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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Dense engraving of allegorical scenes of human folly, with a central globe, ladder, fighting figures and a skeleton with a sc

The Cage of Fools (La gabbia de' matti)

Sebastiano di Re, 1557-63

Pencil sketch of three women in long dresses talking beside a croquet field, with two croquet players at the left.

Three women in conversation beside a croquet field (recto); Studies of a ballet dancer, a woman's profile, and a seat…

Louisa Starr Canziani, ca. 1865

Engraved design of an ornate rococo sofa with carved scrolls and a seated figure with a parasol on top.

Design for a Sofa, from: Nouvelle Iconographie Historique III, series Q

Duval, 1771 or after

Graphite study of a group of bearded men in turbans and robes standing and talking together, with loose figures at the sides.

Study for "Types de races algériennes"

Henri-Félix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1830-86

Watercolor view of a long French château with slate roofs and corner towers above a formal garden with figures.

View of a Château

Nicolas Pérignon the Elder, 18th century

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a rearing horse and rider, ornate chariot scrollwork, and studies of male heads.

Sheet of Sketches: Sculpture for a Banquet Honoring Queen Christina of Sweden

Giovanni Paolo Schor, early 17th-late 17th century

Engraved plate of a silver creamer and a covered teapot with fluted bodies, leaf bands, and catalogue numbers 10497 and 10498

Creamer and Teapot

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Etched interior view of St. Peter's Basilica showing the nave, columns, coffered vault and high altar with small figures on t

Interior view of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from "Vedute di Roma" (Roman Views)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etching of the nave of St. John Lateran in Rome, with towering columns, a coffered ceiling, statues, and a distant altar.

St. Giovanni in Laterano, Interior, from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1768

Pen and ink frieze design with two putti holding garlands around an empty oval cartouche, flanked by scrolls.

Design for a Frieze

Henri Sallembier, n.d.

Grayscale drawing of two winged nude figures with comedy and tragedy masks above carved busts of playwrights.

Comedy and Tragedy

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1814

Engraving of Europa riding a white bull by the sea, with nymphs, a piper, cattle, ships and an island in the background.

The Rape of Europa

Giulio Bonasone, 1546

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elderly monocled man examining a box beside a seated woman, with a servant and urn.

The Connoisseur

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1800

Watercolor drawing of a woman in a pink gown gesturing toward a horned beast holding a basket of jewelry beneath a tree.

Beauty and the Beast

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Hand-colored caricature etching of a seated man watching two dancing women behind a sheer curtain, while a uniformed man peek

Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797…

James Gillray, February 20, 1805

Engraving of King Lear on his throne pointing at Cordelia as courtiers and attendants watch in a columned hall.

King Lear Casting Out His Daughter Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)

Richard Earlom, first published 1792; reissued 1852

Engraving of a nude woman with serpent headdress, chained and holding a large key, with a shadowy winged figure behind her.

Sin Pursued by Death (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, 787, 790-792)

Moses Haughton the younger, November 27, 1804

Letter by Edouard Manet with a watercolor of two apples casting soft shadows, handwritten in French ink.

A Letter to Eugène Maus, Decorated with Two Apples

Édouard Manet, August 2, 1880

Red chalk drawing of Christ carrying the cross amid a crowd of soldiers and mourners, with a colonnade and hilltop crosses be

Christ Carrying the Cross

Pierre Mignard I, ca. 1684

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd carrying stones past a palm tree, with an obelisk and a cloud-borne figure above.

The Jews Collecting the Twelve Stones from the River Jordan

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ca. 1535-38

Monochrome print of a reclining nude woman with curly hair lying on pillows beneath draped bed curtains.

Nude Reclining on Curtained Bed [Emma Hamilton (?)]

Adam Buck, November 1, 1797

Engraving of a banquet inside an arched hall, with a ragged beggar and a dog in the foreground by a doorway.

Lazarus at the Rich Man's Gate, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1554

Colored design drawing of a theatre ceiling with a gilded lunette, classical figures, and a frieze labeled Aristophane and Te

Design for a Ceiling at Théatre Français, Paris

Aimé Chenavard, 1810-38

Etched portrait of an older bald, bearded man in a loose collared shirt, set on a cream paper mount with faint text below.

Portrait of the photographer Lochard

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin, 1877

Etching of a woman and child riding a donkey led by a man with a staff through dark, wooded terrain.

The Flight into Egypt: Crossing a Brook

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of three leafy trees on a rise under a stormy sky, with a flat plain and distant town at left.

The Three Trees

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1643

Etching of thatched cottages, a haystack and trees in flat countryside, with a man sketching in the lower right corner.

Cottages and Farm Buildings with a Man Sketching

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1645

Etching of a clump of trees and cottages beside an open field, with a tall tree at left and a distant horizon at right.

Clump of Trees with a Vista

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1652

Etched panoramic landscape of flat fields, tree lines, farm buildings and a church tower under a wide sky.

Panorama near Bloemendael Showing the Saxenburg Estate

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Engraving of a formal ball with dancing couples, musicians, and seated spectators in an ornate interior with tall windows.

The Ball

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1634-35