolor of a spiny globe thistle with two blue-white flower heads and prickly green leaves on cream paper.

Study of a thistle

James Sowerby, before 1822

Study, Head of a Boy

Thérèse Eléonore Lingée, ca. 1777

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate festival decoration with a staircase, candelabra, columns, relief panels and winged figures

Festival decoration

Antonio Gherardi, late 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a woman handing a swaddled infant to a bearded nude man, with a small child at lower left.

Rhea Outwitting Saturn

Edmé Bouchardon, 18th century

Charcoal drawing of slender trees on a slope overlooking calm water, low hills and a cloud-filled sky.

Le Cap Martin

Henri Harpignies, 1910

Grey wash drawing of a shepherd seated under a ruined classical arch beside a statue of Hercules, with a distant landscape.

A Shepherd under a Ruined Arch with the Farnese Hercules

Johannes Antiquus, 1726-50

Eugénie, Empress of the French (Eugénie, Impératrice des Français)

Léon Alphonse Noël, after 1854

Etching of a sinking sailing ship in smoke, crew in lifeboats and swimmers in rough sea, with a steamship at left.

Combat Naval (L'Alabama coulant sous le feu de Kearsage)

Charles Longueville, August 1864

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bound nude man at a column, attacked by turbaned figures with a torch, in an arched setting.

The Flagellation of Christ

Matthäus Gundelach, 1632

Etching of a figure in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a covered cup aloft.

Balthasar, from Three Magi series

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of a great windblown beech tree with twisted roots, with two small figures and a dog in woodland at left.

The Great Beech (Two Farmers with their Dog)

Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1652

Etching of a great tree with a spiral wooden staircase on a stone terrace, surrounded by tall pines and small figures.

The Tree House at Pratolino

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1653

Etching of Christ crucified between two thieves, lit from above, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1660

Etching of a nude man, a seated woman, and onlookers beside a tree and rocky tomb opening, numbered 17.

The Discovery of the Tomb of Punchinello, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Lithograph of a tree seen through a six-pane window in a dark interior, with leaves scattered across the light sky.

Day (Le Jour), from the series, Dreams (Songes), plate VI

Odilon Redon, 1891

Etching of Paris riverside with tall buildings, smoking chimneys, a stone embankment with onlookers, and moored boats with la

The Mortuary, Paris (La Morgue)

Charles Meryon, 1854

Engraving of a young boy riding a large eagle in flight above a landscape with a river, trees, and a half-timbered house.

Ganymede as a young boy riding a large eagle (Zeus) in flight above a landscape

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1500-1505

Woodcut of the Holy Family with angels holding a crown, three hares in the foreground, and a landscape with a castle.

The Holy Family with Three Hares

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497-98

Engraving of a crowned king fleeing a unicorn through a forest, with armored horsemen and a stone archway nearby.

A King Pursued by a Unicorn, from the Unicorn Series

Jean Duvet, ca. 1555

Engraving of the moon in its final quarter, with craters and a bright crescent against dark hatched lines.

The Moon in its Final Quarter

Claude Mellan, 1635

Print of a young man in a plumed hat holding a tall pole, with a lace collar and dark doublet against a dark background.

The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, 1658

Etching of robed lawyers seated at a candlelit table in a library, with allegorical figures of Justice and putti floating abo

A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1776

Etched design of an ornate fireplace with a bird in a shell, armor frieze, overmantel with candelabra, and flanking chairs.

Bird in shell at the center of the lintel, with a frieze of trophies, surmounted by an overmantel with candelabra and…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769 (?)

Engraved plate with a sedan chair, coach, two clocks, and an ornate console table with griffin supports and an urn.

A sedan chair, a coach, a commode, a side table and two clocks (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, une commode, une cons…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Sepia print of a ruined Gothic abbey with arched windows, a seated figure on a slope, and a windblown tree.

Rivaux Abbey, Yorkshire, part X, plate 51 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, May 23, 1812

Engraving with a seated bearded man, a skeleton, winged allegorical figures, and an oval portrait of a woman with a skull-hol

Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller

Aegidius Sadeler, 1600

Etching of a young nude girl riding a satyr within an oval frame surrounded by leafy foliage, with a vessel on the ground.

A Young Girl Astride a Satyr

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraving of a priest baptizing an infant as a young man holds the child and a veiled woman looks on beside a font.

Baptism, from "The Seven Sacraments"

Johann Anton Riedel, 1754

Pen and wash design drawing of three rococo ribband back chairs with carved ribbon splats and cabriole legs.

