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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,350 works

Ink and wash sketches of a rearing horse attacked by a lion, plus a lion wrestling a serpent in brown wash.

Studies of a Rearing Horse Attacked by a Lion and a Lion Wrestling with a Serpent

Eugène Delacroix, 1830s

Daumier lithograph of a crowded Salon gallery, top-hatted men and bonneted women staring up at hanging paintings, caricatured

A Day When You Do Not Pay-Twenty-Five-Degree Heat (Un jour ou l'on ne paye pas. Vingt-cinq degres de chaleur ), from…

Honoré Daumier, May 17, 1852

Elderly couple on a garden bench gazing at a classical marble statue, with a man in a top hat and a cane beside a woman.

--No matter what one says, old things are always beautiful. --Yes, my dear, but only in marble., from 'As you like it…

Honoré Daumier, January 21, 1850

Caricature of a sculptor offering a cup to a statue of a woman bending down from a pedestal in a cluttered studio.

Pygmalion, from Histoire Ancienne, published in Le Charivari, December 28, 1842

Honoré Daumier, December 28, 1842

Lithograph of a tall man in a top hat with a cane looking up at a shorter man in a smock and cap, by Daumier, 1869.

Comme ça se redresse vite. .

Honoré Daumier, June 25, 1869

Watercolor design of a faceted decanter with gilt stopper, landscape panel, figure medallion and floral ornament.

Design for a Decanter

Virginia Ferrari, 19th century

Engraving of a woman in a wreath above a celestial sphere, with a skeleton, an aged figure, winged angels and an hourglass be

Portrait of Maria Luisa d'Orleans (1662-1689), wife of Charles II of Spain

Giovanni Battista Bonacina, ca. 1689

Engraving of a nude woman pouring from a pitcher into a goblet beside a column, with a cherub above holding a ring.

Temperance (Temperancia)

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a martyr on a gridiron over flames, surrounded by soldiers, with angels and clouds above.

Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

Cornelis Cort, 1571

Hand-colored print of an 18th-century supper party with figures in period dress around a candlelit table with wine and fruit.

The Supper

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1787-93

Hand-colored print of a family taking a snack at a garden table before a classical colonnade, with a servant bringing a tray.

The Snack

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1787-93

Engraving of a flower bouquet in an ornate vase with a parrot and a falcon on branches at the sides.

Vase of Flowers with Two Birds

Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1590-1656

Pen-and-ink print of a seated man in a plumed hat and cloak, chin resting on his hand, with a sword across his knees.

The Thoughtful Captain

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1822

Etching of Antwerp Cathedral's tall Gothic tower and façade with a busy square, carriage, and figures below.

Antwerp Cathedral (Prospectvs Tvrris Ecclesiæ Cathedralis)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1625-77

Etching of a standing English gentlewoman in winter dress with fur muff, lace collar and black half-mask, by Wenceslaus Holla

English Lady in Winter Costume (The Winter habit of an English Gentlewoman)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Woodcut of Saint Philip, a bearded elder holding a cross and a book, standing barefoot against a hatched dark background.

Saint Philip

Domenico Beccafumi, ca. 1540-1550

Pen drawing of a nude warrior pressing down on a sprawling second figure, on aged paper.

A Warrior Subduing Another (recto); Warrior Seen in Bust-Length with Fantastic Helmet (verso)

Maso Finiguerra, 1460-64

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate architectural frame with a coat of arms, caryatids, garlands and a blank central panel.

Design for the Frame of a Funerary Plaque with the Coat of Arms of Roger II de Saint Lary, Duc de Bellegarde

Etienne Martellange, ca. 1619-30

Engraved sheet with vertical floral borders and four circular ornamental medallions in framed panels.

Sheet of border segments: vertical floral ornament, horizontal frieze, four corners

Francesco Rosselli, 1490-1500

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a long dress leaning on a cabinet in a studio with a vase of flowers and framed pictures.

Young Woman Leaning against a Low Cabinet in Artist's Studio

William Douglas Almond, late 19th-early 20th century

Ink topographical map of central Manhattan showing street grid, hatched terrain shading, tree clusters and an orange-outlined

Topographical Map of the City and County of New-York and the Adjacent Country

David H. Burr, 1836-ca. 1858

Grey lithograph of a woman with closed eyes and long flowing hair, head bowed in soft granular shading.

Eyes Closed

Odilon Redon, 1890

Etching of a moonlit mountain valley with a pale cliff, waterfalls, and a seated woman on rocks in the foreground.

Mondnacht, from Intermezzi, plate 4

Max Klinger, n.d.

Hand-colored lithograph of a forest ravine with a waterfall, tall trees, rock walls, and a seated man with a staff at lower l

A Memory of Caldera, from "Histoire des Iles Canaries"

Félix Achille Beaupoil Saint-Aulaire, 1830

Front page of Le Bouffon, May 10 1868, with a large masthead, central caricature of a jester and columns of French text.

Le Bouffon - Le Salon de 1868

Edward Ancourt, May 10, 1868

Lithograph bust portrait of a man with tousled hair and cravat, with inscription naming Le Baron de Humboldt, 1821.

Portrait of Le Baron de Humboldt

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1821

Lithograph bust portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with printed inscription naming Gay-Lussac below.

Portrait of Joseph-Louise Gay Lussac

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Pen and gray wash architectural section of an opera house with a rococo proscenium arch, columns, and arched niches.

Design for the Proscenium Arch of an Opera house and the Section Adjacent to the Stage

Philippe de La Guêpière, 18th century

Engraved aerial plan of a Roman aviary with rectangular pools, colonnaded porticoes, a circular theatre and trees.

Ornithon Sive Aviarum, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Lithograph portrait of a man above a cloud, with broken Egyptian statues, palms, a serpent and pyramids below.

Portrait of Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, half-length, an Egyptian landscape below with pyramids and temples and statues…

M. Fabroni, 1824