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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,937 works

Engraved frontispiece of three putti on clouds, with a French title block reading Cinquieme Livre de groupes d'enfans.

Frontispiece

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of two chubby cupids on a cloud, one with feathered wings and one with bat wings, one holding an arrow.

Two Cupids, One with Bat Wings

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Engraving of two cupids on a cloud, one raising a torch and the other embracing a bouquet, with fine hatching.

Two Cupids, One Holding Torches

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of two cupids, one holding a flower wreath while the other reclines on a cloud, drawn in fine hatched lines.

Two Cupids, One Holding a Wreath

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of two winged cupids reclining on clouds, one holding a ball, with fine hatched shading.

Two Cupids, One Holding a Ball

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of three winged cupids tumbling together on clouds against a hatched background.

Three Cupids

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a shepherd family resting under a tree with sheep, a dog, children and bagpipes on the ground.

Bagpipes

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of soldiers in a stone guard room with a drum, weapons and a plumed helmet, one standing and others seated or kneelin

Second Guard-Room

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a woman with a draped head cloth, eyes lowered, touching fabric to her lips.

Head of a Woman

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a crowded domestic interior with a woman tending an infant in a basket, children, a cat, and a birdcage.

The Small Household

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of peasant women and children with bundled sticks and sheep in an open landscape under clouds.

The Caravan

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a barefoot young woman with a birdcage on her back, holding a basket, beside two seated boys near a wall and trees

Girl with a Bird

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of two children on a country path, one carrying a basket and pointing ahead, beside a tree and clouds.

The Traveling Children

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Engraved rococo urn design with putti, a ram on the lid, a religious medallion, and rays of light behind.

Design for an Urn

Gabriel Huquier, 1725-72

Engraved portrait of a young woman with a feathered hat and fan, seated in a stone niche beside a curtain.

Evening

Gilles Edme Petit

Engraved portrait of a woman in a plumed hat and pearls holding a small bird, with a verse caption below.

After-dinner

Gilles Edme Petit

Engraving of a woman adjusting a pocket watch beside a sundial, holding a parasol, with a garden behind her.

Midday. A Lady Setting Her Watch

Gilles Edme Petit

Engraving of a shepherd seated under windswept trees with sheep and cattle, with a ruin and fence in the background.

The Shepherd

Engraving of a pastoral scene with a spouting stone fountain, cattle, sheep, roosters, women and a child under trees.

The Fountain

Engraved studio scene of a painter at an easel with a landscape, assisted by women and a child in a rustic room.

Painting - Marie Madeleine Igonet, 1752

Marie Madeleine Igonet, 1752

Etching of a shepherd girl weaving flowers beside a sheep under a large tree in a wooded landscape.

The Amusement of a Shepherd Girl

Marie Madeleine Igonet

Etching of a woman and child seated in a wooded landscape beside a bird cage, with birds flying in the sky.

Children Catching Birds

Marie Madeleine Igonet

Etching of a ragged boy in a wide hat standing, with a bent figure sweeping near a stone doorway behind him.

Sweeping from Top to Bottom

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

Engraving of a woman and man carrying firewood across a windy winter landscape with village houses in the background.

The Late Provision

Philippe Trière, 1771

Engraving of three nude female figures on a cloud with a cherub holding two torches above them, garlands at their feet.

The triumph of the Graces

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet

Engraving of the Virgin with a halo and flowing robe, standing by a column and rocky landscape under a cloudy sky.

The Blessed Virgin

Simon de La Vallée, 1726

Etching of several winged putti carrying garlands and baskets of fruit, some flying and some resting on clouds.

Groups of Children

François Boucher

Etching of three children playing with a parrot on a hoop beside a flower-filled urn and a wooden bench.

Chinese Children Playing with a Parrot

Louis Antoine Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris

Etching of two children in a garden, one playing a drum beside a flower-filled urn, a cat and chairs nearby.

Two Children, One Playing the Drum

Louis Antoine Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris

Etching of a grape harvest with figures carrying baskets of grapes, children near a cask, and a seated woman with a cup.

The Grape Harvest

Philippe Louis Parizeau

Engraved print of a reclining nude woman on draped cloth beside rocks and plants, with French inscription below.

Study of a Reclining Nude

Jean Edme Nochez

Engraved scene of two men embracing in a city square with armed figures, domed churches, and a French caption below.

Frontispiece

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

Engraving of winged cupids playing on rolling waves, one holding a billowing cloth above a group of putti.

Cupid on Water

Jean-Charles Le Vasseur, 1758

Engraving of the sleeping god Cupid reclining on drapery, with a quiver of arrows and a wooded landscape behind him.

