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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,168 works

Engraving of six nude male figures forming a pyramid, interlocking limbs and bodies stacked over a ledge.

Pyramid of six Men

Juste de Juste, 1540-50

Engraving of a standing female saint with halo and palm frond, draped robes, in an octagonal niche.

A female Saint

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, 16th century

Engraving of the warrior Amphiaraus standing in a chariot with a spear, horses below, and soldiers fighting at upper right.

Amphiaraus

Domenico del Barbiere, 1540-50

Engraving of a busy town meat market with hanging carcasses, vendors at tables, shoppers, a porter, and dogs on cobblestones.

Meat Market (from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market)

Pieter van der Borcht, ca. 1575-1608

Engraving of a classical banquet in a columned hall, with seated guests, attendants pouring wine, and a relief frieze on the

The Banquet of Alexander

Domenico del Barbiere, 1540-50

Engraving of Saint Stephen kneeling amid a stoning crowd, with God and Christ and angels in clouds above a city.

The Stoning of Saint Stephen

Domenico del Barbiere

Mezzotint portrait of Grinling Gibbons with long curled hair, resting his hand on a carved head beside a carving tool.

Grinling Gibbons

Godfrey Kneller, 1690

Engraving of women with water jars gathered at a well beside a wooden trellis, with trees and grasses in the background.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45

Engraving of the Madonna and Child with saints, an angel, and a dragon beneath a draped canopy bed and lattice window.

Madonna of Saint Margaret

Master IQV, ca. 1543

Red chalk drawing of the mythological flaying of Marsyas, with a seated musician, onlookers, and a tree in a landscape.

The Flaying of Marsyas

François van Loo, early 18th century

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk of armored horsemen with a pennant and a kneeling figure holding a bridle.

Equestrian Group

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, 18th century

Mezzotint portrait of an elderly bald man in a dark coat holding a quill pen at a table, with an engraved caption below.

Joseph Carreras

the Younger John Faber, 1735

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man's head in three-quarter view, with dense curling hair and beard hatching.

Head of a Bearded Man

Monogrammist SM, 1515

Engraving of a baptism scene with Christ in a river, a dove above, a font in front, and framing biblical vignettes.

Baptism, from "The Seven Sacraments"

Philips Galle, 1576

Woodcut of four bearded robed figures reading and writing with open books in an interior, with a dog at the lower left.

Four Doctors of the Church

Domenico Beccafumi, ca. 1540-50

Etched print of a standing woman with a fruit basket on her arm and billowing drapery, signed Bellange.

Gardener with a Basket on her Arm, from Hortulanae series

Jacques Bellange, 1612-16

Etching of a seated woman in a lace-trimmed gown beside an ornate brazier, with draped curtains and a bed behind her.

The Suicide of Portia

Jacques Bellange, 1612-16

Etching of a standing woman balancing an ornate covered urn on her head, wearing a patterned apron and puffed sleeves.

Gardener, from "Hortulanae"

Jacques Bellange

Etching of a bearded man in a plumed turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a covered vessel, standing on ornate shoes.

Caspar, from "Three Magi"

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of Christ raising Lazarus from a tomb, surrounded by a crowd of mourners and onlookers in flowing robes.

The Raising of Lazarus

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of two ragged men fighting, one raising a stick, with a dog jumping beside them and a lute and hat nearby.

Two Fighting Beggars

Jacques Bellange, 1612-16

Etching of three women looking up at a winged angel with a radiant halo beside an open tomb.

Three Marys at the Tomb

Jacques Bellange

Ink and wash drawing of a salon ceiling with an octagonal painted allegory of a chariot and clouds, above a decorated cornice

Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware, 1735

Engraving of the Virgin and Child seated under a tree with a haloed man, surrounded by playful putti and angels in a landscap

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Anthony van Dyck, 1650-59

Etching of men in 18th-century coats gathered and talking in a crowded interior beside a column and chandelier.

The Newsmongers

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1752

Etching of a woman in a full gown and a masked man in a plumed hat on a tiled stage under a crescent moon.

The Italian Theater

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1724-1780

Etched vignettes with a portrait medallion, putti, and grapes on the left, and a crowned shield over a text panel on the righ

Vignettes pour les "Tablettes historiques, topographiques et physiques de Bourgogne"

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1755

Etching of an allegorical scene with clouds, winged figures, a kneeling robed man, and women in a classical colonnaded interi

Allegorie sur la Convalescence du Dauphin

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1752

Etching of Laban searching among women and figures under a tree, with a tent and animals in the background.

Laban cherchent ses dieux

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1753

Etching of an allegory with classical gods on clouds, putti, a seated king in ermine, and a columned hall with French caption

Allegory of the Convalescence of the Dauphin

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1752