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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,937 works

Etching of a rustic thatched farmhouse beside a stream with ducks, a rowboat, trees and a figure on the wooden staircase.

Landscape

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel, 1759

Engraving of two children sharing a bowl of milk under a tree, with a dog jumping up and a sheep nearby.

Drinking Milk

Jean Daullé, 18th century

Engraving of two putti with dividers, a book, a hammer and a classical column, labelled L'Architecture, N° 190.

Architecture

Johann Georg Hertel, 18th century

Engraving of three children fishing with a net and rod in a pool among reeds and flowers under a cloudy sky.

Water

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Engraving of three putti gardening beside a well, with a hoe, wheelbarrow, watering can, trees and French verse below.

Earth

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Engraving of a boy in a headscarf fishing from a pond bank beside a thatched shelter, reeds and flowering shrubs.

Fisherman

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Engraving of a startled boy seated in a cluttered workshop beside a furnace, with glass flasks, a mortar and an arched window

Glass Blower

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Engraving of winged putti working at a forge with hammers and arrows, beside a classical colonnade and rocky cave.

Fire

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Engraving of three cherubs with a bird cage and a net beside a broken tree, birds flying over a ruined tower in the distance.

Air

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Etching of four boys playing outdoors in a landscape, one flying a kite, with birds in the sky and sheep behind.

Leapfrog

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of soldiers gathered around a game under pine branches, one in a plumed helmet holding a shield.

First Guard-Room

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1754

Red chalk print of a young man with curled hair blowing a soap bubble through a clay pipe over a bowl.

The Soap Bubble

Gilles Demarteau, 1756-76

Print of two curly-haired children at a table by a curtain, one holding up a bubble pipe while the other blows bubbles from a

Les Enfants physiciens

Gilles Demarteau

Engraving of chubby putti carrying wheat sheaves and gathering flowers in a field under clouds, with French verse below.

Summer

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 1735-86

Engraved print of a reclining woman with a tambourine and a winged child offering flowers, amid clouds and drapery.

The Muse Erato, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"

Albert Ardail, 1890

Engraving of three putti with grapes and a garland within an oval frame, with French inscriptions and a coat of arms below.

Earth

Jean Daullé, ca. 1748

Engraving of three cupids with a bow, arrow and flames inside an oval frame, with French inscription below.

Fire

Jean Daullé, ca. 1748

Engraving of three putti riding a sea creature among waves, one lifting a billowing cloth, within an oval ornamental frame.

Water

Jean Daullé, ca. 1748

Engraving of three winged putti with birds in an oval frame, with French dedication text and a coat of arms below.

Air

Jean Daullé, ca. 1748

Engraved landscape of a shepherd with a staff, cattle and a goat in a stream, a ruined tower and bridge on the right.

Neapolitan Shepherd

Jean Daullé, 1758

Etching of a rocky waterfall landscape with two seated women, a shepherd with a staff, dogs, and a small building.

Traveling Women Drinking Water

Jean Daullé, 1758

Engraving of three playful cupid infants embracing beneath a tree, with grapes, fruit and a bird in the foreground.

The Cheerful Cupids

Jean Daullé, 1750

Engraving of two nude putti on clouds with a central cartouche bearing the title Second Livre de Groupes d'Enfans by F. Bouch

Frontispiece

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Etching of two winged putti on clouds, one carrying a basket of flowers while the other reaches toward it.

Two Children, One Holding a Basket with Flowers

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Etching of three winged putti among clouds, holding a garland of grapes and fruit, with drapery trailing across the scene.

Three Children with a Fruit Plate

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Etching of two winged putti on clouds, one holding a sword and the other lifting a plumed helmet.

Two Children, One With A Sword, Another With A Helmet

Gabriel Huquier

Etching of three winged putti among clouds, one holding a palm frond and another flying with drapery.

Three Children Among Clouds Near a Palm Leaf

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Etching of three winged putti floating among clouds, one holding a billowing drapery, with fine hatched lines.

Three Children Among Clouds Carrying a Drapery

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

George Jones

Asher Brown Durand, 1833

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with script caption naming William Paulding, Mayor of New York.

Honorable Willam Paulding, Mayor of the City of New York

Asher Brown Durand, 1826

Engraved portrait of an older man in a dark coat beside a table with a quill pen and stacked books, after F. R. Spencer.

James Kent

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraved portrait of Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City, in a dark coat and white cravat against a shaded oval.

Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1825

Engraved portrait of a seated man with curly hair, dark draped cloak and white cravat, holding a pocket watch.

Rev. William Jay

Asher Brown Durand, 1823

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a lyre emblem and the name Garrit Furman below.

Garrit Furman

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1830

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat against a cross-hatched background.

William Floyd

Asher Brown Durand, 19th century

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a draped curtain behind him and his name below.

