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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,354 works

Engraving of a nude figure of Prometheus with an eagle inside a V-shaped cornice decorated with scrolls and foliage.

Torture of Prometheus set within a cornice

Cherubino Alberti, 1580

Etching of nude figures in a wooded landscape, a woman reaching toward a tree beside a man, with a seated figure at lower lef

Apollo and Daphne

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1538-40

Engraving of laurel-crowned Apollo playing a lyre beside a reclining Cupid with a quiver of arrows.

Cupid and Apollo with a lyre

Paolo Farinati, ca. 1568

Print of muscular giants falling among rocks beneath a thunderbolt-wielding figure on clouds, with an eagle and inscription p

Fall of the Giants

Bartolomeo Coriolano, 1638

Etching of a Bacchic revel with Silenus riding a goat, surrounded by muscular, partly nude revelers in hatched linework.

Bacchic revel with Silenus in the centre riding a goat

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540-43

Woodcut of Venus in a chariot drawn by doves above cupid, with musicians and couples in a garden below.

The Dominion of Venus, from 'The Seven Planets'

Girolamo Grandi, 1533

Etching of Venus with a winged figure holding a child, a dove, a chariot and putti in clouds, within an oval frame.

Venus entrusting Cupid to Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1758-80

Engraving of Cupid and Psyche reclining on a couch under a tree, with satyrs and an altar in the background.

Cupid and Psyche

Giorgio Ghisi, 1573-74

Etching of a Lamentation over a reclining dead Christ surrounded by mourners, with a sketch of intertwined figures above.

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540-45 (?)

Ink and wash sketch of a standing woman in a long gown with a faint second figure at left, study for a bride painting.

Studies for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding"

David Wilkie, ca. 1838

Brown ink and wash sketch of a standing nude woman seen from behind, with seated figures and a dark interior background.

Study for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding"

David Wilkie, ca. 1838

Grey wash frontispiece with a classical frame reading TASSO, showing an embracing couple and sheep in a wooded pastoral scene

Fronticepiece for Tasso's Poems

Richard Westall, late 18th-mid-19th century

Pencil drawing on blue-grey paper of a ruined circular Roman structure at right, with a tree and small figure at left.

View of the Colosseum

Richard Wilson, 1751-56

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ being nailed to a cross on the ground, with soldiers, mourning women, and tools in the foregro

Christ Nailed to the Cross, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Hand-colored woodcut of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, mourners and soldiers, and a skull in the foreground.

Crucifixion, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ in Limbo with a red-robed figure lifting nude souls from a ruined arch amid flames and demons.

Christ in Limbo, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ's body being lowered from the cross, with mourners in robes and a crown of thorns on the groun

Deposition, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Brown wash drawing of a rococo cartouche-shaped frame with scrolls, a face mask at top and a shell motif below.

Design for a Frame in the Form of a Cartouche (Mirror?)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Hand-colored woodcut of the risen Christ with a halo and red cloak, standing over a tomb with startled soldiers around him.

Resurrection, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Pencil and wash sketches of ornamental forms on pale paper, including a tapering column, scrollwork, a hexagonal motif, and l

Fragmentary Sketches of Various Ornament

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and grey wash drawing of a theatrical stage set with a vaulted ceiling, classical columns, and receding arches.

Design for Stage Set

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Grey ink drawing of parted drapery revealing angels on clouds around a radiant monstrance, possibly a stage design.

Parted Curtains Revealing Angels Upon Clouds Worshipping a Monstrance (Design for a Stage Set?)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Engraving of an ancient marble vase with satyr masks and handles on an inscribed pedestal, with inset detail drawings.

Large vase found at the Pantanello, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, in 1770 (The 'Warwick Vase'), from "Vasi, candelabri, ci…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778-80

Pencil drawing of a neoclassical canopy bed with swagged drapery, tassels, domed top and urn finials.

Design for a Bed

Richard de Lalonde, between 1780-90

Woodcut print of a nude Venus embracing a winged Cupid in a forest with a dog, squirrel and bird among the trees.

Venus and Cupid

Niccolò Boldrini, 1566

Pen and watercolor drawing of a gothic scene with a skull on a table, a kneeling woman, and ghostly figures reaching out in m

Scene from "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" (Keepsake Story by Sir Walter Scott)

John William Wright, ca. 1828

Etching of playful putti climbing and swinging among leafy branches and garlands in a classical garden scene.

The garden of Venus, proof impression of upper left corner

Pietro Testa, ca. 1631-37

Hercules wrestles a lion among gnarled trees in a green-toned woodcut, with a club resting in the foreground.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Niccolò Vicentino, 1540-50

Etching of Dido on a funeral pyre with a sword and crown, surrounded by clouds and trumpeting putti in an octagonal frame.

Dido on the Funeral Pyre

Giuseppe Diamantini, 1650-1700

Etching of Mercury with a caduceus on a cloud above a sleeping man beside a rock, with a tree and helmet.

Mercury Appears to Aeneas in a Dream

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1757