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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Engraving of a chaotic battle with mounted warriors, rearing horses and fallen soldiers before a walled city with domed tower

Battle Before Troy

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Etching of elegant figures strolling and sitting among palms and vines in a glasshouse winter garden.

The Winter Garden

Charles-François Daubigny, 1843

Sketch of the Virgin and Christ child with sheep and angels, and a sleeping shepherd in the foreground.

Shepherds Dreaming of the Flight into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 18th century

Red and black chalk drawing of a bowed, nude male torso leaning forward on grey paper.

Half Figure of a Man, Nude to the Waist

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of two allegorical figures with a crocodile, dog, lion, spear, parasol and fallen urn in a landscape.

Allegories of Africa and America

Claude Louis Desrais, n.d.

Pencil sketches of women and a child among tree trunks, two compositional studies on one sheet of paper.

Two studies for a figure composition, including three women and a child

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1820-76

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a woman holding a child, beside a bending female figure.

Mother and Child and a Female Figure

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 19th century

Graphite sketch of a woman in a headscarf beside studies of hands holding an open box and beads on tan paper.

Woman holding an open jewelry box (recto); Studies for a figure composition and a leaded window (verso)

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1820-76

Grey wash drawing of allegorical figures with a trumpeting winged figure, a portrait medallion, and cannons and artillery in

Allegorical Homage to the Duc du Maine, Grand Maître de l'Artillerie

Antoine Dieu, n.d.

Colored drawing of armored soldiers and robed figures beside an ornate chariot in a classical columned hall with a coffered a

Scene from the Life of Alexander I

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a nobleman giving coins to a kneeling beggar in a Roman piazza with a dog and the Coliseum behind.

Nobleman Giving Alms to Beggar in Piazza near the Coliseum

Conrad Martin Metz, 1813

Engraving of a man in a turban beside a grey horse in an open landscape, with a distant rider and a sword on the ground.

A Turk Saddling His Horse

Eugène Delacroix, 1824

Engraving of a fierce battle in a columned palace, with armored soldiers, fallen bodies and a city burning in the distance.

Battle in the Palace of Priam

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraving of nude women bathing in a classical interior, framed by fruit garlands, scrolls, and cupids.

Women Bathing

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraving of Adonis lying dead while women mourn him in a forest, with cupid above and a fruit-garland border.

The Death of Adonis

Jean Mignon, 1544

Engraving of Abraham restrained by an angel as he prepares to sacrifice Isaac on a wood altar in a forest.

Abraham Sacrificing Isaac

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraving of St. John the Baptist preaching to a crowd of men, women and children in a wooded desert landscape.

St. John Preaching in the Desert

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraving of Christ's body being lowered from the cross by mourners, framed by an ornate border of masks and fruit garlands.

Christ's Deposition from the Cross

Jean Mignon, ca. 1544

Engraving of the Lamentation over Christ with mourners around the reclined body, a ladder and skull, in an ornate fruit-and-f

The Lamentation over Christ

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Pen and grey wash drawing of Christ in an oval frame with a halo, cross, kneeling figures and putti in rococo scrollwork.

Christ in Glory

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, early to mid-18th century

Pencil drawing of villagers dancing and gathering outdoors under a large tree, with a horseback rider and dogs at left.

Peasants' Dance Outdoors

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Richard, 1745-70

Engraving of a seated woman in drapery gesturing toward two children on a bed, with a tower and pyramid in the distance.

Seated woman with two children (Virgin with Christ and St John the Baptist?)

Léon Davent, 1540

Engraving of blindfolded Cupid riding a donkey, led by a satyr, with lions and a trumpeter beside them.

Cupid being led blindfolded on a donkey

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Engraving of Jupiter with thunderbolt among clouds above a group of reclining mythological figures in a lunette shape.

Jupiter Pressing the Stormclouds

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Engraving of classical figures tending a garden beside a herm, an arched gateway, a lattice fence and a large tree.

The Garden of Pomona

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45

Oval engraving of a reclining nude woman on a bed with a winged putto and an older woman beside her, framed by columns and cu

Danae

Léon Davent, ca. 1542-47

Engraving of mythological figures, a nude man at left and draped figures in the center, with a curtain and statue at right.

Hercules dressed as a Woman

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Engraving of draped figures at a well, a woman offering water from a jar to a man, with other women carrying urns.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Léon Davent, ca. 1542-45

Watercolor of a garden with a thatched cottage, figures, a wheelbarrow, iron railings, and a windmill under cloudy sky.

Figures in a Garden

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, 1784

Napoleon Bonaparte at the Champ de Mai, June 1, 1815

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, ca. 1815