William Gaston

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat, resting his hand on a book.

Chief Justice John Marshall

Asher Brown Durand, 1833

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair, open collar and waistcoat, hand raised to chest, titled Mr. Hilson as Tyke.

Thomas Hilson as Tyke

Asher Brown Durand, 1826

Engraved bust portrait of a young man with curly hair in a dark double-breasted coat, labeled Mr Hackett.

James Henry Hackett

Asher Brown Durand, 1832

Lindley Murray

Asher Brown Durand, 1827

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat, with books and a document beside him.

John Jay

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat holding a book, with stacked books and a bust beside him.

David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S.

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

David Crockett

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1836

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark naval-style uniform with epaulettes, holding a sword beside a stone column.

Stephen Decatur

Asher Brown Durand, 1835

Engraved portrait of a seated man with curly hair resting his hand on his temple, with caption Dewitt Clinton and signature.

Dewitt Clinton

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraved portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat and white cravat against a shaded background.

Charles Carrol of Carrolton

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1835

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark military uniform and tall shako hat, holding a rolled document.

Jacob Brown

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraved portrait of a woman with curled hair in a dark draped cloak, with caption Catharine M. Sedgwick and signature below.

Catherine Maria Sedgwick

Asher Brown Durand, 1832

Engraved print of the Apollo Belvedere statue, a standing nude male figure with a draped cloak and tree trunk, labeled ΑΠΟΛΛΩ

Apollo Belvedere

Asher Brown Durand, 1825

Engraved bust portrait of a clergyman in a dark gown and white bands, with curly hair, against a hatched background.

Rev. William Buell Sprague

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraving of the horse American Eclipse held by a groom in a stable beside a wooden bucket and straw.

American Eclipse

Asher Brown Durand, 1824

Engraved ticket with a kilted Highland man and a woman in a gown holding a laurel wreath, text reading Annual Caledonian Ball

Ladies' Ticket of Admission to the Annual Caledonian Ball

Asher Brown Durand, 1824

Engraved ball ticket showing a Highland couple dancing beside a bagpiper, framed by thistles and draped swags.

Annual Caledonian Ball Ticket

Asher Brown Durand, 19th century

Engraved oval scene of a robed woman beside a printing press, scattering pages to a crowd of readers and onlookers.

Certificate of Bible Society

Asher Brown Durand, 19th century

Engraved portrait of a man with curled powdered hair, dark coat and lace cravat against a crosshatched background.

The Poet John Trumbull (1750-1831)

Peter Maverick, 1820

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair and wire-rimmed spectacles, wearing a dark jacket and white collar, with sign

Robert C. Sands

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1829

Engraved portrait of a seated man in dark coat and white cravat, hands resting on a chair arm, dark background.

Rev. John Brodhead Romeyn, D. D.

Asher Brown Durand, May 1, 1820

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark double-breasted coat and white cravat, shown against a hatched background.

His Excellency Oliver Wolcott, Governor of the State of Connecticut

Asher Brown Durand, 1820

Engraved title page with allegorical women around a bust on a pedestal, a sunburst above, and ornate lettering for The New-Yo

Title Page: The New York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Embellished with Engravin…

Asher Brown Durand, 1831

Engraved print of a woodland picnic with figures at a table, a man reading near a cart, and a dog on the grass.

Gipseying Party

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1830

Engraving of a man and woman standing in a rowboat at shore, with a dog on the rocks and a cloudy sky.

Greek Lovers

Asher Brown Durand, 1825

Engraving of a seated figure cradling a dying man beside a rifle, with palm trees and a distant city under a dusk sky.

The Dying Greek

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1830

Engraved title page with a seated woman holding a book, a winged figure with a flower wreath, and a floral border reading Atl

Atlantic Souvenir (title page)

Asher Brown Durand, 1829

Engraved portrait of General Andrew Jackson in military dress beside a horse, with cannon and soldiers in smoke behind him.

General Andrew Jackson

Asher Brown Durand, June 1828

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat, fur-trimmed cloak and lace collar, hands resting on a table.

Portait of Seated Man in Hat

Charles Echard, 1782

Etching of a sailor in a knit cap smoking a pipe with arms crossed, standing on rocky ground beside a cliff and another figur

A Sailor Smoking with His Arms Crossed, from "Matelots"

Joseph François Foulquier, 1769

Etching of a quack vendor in a plumed hat presenting a bottle to a crowd of bird-headed onlookers before a city skyline.

Ladies and Gentlemen

Joseph François Foulquier, 1776

Etching of women and a man on a ship's gallery deck with scrolled railings, overlooking a harbor with masted ships.

The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta (Souvenir of a Ball on Shipboard) (La galerie du "Calcutta" (Souvenir d'un bal à bord)

James Tissot, 1876

Engraved caricature of a heavyset seated man surrounded by boots and objects, with ruins behind, from Harper's Weekly 1871.

