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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,937 works

Drawing of tall oak trees over a sandy path, with a woman and child seated at left, a dog drinking, and a distant village.

Woman and Child Sitting next to a Road

Egbert van Drielst, 1760-1818

Engraving of nude Leda with children and a swan in a landscape, with a ruined Roman temple and sailboat behind.

Leda and her children playing with the swan, with a Roman temple in the background

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Grey paper sketch with grid lines showing two angels with wings and drapery, study for Val de Grâce by Pierre Mignard.

Two Angels, Study for the Val de Grâce

Pierre Mignard I, 17th century

Engraving of Venus reclining while Cupid holds a mirror and attendants dress her hair, with a chariot in clouds above a class

Plate 1: The Toilette of Venus; Venus reclining at center, gazing into a mirror held by Cupid, attendants fix her hai…

Étienne Baudet, 1672

Etching of a bearded seated man in a dark coat holding a top hat on his knee, turned toward the left.

Édouard Manet, Seated, Turned to the Left

Edgar Degas, ca. 1868

Engraving of a 17th-century interior with women and children cooking by a fireplace and a servant setting a long dining table

Winter

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1637

Engraving of a woman reclining in a canopied bed as a servant brings her a cup, with two small dogs on the floor.

Le Bain (the Bath)

Sigmond Freudeberg, 1774

Etching of sleeping figures in white bonnets in a dark room, with a seated woman beside a barred window.

Plate 34 from "Los Caprichos": Sleep overcomes them (Las rinde el Sueño)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a man in period dress embracing a limp woman before a brick wall, with a sword on the ground.

Plate 10 from "Los Caprichos": Love and death (El amor y la muerte)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate rococo table leg with scrollwork, floral sprays and a carved female head.

Design for a Table

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Etching of a kneeling man at a wooden railing as two hooded figures, one holding a crucifix, look down from above.

Plate 47 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'This is how it happened' (Así sucedió)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of a nude man astride a horse as a soldier with a raised sword and fallen figures appear in a landscape behind.

Plate 37 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'This is worse' (Esto es peor)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of a cloaked man standing among three fallen bodies on a dark plain under a hazy sky.

Plate 60 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'There is no one to help them' (No hay quien los s…

Francisco Goya, 1811-12 (published 1863)

Etching of a winged creature perched over a prone figure, with bats flying in a dark sky above.

Plate 72 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The Consequences' (Las resultas)

Francisco Goya, 1814-15 (published 1863)

Etching of huddled figures, a woman shielding a child, and kneeling men with rifles in a dark, grim scene.

Plate 26 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'One can't look' (No se puede mirar)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of soldiers attacking a crowd, with a fallen woman at left and a woman raising her arms; caption reads Y son fieras.

Plate 5 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'And they are like wild beasts' (Y son fieras)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Woodcut of Saint Simon's martyrdom: a bound figure sawn on a frame, crowd and rider nearby, castle on hill.

Simon, from The Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Water Carriers

James Harvard Thomas, 1895

Pencil sketch of a feathered-headdress woman shaking hands with a uniformed man beside a rope stanchion.

The Best of Friends Must Part

Sir John Tenniel, ca. 1878

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat holding a horse's bridle beside a carriage carrying two women.

Easing the Curb

Sir John Tenniel, 1869

Pencil sketch of a helmeted classical woman with a sword beside a man in a top hat raising his fist.

Two Forces

Sir John Tenniel, 1881

Pencil sketch of a hesitant man with a cane, followed by a shadowy figure whose hat reads ANARCHY, near a rocky edge.

The Tempter

Sir John Tenniel, 1886

Pencil sketch of an armored knight riding a horse with a dog below, banners reading Majority and Socialism.

The Knight and His Companion

Sir John Tenniel, 1887

Watercolor interior of a billiard room with a green table, fireplace, framed paintings, lamps and a flower arrangement by a w

Interior of the billiard room at Lupton House, Devonshire, designed by George Wrightwick for Sir J.B.Y. Buller

Reid Turner, 1838

Architectural drawing of an octagonal bath pavilion with plan and two elevations, grey wash and yellow tint.

Design for a Bath in the Form of an Elongated Polygonal Temple, Plan and Two Elevations

John Vardy, mid-18th century

Grey wash drawing of elegantly dressed figures talking beneath an oak tree near a fence and thatched cottage.

Drawing for a book illustration

Samuel Wale, 1738-86

Grey wash drawing of lions attacking a rearing horse and two men on the ground, with a distant landscape.

Lions Attacking Two Men and a Horse

James Ward, 1801-59

Engraving of Prometheus bound on a rock while an eagle tears at his torso, with a distant city in the background.

Prometheus

Sebastiano de' Valentinis, 1558

Engraving of Jupiter hurling lightning at falling giants below a cloud bank filled with gods and cherubs.

Fall of the Giants, Jupiter in the clouds overhead striking the Giants with lightning

Girolamo Fagiuoli, ca. 1539-49

Engraving of laurel-crowned Apollo with a lyre beside Pegasus, touching a bearded head with a laurel branch.

Apollo holding pipes in his right hand accompanied by Pegasus

Angiolo Falconetto, 1556-60

Engraving of figures in a classical landscape with columns, putti, a lion and a statue of Apollo and Minerva within an ornate

Annibale Carracci Introduces Painting to Apollo and Minerva

Pietro Aquila, 1674

Engraving of Venus and Mars embracing in a bedchamber while Vulcan hammers at his forge in the foreground.

Venus and Mars Embracing as Vulcan Works at His Forge

Enea Vico, 1543

Engraving of a winged putto leaning on a round shield beside a plumed helmet and bundled arrows.

