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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,170 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged and draped allegorical figures above a skull on a tomb.

Allegorical Design for a Tomb

André Lebrun, n.d.

Pen and ink study with white highlights showing soldiers, a horse, and a crouching man around a stone block.

Historical Scene (Composition Study for Chapelle de Guise)

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Engraving of a reclining man and standing woman in an elegant 18th-century interior with canopy bed and cupid sculpture.

La Carquois Épuisé (The Empty Quiver)

Pierre Antoine Baudouin, 1775

Engraving of an alchemist's cluttered workshop with furnaces and flasks, and a snowy street scene with a hospital through a w

The Alchemist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, after 1558

Engraving of a crowded tavern where a quack performs a stone operation on a seated patient, surrounded by grotesque onlookers

The Stone Operation or the Witch of Mallegem

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559

Watercolor sheet of butterflies, moths, a green dragonfly, and beetles scattered on a pale background.

Insects, Butterflies, and a Dragonfly

Jan van Kessel, 1662

Watercolor drawing of a canopied chariot procession with bishops, horses, and flying angels in a forest setting.

The Triumph of the Church: Ecclesia Presented with the Doctrines, Seated in a Chariot Attended by the Four Doctors of…

Otto van Veen, 1615-20

Engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure at the base, and a standing man.

The Crucifixion

Giuseppe Salviati, 1556

Engraving of robed figures with a celestial globe, open book and classical colonnade, with a landscape and reclining man in t

Frontispiece to "Le sorti di Francesco Marcolini da Forli intitolato Giardino di Pensieri"

Giuseppe Salviati, 1540

Etching of two hunters and a dog on a wooded hill overlooking a river valley, with a castle on a cliff and a distant city.

The Rabbit Hunt

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

Hand-colored bird's-eye map of Antwerp with a star-shaped citadel, harbor ships, and four figures in costume at the bottom.

View of Antwerp from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Joris Hoefnagel, 1572-94

Sheet with four engravings of the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine showing Virgin, Child, an angel with a wreath, and seated

Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro

Engraving of a group of draped Roman-style men with a horse, a tree and a dagger, gathered in an outdoor scene.

Group of Roman Figures

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45

Engraving of a nude man against a tree trunk, with classical ruins, columns and arches in the background.

Man Against a Tree

Master IQV, ca. 1543-44

Pen and grey wash drawing of a dancing woman in a flowing gown, floral wreath and laced ballet slippers.

Woman Alone, from the series the Dancing Pair Vigano

Johann Gottfried Schadow, n.d.

Portrait of Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbruck (1762-1834)

Johann Gottfried Schadow, n.d.

Pen drawing of visitors in 1830s dress viewing framed prints in a gallery, with men in top hats and women in bonnets.

The Public at an Exhibition

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1831

Engraving of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd of soldiers, riders and onlookers, with a dog in the foreground.

Christ Carrying the Cross (copy)

Martin Schongauer, late 15th century

Engraving of the crowned Virgin praying beside a blessing, crowned Christ holding an orb, with three angels above.

The Enthronement of the Virgin

Martin Schongauer, 1470-91

Engraving of Christ kneeling in prayer on a rocky hill as sleeping disciples lie nearby and an angel appears above.

Christ on the Mount of Olives (reverse copy in roundel)

Martin Schongauer, late 15th-16th century

Engraving of Christ bound before a seated elder in a Gothic arched hall, with armed men, a lantern, and a dog.

Christ before Annas

Martin Schongauer, 1470-82

Engraving of Christ with a crown of thorns presented to a crowd of men and soldiers before an arched doorway, with a dog in t

Ecce Homo

Martin Schongauer, 1470-82

Engraving of mourners lowering Christ's body into a stone tomb, with a crown of thorns in the foreground and a bare tree abov

The Entombment of Christ

Martin Schongauer, 1470-82

Engraving of a standing richly dressed man lifting his cloak over a kneeling ragged beggar, with a sword in hand.

St. Martin

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Circular engraving of a seated woman holding a shield with a rearing unicorn, beside a flowering plant in a planter.

Seated Lady Holding a Shield with an Unicorn

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Two etched versions of the Entombment showing mourners lowering the body of Christ onto a tomb.

Entombment

Guido Reni, ca. 1595-1600

Engraving of a bearded wild man holding a club beside a tall stem of curling foliate ornament on a pale sheet.

Ornament with a Wild Man

Master ES, 15th century

Engraving of a bearded saint in a robe surrounded by grotesque winged and scaled demons tormenting him.

Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons

Master FVB, late 15th century

Album page with three engravings: an oval male bust portrait and two scenes of religious and allegorical figures.

Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Vespasiano Strada

Etched bust portrait of a bearded man with a mustache and lace collar, with the name Franciscus Snyders below.

Frans Snyders, from "The Iconography"

Anthony van Dyck, early 17th century