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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,955 works

A noblewoman walking towards the left with a feathered fan, another woman in background to left, plate 18 from "Diver…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a man leaning back with arm outstretched, with a second head study above.

Study of a Female Dancer

Otto Greiner, late 19th-early 20th century

Pencil drawing of an angel with a staff beside two embracing men at a stone doorway under a vine pergola, with a dog.

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

Carl Gottlieb Peschel, 1829

The Flower Garden

Matthew Darly, May 1, 1777

Pencil drawing of an elderly man in a wig and long coat seated in an armchair, holding a walking stick.

Uncle Toby, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1852

Sepia drawing of an elderly man with a cane reaching toward a window while a family sits at a dining table behind him.

Uncle Toby and the Fly, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1847

Brown ink drawing of an elderly man in a wide hat and ruffled collar holding a paper, beside a stone wall.

Portrait of Jan Hus

Christoffel van Sichem, mid-16th-early 17th century

Etching of a nobleman in court dress seen from behind, holding a sword, with a small figure standing at right.

A Polish nobleman in court dress, standing in center, seen from behind, another nobleman to right in background, plat…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

An old Polish nobleman wearing a plumed hat in center, standing in profile facing right, another Polish man to right…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a woman from behind wrapping a child in a shawl, with small figures and a horse in the background.

A poor woman to left, seen from behind, enveloping her child in a shawl, another woman seen from behind to left in ba…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a cloaked woman with three children, one on her shoulders, one in her arms, and one walking ahead.

A beggar woman with three children, one child on her shoulders, one child in her arms, and one child who walks in fro…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a herdsman on horseback leading cattle down a hill, with a stone pine and a distant tower.

Herdsman atop a horse, seen from behind, leads his cattle down a hill, a tower on a hill to left in the background, p…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Polish horseman in profile facing right, a tower and other figures on horses in background, a circular composition, f…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1651

Etched oval portrait of a young man in a feathered cap and fur collar, turned to the left, with French text below.

A bust of a young man wearing a cap with feathers, turned three-quarters to the left, the coat of arms of the Grand D…

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Woman coiffed as a sultana, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne)

Stefano Della Bella, 1649-50

Etched oval portrait of a woman in a feathered turban with pearls and a pearl necklace, gazing to the side.

Sultana wearing a pearl necklace and a turban, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à…

Stefano Della Bella, 1649-50

Etching of a young man in a jeweled turban and fur-trimmed robe, shown in an oval bust portrait with fine hatching.

Sultan wearing a fur and a turban, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne)

Stefano Della Bella, 1649-50

Sultana wearing a turban, in profile to the right, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffée…

Stefano Della Bella, 1649-50

A slave holds a camel by the bridle, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne)

Stefano Della Bella, 1649

Circular etching of two seated and standing sailors beside a ship's rigging and a wooden scaffold with hanging sailcloth.

A Seated White Sailor; A Standing Black Sailor

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1660

Etching of two men and a woman seated in an open landscape conversing, with small figures in the distance.

Two noblemen seated in center, seen from behind, conversing with a noblewoman seated between them, a noblewoman and m…

Stefano Della Bella, 1642

Etching of two resting goats in the foreground, with trees, a rocky riverbank, small figures and a hatched cloudy sky.

Two goats resting to right, turned towards the left, four men and a horse in a river in the background, plate 9 from…

Stefano Della Bella, 1642

Etching of a horseman carrying a woman behind him, with a young man with a sword following on foot in an open landscape.

A horseman and a woman, seen from behind, riding towards the right with a young man following them to left, another h…

Stefano Della Bella, 1642

Etching of a soldier on horseback with a musket, descending a slope, with other riders in the distance.

A soldier on horseback, holding a musket in his right hand, in profile descending a slope towards the right, other so…

Stefano Della Bella, 1642

Etching of two pikemen walking right with long pikes on their shoulders, one holding a hanging bird, in a sparse landscape.

Two pikemen walking towards the right, each with their pikes in their right hands, plate 13 from "Various Figures" (A…

Stefano Della Bella, 1642

Engraved satirical procession of a chained crowned figure, soldiers, trumpeters and a kneeling woman, with verse below, 1689.

The Epiphany of the New Antichrist (L'Epiphane du Nouveau Antichrist)

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1689

Etching of numbered courtiers in baroque dress in an arched hall, with a seated woman and robed cleric, Dutch verses below.

L'Europe Allarmée

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Etching by Romeyn de Hooghe showing armored figures, a banner, horsemen and a palace courtyard, with printed verse below.

Le Feste des Trois Rois

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Etching of costumed figures in plumed hats and armor on a quay, with a boat and ships, above columns of printed verse.

Panurge secondé

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Engraving of plumed courtiers in an ornate hall beneath a Latin motto, with ships in a harbor and printed verse below.

Qualis vir Talis Oratio

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.