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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,350 works

Etching of a nude figure beside a tree with bearded men and a tall-hatted figure gathered around a goat on the ground.

Two Figures Attentive to Punchinello, with Others, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of a woman being carried off by a bearded rider on a horned creature under swirling clouds, dated 1516.

Abduction of Proserpine

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Etching of a seated woman surrounded by playful cherubs climbing and lounging among large trees in a forest landscape.

The Garden of Charity

Pietro Testa, ca. 1631-37

Brown chiaroscuro print of nude men lifting a struggling woman above a rocky base, modeled like a marble sculpture.

Rape of a Sabine Woman

Andrea Andreani, 1584

Woodcut of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, angels, a star, and a stone stable.

The Adoration of the Magi, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1502

Engraving of a centaur and a bearded satyr carrying a nude curly-haired man across a rocky landscape under clouds.

The March of Silenus

Christoffel Jegher, ca. 1652

Engraving of a man in a tricorn hat carrying a basket of paper whirligig toys on sticks.

Whirligig Peddler

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1742

Etching of a curly-haired toddler in flowing drapery playing with a puppet beside a small dog, by Fragonard.

Fanfan

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1778

Etching of a donkey-headed man in a coat reading a book of horse images at a desk, from Goya's Los Caprichos.

Plate 39 from "Los Caprichos": And so was his grandfather (Asta su Abuelo)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Mezzotint of young men drawing a seated female model in a vaulted room with columns and a classical statue, lit by lamplight.

An Academy by Lamplight

William Pether, February 20, 1772

Hand-coloured print of a woman in a white gown and fur-trimmed cloak standing in a wooded landscape with cloudy sky.

Miss Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1792

Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1530

Etching of two crouching lionesses and a reclining doe, arranged in three stacked studies on a pale sheet.

A Doe and Two Lionesses

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, ca. 1540

Etching of an elderly man in a dim study gazing at a glowing circular diagram inscribed with letters, beside a tall arched wi

Faust

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652

Etching of a seated young man in a plumed hat beside a woman with a fan, an older man behind them, and pewter dishes and grap

The Enamored Couple: Lucelle and Ascagnes

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1616

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a bald head and curly hair, wearing a buttoned collared garment, shown in bust view.

Bust of an Elderly Man

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

Engraving of a couple kissing in a kitchen by a hearth while a servant kneels nearby and a figure stands in the doorway.

On ne s'avise jamais du tout, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de…

Jean-Baptiste Patas, 1795

Etching with a tall tree and a small figure on the left, and a dark study of a man's head in a cap on the right.

Sheet with Two Studies: A Tree and the Upper Part of a Head of Rembrandt Wearing a Velvet Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1642

Engraving of an ornate garden with mathematical instruments, urns, a central fountain, and a peacock.

Garden of Mathematical Sciences

Francesco Curti, 17th century

Engraving of the adoration of the shepherds with the Virgin, Joseph, kneeling shepherds and angels above a manger.

The adoration of the shepherds

Diego de Astor, 1605

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, angels above a star, and a procession of figures and horsemen

The Adoration of the Magi, set before and architectural colonnade

Pietro Testa, ca. 1640

Mezzotint of a sleeping girl with needlework in her lap, seated by a fireplace beside a lit candle and scissors.

Sleeping Girl with Needlework in her Lap

Gerard Valck, n.d.

Engraving of nude mythological figures with Jupiter descending from clouds above a reclining man and a woman holding wheat.

The Four Elements, plate 1 from "Mythological Subjects"

Jacob Matham, 1588

Engraved print of a veiled, haloed standing woman in a long robe within a decorative border, labeled Aritmetricha.

Arithmetic

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, 1460-70

Woodcut print of an eagle carrying a youth aloft over nude men, horses and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Zeus as an eagle, abducting Ganymede

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Engraving of Ixion embracing Juno on a dark cloud above classical ruins, a lion, and small figures below.

Ixion attempting to seduce Juno, surrounded by clouds with ruins below

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1520-39

Engraving of Minerva and Mercury arming Perseus in a wooded landscape, with nymphs watching from rocks above.

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Müller, 1604

Engraving of Saint Sebastian tied to a bare tree, pierced by arrows, standing on a rocky mound.

Saint Sebastian

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Etched frontispiece of ruined classical architecture overgrown with trees, figures among fragments, and a tilted inscribed ti

Frontispiece from "Prima Parte di Architetture, e Prospettive"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Black and white woodcut of Christ with a crown of thorns on a balcony above a crowd of soldiers and onlookers.

Ecce Homo, from the series The Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498-99