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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Engraved portrait of an older bearded man in a ruff collar and skullcap, framed by an arch with classical ornaments.

Portrait of Hendrick Goltzius

Jan Müller, ca. 1617

Etching of a beheading scene with a severed head on the ground, a mounted horseman, soldiers and onlookers in hatched shading

The Beheading of St. Paul

Michael Lucas Leopold Willmann, n.d.

Etching of a young elephant walking left to right with its trunk lowered, drawn in fine hatched lines on a pale ground.

A Young Elephant

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger, n.d.

Black chalk and white highlight study of a draped angel seated on a cloud, one arm raised, with extra hand studies.

Angel Holding a Banderole

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Pen and brown ink study sheet with several nude figures, intertwined couples, and a winged cupid at upper left.

Studies for Apollo and Daphne, Zeus and Juno, Orpheus and Eurydice and other figures (recto and verso)

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, n.d.

Pen and wash study of a fountain with a seated woman, dancing figures, statues and an ornate scrolled frame.

Study for The Allegory of Spring

Federico Zuccaro, 1579

Engraved self-portrait of John Kay seated beside a bust, with a cat on the chair and drawing tools on the table.

Portraits of Eminent Scotch Characters

John Kay, 1784-1819

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

Engraved oval portrait of a cardinal with curled hair and white clerical collar, inscribed border above and below.

Le cardinal Pierre de Bonzi

Robert Nanteuil, 1678

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled wig, dark robe and white collar, within an inscribed border.

Le chancelier Louis Boucherat

Robert Nanteuil, 1676

Oval engraved portrait of a bewigged man in a dark robe and white collar, inside a laurel wreath border.

Le chancelier Louis Boucherat

Robert Nanteuil, 1677

Oval engraved portrait of a man with long curled wig and white collar, inscribed border, 1671.

Le cardinal Guillaume-Égon de Fürstenberg

Robert Nanteuil, 1671

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled hair, white collar and cross insignia, within a Latin inscribed border.

François de Harlay de Champvallon

Robert Nanteuil, 1673

Etching of a nude woman swinging from a branch above a seated bear, framed by flowering trees and bamboo.

Intermezzi, Opus IV

Max Klinger, 1881

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

Grey wash drawing of a flower arrangement in an urn inside an arched niche, with grapes and fruit on a stone pedestal.

Vase of Flowers

Willem van Leen, 1790s

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

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a standing friar in a long hooded robe, gazing upward with hands clasped.

Saint Francis

Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, ca. 1550-60

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed woman before a seated man, with a kneeling woman, flames, books and onlookers.

The Cumaean Sibyl before Tarquin the Proud

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

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

Red chalk drawing of a young man's bust with tousled wavy hair and a loose garment on a cream sheet.

Bust of a Young Man

Jean de Saint-Igny, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a baroque festival arch with a central statue niche, cherubs, a sunburst, fountains and candelabra.

Design for Festival Architecture for an Entry into Paris for the King of Sweden, Fredrerick I of Hesse

Guillaume Thomas Raphaël Taraval, 18th century

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

Grey wash drawing of a forest path framed by large trees, with small figures resting on the left and distant ruins beyond.

Wooded Landscape

Paulus van Liender, 18th century

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Engraving of Christ seated and crowned with thorns while soldiers mock him beneath a brick archway with a town view.

The Crowning with Thorns, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraved design of a tiered urn with garland swags, tassels, and a stepped pedestal base.

Design for a vase decorated with garlands

Jean Charles Delafosse, 18th century

Engraved title page with an urn wrapped in garlands, a shell fountain below, and two hunters beside the pedestal.

Title page from Cinquieme Livre de Trophées

Jean Charles Delafosse, 18th 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

Engraved plate of a neoclassical hot water urn with fluted body, ram's head handles, side spigot, and ball feet.

Hot Water Urn

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Engraved print of an egg caddy with four cups on a stand, with a plan view of the tray below.

Egg Caddy

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Engraved design print of a neoclassical hanging ceiling lamp with urn-shaped body and two side lamps, labeled Japann Lamp.

Japan lamp for ceiling

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

Engraving of a kneeling young man embraced by a bending older woman, with cattle, a pond and a thatched cottage behind them.

The Prodigal Son (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

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.

Grey ink and wash drawing of a bearded man, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure and a torch in a stone interior.

Witch of Endor

Ary Scheffer, 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental vase with two female figure handles and a garland, within a ruled border.

Design for Vase

Jacques Francois Joseph Saly, mid-18th century

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

Comedy and Tragedy

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1814

Pencil sketch of Mars with a rearing horse, a winged Victory figure behind him, and a veiled figure on the right.

Mars Crowned by Victory and Listening to Moderation

Antoine-Jean Gros, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of The Last Supper with apostles around a long table under a draped curtain.

The Last Supper

Master of the Egmont Albums, 16th century

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 of an elderly antiquarian in pink coat examining a classical bust through a magnifying glass.

An Antiquarian

Frederick George Byron, October 23, 1789

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

Hand-colored caricature of four elderly gentlemen in wigs peering at a reclining nude painting on an easel in a classical int

Connoisseurs

Thomas Rowlandson, June 20, 1799

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

Etching of a robed man before a sacrificial fire, with burning books, demons and allegorical figures in clouds above.

Shakespeare - Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

James Gillray, June 20, 1789

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

Chiaroscuro print of Diogenes seated reading a book beside a plucked hen, in olive and tan tones.

Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1527-30

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns, hands bound, holding a reed, with two men beside him against a radiating halo.

Christ Crowned with Thorns (copy)

H. Johnston, 1671

Engraving of a laurel-crowned man in robes looking at a tablet of geometric shapes beside a stone pedestal and column.

Apelles standing profile looking at a tablet of geometric figures

Nicoletto da Modena, 1500-1510

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

Diary page with pen-and-ink floor plan of Tarrytown house additions and numbered list of drawings and fees, 1864.

A. J. Davis "Diary"

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1829-82

Scrapbook page with two architectural floor plans, a President's House study and a plan for four government departments aroun

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook VIII

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1835-92

Watercolor architectural drawing of a Gothic-style front door with glazed tracery panels beneath a pointed stone arch.

Front Door for Whitby, William P. Chapman House, Rye, New York

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1853

Pencil and wash drawing of Gothic window tracery with a central rose design, lancet arches and quatrefoil ornament.

Design for window tracery for Chapman - full size

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1853-55