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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,953 works

Engraving of a German messenger in feathered cap and fur-trimmed cloak, holding a staff, with a horn and dagger at his side.

Costume Plate: German Messenger

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Costume Plate: Woman from Germany

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Engraved costume plate of a German soldier's wife with feathered hat, rooster, basket and bucket, with banner inscription.

Costume Plate: Wife of a Warrior from Germany

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Costume Plate: Peasant Woman from Spain, from "Diversarum gentium nostrae aetatis habitus"

Enea Vico, ca. 1555-58

Engraving of an allegorical figure of America with feathered headdress, flanked by bowman, birds, goats and grotesque figures

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Etching of Christ overturning tables among fleeing merchants in a columned temple interior, with a bull and scattered coins.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Etching of a young boy speaking to a bearded elder as a crowd in turbans listens, with a scribe writing in the foreground.

Joseph Telling His Dreams

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1638

Brown ink and wash drawing of lovers in a wooded landscape, with hunters chasing animals toward a distant village.

Landscape with Lovers and Hunters

Adam van Noort, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a woman in a bonnet and long skirt standing beside a rush-seated wooden chair.

A Woman Standing next to a Chair

Nicolaas Muys, n.d.

Woodcut of armored trumpeters in laurel wreaths playing long horns, with children and a dog, and Latin text above and below.

Trumpeters, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504

Etching of a file of musket-carrying men in tricorn hats marching past a horse, dogs, and a stream on a grassy hillside.

Recruits Going to Join the Regiment

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1715-16

Pen and wash drawing of elegantly dressed figures and dogs at a brick table in a flat landscape with distant sailboats.

Elegant Party on the Tafelberg

Anthonie van Borssom, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of camels, travelers and a well on a road, with a towered hilltop castle in the background.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Lambert Doomer, 1696

Ink sketch of a veiled woman embracing a bearded man beside a camel and turbaned figures, with a building at right.

Isaac's Reception of Rebecca

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1660s

Pen and brown ink drawing of a reclining peasant propped on one elbow, glancing sideways, on grey paper.

A Reclining Peasant (recto); Study of a Young Man (verso)

Jacob de Gheyn II, late 16th-early 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of robed figures gathered at an arched doorway beside a hilly landscape with a bathing figure.

Jacob Receiving Joseph's Blood-Stained Cloak (recto); Study of a Bearded Man and The Sacrifice of Isaac (verso)

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1653

Brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, infant Christ, shepherds and angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Hans Rottenhammer, ca. 1595-1606

A Hungarian Horseman

Roelant Savery, late 16th-mid 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a river landscape with rocks, trees, goats, travellers, and a distant building under clouds.

A River Landscape with Travellers

Herman van Swanevelt, 17th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of a rocky coast with a seated figure, an eagle, sailboats, and a distant town.

The Death of Aeschylus

Tobias Verhaecht, 1576-before 1606

Brown ink and wash drawing of an armored rider on horseback with a lion shield, a griffin, and a city behind.

Emperor Ninus

Maerten de Vos, mid-16th-early 17th century

Engraving of the Birth of the Virgin: attendants bathe the infant beside a canopied bed while cherubs assist.

Birth of the Virgin (copy)

Julius Goltzius, 1581

Brown ink and wash drawing of two carriages in a city street with a man in a long coat and servants by a building.

La scène des deux carrosses

Claude Gillot, ca. 1712-16

Ink and wash drawing of a kneeling haloed man receiving a chalice from an angel while three disciples sleep nearby.

Agony in the Garden

Caspar Strauss, 1600-1633

Grey wash drawing of a seated scholar in a study with a globe, clock, books and cherubs above.

An Oriental Astronomer in His Study

Martin Johann Schmidt, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a standing workman in a hat leaning on a plank of wood, looking down.

A Carpenter at Work

Jan Josef Horemans the Elder, n.d.

Black cut paper silhouettes of a family group standing and seated in a room with tall draped windows.

Thomas Williams, the Town Crier of New Bedford with Wife and Daughter

Samuel Metford, 19th century

Red chalk design for a triangular frontispiece with two seated allegorical women, a crown, and a winged figure in an oval car

Design for a Frontispiece with Figures of Faith and Hope

Martin Tyroff, 1704-59

Ink and wash drawing of a reclining woman watched by two bearded elders leaning over a stone balustrade.

Susanna and the Elders

Gerard van Honthorst, early 17th-mid 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned woman distributing gold from a chest to kneeling figures, with a raised sword and medieval

Kriemhild, in Mourning over Siegfried, Handing Out Treasures from the Nibelungen Hoard

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1854