The Sleep of Cupid

Jean-Baptiste Michel

Engraving of an old bearded man gesturing to a flute-playing youth beside sheep, with a classical temple and trees behind.

Termosiris Teaching Telemachus to Follow the Example of Apollo

Pietro Antonio Martini

Etching of Telemachus in armor arriving on a wooded shore where draped nymphs gather, with a ship and an older man with a sta

Arrival of Telemachus at the Island of Calypso

Antoine-Jean Duclos

Engraving of Diana and nymphs bathing by a forest stream while a young hunter, Actaeon, peers from the trees.

Diana and Acteon

Pierre François Tardieu

Engraving of a barefoot peasant woman in a straw hat and fringed shawl standing on rocky ground beside a cypress tree.

Peasant Woman from Around Ferrara

Edmé Jeaurat, 1734

Engraved design of a rococo vase with a faun and a nymph on its body, standing on a pedestal with flowers at the base.

Design for a vase with a faun and a nymph, from Livre de Vases (Book of Vases), plate 10

Gabriel Huquier, 1742-50

Dangerous Caresses

Joseph de Longueil

Etching of a shepherd with a birdcage beside a seated woman and child, with sheep, a dog and a stone bridge in a landscape.

A Kind Shepherd

Engraving of a seated shepherd girl with a sheep by a stream, a shepherd boy and flock in an alpine landscape.

Shepherd Girl of the Alps

Philippe Trière

Sepia print of a woman reading to children in a vaulted room, with a cat, a loaf of bread, and a framed portrait on the wall.

Two Women with Children

Richard de Saint-Non, 1766

Etching of a rustic thatched cottage, crumbling wall, barrels, and a woman carrying a bucket under a cloudy sky.

Woman Carrying a Bucket

William Wynne Ryland

Etching of a stone arch bridge over water with wooden pilings, a ruined building, and small figures on the bridge and below.

View From a Bridge

William Wynne Ryland

Engraving of the Assumption: a robed woman rises on clouds above a stone tomb, with two kneeling figures and angels.

L'Assomption

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

Woodcut of Saints Thomas and Bartholomew flanking an ornate column, with halos and radiating lines behind them.

Sts. Thomas and Bartholomew

Monogrammist G.Z., 1518

Pencil sketch of three bearded men in tall caps and cloaks, overlapping in bust-length study, signed Munkácsy.

Study of Three Men, Bust Length

Mihály Munkácsy, ca. 1891-93

Studies of Standing Men

Mihály Munkácsy, ca. 1891-92

Etching of a peasant in a wide hat and fur-trimmed coat wading through shallow water beside tall reeds.

Peasant Crossing Water

William Wynne Ryland, 1786

Engraving of a rustic cottage with thatched roof, a woman and children resting by a tub, and birds in a cloudy sky.

Rest in the Country

William Wynne Ryland

Engraved print of a woman in a robe holding a parasol beside potted plants and a flowering branch in a garden.

The Master Gardener

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraving of a seated woman playing a board game while a young boy watches, with a large vase and palm fronds behind them.

The Game of Chinese Chess

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraving of a woman and a boy playing hanging bells under a fringed parasol beside a pagoda-style pavilion.

Chinese Bell Music

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraving of a woman with a parasol and pipe, two children, and a parrot on a stand beside a potted plant.

Chinese Curiosities

John Ingram, 1741-63

Etching of three winged putti on a grassy bank, one holding a bundle of wheat stalks, titled Summer.

Summer

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of two winged putti on a cloud, one reading sheet music and the other playing a flute beside a lyre and tambourine.

Music

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of two putti with drafting tools, a compass and a book, beside a ruined column and stone wall titled Architecture.

Architecture

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged putti on a cloud with sculptor's tools, one holding a small statuette, titled Sculpture.

Sculpture

Louis-Félix Delarue

Engraving of two winged putti on clouds, one aiming a telescope skyward, the other resting on a globe beside books and a tele

Astronomy

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three putti tending a small fire with sticks, a lamb beside them, smoke rising into a wooded landscape.

Fire

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged cherubs on clouds with a palette, brushes, a bust and an easel, titled Painting.

Painting - Louis-Félix Delarue

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of two cherubs on clouds with a lyre, laurel wreath, scroll, book and doves, captioned LA POESIE.

Poetry

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three cherubs among clouds playing a tambourine, a horn, and drums beside a trumpet.

Earth

Louis-Félix Delarue

Engraving of three winged cherubs with a seashell and crab among waves, titled Water.

