New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,070 works

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a lace ruff, framed by fruit garlands and cherubs, with Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria

Jonas Suyderhoef, ca. 1650

Portrait of Pope Pius IV

Nicolas Béatrizet, mid-16th century

Engraving of Saint Paul, a bearded old man in a hooded robe reading a book and holding a sword, in a rocky landscape.

An Old Man (Saint Paul)

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1530-66

Grey wash drawing of a rocky cave framing a distant hilly landscape, with two figures in hats on the rocks below.

The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1797

A Country Girl at Surrentum

Allan Ramsay?, September 1776

Pen and ink study of eleven heads showing bearded men, shouting faces and varied expressions on grey paper.

Study of Eleven Heads

Jacob de Gheyn II, late 16th-early 17th century

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruffled collar and fur-trimmed cloak, framed by fruit garlands.

Portrait of Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria

Jonas Suyderhoef, ca. 1650

Engraving of a bearded bishop in mitre and embroidered cope holding a crozier and star emblem, with a radiating halo.

St. Swithbert

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ Child on a donkey, with angels, a smoking altar, a boat and trees.

Joseph Adoring the Christ Child near a Smoking Altar, from the Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1752

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man melting wax at a brazier beside a nude winged youth, with a bust and shelves in the room.

Daedalus Forming the Wings of Icarus out of Wax

Franz Xaver Wagenschön, 18th century

Etching of visitors in 18th-century dress crowding a gallery with paintings on the walls and a balcony above.

View of the Salon in the Year 1753

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1753

Brown wash drawing of a smiling young man in a wide-brimmed hat, ruffled collar and baggy breeches, standing in full length.

Study of a Standing Youth in a Hat

Dirck Hals, 17th century

Line engraving of Olympia: a reclining nude woman on a bed, a servant with flowers at left, and a black cat.

Olympia

Édouard Manet, 1902

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin seated with the Christ Child, flanked by two saints, one bearded and one young.

Virgin and Child with Two Saints (recto); Fragmentary Design of a Pietà (verso)

Domenico Puligo, 1515-20

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a jeweled cap and ornate robe, with Latin inscription and lion coat of arms below.

Floris II from the series Counts and Countesses of Holland, Zeeland, and West-Frisia

Pieter Soutman, 1650

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a jeweled cap with a feather, flanked by Latin verses and a heraldic shield.

William III from the series Counts and Countesses of Holland, Zeeland, and West-Frisia

Pieter Soutman, 1650

Engraved portrait of William IV in plumed helmet and armor, within an oval frame with Latin inscription and coat of arms.

William IV from the series Counts and Countesses of Holland, Zeeland, and West-Frisia

Pieter Soutman, 1650

Brown ink drawing of a rocky gorge with a small wooden bridge over a brook and two figures crossing.

Swiss mountain landscape with small bridge spanning a brook

Franz Schütz, 1751-81

Etching of two cloaked men calling up to an old man at a stone balcony, with a winged lion column and city buildings behind.

"Owake! what ho! Brabantio! thieves! thieves!": plate 1 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 1)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Etching of Othello seated in a turban gesturing toward Desdemona standing beside him on a terrace.

"She thank'd me": plate 2 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Etching of Othello standing before richly dressed seated and standing men in a columned interior with a tiled floor.

"She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd": plate 3 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etched plate of Othello, a turbaned man in patterned robes, beside Desdemona and Iago in a columned interior.

"Honest Iago, my Desdemona must I leave to thee": plate 4 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etching of Othello embracing Desdemona on a rocky shore beside a soldier holding a banner, with sea and cliffs behind.

"O my fair warrior!": plate 5 from Othello (Act 2, Scene 1)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etching of Desdemona gesturing to Cassio on a rocky shore by a fortress, with a veiled woman behind her.

"Therefore, be merry Cassio": plate 6 from Othello (Act 3, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Etching of two women in an arched room, one embracing the other, with a draped bed and curtain beside them.

"If I do die before thee, pr'ythee shroud me in one of those same sheets": plate 8 from Othello (Act 4, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Etching of two men in a sword duel in a columned interior, one falling back clutching his chest, with a body on the floor.

"Villain, thou diest": plate 10 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 1)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etching of Othello standing over a sleeping woman on a bed beside a glowing lamp in an ornate chamber.

"Yet she must die": plate 11 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etching of Othello standing beside Desdemona seated on a bed, with a dagger on a chair at right.

"Have you pray'd tonight, Dedesmona?": plate 12 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etching of Othello smothering Desdemona on a bed beneath curtains, with a tiled floor and ornate wall.

"He smothers her": plate 13 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Etching of a kneeling man grieving beside a bed with a dead woman, watched by a standing woman and onlookers holding a torch.

"Oh! Oh! Oh!": plate 14 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900