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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,063 works

Head of a Woman in Profile

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Etching of a woman's head in three-quarter view, looking upward, wearing a wrapped headscarf, with a decorative frame.

Head of a Woman in Three Quarter View, from "Various heads and figures" (Diverses tétes et figures)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Head of a young man in profile, from "Various Portraits" (Recueil de Diverses Piéces Servant à l'Art de Portraiture)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1647

Head of a Bald and Bearded Old Man in Profile, from 'Various heads and figures' (Diverses tétes et figures)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Plate 10: Head of a Soldier, from "Drawing Basics" (I principii del disegno)

Stefano Della Bella, after 1641

Bust of a Soldier in Profile, from 'Various heads and figures' (Diverses tétes et figures)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Etched title page with a decorative cartouche, drapery, and two birds framing the words Diverses figures et griffonnemens.

Title page, from 'Various figures and doodles' (Diverses figures et griffonnemens)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Plate 4: Head of a Woman in Profile, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil d…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Brown wash drawing of a friar in a dark habit preaching to a seated crowd, with a wooded landscape behind, in an arched frame

St. Vincent Ferrer Preaching

Alonso Cano, 1665

Plate 10: Five Heads of Children, from "Collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Recueil de divers griffonn…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Etching of a marine bull creature with horns and a curling fish tail resting on waves.

Plate 9: Marine Bull, from "Various figures and doodles" (Diverses figures et griffonnemens)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Etching with two studies of children: a raised arm and bent head above, and a child's head and shoulders below.

Plate 6: Two studies of children, from "Collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Recueil de divers griffonn…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Etching of a rider watering his horse at a fountain beside ruins, with a second rider in the distance under trees.

Plate 19: Landscape with a Cavalier Watering His Horse at a Fountain, from "Various figures and doodles" (Diverses fi…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Etching of a turbaned man crouching in a forest ambush, with distant horsemen and tents in an open landscape at right.

Indian in an Ambush

Paul Edme Le Rat, 19th century

Watercolor and ink drawing of a woman in a long pale dress and large hat, with a crowd and windmill behind her.

A Parisienne Outside the Moulin de la Galette

Henry Somm, 1844-1907

Pen and watercolor drawing of a woman in a large hat standing on a crowded city street among pedestrians.

A Parisienne on a Crowded Street

Henry Somm, 1844-1907

Engraving of an elderly man holding an infant in a dim stone temple, with a crowd of onlookers and tall columns behind.

Simeon in the Temple

Jean Pierre de Frey, n.d.

Engraving of classical statues of draped figures in a garden under a tree, with two seated people at left.

Demosthenes, Cicero and William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1750-1815

Portrait of a Young Woman Holding a Mask

Johann Lorenz Haid, ca. 1750s

Etching of a curly-haired young cupid in an oval frame, holding a bow, with hatched shading and an SDB monogram.

A Small Cupid with His Bow, from "Various figures and doodles" (Diverses figures et griffonnemens)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Plate 15: mid-bust of a young woman in profile wearing a hat topped with feathers, from 'The Book for Learning to Dra…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1649

Etched plate of five heads in various profiles, including a young woman in a headscarf and a bearded man, numbered 23 at top

Plate 9: five heads, two young women at left, a bearded man at upper right, a young woman and a bearded man at bottom…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1649

Plate 16: head of an old man in profile with a cloth tied around his head, from 'The Book for Learning to Draw' (Livr…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1649

Etching of a herdsman on horseback driving cattle and a goat across a rocky slope, with mountains behind, in a circular frame

Herdsman on horseback drives animals, from 'Six animal subjects' (Six sujets d'animaux)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Etching of two women wading a stream in a circular frame, with cattle grazing at left and hills behind.

Two Women Crossing a Stream

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Etching of a peasant woman leaning on a cow by a stone fountain beneath a large tree, with a distant building.

A peasant woman with a cow at a fountain decorated with the Medici arms, from "Six animal subjects" (Six sujets d'ani…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Etching of a shepherdess with a bundle beside a grazing horned goat on a grassy slope, with another goat lying nearby.

Plate 14: Shepherdess herding goats, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Engraving of the Judgment of Solomon: a king on a throne, a soldier with a raised sword, and two women pleading over a baby.

The Judgment of Solomon

Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, 1595-1633

Sepia print of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, with shepherds, a seated man with a staff, and cherubs in clouds above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Francesco Bartolozzi, before 1764

Oval engraving of Coriolanus showing a pointing armored man, kneeling women, a child, and a helmet on a pedestal in a tent.

Coriolanus: "The God of Soldiers, to shame invulnerable..." (Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 5)

Francesco Bartolozzi, November 3, 1785