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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

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 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

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

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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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

Lithograph of a costumed street performer on a stone step with a dog, bowing man, onlookers and a table with a chest.

The Fool Who Sells Wisdom

Carle Vernet, ca. 1818

Lithograph of a street show with a monkey jumping through a hoop, musicians, a ladder, and onlookers in period dress under te

The Monkey and the Leopard (The Monkey)

Carle Vernet, 1818

Etching of Christ shown to a crowd on a platform before a classical building, with soldiers, a cross, and a Latin inscription

La Présentation au Peuple (The Presentation of Christ to the People), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)

Jacques Callot, ca. 1619-24

Etching of a harbor with classical arch, stone towers, rowboats, sailing ships and figures on the shore under a rising sun.

Harbor Scene with Rising Sun

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Engraving of two nude men in an infernal scene, one attacked by a serpent, with robed figures watching at left.

The Circle of the Thieves; Buoso Donati Attacked by the Serpent

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Etching of spectators seated on chairs in the Tuileries gardens beside a statue group under tall trees.

Scene in the Tuileries: The Chairs

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1760