Ribband Back Chairs

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a staff feeling his way along a wall in a dim interior, with a dog at his feet.

The Blindness of Tobit

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Etching of three thatched gabled cottages beside a dirt road, with a large tree on the right and a distant village at left.

Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Reddish-brown chiaroscuro woodcut in three panels showing nude men abducting women among horses and classical architecture.

The Rape of the Sabines

Andrea Andreani, 1585

Etching of a bull attacked by dogs in a bullring while a mounted horseman in a plumed hat watches from the right.

Plate 25 from "La Tauromaquia": They loose dogs on the bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull above a crowd of spectators tumbling over a wooden barrier in a bullring, by Goya, 1816.

Plate 21 from "La Tauromaquia": Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Tor…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Hand-colored caricature of exaggerated musicians playing flute, double bass, piano, horn, trombone and violin together.

The Pic-Nic Orchestra

James Gillray, April 23, 1802

Mezzotint of men in 18th-century dress gathered in a Royal Academy studio with sculptures and a nude model.

The Royal Academy of Arts

Richard Earlom, August 2, 1773

Engraving of St. John writing on Patmos with an eagle, a tree, sea and boats, and the Virgin and Child in light above.

St. John the Evangelist on Patmos

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Engraving of a wild bacchanal in an oak forest with dancing satyrs, nymphs, musicians and a winged figure with a bow.

Bacchanal

Giulio Sanuto, ca. 1557

Etching of a martyrdom scene: a nude figure on a fiery grill, a seated ruler, soldiers, and an angel descending above.

The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

Claude Vignon, ca. 1627

Etching of a forest scene with a stone grotto, a crowd of figures in period dress, a seated woman, and tall trees.

The Fourth Spring

Allart van Everdingen

Etching of a coastal landscape with tall trees, sailing ships, cattle, a ruined temple, and a group of women on the shore.

The Rape of Europa

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Engraving of nude damned figures, demons and serpents tumbling downward through clouds into a dark abyss.

The Fall of the Damned

Pieter Soutman, 1642

Etching of the Holy Family: a seated woman holds an infant, a bearded man leans behind her, and a boy with a staff stands bes

The Holy Family

Guido Reni, ca. 1595-1600

Etching of two bound figures beneath a large staring owl perched above them, with a caption reading ¿No hay quien nos desate?

Plate 75 from "Los Caprichos": Is there no one to untie us? (¿No hay quien nos desate?)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a nude figure beside a tree with bearded men and a tall-hatted figure gathered around a goat on the ground.

Two Figures Attentive to Punchinello, with Others, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of a woman being carried off by a bearded rider on a horned creature under swirling clouds, dated 1516.

Abduction of Proserpine

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Etching of a seated woman surrounded by playful cherubs climbing and lounging among large trees in a forest landscape.

The Garden of Charity

Pietro Testa, ca. 1631-37

Lithograph of nude bathers in a landscape with clouds, rocks and trees, by Paul Cézanne, in soft grey and green tones.

The Large Bathers (Les Baigneurs)

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1898

Hand-colored print of a ruined classical villa with an arched facade, fountain, staircase, statues, and figures with animals.

The Villa Sachetti

Jean François Janinet, 1778

Hand-colored stage design of a crowned figure on a crescent moon beneath a vast starry sky with glowing clouds.

Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1847-49

Brown chiaroscuro print of nude men lifting a struggling woman above a rocky base, modeled like a marble sculpture.

Rape of a Sabine Woman

Andrea Andreani, 1584

Woodcut of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, angels, a star, and a stone stable.

The Adoration of the Magi, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1502

Engraving of an angel and a young boy walking through a dark wooded landscape with a distant tower and cloudy sky.

Tobias and the Angel (large plate)

Hendrick Goudt, 1613

Engraving of a centaur and a bearded satyr carrying a nude curly-haired man across a rocky landscape under clouds.

The March of Silenus

Christoffel Jegher, ca. 1652

Dark etching of figures gathered around a glowing lantern at night, with a swaddled infant and a reader at right.

Adoration of the Shepherds: A Night Piece

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1657

Engraving of a man in a tricorn hat carrying a basket of paper whirligig toys on sticks.

Whirligig Peddler

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1742

Etching of a curly-haired toddler in flowing drapery playing with a puppet beside a small dog, by Fragonard.

Fanfan

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1778

Etching of a donkey-headed man in a coat reading a book of horse images at a desk, from Goya's Los Caprichos.

Plate 39 from "Los Caprichos": And so was his grandfather (Asta su Abuelo)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Mezzotint of young men drawing a seated female model in a vaulted room with columns and a classical statue, lit by lamplight.

