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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,070 works

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers in a guardroom with a fireplace, a table of card players, and a coat of arms on the wall.

Guardroom Scene

Cornelis Troost, 1744

Pen and wash drawing of two men eating and drinking in a rustic kitchen with a cupboard, bread, and a cooking pan.

Kitchen Scene

Cornelis Dusart, 1687

Gray wash drawing of two horsemen on a road, with wagons, a farmhouse, trees and a windmill in the distance.

Landscape with Two Men on Horseback

Pieter de Molijn, 1654

Brown ink sketch of three veiled women and a small bent boy on a pale sheet, studies by Rembrandt.

Study Sheet with Three Women and a Boy

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1638-39

Etching of a painter at an easel in a window-lit studio, with two assistants working by the fireplace.

The Painter in His Studio

Adriaen van Ostade, ca. 1667

Architectural drawing of a coffered hall ceiling with a central coat of arms and an upper frieze of garlands and putti.

Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware, 1735

Engraving of Psyche seated on a litter carried through a landscape, with a crowned king, mourners and trumpeting putti.

Plate 5: Psyche carried on a litter, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a seated woman in a hat gazing into a hand mirror, with vessels and the word VANITAS on a shelf.

Vanity

Enea Vico, 1545-50

Brown wash drawing of an elderly man reclining on a couch surrounded by draped onlookers in a columned interior.

The Death of Seneca

Pierre Peyron, ca. 1773

Engraving of a plowman being crowned by a cloaked figure while an eagle flies overhead and a woman raises her arms.

Predestination

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a kneeling nude woman bowing her head beside a ruined wooden shelter and a tree, with Latin text below.

Calamity

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Daumier lithograph of two seated men under trees, one reading a newspaper, a top hat on a chair beside them.

What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction, from 'The good bourgeois,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, August 30, 1846

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated woman in drapery lighting a fire in a bowl on a tripod stand.

Woman Lighting a Sacrificial Fire

Claude Guy Hallé, n.d.

Wood engraving of elderly veterans with medals seated on benches in a paneled hall with columns and flags.

Sunday at Chelsea Hospital, from "The Graphic," vol. 3

Hubert von Herkomer, February 18, 1871

Engraving of a nude woman resting on a stone pedestal beside classical ruins, labeled Poenitentia, with a Latin inscription b

Penitence (Poenitentia)

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a woman with a net and a leopard, with nets, a cage and a fish in a landscape.

Entrapment

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Etching of two men straining under a donkey standing on a man's back, with a second donkey behind them.

Plate 42 from "Los Caprichos": Thou who canst not (Tu que no puedes)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of an old man leaning toward a downcast young woman while onlookers watch behind them.

Plate 14 from "Los Caprichos": What a sacrifice! (Que sacrificio!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a fashionably dressed woman in a black mantilla beside a man with a fan, as an old woman whispers at left.

Plate 5 from "Los Caprichos": Two of a kind (Tal para qual)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Pen and wash design for a ceiling with a central medallion of a seated female figure holding a celestial sphere.

Design for Ceiling with Allegorical Figure of Astronomy

Giovanni Battista Crespi, 1605-15

Engraving of a German messenger in feathered cap and fur-trimmed cloak, holding a staff, with a horn and dagger at his side.

Costume Plate: German Messenger

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Costume Plate: Woman from Germany

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Engraved costume plate of a German soldier's wife with feathered hat, rooster, basket and bucket, with banner inscription.

Costume Plate: Wife of a Warrior from Germany

Enea Vico, ca. 1558-70

Costume Plate: Peasant Woman from Spain, from "Diversarum gentium nostrae aetatis habitus"

Enea Vico, ca. 1555-58

Engraving of an allegorical figure of America with feathered headdress, flanked by bowman, birds, goats and grotesque figures

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Etching of Christ overturning tables among fleeing merchants in a columned temple interior, with a bull and scattered coins.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Etching of a young boy speaking to a bearded elder as a crowd in turbans listens, with a scribe writing in the foreground.

Joseph Telling His Dreams

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1638

Brown ink and wash drawing of lovers in a wooded landscape, with hunters chasing animals toward a distant village.

Landscape with Lovers and Hunters

Adam van Noort, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a woman in a bonnet and long skirt standing beside a rush-seated wooden chair.

A Woman Standing next to a Chair

Nicolaas Muys, n.d.

Woodcut of armored trumpeters in laurel wreaths playing long horns, with children and a dog, and Latin text above and below.

Trumpeters, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504