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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,170 works

Engraving of a burning city with soldiers fighting, a fleeing family, and a nude goddess figure with cupids on the right.

The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of the Visitation with two women embracing before classical columns, a crowd, and a seated mother with infant.

The Visitation

Giorgio Ghisi, 1540-50

Etching of a decorated ox led through a city street by mounted soldiers and crowds of pedestrians.

Marche du boeuf gras

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1750

Etching of four ornamental vases with putti and seated figures, signed Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1754.

The Four Vases

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1754

Watercolor of a 19th-century drawing room with a harp, a seated woman in white, and French doors opening onto a mountain view

"Drawing Room of the Plas. Spa"

Julien Muère, 1838

Grey wash sketch of a horizontal foliate border with scrolls, rosettes and acanthus leaves on cream paper.

Sketch of Foliate Decoration

William Pitts, 1805-40

Woodcut of executioners killing prisoners on a rocky hillside, with a crowned ruler and onlookers in the foreground and a dis

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a bearded face composed of farming tools such as a sickle, rake, and baskets, with Italian verse below.

Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Agriculture

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Engraved composite bust made of cooking utensils such as ladles, a colander and chains, with Latin title and Italian verse.

The Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Cooking

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Engraving of a crowded vegetable market by a harbor, with women selling produce from baskets and boats on the shore.

Vegetable Market, from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market

Pieter van der Borcht, ca. 1575-1608

Engraving of a hunter with a spear carrying a woman with a bow on his shoulders, with hunting dogs and a retinue in the backg

Allegory of the Hunt; a hunter holding a large spear carrying a woman (Diana?) on his shoulders; five hunting dogs in…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre on a rock with the Muses making music around him, a winged horse and cherubs above.

Apollo and the Muses

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1557

Lithograph of a captive man strapped to a galloping horse while warriors with rifles pursue through a dark forest.

Simon Butler (Indian Trails, vol. II)

Jean-François Millet, 1852

Engraving of three seated women in classical robes spinning thread, with a distaff, spindle, and loom beside them.

The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558-59

Engraving of an allegory of birth: a woman in bed, a standing woman holding an infant, winged putti, and a chariot in the sky

Allegory of Birth

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558

Pastel head study of a man in a white wig and cravat, turned right, on a blue-grey background.

Préparation for a Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca.1745

Engraving of a seated man in prison gesturing at a window, with two armored soldiers and a ruined city view outside.

Caius Marius in Prison, two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560-69

Woodcut of an angel with keys standing over a dragon, with a walled city and mountains in the background.

The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Watercolor drawing of a curved staircase with green twisted balusters, carved wooden handrail and ornate moulded details.

Detail of Staircase at [Gerrard?] House, Gerrard Street, Soho, London

Charles James Richardson, 1825-71

Gray wash drawing of an allegorical tree with putti, lions, chariots, pouring figures and a city skyline behind.

An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Grey wash drawing of a shipwreck on a stormy shore, with survivors salvaging goods from the surf and a cart on the sand.

A Ship Wrecked on a Shore on a Stormy Night, with Survivors Salvaging Their Goods

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1695-1708

Engraving of a winged female allegorical figure in flowing robes holding a large sphere beside a niche.

Female Winged Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558/1559

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded older man with curly hair, set in an ornate architectural cartouche with Latin inscriptio

Portrait of Michelangelo

Giorgio Ghisi, after 1564

Engraving of Angelica and Medoro embracing beneath a tree while Medoro carves their names, with Cupid and a distant city.

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names in the bark of a tree; Cupid holding a torch in…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Engraving of the prophet Joel seated reading a scroll, with putti and architectural framing, after the Sistine Chapel ceiling

The Prophet Joel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of a seated sibyl reading a book in an arched frame, with nude figures and a putto around her.

The Persian Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine kneeling beside them, with a town and hills in the background.

The Mystic marriage of St. Catherine

Giorgio Ghisi, by 1575

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding a cloth as the infant Christ reaches for it, with Saint Joseph standing behind.

The Madonna of Loreto

Giorgio Ghisi, 1575

Engraving of the seated Virgin of Sorrows with clasped hands and halo, with a tree and walled city in the background.

The Virgin of Sorrows; central part of a print with nine surounding compartments, now separated

Giorgio Ghisi, by 1575

Mezzotint of a man and woman in dark period dress with a child reaching up, set before a garden with a bust and parrot.

Rubens, his wife Helena Fourment, and their Child

Charles Phillips, ca. 1770