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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,953 works

Man wearing a turban, a tie fastened around his neck, facing left, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Etching of a young man with bowed head turned right, wearing a large oriental turban and fur-trimmed collar.

Young man looking down to right, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Etching of a nude saint bound to a tree while an executioner works with a knife, with soldiers and rocks around him.

The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew

Jusepe de Ribera, 1624

Engraving of women and children gathered in a crowded low lodging house interior, with a window and hanging cloth.

Low Lodging House, St. Giles's; A Study from Life, from "The Graphic," vol. 6

Hubert von Herkomer, August 10, 1872

Engraving of a seated ruler at a banquet table with a kneeling young man before him and a crowd of onlookers behind.

Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh's dreams (copy)

Lucas van Leyden, n.d.

Engraving of a kneeling woman holding a garment before a turbaned man, with onlookers and a sunlit town behind.

Potiphar's Wife Accusing Joseph (copy)

Lucas van Leyden, n.d.

Engraving of robed men gathered in a columned interior around a standing youth, with a small scene in a niche at right.

Joseph Interpreting His Dreams to Jacob (copy)

Lucas van Leyden, n.d.

Hunter and dog in a winter landscape with skaters on a frozen waterway and a distant town under a pale sky.

Winter Landscape with a Hunter and his Dog

Hendrick Avercamp, 17th century (?)

Brown ink and wash drawing of peasants in a rustic interior with a fish hanging from the beams and figures around a table.

Interior with Peasants

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Red chalk drawing with white highlights of a young man's head in three-quarter view, gazing upward, wearing a cap.

Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers in a guardroom with a fireplace, a table of card players, and a coat of arms on the wall.

Guardroom Scene

Cornelis Troost, 1744

Pen and wash drawing of two men eating and drinking in a rustic kitchen with a cupboard, bread, and a cooking pan.

Kitchen Scene

Cornelis Dusart, 1687

Gray wash drawing of two horsemen on a road, with wagons, a farmhouse, trees and a windmill in the distance.

Landscape with Two Men on Horseback

Pieter de Molijn, 1654

Brown ink sketch of three veiled women and a small bent boy on a pale sheet, studies by Rembrandt.

Study Sheet with Three Women and a Boy

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1638-39

Etching of a painter at an easel in a window-lit studio, with two assistants working by the fireplace.

The Painter in His Studio

Adriaen van Ostade, ca. 1667

Architectural drawing of a coffered hall ceiling with a central coat of arms and an upper frieze of garlands and putti.

Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware, 1735

Engraving of Psyche seated on a litter carried through a landscape, with a crowned king, mourners and trumpeting putti.

Plate 5: Psyche carried on a litter, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a seated woman in a hat gazing into a hand mirror, with vessels and the word VANITAS on a shelf.

Vanity

Enea Vico, 1545-50

Brown wash drawing of an elderly man reclining on a couch surrounded by draped onlookers in a columned interior.

The Death of Seneca

Pierre Peyron, ca. 1773

Engraving of a plowman being crowned by a cloaked figure while an eagle flies overhead and a woman raises her arms.

Predestination

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a kneeling nude woman bowing her head beside a ruined wooden shelter and a tree, with Latin text below.

Calamity

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Daumier lithograph of two seated men under trees, one reading a newspaper, a top hat on a chair beside them.

What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction, from 'The good bourgeois,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, August 30, 1846

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated woman in drapery lighting a fire in a bowl on a tripod stand.

Woman Lighting a Sacrificial Fire

Claude Guy Hallé, n.d.

Wood engraving of elderly veterans with medals seated on benches in a paneled hall with columns and flags.

Sunday at Chelsea Hospital, from "The Graphic," vol. 3

Hubert von Herkomer, February 18, 1871

Engraving of a nude woman resting on a stone pedestal beside classical ruins, labeled Poenitentia, with a Latin inscription b

Penitence (Poenitentia)

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a woman with a net and a leopard, with nets, a cage and a fish in a landscape.

Entrapment

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Etching of two men straining under a donkey standing on a man's back, with a second donkey behind them.

Plate 42 from "Los Caprichos": Thou who canst not (Tu que no puedes)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of an old man leaning toward a downcast young woman while onlookers watch behind them.

Plate 14 from "Los Caprichos": What a sacrifice! (Que sacrificio!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a fashionably dressed woman in a black mantilla beside a man with a fan, as an old woman whispers at left.

Plate 5 from "Los Caprichos": Two of a kind (Tal para qual)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Pen and wash design for a ceiling with a central medallion of a seated female figure holding a celestial sphere.

Design for Ceiling with Allegorical Figure of Astronomy

Giovanni Battista Crespi, 1605-15