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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Watercolor and pen sketch of women in bonnets and long dresses seated on a beach with a child in a red plaid dress.

On the Beach

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1865

Engraved interior of a woman setting a table while two children pray before their meal, with a fireplace and sideboard behind

Saying Grace

François Bernard Lépicié, 1744

Etching of soldiers pointing at a kneeling woman and child, with a fleeing crowd and a hill with ruins behind.

Plate 44 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'I saw it' (Yo lo vi)

Francisco Goya, 1810

Etching of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ, seated with a radiating halo of hatched lines behind them.

Virgin and Child

Pierre Brébiette

Pencil drawing of a seated woman with feathered headdress and two children with feathers, tropical plants and ships on the ho

Allegory of America

Eugène Devéria, mid-19th century

Etching of soldiers attacking civilians, with a fallen figure and a crouching child in the foreground.

Plate 11 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Neither do these' (Ni por esas)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1810

Etching of the Virgin with a sleeping infant, an angel, and a cherub with a palm above, beside a grapevine.

Virgin and child with angels

Pierre Brébiette, 1636

Graphite drawing of two nude children sleeping together on a bed with pillows and a curtain behind them.

Two Sleeping Children

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a woman on a swing held by ropes, with a man in a long coat raising his arms beside her.

Girl on a swing, a man with his arms raised; folio 21 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"

Francisco Goya, 1795-97

Etching of the Holy Family with saints: Virgin holding the infant Christ, an elderly man with a staff, and onlookers beside a

Holy Family with Saints, from "Episodes from the New Testament"

Pierre Brébiette, 1610-42

Graphite drawing of a standing peasant girl in a headscarf and smock, holding up her skirt, wearing clogs.

Standing Peasant Girl

François Bonvin, 1847

Brown wash drawing of an old man delousing a boy in a dim interior, with three figures behind and a cat in the foreground.

An old man delousing a boy accompanied by three figures, a cat in the foreground; page 40 from the "Images of Spain"…

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Etching of a man leading a donkey below angels lifting the Virgin and Child into clouds, with a Latin caption below.

Angels Lifting Virgin and Child, from "Episodes from the New Testament"

Pierre Brébiette, 1610-42

Pencil drawing of a seated woman flanked by two standing young women in period dresses, in a sketched interior.

The Baroness Duperré and Her Daughters

Théodore Chassériau, 1841

Brown wash drawing of two women and children gathered by a wooden cross on steps, one woman holding a swaddled infant.

Women and children near a cross; folio 78 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Etching of a woman with an infant on a donkey, an attendant reaching to a palm tree, and winged putti in a rocky landscape.

Angels Giving Dates to Child, from "Episodes from the New Testament"

Pierre Brébiette, 1610-42

Chalk drawing of a frontispiece with a nude atlas figure holding a medallion, two reclining putti, and an inscribed panel.

Design for a Frontispiece

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, 19th century

Ink wash drawing of a bandit with a knife threatening a woman and a kneeling child under a dark sky.

God save us from such a bitter fate; a bandit threatening a woman and a child with a knife, page 41 from the "Black B…

Francisco Goya, ca. 1816-20

Study of a Girl's Legs for the painting "Young Spartans"

Edgar Degas, ca. 1860-62

Etching of a bearded man in a turban and fur robe beside an arch, with a woman, a child, and a dog nearby.

Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1637

Etching of a satyr and a nude woman with two infants in a stone frame, surrounded by foliage and tree trunks.

The Satyr's Family

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1763

Pen drawing of a layered papal tomb design with columns, niches, a Madonna and Child, angels and sculpted figures.

Design for the Tomb of Pope Julius II della Rovere

Michelangelo, 1505-6

Etching of the Virgin embracing a child beside a cat and cradle, with Joseph at a sunlit window behind them.

Virgin and Child with the Cat: and Joseph at the Window

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Etching of a young girl with long hair and a ruffled collar, seated before a plain background with a chair at right.

The Infanta Margarita, after Velázquez

Edgar Degas, ca. 1861-62

Grey wash drawing of the crowned Virgin and Child enthroned on clouds, with God the Father and a dove above and cherubs aroun

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Hans Werl, late 16th-early 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude male figure with head bowed, one arm extended, on tan paper.

Seated Boy

Girolamo Macchietti, 1555-92

Pen and grey wash drawing of a woman with a child beside a sphere, compass and drafting tools, dated 1619.

Allegory of Sculpture

Johann Andreas Rauch, 1619

Pencil drawing of a crowned figure pointing at an infant held by a seated woman, with a bearded man and onlookers.

The Infant Moses before Pharaoh, after Giovanni Battista Ruggieri

Jean-Robert Ango

Watercolor interior of a woman reclining on a blue canopy bed as a man and a child in red enter the room.

Le Matin (Morning)

Pierre Antoine Baudouin

Circular pen and grey wash drawing of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, with a priest holding the infant at an altar.

The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Sebald Beham, early to mid-16th century