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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,355 works

Loose lithograph sketch of a woman asleep in a chair, her pale gown falling across the floor beside vertical curtain lines.

La Belle Dame Endormie (The Beautiful Woman Asleep)

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Grey wash drawing of the Madonna and Child crowned and haloed, surrounded by saints, angels and cherubs in clouds.

Madonna and Child Surrounded by Female Saints

Joseph Heintz the Younger, 1600-1678

Grey wash drawing of a robed female allegorical figure holding a book and crucifix before a landscape with a castle.

Allegory of Faith

Hans Friedrich Schorer, 1620-49

Engraving of a seated man embracing a standing woman in a ruffled gown in an elegant interior with a fireplace screen.

La Matinée (L'heureuse Union)

Sigmond Freudeberg, after 1789

Engraving of Christ on shore as Peter wades toward him, fishermen with a net in a boat, bordered by insects and shells.

Christ Appearing to St. Peter [John 21:1-8]

Maerten de Vos, ca. 1584

Engraving of a haloed figure walking with two men past a castle with towers and a bridge, framed by fruit and leaf borders.

Christ on the way to Emmaus [Mark 16:12]

Maerten de Vos, ca. 1584

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: Virgin and Child in a stable, a kneeling king, attendants, horses and sheep under a lig

Adoration of the Magi

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1553-60 (?)

Two etched prints on an album page: a lower lamentation scene of mourners around a reclined dead Christ, and an upper group o

The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545-50 (?)

Engraving of two robed apostles reaching toward a crouching man before a colonnade, with a crowd watching behind them.

St. Peter and St. John Curing the Lame Man

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1543-60

Engraved print of the Virgin holding the Christ child, standing on a crescent moon within a radiating halo, on an album page.

Virgin and Child (The Immaculate Conception)

Diana Scultori, n.d.

Woodcut-style print of a seated woman gazing at a spiderweb in a bare tree, with thistles and ferns in the foreground.

Woman with a Spiderweb

Christian Friedrich, 1803

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ child within a radiating oval of light, mounted on an album page.

The Immaculate Conception

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1539-43

Engraved print of a woman in a long gown on a cliff edge, with a raven on a branch, a fir tree and distant mountains.

Woman with a Raven at a Precipice

Christian Friedrich, 1803

Etching of a bearded orator gesturing to a crowd of listeners beside a classical column and arched colonnade.

St. Paul Preaching in Athens

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1548-53

Head of Christ

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1550 (?)

Etching of a woman bathing in a stream under willows, with three ducks in the grass in the foreground.

Canards surpris

Félix Bracquemond, 1882

Album page with three prints: a bearded man in an oval frame, a interior scene, and a Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine.

Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-47 (?)

Album page with four religious prints of the Madonna and Child with saints and angels, in etching and engraving.

Madonna with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-46

Etching of a man's distressed face rising from dark stormy sea under a heavy cloudy sky.

Going Under (from the series A Life)

Max Klinger, 1884, 4th edition 1898

Album page with four prints of Madonna and Child scenes with saints, one showing a bishop beneath a vine pergola.

Madonna with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1548-52

Album page with four religious etchings of the Holy Family, one with saints and angels, rendered in hatched grey and yellow t

The Holy Family with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1550-55 (?)

Etching of a Holy Family with saints, a standing woman, a kneeling man, and a child beside a classical column.

Holy Family with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1549-53

Pencil sketch of acrobatic theatre performers in costume, with a masked figure, a woman in a ruffled dress, and a plumed figu

Théâtre Italien (Gioacchino Rossini, 1792-1868)

Eugène Delacroix, 1821

Lithograph of an acrobat balancing three costumed figures on his raised hands above a wooden stage floor.

Théâtre Italien, from "Le Miroir"

Eugène Delacroix, August 13, 1821

Engraving of the Circumcision by Hendrick Goltzius: a priest holds an infant before onlookers in a Gothic church interior.

The Circumcision, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Hendrick Goltzius, n.d.

Woodcut of a crowned figure leaning over a sleeping nude man among animals, under clouds with sun and moon faces.

Creation of Eve, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of Adam reaching for fruit as Eve holds an apple beneath a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals.

Fall (or Temptation of Adam), from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of an angel with a sword driving a naked man and woman away as a skeleton reaches toward them.

Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a skeleton guiding a straining man at a plough, with a nursing woman and bare trees beside them.

Adam Ploughing, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of skeletons playing trumpets and kettledrums among arches and scattered bones, from The Dance of Death.

Skeletons Making Music (or the Cemetery), from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538