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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Etching of a figure in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a covered cup aloft.

Balthasar, from Three Magi series

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of Christ crucified between two thieves, lit from above, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1660

Etching of a nude man, a seated woman, and onlookers beside a tree and rocky tomb opening, numbered 17.

The Discovery of the Tomb of Punchinello, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of a crowned king fleeing a unicorn through a forest, with armored horsemen and a stone archway nearby.

A King Pursued by a Unicorn, from the Unicorn Series

Jean Duvet, ca. 1555

Print of a young man in a plumed hat holding a tall pole, with a lace collar and dark doublet against a dark background.

The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, 1658

Etching of robed lawyers seated at a candlelit table in a library, with allegorical figures of Justice and putti floating abo

A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1776

Engraved plate with a sedan chair, coach, two clocks, and an ornate console table with griffin supports and an urn.

A sedan chair, a coach, a commode, a side table and two clocks (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, une commode, une cons…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Engraving with a seated bearded man, a skeleton, winged allegorical figures, and an oval portrait of a woman with a skull-hol

Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller

Aegidius Sadeler, 1600

Engraving of a priest baptizing an infant as a young man holds the child and a veiled woman looks on beside a font.

Baptism, from "The Seven Sacraments"

Johann Anton Riedel, 1754

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a staff feeling his way along a wall in a dim interior, with a dog at his feet.

The Blindness of Tobit

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Etching of a bull above a crowd of spectators tumbling over a wooden barrier in a bullring, by Goya, 1816.

Plate 21 from "La Tauromaquia": Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Tor…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Hand-colored caricature of exaggerated musicians playing flute, double bass, piano, horn, trombone and violin together.

The Pic-Nic Orchestra

James Gillray, April 23, 1802

Mezzotint of men in 18th-century dress gathered in a Royal Academy studio with sculptures and a nude model.

The Royal Academy of Arts

Richard Earlom, August 2, 1773

Engraving of a wild bacchanal in an oak forest with dancing satyrs, nymphs, musicians and a winged figure with a bow.

Bacchanal

Giulio Sanuto, ca. 1557

Etching of a forest scene with a stone grotto, a crowd of figures in period dress, a seated woman, and tall trees.

The Fourth Spring

Allart van Everdingen

Etching of a coastal landscape with tall trees, sailing ships, cattle, a ruined temple, and a group of women on the shore.

The Rape of Europa

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Etching of two bound figures beneath a large staring owl perched above them, with a caption reading ¿No hay quien nos desate?

Plate 75 from "Los Caprichos": Is there no one to untie us? (¿No hay quien nos desate?)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a nude figure beside a tree with bearded men and a tall-hatted figure gathered around a goat on the ground.

Two Figures Attentive to Punchinello, with Others, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of a woman being carried off by a bearded rider on a horned creature under swirling clouds, dated 1516.

Abduction of Proserpine

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Hand-colored stage design of a crowned figure on a crescent moon beneath a vast starry sky with glowing clouds.

Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1847-49

Brown chiaroscuro print of nude men lifting a struggling woman above a rocky base, modeled like a marble sculpture.

Rape of a Sabine Woman

Andrea Andreani, 1584

Engraving of a centaur and a bearded satyr carrying a nude curly-haired man across a rocky landscape under clouds.

The March of Silenus

Christoffel Jegher, ca. 1652

Engraving of a man in a tricorn hat carrying a basket of paper whirligig toys on sticks.

Whirligig Peddler

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1742

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

Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1530

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 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