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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Hand-colored print of Noah's Ark with a red hull, animals boarding a ramp, and birds flying overhead.

Noah's Ark

Currier & Ives, 1868-78

Lithograph of three nude winged putti with drapery, one leaning on a pillar and another reclining at right.

Study of three putti

Ferdinand Piloty, ca. 1800-1844

Engraving of a mounted commander leading bound captives in a triumphal procession toward a crowded arch.

The Triumph of Scipio who rides on a horse followed by captured slaves

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraved plaque with Latin inscription and Roman military insignia including an eagle standard, shield and helmets, in a deco

A Marble Plaque with Military Insignia, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1551

Watercolor landscape of a thatched farmhouse under large trees, with cows, sheep, a fence and a small pond in front.

Landscape with a Farmhouse

Adrianus de Visser, 1757-1837

Engraving of a drunken Silenus supported by a satyr and a man, with a leopard and a maenad holding a thyrsus.

Drunkeness of Bacchus

Peter Paul Rubens, 1630-57

Engraving of a drunken Bacchus supported by a satyr and companions, with a leopard and grapes in the foreground.

Drunkeness of Bacchus

Jonas Suyderhoef, 1630-77

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ Child on a donkey, with angels, a smoking altar, a boat and trees.

Joseph Adoring the Christ Child near a Smoking Altar, from the Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1752

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man melting wax at a brazier beside a nude winged youth, with a bust and shelves in the room.

Daedalus Forming the Wings of Icarus out of Wax

Franz Xaver Wagenschön, 18th century

Etching of visitors in 18th-century dress crowding a gallery with paintings on the walls and a balcony above.

View of the Salon in the Year 1753

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1753

Line engraving of Olympia: a reclining nude woman on a bed, a servant with flowers at left, and a black cat.

Olympia

Édouard Manet, 1902

Watercolor of a mountain valley with a river, hilltop town, and travelers in traditional dress on a dirt road.

View of Lebanon, after an English Engraving and an Italianate motif of the Sabiner Mountains

Ernst Welker, 1837

Brown ink drawing of a rocky gorge with a small wooden bridge over a brook and two figures crossing.

Swiss mountain landscape with small bridge spanning a brook

Franz Schütz, 1751-81

Etching of Othello standing before richly dressed seated and standing men in a columned interior with a tiled floor.

"She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd": plate 3 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etching of Othello embracing Desdemona on a rocky shore beside a soldier holding a banner, with sea and cliffs behind.

"O my fair warrior!": plate 5 from Othello (Act 2, Scene 1)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Pen and grey wash drawing of a nude woman embracing a reclining man under a draped tree, with cupids and dogs nearby.

The Death of Adonis

Johann König, ca. 1625

Etching of a stormy sea with a heeling sailing ship, a small building on rocks, figures in the waves, and a distant tower.

Water, from series The Four Elements

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of water surging through a breached dike with figures on rocks and a city skyline with church spires beyond.

The Bursting of St. Anthony's Dike, 5 March 1651. Vertoninge...Amsterdam

Pieter Nolpe, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of armored cavalry charging in battle, with rearing horses, lances, banners and fallen soldiers.

Battle Scene

Hans Heinrich Waegmann, ca. 1611-14

Etching of men attacking and killing others, one raising an axe above a tangle of fallen figures under an open sky.

Plate 3 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The same' (Lo mismo)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of a standing figure by a post above a fallen body, with figures in a dark background, from Goya's Disasters of War.

Plate 15 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): And there is nothing to be done (Y no hai remedio)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Engraving of a haloed saint at a window beside a richly furnished bedchamber with women and an older man seated within.

Saint Nicholas of Bari and the Three Poor Girls

Cristofano Cartaro, 1587

Engraving of a Roman triumph with mounted soldiers, bound captives, trumpeters and a crowd approaching a triumphal arch.

The Triumph of Scipio, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Master of the Die, 16th century

Engraving of a battle with mounted and foot soldiers, a fallen warrior in the foreground and a walled city behind.

The Victory of Scipio, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Master of the Die, 16th century

Engraving of a flood scene with a crowded boat, struggling figures in water, a waterfall, rocky cliffs and a stormy sky.

Winter

Nicolas Poussin, n.d.

Small brown ink sketch of a seated peasant beside bundled material and reeds, with a faint horizon and sky.

Seated Peasant

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Small etching of a peasant seated on the ground beside sparse trees, drawn with loose, scratchy lines.

Peasant Seated on the Ground

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Etching of gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto offering crowns, with an eagle, horses, and putti holding a heraldic shield above.

Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto offering their crowns to the arms of Cardinal Borghese

Simone Cantarini, 1642-43

Etching of two men in clogs digging a trench with shovels across a flat field under a hatched sky.

The Diggers

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Etching of two peasant men digging a furrow with long-handled spades in an open field under a cloudy sky.

The Diggers

Jean-François Millet, 1814-75