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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,354 works

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a ruff and dark gown, hand resting on a ledge, with Latin caption below.

Hieronymus Westonius (Richard Weston, Earl of Portland)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Head of a Young Black Boy in Profile to the Right

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of a plumed soldier bending to kiss a veiled woman's hand in a dim room with a candle and chest.

The soldier kissing the woman's hand (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666

Etching of a man riding an ox in a barn while a snarling dog guards a hay manger.

The Dog in the Manger (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666

Standing Female Nude

Frederick William MacMonnies, 1885

Etching of a colonnaded classical courtyard with Corinthian columns, figures, a fountain and a receding checkered floor.

Temple courtyard with figures

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Etched portrait of a bearded older man in a skullcap and dark robe seated beside a column, with Latin text below.

Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, physician

Jan Lievens, 17th century

Etching of an older man writing with a quill at a desk while a boy watches from behind, in a dim interior.

Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol with his Grandson

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1658

Drawing of tall oak trees over a sandy path, with a woman and child seated at left, a dog drinking, and a distant village.

Woman and Child Sitting next to a Road

Egbert van Drielst, 1760-1818

Engraving of nude Leda with children and a swan in a landscape, with a ruined Roman temple and sailboat behind.

Leda and her children playing with the swan, with a Roman temple in the background

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Etching of a bearded seated man in a dark coat holding a top hat on his knee, turned toward the left.

Édouard Manet, Seated, Turned to the Left

Edgar Degas, ca. 1868

Engraving of a woman reclining in a canopied bed as a servant brings her a cup, with two small dogs on the floor.

Le Bain (the Bath)

Sigmond Freudeberg, 1774

Etching of sleeping figures in white bonnets in a dark room, with a seated woman beside a barred window.

Plate 34 from "Los Caprichos": Sleep overcomes them (Las rinde el Sueño)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a man in period dress embracing a limp woman before a brick wall, with a sword on the ground.

Plate 10 from "Los Caprichos": Love and death (El amor y la muerte)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Woodcut of Saint Simon's martyrdom: a bound figure sawn on a frame, crowd and rider nearby, castle on hill.

Simon, from The Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Water Carriers

James Harvard Thomas, 1895

Pencil sketch of a feathered-headdress woman shaking hands with a uniformed man beside a rope stanchion.

The Best of Friends Must Part

Sir John Tenniel, ca. 1878

Pencil sketch of a helmeted classical woman with a sword beside a man in a top hat raising his fist.

Two Forces

Sir John Tenniel, 1881

Pencil sketch of a hesitant man with a cane, followed by a shadowy figure whose hat reads ANARCHY, near a rocky edge.

The Tempter

Sir John Tenniel, 1886

Pencil sketch of an armored knight riding a horse with a dog below, banners reading Majority and Socialism.

The Knight and His Companion

Sir John Tenniel, 1887

Engraving of Prometheus bound on a rock while an eagle tears at his torso, with a distant city in the background.

Prometheus

Sebastiano de' Valentinis, 1558

Engraving of a winged putto leaning on a round shield beside a plumed helmet and bundled arrows.

Cupid with Weapons of Mars

Adamo Scultori, ca. 1547-62

Engraving of Venus and Adonis with a spear, hunting dogs, cupids, a boar, and a distant landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Grey-green woodcut of two nude men wrestling beside classical columns and a tree.

Hercules and Antaeus

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1517-18

Engraving of a nude man wrestling a horned bull on rocks, with three women holding fruit-filled cornucopias at right.

Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, fr…

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1526-27

Etching of satyrs and a family in a rural scene with a goat, wine jug, tree, and owl perched on a post.

Satyr Family (Pan and his Family), from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Etching of a satyr family resting by an obelisk and stone wall, with a woman, child, and standing figure with a staff.

Satyr Family with the Obelisk, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Woodcut print of a trident-bearing god in a chariot pulled by horses across a rocky landscape under stormy clouds.

Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right

Giuseppe Scolari, 1590-1607

Engraving of Venus with a rose branch, a satyr and Cupid in a landscape, with an Italian motto below.

Venus Whipping Cupid with Roses

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, early 17th century

Brown-toned print of a seated nude man seen from behind beside a large tree, with a reclining figure in the lower left.

Man seated viewed from behind (Narcissus)

Antonio da Trento, ca. 1527-30