Water

Louis-Félix Delarue

Engraved print of a woman reading a letter beside a cupid and a dove, inside an oval frame with a dedication below.

A Love Letter

Simon Charles Miger

Sepia wash print of Venus and Cupid with winged figures and cherubs among clouds in an oval frame.

Venus and Cupid

Richard de Saint-Non

Etching of a country fair with dancing figures, a wooden stage, a stone tower, a tent, and diners at a table under cloudy ski

Country Fair

Pierre Charles Lévesque, 1762

Engraving of a barefoot young woman with a flower basket and bouquets in a woodland setting, titled The Flower Girl Fanchonet

The Flower Girl Fanchonette

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraving of a barefoot young woman in a wide-brimmed hat carrying a basket of eggs past a fence and stone arch.

The Egg Merchant

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraving of a barefoot woman seen from behind carrying a basket of celery beside a fence and cottage.

The Seller of Celery

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraving of a young woman carrying a child beside a basket, broom, copper pan and vegetables in a domestic interior.

The Young Housekeeper

John Ingram, 1741-63

Etching of a seated woman gardener in period dress beside a pumpkin, rake and basket, under a leafy tree.

The Gardener

François Boucher, 1741-63

Etching of a barefoot boy with a marmot and wooden box beside a stone wall, with foliage and a tall tree behind him.

The Savoyard with His Box

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraving of a woman in flowing robes with a fan, as a small dog stands on its hind legs beside her in a garden.

The Small Dog Standing on Hind Legs

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraved frontispiece with three putti tumbling over a draped cartouche bearing the title of Boucher's third book of child gr

Frontispiece

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three nude winged cupids tumbling in a somersault above a rocky mound, with an eagle perched at the lower right.

Three Cupids Turning a Somersault, an Eagle on the Right

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged cupids playing with a leafy vine branch, with one child reaching up and another leaning among the fol

Three Cupids Playing with Vine Branches

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged cupids in clouds, one holding a laurel branch and another embracing a plumed helmet.

Three Cupids Holding a Helmet

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged cupids on a ledge with a mirror, a flute, and a garland of fruit and leaves.

Three Cupids, Two Playing Music, One Holding Palm Leaves

Louis-Félix Delarue

Engraved interior of a family at a tea table, with a seated woman, a man pouring, a standing woman, a child and a doll.

Luncheon

François Bernard Lépicié

Etching of two cherubs tending a fire beside a hooded old woman warming her hands, with birds in the upper right.

Winter

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three cupids playing among military trophies including a plumed helmet, shield and spear on a ledge.

Three Cupids with Military Trophies

Louis-Félix Delarue

Lithograph of a couple embracing by a fountain while a man peers from behind trees at right.

The Fountain

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of Doric temple columns framing a mountain view, with three figures in hats and cloaks in the foreground.

The Temple of Neptune in Pestum

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of two cloaked bagpipers in front of a stone building with a balcony and arched doorway.

The Bagpipers

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of two kneeling women before a classical niche, a man with a rifle and dog, and Colosseum ruins behind.

Scene at the Coliseum

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of two women pilgrims with staffs and a child walking on a dirt path toward distant hills.

The Pilgrims

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of an arched Roman courtyard with a woman tending a plant and a young man peeking from behind a column.

View of a Courtyard in Rome

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of a poor family walking a road: an older woman, a young woman with a stick and bundle, and a barefoot child.

The Ill-Fated Family

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Lithograph of a Neapolitan sailor on rocks watching a stormy sea with a broken mast and seagulls overhead.

Neapolitan Sailor

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Engraved print of a grand columned staircase with an equestrian statue, framed paintings, and figures in period dress.

View of the Scala Reggia ordered by Alesandro VII (Vedute Della Scala Reggia ordinata da Alesandro VII)

Giovanni Ottaviani, n.d.

Sketchbook page with four circular plate designs in watercolor and ink and a central quatrefoil rondel.

Four Designs for Decorated Plates and a Quatrefoil Rondel

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1852

Numbered watercolor designs for cup decorations and plate rims with ivy, scrolls, lattice, and floral borders.

Eight Designs for Decorated Cups and Two Designs for Plate Rims

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1845-55

Sketchbook page with eight watercolor designs for decorated cups, bands of scrollwork, zigzags and leaves, one labeled Boabdi

Eight Designs for Decorated Cups, including Boabdil Pattern

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1845-55

Watercolor page of numbered designs for decorated saucers and teacups with floral and geometric patterns in yellow, green and

Five Designs for Decorated Cups and Three Designs for Saucers

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1845-55