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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pen and ink design drawing of a console table with a central lion mask, scrolled swags and animal legs ending in hooves.

Design for a table with a cat mask and goat legs

John Payne, 1600-40

Red chalk drawing of a fortified city with towers, domed buildings, and a rocky foreground with a fallen stone block.

View of Jerusalem with the Temple of Solomon

Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century

Lithograph of a salon orchestra with cellist, pianist, singers and seated audience, with a cat in the foreground.

An Orchestra in a Fashionable Residence; plate 8 from the series, Les Comédiens de Société, published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, April 20, 1858

Brown wash drawing of travelers gathered beneath a rock arch with sandstone cliffs and pine trees in the background.

Travelers at the Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund

Johann Gottfried Jentzsch, 1804

Watercolor of a striped hot air balloon rising over a crowd, carriages, and houses at Lord's Cricket Ground, ca. 1839.

Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839

Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, ca. 1839

Hand-colored winter print of Central Park with skaters on a frozen lake, horse sleighs in the foreground, and a full moon.

Central Park in Winter

Currier & Ives, 1868-94

Etching of a ruined brick aqueduct with overgrown arches, drying laundry, a ladder, and figures in the foreground.

The Fontana dell'Aqua Giulia (Vedute dell avanzo del Castello del'Aqua Giulia)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1753

Etching of ruined Roman arches with coffered vaults, rubble, small figures and a church tower at left, by Piranesi.

The Basilica of Constantine (Veduta degli avanzi della Casa aurea di Nerone, detti volgarmente il Tempio della Pace),…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1757

Brown ink and wash drawing of a workshop with craftsmen, hanging scale pans, copper pots and a kneeling man at a brazier.

The Maker of Scales

Jean-Michel Moreau, ca. 1763

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve in a wooded setting, Eve reaching toward Adam beneath a serpent and apple tree.

Fall of Man

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Woodcut of three mounted heroes labeled Hector, Alexander and Julius Caesar, with plumed helmets and decorated horse trapping

Hector, Alexander, Julius Caesar, from the Nine Heroes

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520

Woodcut of three crowned kings on horseback, each labeled by a banner inscription, with ornate horse trappings and robes.

Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasses, from The Twelve Kings of Israel

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520

Woodcut of three mounted kings, David playing a harp, Solomon with scepter, and Rehoboam with spear, under inscribed banners.

David, Solomon, Rehoboam, from The Twelve Kings of Israel

Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Engraving of a kneeling woman holding a garment before a standing turbaned man, with onlookers and a sunburst sky behind.

Potiphar's Wife Acuses Joseph

Lucas van Leyden, 1512

Engraving of a haloed woman leading a procession with drummer and piper through a wooded landscape, 1519.

Dance of St. Mary Magdalene

Lucas van Leyden, 1519

Engraving of a kneeling man before a turbaned ruler at a draped table, with courtiers watching from a balcony behind.

Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh's Dreams

Lucas van Leyden, 1512

Engraving of a young man gesturing to a seated bearded elder before a group of onlookers in a columned hall.

Joseph Telling His Dreams to Jacob

Lucas van Leyden, 1512

Engraving of Joseph fleeing as Potiphar's wife grabs his cloak in a bedroom, with two onlookers in a doorway at right.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Lucas van Leyden, 1512

Engraving of three seated figures in a columned prison interior, one chained at the ankle, with two small medallion scenes ab

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams in Prison

Lucas van Leyden, 1512

Engraving of the Crucifixion on Calvary with three crosses, mourners, soldiers, and a crowd on a winding road.

Calvary (Golgotha)

Lucas van Leyden, 1517

Engraving of a bearded man pointing at a veiled woman holding an ointment jar, with rocks, trees and a distant city.

Christ Appearing to St. Mary Magdalene as a Gardener

Lucas van Leyden, 1519

Engraving of a biblical scene with a gesturing young man, a seated bearded elder, and a crowd in an interior with columns.

Joseph Telling His Dream to Jacob

Lucas van Leyden, 1512

Engraving of a crowded city square with soldiers, spectators on balconies, a tower and a dog in the foreground.

Large Ecce Homo

Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraving of robed men gathered in a columned interior, a young man at center, with a seated elder and a kneeling figure at l

Joseph Telling His Dreams to Jacob (copy)

Clement de Jonghe, 1640-70

Engraving of a man in a cloak pulling away from a woman grasping his garment in a bedchamber, with onlookers at left.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (copy)

Clement de Jonghe, 17th century

Engraving of a man in a cloak pulling away from a woman on a bed, clothing scattered on the floor, two onlookers at a doorway

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (reverse copy)

Lucas van Leyden, n.d.

Engraving of a kneeling woman holding a man's garment while onlookers stand nearby, with a sunburst and city behind.

Potiphar's Wife Accuses Joseph (copy)

Clement de Jonghe, 17th century

Engraving of seated men in a stone prison interior, one shackled by a chain, with columns and oval medallions above.

Joseph in Prison (copy)

Clement de Jonghe, 17th century

Engraving of a seated turbaned ruler at a draped table with a kneeling robed figure and a crowd of onlookers in an interior.

Joseph Interpreting Pharoah's Dreams (copy)

Clement de Jonghe, 1640-70

Engraving of a crowded town square with stone buildings, a raised platform, and a large crowd gesturing toward it.

Large Ecce Homo (copy)

Lucas van Leyden, n.d.