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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,955 works

Etching of a fortress gate with cannons, soldiers, a seated woman and child by a fire, and a banner reading ET PACE ET BELLO.

An entrance to a fortress in center, a woman with child seated by a fire to right, soldiers gather to right and in ce…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a military procession with horsemen, a cannon on a carriage, and foot soldiers crossing an open landscape.

A procession of horsemen and cannons in the middle ground walking to the left, a cannon and two men to left, from "Pe…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Watercolor drawing of a hunting party with dogs and horsemen beside a castle on a hill and village houses.

Landscape with a Hunting Party

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, 19th century

Etching of a turbaned horseman with a bow on a rearing horse, with figures and riders in a distant landscape.

A Moorish horseman facing the left, standing and seated Turks in the middle ground, and other horsemen in the backgro…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1651

Etching of four beggar women and children on a bare ground, one carrying an infant on her back, with a figure at right.

Four Beggar Women

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a young sailor and an old bearded man seated by the sea with a dog, sailboats at right.

A young sailor and an old man sitting by the sea

Stefano Della Bella, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a warrior carrying a woman as a horse, soldiers and a child appear in a dramatic scene.

The Rape of the Sabines

Willem van Mieris, late 17th-mid 18th century

Grey wash drawing of fashionable figures in a garden with a fountain, statue niche, stone steps and urns.

Gallant Company in a Park

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, mid-18th century

Grey wash drawing of a canal with classical palazzo buildings, statues, and small boats with figures in the foreground.

Canal Scene with a Palazzo

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, mid-18th century

Etching of a horseman leaping on a rearing horse in a riding school, directed by a swordsman, with dogs and a stable.

A riding school, a horseman with sword jumping directed by another man with a sword in center, a man standing next to…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645

Etching of two women walking right past a ruined arch, with a horseback rider and a small building in the background.

Plate 3: two girls walking towards the right, seen from behind, a woman on a horse to right in background, from "Dive…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1648

Etching of a man playing violin, a seated woman with a child, a woman behind a tree, and figures by a river.

A man playing the violin in center, turned towards the left in profile, a seated woman to left playing with her danci…

Stefano Della Bella, 1649

Engraved garden scene with crowds of figures around a fountain, framed by an ornate scrolled cartouche.

Fan with figures in a garden

Etching of a cannon on a carriage with soldiers and barrels, a ruined tower at left and a distant town with smoke at right.

A cannon to the left, a town in the background, plate 2 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a military camp with thatched huts, cannons, soldiers, and a figure on a parapet at right, with smoke rising.

A military encampment with a soldier standing on a parapet to the right beating a drum, plate 4 from "Various Militar…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a pikeman beside a cannon, with soldiers, a windmill and cannonballs in an open field.

A Pikeman standing at right next to a canon, other military figures in the background, plate 5 from "Various Military…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a battery of cannons firing smoke toward a distant city, with soldiers and cannonballs in the foreground.

Battery of cannons firing on a city, plate 6 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig and lace cravat, with the name C. A. Helvetius below.

Portrait of Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771)

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1772

Engraving of a bearded man in a spiked barrel before a crowd, with ships in a harbor and a walled city behind.

Regulus Condemned to the Most Horrible Torture

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 18th century

Pen-and-ink caricature of a man in a patterned cloak and fur hat holding a banner with inscribed text.

Caricature of a Man declaring: "I'm against Hanover that's flat"

George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend, ca. 1757

Etching of the hiding of Moses: a kneeling woman and standing man by a Nile riverbank, a basket with an infant, pyramids behi

Hiding of Moses, from "Remember Me!, or a Pocket Companion"

William Blake, 1825

From Warwick Lane, from "Caricatures of the English"

Philip James de Loutherbourg, May 1, 1790

Engraving of Christ as Man of Sorrows with crown of thorns and bound hands, standing beside a bare tree on a rocky slope.

Man of Sorrows with Hands Bound

Albrecht Dürer, 1512

Etching of a seated woman talking to a standing woman carrying two children, with a church and boats in the background.

A woman seated to left holding a child, facing right in profile, conversing with a standing woman in center, carrying…

Stefano Della Bella, 1649

Engraving of a woman personifying spring in an ornate cartouche, holding a wreath and flowers, with a landscape behind her.

Spring (Printemps), from 'The Four Seasons'

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a woman reading in a hammock under chestnut leaves, with a parasol and wooden stool on the grass.

The Hammock

James Tissot, 1880

Seated woman with curled hair holding a spindle beside a lamp stand and wool basket, drawn in chalk on toned paper.

Lachesis

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, n.d.

Mezzotint of a blacksmith at an anvil in a dim shop, lit by a glowing light, with onlookers gathered around him.

A Blacksmith's Shop

Richard Earlom, August 25, 1771

Mezzotint of a horse outside a stone farrier's shop, with a man and child at the window under a moonlit sky.

The Farrier's Shop

William Pether, December 1, 1771

Jeanne, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"

Édouard Manet, 1882, printed 1902