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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

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

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 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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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 (?)

Engraving of warriors fighting and figures fleeing a burning city, with a seated figure and smoke rising from ruins on the ri

The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Ink and wash sketch of a standing woman in a long gown with a faint second figure at left, study for a bride painting.

Studies for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding"

David Wilkie, ca. 1838