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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,350 works

Etching of a footed jug with scrolled handle, its body covered in interlaced arabesque ornament.

Jug decorated with arabesques

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of a covered ewer with a scrolled handle and arabesque foliage decorating its base and lid.

Jug with arabesques on the base

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Engraving of an ornate covered goblet with a female figure finial, scrolled bowl, and lion-mask feet.

Ornate goblet on feet of masks

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of a woman drinking near wheat and a cart while an old woman with a candle points at a naked child at a doorway.

The Mocking of Ceres

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Engraving of the Holy Family: Mary holds the infant Christ while Joseph leans in and a young John the Baptist reaches toward

The Holy Family

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1642

Etching of a seated crowned figure mocked by men in an arched hall with a shell niche and verse below.

The mocking of Christ

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Title Page, Diversae Effigies

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1648

Head of a bald man in profile to left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Head and shoulder of a child, in profile to right

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Bust of a woman looking downwards towards left with elaborately decorated hair

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1648

Male head in profile to left with muscles exposed

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1660

Bearded old man

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Engraved half-length portrait of a veiled woman with a halo, holding a palm frond and a book.

St. Catherine of Alexandria

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Engraving of four classical figures around an altar, including a helmeted warrior, nude youths, and a draped woman with a spe

Four classical figures (pagan sacrifice)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1638

Etching of a classical-style bust of a woman with curled hair and a gathered draped garment, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Antique bust of a woman

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of the Descent from the Cross with mourners around Christ's body, a ladder and cross behind, under an arched frame.

Descent from the Cross

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1640

Etching of two men beside a large tree above a river and wooded hills, with a fallen log in the foreground.

The Temptation of Jesus

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Etching of a Corinthian colonnade with a checkered floor, figures, and a circular fountain courtyard on the left.

Temple colonnade and courtyard with figures

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Etching of a draped barefoot figure holding a cup with a serpent beside a tree, with a distant landscape and town.

St. John the Evangelist

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650

Etching of a nude infant asleep under a tree with two birds in the branches above and a rocky outcrop behind.

Infant Hercules asleep

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1639

Etching of Saint Lawrence with halo, holding a palm and gridiron, standing before a hilly landscape with trees.

St. Lawrence

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650

Bust of a deformed old woman with one tooth, facing left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Title page to Diversae Probae

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of five grotesque heads, with a central elderly man wearing an oak leaf wreath and a shouting face at upper right.

Five grotesque heads, including an elderly man with an oak leaf wreath

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Three heads

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Bearded old man with a tilted head

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Bearded old man in profile to right

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Four grotesque heads in profile to left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Two youths in profile to left with two grotesque heads facing each other below

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Bust of a deformed woman with curly hair in profile to the left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665