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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,349 works

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long curled hair, lace collar and armor, within an inscribed border.

Louis XIV

Robert Nanteuil, 1667

Engraved plate of an ornamental vase with laurel garlands, rosette handle, fluted body and stepped pedestal.

Vases Nouveaux Composées par M. Jacque[s]

Maurice Jacques, 18th century

Engraving of a nude man seated on a pedestal, bending to remove a thorn from his foot, with hatched background.

Man Removing a Thorn from his Foot, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of an equestrian statue of a bearded rider on a rearing horse, on a pedestal with Latin inscription.

Marcus Aurelius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, 16th century

Sepia drawing of a woman with long hair leaning over a reed-covered basket among bulrushes, with figures and a balustrade beh

Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes

Simeon Solomon, February 22, 1859

Grey wash drawing of a lion below a goat on a rocky cliff, with a wide landscape and clouds behind them.

The Lyon and the Kid, from Ogilby's Aesopics

Francis Barlow, ca. 1668

Study of the Right Leg of a Male Child

Red chalk drawing of a prophet, King David and two putti in decorative cupola compartments.

Design for the Decoration of a Cupola with a Prophet, King David and Two Putti

Drawing of a bearded man in a gray robe and white collar, gazing upward, rendered in chalk on blue-gray paper.

Bust-Length Portrait of an Ecclesiastic

Carletto Caliari, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a priest in a mitre circumcising an infant at an altar, with a kneeling child, a praying woman and onloo

The Circumcision

Gérard de Lairesse, mid-17th-early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a crowd beneath classical columns, with flames above their heads and seated women in the foreground.

The Pentecost

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a colliery winding wheel at a town edge, with a castle on a hill and a bare tree.

View of a colliery at the edge of a town

George Price Boyce, 1865-75

Engraved portrait of an older bearded man in a ruff collar and skullcap, framed by an arch with classical ornaments.

Portrait of Hendrick Goltzius

Jan Müller, ca. 1617

Etching of a beheading scene with a severed head on the ground, a mounted horseman, soldiers and onlookers in hatched shading

The Beheading of St. Paul

Michael Lucas Leopold Willmann, n.d.

Black chalk and white highlight study of a draped angel seated on a cloud, one arm raised, with extra hand studies.

Angel Holding a Banderole

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Pen and brown ink study sheet with several nude figures, intertwined couples, and a winged cupid at upper left.

Studies for Apollo and Daphne, Zeus and Juno, Orpheus and Eurydice and other figures (recto and verso)

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, n.d.

Engraved self-portrait of John Kay seated beside a bust, with a cat on the chair and drawing tools on the table.

Portraits of Eminent Scotch Characters

John Kay, 1784-1819

Engraved oval portrait of a cardinal with curled hair and white clerical collar, inscribed border above and below.

Le cardinal Pierre de Bonzi

Robert Nanteuil, 1678

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled wig, dark robe and white collar, within an inscribed border.

Le chancelier Louis Boucherat

Robert Nanteuil, 1676

Oval engraved portrait of a bewigged man in a dark robe and white collar, inside a laurel wreath border.

Le chancelier Louis Boucherat

Robert Nanteuil, 1677

Oval engraved portrait of a man with long curled wig and white collar, inscribed border, 1671.

Le cardinal Guillaume-Égon de Fürstenberg

Robert Nanteuil, 1671

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled hair, white collar and cross insignia, within a Latin inscribed border.

François de Harlay de Champvallon

Robert Nanteuil, 1673

Etching of a nude woman swinging from a branch above a seated bear, framed by flowering trees and bamboo.

Intermezzi, Opus IV

Max Klinger, 1881

Grey wash drawing of a flower arrangement in an urn inside an arched niche, with grapes and fruit on a stone pedestal.

Vase of Flowers

Willem van Leen, 1790s

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a standing friar in a long hooded robe, gazing upward with hands clasped.

Saint Francis

Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, ca. 1550-60

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed woman before a seated man, with a kneeling woman, flames, books and onlookers.

The Cumaean Sibyl before Tarquin the Proud

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Red chalk drawing of a young man's bust with tousled wavy hair and a loose garment on a cream sheet.

Bust of a Young Man

Jean de Saint-Igny, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a baroque festival arch with a central statue niche, cherubs, a sunburst, fountains and candelabra.

Design for Festival Architecture for an Entry into Paris for the King of Sweden, Fredrerick I of Hesse

Guillaume Thomas Raphaël Taraval, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a forest path framed by large trees, with small figures resting on the left and distant ruins beyond.

Wooded Landscape

Paulus van Liender, 18th century

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century