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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Engraving of a bearded man reclining on rocks with a staff beside him, shaded sky behind.

St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1552-54

Engraved tavern scene of a crowded election feast with drinking men, musicians, a flag, and a servant pouring drink.

An Election Entertainment, Plate I: Four Prints of an Election

William Hogarth, February 1755

Lithograph of a clown in checkered costume pulling down a theater curtain while audience members watch from tiered seats.

Baissez le Rideau, La Farce est Jouée (Bring Down the Curtain; the Farce is Over), published in La Caricature no. 201…

Honoré Daumier, September 11, 1834

Engraving of Time driving a winged chariot with personifications of the elements, a globe, and wind heads in clouds.

Triumph of the World, from The Cycle of the Vicissitudes of Human Affairs, plate 1

Cornelis Cort, 1564

Pencil study of a classical scene with nude youths, draped women embracing, and helmeted warriors around them.

Group of studies for "Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen"

Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon, 1817

Drawing of peasants, a donkey, and sheep fording a stream beneath a large leaning tree with birds overhead.

Landscape with Peasants Fording a Stream

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1756

Engraving of Mars and Venus: an armored warrior embraces a reclining nude woman on a draped bed while Cupid watches nearby.

Mars and Venus

Giovanni Battista Scultori

Engraving of a seated woman reading as a winged angel kneels offering a sprig of flowers in an interior room.

The Annunciation with Kneeling Angel

Enea Vico, ca. 1540-41

Sheet of anatomical leg studies in black and red chalk showing muscles and feet, by Eugène Delacroix.

Anatomical Studies of Legs

Eugène Delacroix, 1820-1863

Etching of a battle in a rocky mountain pass with falling boulders, fallen soldiers and horses, and a standard bearer.

Maximilian Emanuel and the Bavarian Army in a Narrow Pass in theTyrol

Joachim Franz Beich, n.d.

Engraving of an armored rider on a rearing horse lancing a dragon, with a woman watching and a city in the background.

St George Killing the Dragon

Enea Vico, 1542

Pen and wash drawing of priests carrying a domed chest past soldiers, with crumbling city walls and towers behind them.

The Fall of Jericho

Gerard van Groeningen, 1563-73

Study of Two Cows

Aelbert Cuyp, 17th century

Ink drawing on blue paper of a rocky landscape with gnarled roots, an owl on a dead tree, and a seated figure.

Rugged Moonlit Landscape with a Woman Seated by Gnarled Tree Roots, and an Owl

Ludwig Emil Grimm, 1833 (?)

Grey wash drawing of a herdswoman seated with a lamb among cattle, sheep and a donkey under a large tree.

A Herdswoman Seated Amongst Her Animals, with a Lamb in Her Arms

Dirck Van Bergen, 1690

Grey wash drawing of burdock, campion and bramble plants beside a tree trunk on a river bank.

Burdocks, Campions and Brambles by a Treetrunk on a River Bank

Joseph August Knip, early 19th century

Watercolor drawing of trees and sandy dunes with a winding path and tree stumps in the foreground.

A Wooded Landscape Near Beekhuizen

Andreas Schelfhout, 19th century

Engraving of a Bacchic procession with elephants, camels, and lions moving through a colonnaded hall, attended by nude revele

The Indian Triumph of Bacchus

Enea Vico, ca. 1542

Watercolor drawing of an allegorical ceiling design with winged figures, a nude woman, and musicians among clouds under a sun

Allegorical Design for a Ceiling Fresco

Francesco Albani, 1650-1700

Grey wash drawing of a crowded street before a colonnaded building, with figures, a horse, a dog and a tent.

An Italian City with a Crowd Watching Actors in an Outdoor Theater

Hendrik Verschuring, 1642-90

Grey ink and wash drawing of ruined stone buildings and boulders on a rocky hillside under a pale sky.

View of Bomarzo

Horatius de Hooch, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a robed churchman among a crowd, with two flying cherubs above in an arched composition.

Saint Carl Borromäus

Melchior Steidl, late 17th-18th century

Grey wash drawing of Christ holding a cross above clouds, with angels, skeletons and falling figures in the lower corners.

Christ as Judge

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1708-74

Pen drawing of ruined Roman buildings and arcades behind trees, with small figures in the foreground landscape.

Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome

Joseph Anton Koch, 1810

Brown wash drawing of a Swiss farmyard with a timber farmhouse, woodpile, dog, chickens, and large shade trees.

Swiss Farm ('Hirtenhof')

Robert Zünd, 19th-20th century

Engraving of the Madonna nursing the Christ Child seated against a large tree, with a landscape behind them.

The Madonna nursing the Christ Child at the foot of a tree

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1502-3

Engraving of a battle with armored soldiers on rearing horses, spears raised, and fallen warriors in a forest.

A battle of soldiers some on horseback

Master of, ca. 1510-1520

Engraving of mourners carrying Christ's body to a rocky tomb, with three crosses on a hill and an inscription on a stone bloc

The Entombment of Christ

Andrea Mantegna, before 1475

Engraving of Joseph gesturing among two seated men and a bowl of fruit, with a figure in shadow behind.

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Chief Butler and Baker

Jusepe de Ribera, 1766-67

Pen and wash drawing of the west front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, with colonnaded wings, domed pavilions and a ground plan.

West Front of Houghton Hall in Norfolk, Perspective

Thomas Ripley, 1735