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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Etching of a curly-haired toddler in flowing drapery playing with a puppet beside a small dog, by Fragonard.

Fanfan

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1778

Etching of a donkey-headed man in a coat reading a book of horse images at a desk, from Goya's Los Caprichos.

Plate 39 from "Los Caprichos": And so was his grandfather (Asta su Abuelo)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Mezzotint of young men drawing a seated female model in a vaulted room with columns and a classical statue, lit by lamplight.

An Academy by Lamplight

William Pether, February 20, 1772

Hand-coloured print of a woman in a white gown and fur-trimmed cloak standing in a wooded landscape with cloudy sky.

Miss Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1792

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

Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1530

Etching of two crouching lionesses and a reclining doe, arranged in three stacked studies on a pale sheet.

A Doe and Two Lionesses

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, ca. 1540

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 an elderly man in a dim study gazing at a glowing circular diagram inscribed with letters, beside a tall arched wi

Faust

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652

Etching of a seated young man in a plumed hat beside a woman with a fan, an older man behind them, and pewter dishes and grap

The Enamored Couple: Lucelle and Ascagnes

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1616

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a bald head and curly hair, wearing a buttoned collared garment, shown in bust view.

Bust of an Elderly Man

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

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 a couple kissing in a kitchen by a hearth while a servant kneels nearby and a figure stands in the doorway.

On ne s'avise jamais du tout, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de…

Jean-Baptiste Patas, 1795

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 with a tall tree and a small figure on the left, and a dark study of a man's head in a cap on the right.

Sheet with Two Studies: A Tree and the Upper Part of a Head of Rembrandt Wearing a Velvet Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1642

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 an ornate garden with mathematical instruments, urns, a central fountain, and a peacock.

Garden of Mathematical Sciences

Francesco Curti, 17th century

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 the adoration of the shepherds with the Virgin, Joseph, kneeling shepherds and angels above a manger.

The adoration of the shepherds

Diego de Astor, 1605

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, angels above a star, and a procession of figures and horsemen

The Adoration of the Magi, set before and architectural colonnade

Pietro Testa, ca. 1640

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

Mezzotint of a sleeping girl with needlework in her lap, seated by a fireplace beside a lit candle and scissors.

Sleeping Girl with Needlework in her Lap

Gerard Valck, n.d.

Engraving of nude mythological figures with Jupiter descending from clouds above a reclining man and a woman holding wheat.

The Four Elements, plate 1 from "Mythological Subjects"

Jacob Matham, 1588

Engraved print of a veiled, haloed standing woman in a long robe within a decorative border, labeled Aritmetricha.

Arithmetic

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, 1460-70

Woodcut print of an eagle carrying a youth aloft over nude men, horses and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Zeus as an eagle, abducting Ganymede

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Engraving of Ixion embracing Juno on a dark cloud above classical ruins, a lion, and small figures below.

Ixion attempting to seduce Juno, surrounded by clouds with ruins below

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1520-39

Engraving of Minerva and Mercury arming Perseus in a wooded landscape, with nymphs watching from rocks above.

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Müller, 1604

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

Engraving of Saint Sebastian tied to a bare tree, pierced by arrows, standing on a rocky mound.

Saint Sebastian

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

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

Etched frontispiece of ruined classical architecture overgrown with trees, figures among fragments, and a tilted inscribed ti

Frontispiece from "Prima Parte di Architetture, e Prospettive"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

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

Etching of men pulling a watering cart past a statue on a pedestal in a shaded garden with trees and onlookers.

Scene in the Tuileries: The Watering Cart

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1760

Black and white woodcut of Christ with a crown of thorns on a balcony above a crowd of soldiers and onlookers.

Ecce Homo, from the series The Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498-99

Engraving of a crowded city square with stone buildings, a raised platform, armoured soldiers and townspeople watching.

Ecce Homo

Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a striped turban holding a falcon, with Latin and Persian inscriptions below.

Mechti Kuli Beg, Persian Ambassador to Prague

Aegidius Sadeler, 1605

Engraved panoramic view of Jerusalem with walls, a large central temple complex, hills, and an inset map.

Prospect of Jerusalem

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1660

Engraved view of a palace facade with a formal garden, strolling figures, rowing boats on a canal, and a distant church spire

View of the Summer Palace

Giuseppe Valeriani, 18th century

Engraved print of a dense bouquet of irises, tulips and blossoms in an urn with a serpent handle, standing on a ledge.

Flowers in a Vase

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, ca.1670-80

Black and white lithograph of a rider in a top hat leading two horses past a stone wall and pillar.

Two Horses Exercised by a Jockey

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Engraved oval print of an embracing couple in a leafy garden with cherubs and a stone pedestal.

The Pledge of Love

Jean Mathieu, 1786

Etching of a marble vase with figures on a garden terrace, a seated boy sketching it, cypress trees and an obelisk behind.

The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden ter…

Stefano Della Bella, 1656

Etching of a drunken Silenus raising a cup while a satyr pours wine beside a barrel, with a donkey at right.

Drunken Silenus holding a cup aloft into which a Satyr pours wine

Jusepe de Ribera, 1628

Large Grotesque Head

Jusepe de Ribera, ca. 1622

Hand-colored caricature of a woman with enormous blue sleeves, a feathered hat, and a parasol, 1829.

Modern Oddities, by P. Pry Esq., Plate 1st

William Heath, June 30, 1829

Etching of a half-naked man embracing a woman while pointing, surrounded by grotesque faces and a crowd in a dark setting.

Disorderly Folly, from "The Disparates" (Follies / Irrationalities)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1815-19 (published 1864)

Black and white print of a helmeted warrior, women and children in a classical interior with a statue of Minerva and shield.

The Constancy of Coriolanus

Jean François Janinet, ca. 1778

Woodcut of Saint Michael and angels fighting a dragon in the sky above a river landscape with a town.

Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1498

Hand-colored lithograph of five men and a woman intently examining a framed painting, one using a monocle and spectacles.

The Art Connoisseurs

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1823-28

Engraved scene of a curly-haired boy sketching in a book beside a large classical bust on a pedestal.

Boy Drawing a Bust of the Roman Emperor Vitellius

Wallerant Vaillant, ca. 1665-75

Engraved view of a Roman vestibule with tall Corinthian columns, coffered ceiling, small figures, and distant ruins under clo

A View of the Vestibule of Santa Maria Maggiore at Rome

Georges François Blondel, 1765-67

Mezzotint of a figure in a tricorn hat gazing at a glowing paper lantern against a dark background.

A Girl Singing Ballads By a Paper Lanthorn

James Watson, 1767-81

Head of a Man Wearing a Turban

Thomas Frye (, 1760