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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,063 works

Engraved allegorical print of a seated woman with cherubs under a floral arch, with a lily and daisy wreath above.

Day, from the series The Times of the Day

Philipp Otto Runge, 1807

Engraved print of a haloed female figure among playing cherubs, roses and stars within an ornamental border.

Evening, from the series The Times of the Day

Philipp Otto Runge, 1807

Engraving of a veiled female figure with cherubs above a sunflower, owls and sleeping figures in a botanical border.

Night, from the series The Times of the Day

Philipp Otto Runge, 1807

Grey wash allegory: a seated woman with brushes is crowned by a putto, flanked by a woman and a man with a compass.

An Allegory of the Arts with Isis and Geometry Attending the Three-headed Figure of Painting and Sculpture, a Putto C…

Erasmus Quellinus, 17th century

Etching of a feathered-hat man leading a horse by the bridle, with a rear view of a sword-bearing man and a head study.

A Pole Holding a Horse by the Bridle

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Etching of a turbaned rider on horseback leading another horse through shallow water, with a distant hill behind.

A Polish Groom Bathing Horses

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Four Turks and a Black Man

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Four Turks, Half Length

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Etching of a young woman in flowing drapery holding a rein on a bull, with dynamic hatched lines.

Young Woman Trying to Stop a Bull

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1660

Etching of an old man being pulled by a shrouded skeletal Death holding an hourglass, within an oval frame.

Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1648

Grey wash drawing of an allegorical frontispiece design with an empty oval cartouche, figures, a coat of arms and a ship.

Design for a Frontispiece with an Allegory of Brazil

Ottmar Elliger the Younger, late 17th-mid-18th century

Two sailors in caps and cloaks beside a bale on a quay, with moored boats and a distant ship in the harbor.

Two sailors with a bale of merchandise

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Pen drawing of a turbaned rider leading a second horse across open ground, with a hill in the distance.

Polish Groom Bathing Horses

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Two Turks in Turbans

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Etching of a skeletal Death figure with a flying cloak carrying off a woman, ruins and figures in the background.

Death carrying off a woman, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1648

Etching of an elderly bald man with a curly beard looking straight ahead, with fine hatched lines shading his face.

Head of Old Man

Stefano Della Bella

Engraving of a woman in a headdress riding a chariot drawn by two armored animals, with French text below.

Allegory of America, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etched playing card of a feathered figure holding a staff, with a French caption naming Popayan below.

Popayan, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a feathered figure holding plants, numbered 3, labeled Brezil with French text below.

Brazil, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etched playing card of a feathered figure holding a woven shield and staff, titled Chile, with French caption text below.

Chile, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a standing feathered warrior holding a spear, with French caption text below describing Quivira.

Quivira, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a standing feathered figure holding a bow, with French descriptive text about Virginia below.

Virginia, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etched playing card numbered 10 showing a feathered female figure with a bow, quiver and spear, with French text beneath.

New France, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etched print of a rider with a spear on a galloping horse, with a winged figure above and French text below.

Peru, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Pygmalion seated beside a standing female statue on a pedestal, with Cupid with bow in the upper left.

Pygmalion, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of two running figures on open ground, one holding a golden apple, with trees and distant figures in the background.

Hippomenes and Atalanta, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Amphion seated on a mound playing a lyre, with a walled city of towers in the background.

Amphion, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Pallas in plumed helmet with Medusa shield beside a seated figure, with a pyramid and trees in the background.

Pallas, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Loose black ink and ochre sketch of a reclining nude woman with a black cat beside her on a bed.

Olympia

Édouard Manet, 1923

Etching of a woman and child by a pond with frog-like figures in the water and a dog at lower left, in a hilly landscape.

Latona, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644