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796 works

Elderly couple on a garden bench gazing at a classical marble statue, with a man in a top hat and a cane beside a woman.

--No matter what one says, old things are always beautiful. --Yes, my dear, but only in marble., from 'As you like it…

Honoré Daumier, January 21, 1850

Engraving of a draped woman holding hands with a winged cherub who holds an olive branch beside a tree.

An allegory of Peace; Peace personified as a woman standing in a landscape holding the left hand of a winged genius,…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517-20

Hand-colored lithograph of a forest ravine with a waterfall, tall trees, rock walls, and a seated man with a staff at lower l

A Memory of Caldera, from "Histoire des Iles Canaries"

Félix Achille Beaupoil Saint-Aulaire, 1830

Engraved allegorical monument with golden tree, dragon, classical figures, coins and coats of arms on rocky mountain.

Pompa Introitus...Ferdinand, Austriaci. Antwerp

Peter Paul Rubens, 1635

Engraving of two nude men in a landscape, one holding a convex mirror and a snake-entwined head, the other leaning on a tree.

A young naked man standing at left leaning on the trunk, another seen from behind, holding two snakes in his right ha…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Lithograph title page showing a stone watering trough, fountain pedestal lettered Etudes de Chevaux par Géricault, with horse

Watering Trough, Title Page of "Studies of Horses" (Etudes de Chevaux)

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Etching of a cabbage field with a leaning tree, a low wall, and farm buildings in the background.

The Cabbage Field

Camille Pissarro, ca. 1880

Engraving of a nude man seen from behind, climbing over a rocky ledge beside trees and grass.

Naked man viewed from behind climbing a river bank, after Michelangelo

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Etching of a two-masted sailing boat by a shore, with a mountain, trees and clouds in the background.

Greek Landscape

Edgar Degas, 1856

Watercolor of geese and goslings alarmed by foxes and cubs emerging from rushes beside a pond under a willow.

A Goose and a Gander with their Goslings Honking in Alarm as Two Foxes with their Cubs Emerge from the Rushes

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, mid-18th-early 19th century

Engraving of three nude men on a rocky cliff, with soldiers emerging from a forest and a village in the distance.

The Climbers: three naked men, one seen from behind climbing onto a river-bank, soldiers emerge from the forest in th…

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510

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

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 seated bearded elder pointing upward beside a nude laureate man, a tree, and an armillary sphere.

Seated old shepherd gesturing towards the sky and speaking to nude male surrounded by tools of measurement

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

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

Engraving of Minerva and Mercury arming Perseus in a wooded landscape, with nymphs watching from rocks above.

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Müller, 1604

Engraving of a sleeping young man at a wood's edge, a kneeling woman with a pot, and an old man pointing skyward.

Man sleeping at the edge of a wood with a woman knealing at his side with one hand on a pot and the other on the shou…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Engraving of Saint Sebastian tied to a bare tree, pierced by arrows, standing on a rocky mound.

Saint Sebastian

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Etching of a marble vase with figures on a garden terrace, a seated boy sketching it, cypress trees and an obelisk behind.

The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden ter…

Stefano Della Bella, 1656

Engraving of a seated man playing a guitar under a tree, with a river, hills and a small town in the background.

Portrait of Jean-Philotée Achillini: seated man playing guitar on hill near tree, landscape with small town in backgr…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Etching of a gnarled tree on a rocky shore with classical figures, a nude woman, a cherub, and a satyr within an ornate frame

Max Klinger's Radierungen zu Apulejus' Märchen Amor und Psyche, Opus V a+b

Max Klinger, after 1909

Grey wash drawing of steep Alpine cliffs and pine trees above a shadowed rocky foreground by Francis Towne.

Near Glaris [Glarus], Switzerland

Francis Towne, September 2, 1781

Engraving of a couple walking in a landscape while a skeleton holding an hourglass hides behind a tree at left.

Lord and lady walking with figure of death hiding behind a tree, holding an hourglass, The Promenade after Dürer

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Ink and wash drawing of a nude Adam amid animals including a horse, goat, and unicorn in a wooded landscape.

Adam in the Garden of Eden, Naming the Animals

Joachim Wtewael, ca. 1605-10

Etching of a woman drinking near wheat and a cart while an old woman with a candle points at a naked child at a doorway.

The Mocking of Ceres

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Engraving of a nude young man pointing toward sunbeams beside a tree, and an old man reclining in grass at right.

An old man reclining on the ground at right; at left a naked younger man standing pointing toward the sun with and le…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Grey wash frontispiece with a classical frame reading TASSO, showing an embracing couple and sheep in a wooded pastoral scene

Fronticepiece for Tasso's Poems

Richard Westall, late 18th-mid-19th century

Etching of two men beside a large tree above a river and wooded hills, with a fallen log in the foreground.

The Temptation of Jesus

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Engraving of three nude women embracing before palm trees and fountains in an arched frame, after Marcantonio Raimondi.

The Three Graces, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Hand-colored woodcut of the risen Christ with a halo and red cloak, standing over a tomb with startled soldiers around him.

Resurrection, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10