"What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils" (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 15, p. 1097)

Thomas Nast, November 25, 1871

Hand-colored satirical print of a falling uniformed man balanced between Madrid and Moscow, with Fontainebleau palace below.

From Top to Bottom, or Cause and Effect (Du haut en bas...ou les causes et les effets)

Elie, April 1814

Pencil sketch of a gnarled tree with tangled bare branches and sprigs of leaves, dated 1833, on tan paper.

Study of a Tree Standing in Water in the Düsseldorf Hofgarten; verso: Studies of Plants

Johann Wilhelm Preyer, 1833

Watercolor of a castle on a rocky hilltop under stormy clouds, with riders on a meadow path and hills beyond.

Ruin of Burg Schachenstein at Thörl in Styria

Thomas Ender, mid-19th century

Pen and ink drawing of wooden cottages and sheds on a rocky hillside with bare trees.

Cottages in a Rocky Landscape

Wolfgang Huber, 16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome with a medieval tower and ruins in the foreground.

The Arch of Septimius Severus Seen from the East

Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1594

Pencil sketch of a valley with trees, a thatched cottage, a wooden fence, and distant mountains and church.

Landscape with a View in a Valley

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded martyrdom scene with a central standing figure and sketched clouds above.

Martyrdom of Saint Gereon

Cornelis Schut, early 17th-mid 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of God pointing to Noah's family entering the ark, with angels and birds above a landscape.

God Summons Noah and His Family into the Ark

Joseph von Führich, 1827 (?)

Pencil study of a classical theater facade with arched windows, trees, pedestrians, and handwritten colour notes on paper.

Study of the Nationaltheater, Berlin

Eduard Gaertner, mid-19th century

Pencil portrait of a man in a cap and suspenders smoking a long pipe, with handwritten inscription below.

Portrait of Johann Anton Koch

Hieronymus Hess, ca. 1823

Graphite and white chalk study of a reclining nude man with a sketched kneeling woman above him, on tan paper.

A Nude Woman Kneeling at the side of a Reclining Man (Study for Mary Magdalen Lamenting Christ)

Julius Hübner, 1857

Drawing of a haloed saint giving alms to beggars and a child near a Gothic church, with a city bridge behind.

Saint Johannes Nepomuk Distributing Alms

Leopold Kupelwieser, 1828

Pen and wash drawing of a woman at a spinning wheel with a hooded figure leaning in, in a timber-beamed interior.

Rumpelstiltskin Appearing to the Miller's Daughter

Gustav Heinrich Naecke, early 19th century

Drawing of the Entombment in a lunette shape, showing Christ on a shroud with mourners and a kneeling figure at the feet.

The Entombment

Philipp Veit, 1830

Hand-colored caricature print of a small imperial figure leaping a rope turned by two uniformed men, with French captions.

Imperial Jump-rope (Le Sauteur impérial, grand faiseur de tour)

Friedrich August Mottu, July 1815

Engraving of a woman and a man in a chinoiserie interior with a chair, lacquer cabinet, potted plant and garden view.

Chinese Man and Woman

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Engraving of two seated children beside a gnarled tree with a hanging fruit, titled Taste, numbered 4.

Taste

Chez Huquier, 18th century

Etching of a woman with a staff and a seated man examining an object under a woven canopy beside palm trees.

Woman Showing Curiosities to Soldier

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Engraved portrait of a standing man in embroidered formal dress with medals, leaning on a draped table beside an inkwell and

Portrait of Michel Louis Etienne, Comte Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angély

François Gérard, 1812

Engraving of a reclining nude woman on a white cloth in a forest clearing, with a distant sea and coastline at right.

Ariadne

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraving of a nude woman on a flower-strewn bed as a winged cupid holds a mirror above her against a starry sky.

Danaë

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1824

Engraved bust-length portrait of John M. Mason in a dark coat and white cravat against a shaded background.

John M. Mason, D.D. S.T.P. (1770-1829)

Asher Brown Durand, 1822

Engraved portrait of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat, with signature below.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Asher Brown Durand, 1835

Engraved landscape of cascading waterfalls in a wooded valley, with a seated figure on a rock in the foreground.

The Falls of the Sawkill

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Engraved landscape of the Delaware Water Gap with a river between wooded hills, framing trees, and small figures on the bank.

Delaware Water Gap

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Engraved bust portrait of Hugh Williamson in dark coat and white cravat, with curtain and column behind him.

Hugh Williamson, M.D., L.L.D. (1735-1819)

Asher Brown Durand, 1821

Engraved print of a young man's head with curly hair and lowered eyes, shaded in a classical sculptural style.

Head of Young Man

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1826