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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Etching of a riverside village with a tower, houses, a rowing boat, and costumed figures walking on a road in the foreground.

May (Maius)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of a Gothic church and harvest workers in a field, with rolling hills and a Latin inscription below.

August (Augustus)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of a riverside village in September with a stone bridge, a laden rowing boat, workers unloading goods and cottages.

September

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of a castle on a rock above a river, with grape pickers filling barrels in the foreground and boats on the water.

October

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of six nude putti in a landscape, one playing pipe and tabor, another wearing a grape wreath, under clouds.

Six Boys (copy in reverse)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century (?)

Etching of a skeleton holding a flask beside a seated doctor in a physician's office, with bottles on shelves and a skull on

Doctor, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Etching of a skeleton touching a bride as an attendant helps her with her gown, with an hourglass on a chest beside them.

Bride, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled hair and white collar, hand resting on books, with a coat of arms below.

Vera Effigies Guilielmi Burton / L.L. Baccalaurei

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1657-58

Engraved bust portrait of a bare-chested man with a beaded headband, shell necklace and beaded earrings, dated 1645.

Unus Americanus ex Virginia (An American from Virginia)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Engraved portrait of a standing woman in a satin gown beside a table with a flower vase and drapery.

Mary, Princess of Orange

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1641

Etching of two bust portraits, Democritus laughing on the left and Heraclitus weeping on the right, with a globe between them

Democritus and Heraclitus

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650-60

Etched 1670 view of Tangier's city walls, round tower and harbor with boats, two figures watching from the foreground.

Part of Tangier from above, without the Water-gate

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670

An Old Man and a Girl

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1635

Engraved portrait of a woman with curly hair and pearls holding flowers, with a landscape and tree behind her.

Mary Villiers, Dutchess of Lennox and Richmond

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645-50

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a ruff and dark gown, hand resting on a ledge, with Latin caption below.

Hieronymus Westonius (Richard Weston, Earl of Portland)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of a plumed soldier bending to kiss a veiled woman's hand in a dim room with a candle and chest.

The soldier kissing the woman's hand (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666

Etching of a man riding an ox in a barn while a snarling dog guards a hay manger.

The Dog in the Manger (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666

Etching of a colonnaded classical courtyard with Corinthian columns, figures, a fountain and a receding checkered floor.

Temple courtyard with figures

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Etched portrait of a bearded older man in a skullcap and dark robe seated beside a column, with Latin text below.

Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, physician

Jan Lievens, 17th century

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a divided fur cap and fur-trimmed coat, hand resting on his chest.

Old Man with Divided Fur Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Etching of an older man writing with a quill at a desk while a boy watches from behind, in a dim interior.

Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol with his Grandson

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1658

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

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

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 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)