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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,350 works

Drawing of a nude toddler standing and reaching out with one arm, rendered in white highlights on brown paper.

Nude Boy, Walking to the Left

Anselm Feuerbach, 1840-80

Seated man in white turban, dark robe and blue garment holding a book, drawn in pencil and watercolour.

Abram Incab Messir

David Wilkie, 1841

Engraving of a Gothic church interior filled with scaffolding, rubble and workers during restoration in Nuremberg.

View of the Church of the Franciscans in Nuremberg under Reconstruction, from the series Views of Nuremberg

Johann Ulrich Kraus, n.d.

Napoleon I

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1807

Engraved oval portrait of a man in steel armour with a white collar, framed by laurel wreaths and initials.

Oliver Cromwell

Jan van de Velde IV, after 1653

Imaginary portrait head of a man wearing a cap and fur-trimmed coat; from the series of 22 imaginary portrait heads a…

Johann Lorenz Haid, ca. 1730-50

Blue monochrome print of a man in a feathered hat and ruff collar holding a sword hilt, after Piazzetta.

Imaginary portrait head of a man in a feathered hat; from the series of 22 imaginary portrait heads after Giovanni Ba…

Johann Lorenz Haid, ca. 1730-50

Watercolor botanical study of an orchid with rose and cream flowers, long green leaves and pale roots on paper.

Study of an orchid, "Vanda Roxburgia"

James Sowerby, before 1822

Botanical watercolor of a spiny globe thistle with two blue-white flower heads and prickly green leaves on cream paper.

Study of a thistle

James Sowerby, before 1822

Study, Head of a Boy

Thérèse Eléonore Lingée, ca. 1777

Red chalk drawing of a woman handing a swaddled infant to a bearded nude man, with a small child at lower left.

Rhea Outwitting Saturn

Edmé Bouchardon, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a shepherd seated under a ruined classical arch beside a statue of Hercules, with a distant landscape.

A Shepherd under a Ruined Arch with the Farnese Hercules

Johannes Antiquus, 1726-50

Eugénie, Empress of the French (Eugénie, Impératrice des Français)

Léon Alphonse Noël, after 1854

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bound nude man at a column, attacked by turbaned figures with a torch, in an arched setting.

The Flagellation of Christ

Matthäus Gundelach, 1632

Etching of a figure in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a covered cup aloft.

Balthasar, from Three Magi series

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of a nude man, a seated woman, and onlookers beside a tree and rocky tomb opening, numbered 17.

The Discovery of the Tomb of Punchinello, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Lithograph of a tree seen through a six-pane window in a dark interior, with leaves scattered across the light sky.

Day (Le Jour), from the series, Dreams (Songes), plate VI

Odilon Redon, 1891

Etching of Paris riverside with tall buildings, smoking chimneys, a stone embankment with onlookers, and moored boats with la

The Mortuary, Paris (La Morgue)

Charles Meryon, 1854

Engraving of a young boy riding a large eagle in flight above a landscape with a river, trees, and a half-timbered house.

Ganymede as a young boy riding a large eagle (Zeus) in flight above a landscape

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1500-1505

Woodcut of the Holy Family with angels holding a crown, three hares in the foreground, and a landscape with a castle.

The Holy Family with Three Hares

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497-98

Engraving of the moon in its final quarter, with craters and a bright crescent against dark hatched lines.

The Moon in its Final Quarter

Claude Mellan, 1635

Print of a young man in a plumed hat holding a tall pole, with a lace collar and dark doublet against a dark background.

The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, 1658

Etching of robed lawyers seated at a candlelit table in a library, with allegorical figures of Justice and putti floating abo

A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1776

Engraved plate with a sedan chair, coach, two clocks, and an ornate console table with griffin supports and an urn.

A sedan chair, a coach, a commode, a side table and two clocks (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, une commode, une cons…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Engraving of a priest baptizing an infant as a young man holds the child and a veiled woman looks on beside a font.

Baptism, from "The Seven Sacraments"

Johann Anton Riedel, 1754

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a staff feeling his way along a wall in a dim interior, with a dog at his feet.

The Blindness of Tobit

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Engraving of St. John writing on Patmos with an eagle, a tree, sea and boats, and the Virgin and Child in light above.

St. John the Evangelist on Patmos

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Engraving of nude damned figures, demons and serpents tumbling downward through clouds into a dark abyss.

The Fall of the Damned

Pieter Soutman, 1642

Etching of the Holy Family: a seated woman holds an infant, a bearded man leans behind her, and a boy with a staff stands bes

The Holy Family

Guido Reni, ca. 1595-1600

Etching of two bound figures beneath a large staring owl perched above them, with a caption reading ¿No hay quien nos desate?

Plate 75 from "Los Caprichos": Is there no one to untie us? (¿No hay quien nos desate?)

Francisco Goya, 1799