An Academy by Lamplight

William Pether, February 20, 1772

Hand-coloured print of a woman in a white gown and fur-trimmed cloak standing in a wooded landscape with cloudy sky.

Miss Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1792

Engraving of a muscular man carrying heavy wooden gates on his shoulders over rocky ground, in strong black and white.

Samson Carrying the Gates, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Lord Leighton Frederic, 1881

Engraving of an old shepherd lying on a hill playing a pipe, with a goat and sheep and timber buildings behind.

The old shepherd lying in a landscape, buildings behind, a goat and a sheep to the left

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1500-1515

Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1530

Etching of two crouching lionesses and a reclining doe, arranged in three stacked studies on a pale sheet.

A Doe and Two Lionesses

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, ca. 1540

Etching of a river ferry with passengers, a riverside inn with travelers and horses, and a town with a spire beyond.

The Ferry

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649

Etching of an elderly man in a dim study gazing at a glowing circular diagram inscribed with letters, beside a tall arched wi

Faust

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652

Etching of a seated young man in a plumed hat beside a woman with a fan, an older man behind them, and pewter dishes and grap

The Enamored Couple: Lucelle and Ascagnes

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1616

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a bald head and curly hair, wearing a buttoned collared garment, shown in bust view.

Bust of an Elderly Man

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

Etching of a mounted rider in a plumed hat spearing a charging bull in an arena, from Goya's La Tauromaquia.

Plate 11 from "La Tauromaquia": The Cid campeador spearing another bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Engraved view of a crowded Versailles gallery with masked guests, chandeliers, and a painted ceiling during a masked ball.

Decoration for a Masked Ball at Versailles, on the Occasion of the Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Th…

Charles Nicolas Cochin I, 1764, reprinted ca. 1860

Etching of a costumed Chinese masquerade procession with a carriage passing a carved column in a Roman street.

The Chinese Masquerade (La Mascarade chinoise)

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1735

Engraving of a couple kissing in a kitchen by a hearth while a servant kneels nearby and a figure stands in the doorway.

On ne s'avise jamais du tout, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de…

Jean-Baptiste Patas, 1795

Engraving of winged cherubs holding a scroll above skeletons, bones and classical tombs on rocky ground.

The Vision of Ezekiel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1554

Etching of a fantastical triumphal arch with classical ruins, a bust, overgrown fragments, and small armored figures.

The Triumphal Arch, from "Grotteschi" (Grotesques)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etching of a gnarled tree by a river with a standing man in a hat, sailboats, a windmill, and houses on the far bank.

The Omval

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1645

Etching with a tall tree and a small figure on the left, and a dark study of a man's head in a cap on the right.

Sheet with Two Studies: A Tree and the Upper Part of a Head of Rembrandt Wearing a Velvet Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1642

Etching of a mounted horseman watching an elder baptize a kneeling man beside a chariot and trees.

The Baptism of The Eunuch

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Etching of a rustic barn interior with thatched roof, chickens, barrels, a cart, and a ladder by Adriaen van Ostade.

The Barn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1647

Engraving of an ornate garden with mathematical instruments, urns, a central fountain, and a peacock.

Garden of Mathematical Sciences

Francesco Curti, 17th century

Engraving of muscular Hercules with a club facing a winged, many-headed hydra coiled among rocks under a cloudy sky.

Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro

Engraving of a crowded fantastical landscape with monsters, soldiers and a seated woman labeled Patientia, with a distant cit

Patience (Patientia)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1557

Engraving of the adoration of the shepherds with the Virgin, Joseph, kneeling shepherds and angels above a manger.

The adoration of the shepherds

Diego de Astor, 1605

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, angels above a star, and a procession of figures and horsemen

The Adoration of the Magi, set before and architectural colonnade

Pietro Testa, ca. 1640

Engraving of women in lace collars dozing in a furnished room with a fireplace, tapestries and a flower basket.

Foolish Virgins Sleeping

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of a family seated at a dining table in an interior, with a servant holding a book and a bed at left.

A Family Saying Grace

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, 1609

Mezzotint of a sleeping girl with needlework in her lap, seated by a fireplace beside a lit candle and scissors.

Sleeping Girl with Needlework in her Lap

Gerard Valck, n.d.

Engraving of nude mythological figures with Jupiter descending from clouds above a reclining man and a woman holding wheat.

The Four Elements, plate 1 from "Mythological Subjects"

Jacob Matham, 1588

Engraved print of a veiled, haloed standing woman in a long robe within a decorative border, labeled Aritmetricha.

Arithmetic

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, 1460-70