Cupid with Weapons of Mars

Adamo Scultori, ca. 1547-62

Engraving of Venus and Adonis with a spear, hunting dogs, cupids, a boar, and a distant landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Black-and-white print of Venus and nude nymphs lamenting over a reclining figure, with cherubs and a boar in the landscape.

Venus and the Nymphs Lamenting the Death of Adonis

Luca Cambiaso, 1560-65

Grey-green woodcut of two nude men wrestling beside classical columns and a tree.

Hercules and Antaeus

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1517-18

Engraving of a nude man wrestling a horned bull on rocks, with three women holding fruit-filled cornucopias at right.

Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, fr…

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1526-27

Etching of satyrs and a family in a rural scene with a goat, wine jug, tree, and owl perched on a post.

Satyr Family (Pan and his Family), from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Etching of a satyr family resting by an obelisk and stone wall, with a woman, child, and standing figure with a staff.

Satyr Family with the Obelisk, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of a bacchanal with nude revelers, a heavy Silenus, satyrs and a flute player beneath grapevines.

Bacchanal with Silenus

Andrea Mantegna, before 1475

Woodcut print of a trident-bearing god in a chariot pulled by horses across a rocky landscape under stormy clouds.

Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right

Giuseppe Scolari, 1590-1607

Engraving of Venus with a rose branch, a satyr and Cupid in a landscape, with an Italian motto below.

Venus Whipping Cupid with Roses

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, early 17th century

Print of a sleeping cupid with curly hair and a large wing, reclining on draped cloth, rendered in fine black hatching on gre

A sleeping cupid

Bartolomeo Coriolano, 1630-45

Engraving of mythological figures: nude women, a seated god with a sleeping cupid, a rearing chariot, and an eagle carrying a

Jupiter tumbling from a horse-drawn carriage at right, Ganymede riding Jupiter's eagle upper center, below Venus and…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Brown-toned print of a seated nude man seen from behind beside a large tree, with a reclining figure in the lower left.

Man seated viewed from behind (Narcissus)

Antonio da Trento, ca. 1527-30

Engraving of Trojans pulling a wooden horse through a city gate, with soldiers, horsemen and men carrying sacks in the foregr

The Trojans pulling the wooden horse into the city

Giulio Bonasone, 1545

Engraving of a nude figure of Prometheus with an eagle inside a V-shaped cornice decorated with scrolls and foliage.

Torture of Prometheus set within a cornice

Cherubino Alberti, 1580

Etching of nude figures in a wooded landscape, a woman reaching toward a tree beside a man, with a seated figure at lower lef

Apollo and Daphne

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1538-40

Engraving of laurel-crowned Apollo playing a lyre beside a reclining Cupid with a quiver of arrows.

Cupid and Apollo with a lyre

Paolo Farinati, ca. 1568

Engraving of four barefoot female figures in flowing classical dress dancing and holding ribbons against a hatched background

Four Dancing Muses

Gian Marco Cavalli, ca. 1497

Print of muscular giants falling among rocks beneath a thunderbolt-wielding figure on clouds, with an eagle and inscription p

Fall of the Giants

Bartolomeo Coriolano, 1638

Etching of the mythological flaying of Marsyas, with two muscular figures on a rock amid hatched trees and faces peering from

The Flaying of Marsyas

Giovanni Pietro Possenti, mid-17th century

Etching of a Bacchic revel with Silenus riding a goat, surrounded by muscular, partly nude revelers in hatched linework.

Bacchic revel with Silenus in the centre riding a goat

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540-43

Woodcut of Venus in a chariot drawn by doves above cupid, with musicians and couples in a garden below.

The Dominion of Venus, from 'The Seven Planets'

Girolamo Grandi, 1533

Engraved frieze of putti leading Cupid's goat-drawn chariot, with a lion, torches, trumpets and a banner in procession.

A frieze arrangement depcting the Triumph of Love; Cupid in a Chariot led by goats, many other putti filling the comp…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Bacchus squeezing grapes beside a reclining Venus, with cherubs, fruit and draped cloth, 1647.

Garden of Venus with Bacchus Squeezing Grapes

Giacinto Gimignani, 1647

Etching of Venus with a winged figure holding a child, a dove, a chariot and putti in clouds, within an oval frame.

Venus entrusting Cupid to Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1758-80

Etching of Venus beside a forge with a cannon and cannonballs, while Cupid stretches away at left.

Fire, represented by Venus seated before Vulcan's forge, with armor, a cannon, and cannon balls surrounding her, she…

Giulio Carpioni, 1640-60

Etching of a bearded figure with a trident driving a chariot, carrying a struggling woman, with cherubs and clouds around.

Rape of Persephone

Gaetano Gandolfi, ca. 1755-90

Engraving of classical gods assembled on clouds, including Mercury with a caduceus, Neptune with a trident, and winged putti.

Assembly of the Gods after the ceiling composition in the Loggia di Psiche, Villa Farnesina, Rome

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1527

Engraving of Cupid and Psyche reclining on a couch under a tree, with satyrs and an altar in the background.

Cupid and Psyche

Giorgio Ghisi, 1573-74

Engraving of Cupid and Psyche on a chariot drawn by birds, with winged children and a distant landscape.

The triumph of Cupid and Psyche who are seated on a chariot drawn by two birds restrained by children

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-67

Engraving of figures carrying a wounded nude man past a stone wall, with robed onlookers and a piper nearby.

The Wounded Paris Carried from the Field of Battle

Etching of a Lamentation over a reclining dead Christ surrounded by mourners, with a sketch of intertwined figures above.

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540-45 (?)