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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

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 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

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

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

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

Lithograph of a Roman rider on horseback before classical columns, with a kneeling petitioner and soldiers in a crowd.

The Justice of Trajan, plate for l'Album des Salons

Jules Robert Pierre Joseph Challamel, 1840

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 man leading a donkey by lantern light through a dark night landscape, with a veiled woman riding the donkey.

The Flight into Egypt: a Night Piece

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

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

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

Etching of a bearded man in a wide hat and fur-trimmed cloak writing at a desk beside stacked books.

Cornelis Claesz Anslo, Mennonite Preacher

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Etching of an elderly woman with a headscarf and lace collar, head bent, seen three-quarters right, dated 1628.

The Artist's Mother: Head and Bust, Three-Quarters Right

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1628

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

Engraving of commedia dell'arte actors on a stage with arched backdrop, two onlookers in side balconies, and French verses be

Actors at the Hotel de Bourgogne

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1633-34

Engraved genre scene of two women, a startled man with a hat and basket, children and a dog at a stone doorway.

Le Geste Napolitain

Pierre Étienne Moitte, 1763

Dark chiaroscuro print of a Roman-style triumphal procession with soldiers, spears, banners and a crowned figure.

Sheet 8 from "The Triumphs of Caesar"

Andrea Andreani, 1599

Etching of peasants dancing and drinking in a rustic inn with a fiddler, hanging meat and laundry, and a fireplace.

The Dance at the Inn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1652

Color poster titled Tribune showing a woman in a yellow hat dropping a letter into a red mailbox, with Sunday fiction text be

Tribune

George Reiter Brill, late 19th century

Poster for the Tribune Sunday edition showing a dark-haired woman holding a red poppy among red poppies on a green background

Tribune, Sunday

George Reiter Brill, late 19th-early 20th century

Pencil and chalk drawing of a woman in a lace bonnet seated with a young fair-haired boy leaning against her.

Mrs. Papendiek and Her Son

Thomas Lawrence, 1789

Watercolor landscape of a snowy mountain range over a winding river plain, with three robed figures on a hill in the foregrou

Mount Olympus from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece

Edward Lear, 1850-85