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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,358 works

Page of nine small religious etchings including Holy Family scenes, with a green-tinted central print of the Virgin and Child

The Holy Family

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1538-42 (?)

Two versions of an etching of figures in robes reaching up toward quails flying overhead, a biblical scene.

Moses Showing the Quails to the Israelites

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545

Etching of Moses with sheep beside a burning bush and a town on a hill, above a scene of men pushing a boat.

Moses and the Burning Bush

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1544-48

Etching on a page with a shepherd and sheep by a fire above, and men hauling a net from a boat below.

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1548-52 (?)

Album page with five prints; lower right shows a father embracing a kneeling son in a doorway scene with robed onlookers.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1536-40

Etching of the Annunciation with an angel and seated Virgin above, and a nativity-style group with an ox below.

The Annunciation

Andrea Schiavone, after ca. 1552 (?)

Two etched scenes on one sheet: an angel above a balustrade and a woman, and kneeling figures with an ox beside columns.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1560 (?)

Etching with two scenes: a crowd in a temple above, and a nativity with a mother, infant and adoring figures below.

The Presentation in the Temple

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540-45 (?)

Etching of the Nativity: Virgin with infant Christ in a manger, surrounded by adoring figures in a stone-walled stable.

The Nativity

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1558-60

Etching of the Presentation in the Temple with a priest, infant, and crowd of figures before a classical doorway.

The Presentation in the Temple

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1543-46

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi with kneeling figures before the Virgin and Child beneath a classical portico.

The Adoration of the Magi

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-46 (?)

Three small prints on a page: the Adoration of the Magi above, and two scenes of figures on a staircase below.

The Adoration of the Magi

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545-50 (?)

Etching of Christ with women on a staircase, plus a Nativity scene above, on an album page.

Christ and the Women on the Staircase

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1541-44 (?)

Etching of a woman in a headscarf working a wooden churn with a long plunger against a dark background.

The Churner

William Merritt Chase, ca. 1886

Engraving of a kneeling monk gazing up at a framed vision of a Virgin and Child within rays of light, with a landscape behind

Imaginaria Visio (La vision de l'imagination)

II Antonius Wierix, n.d.

Pen drawing over a grid of an alleyway between old houses with scaffolding, a crate, and cobblestones.

An Alleyway between Houses

Théodore Rousseau, 1858

Etching of Christ healing lepers, with a central robed figure among a crowd and a group of reaching figures in the foreground

Christ Healing the Lepers

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545 (?)

Drawing of a wall tomb design with a central urn, two cherubs drawing back drapery, and an inscribed tablet on the base.

Design for a Wall Tomb

Avanzino Nucci, 1590-1610

Woodcut-style prints of crowded figures, including a nude central figure surrounded by bearded men and drapery.

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1556-57 (?)

Woodcut of mourners grieving over a draped dead body on rocky ground, with a second scene of struggling soldiers above.

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Andrea Schiavone, 1550s

Saint Cecilia with a halo, holding an ornate harp beside a tree, in a green gown and red mantle, with a river and crescent mo

Saint Cecilia

Gustave Moreau, ca. 1890-95

Pen and wash drawing of a stone staircase under a stone arch, with a woman in a long dress climbing the steps.

The Curving Stair

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1778-79

Seated man in red coat and powdered wig beside a bookstand in an elegant room with a window and fireplace, drawn in watercolo

Jean-Pierre de Bougainville

Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, 1760

Graphite portrait drawing of a standing man in a double-breasted coat with a medal, holding a top hat.

Admiral Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1817

Graphite portrait drawing of a young woman with hair pulled back, wearing a frilled collar and lace shawl, signed Ingres.

Madame Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, née Madeleine Chapelle

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1814

Etching of a dead nude body lowered by mourning figures, with a bearded man at right under a stormy sky.

Entombment Facing Left

Parmigianino, 1529-30

Engraving of Bacchus and Ceres standing in a forest, with Venus and a cupid tending a fire at left.

Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus [Without Ceres and Bacchus Venus Grows Cold]

Jan Müller, ca. 1597

Etching of a bearded street vendor in a wide-brimmed hat behind a table with glasses and flasks, beside a wooden fence.

Brandy or Cure Seller, plate 3 from "Cries of Paris" (Les Cris de Paris)

Abraham Bosse, mid to late 17th century

Engraving of a kneeling woman vendor holding a bottle and glass, with a basket of glasses and a large flask beside her.

Brandy Seller

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737

Etching of a young man in a wide hat playing a hurdy-gurdy against a hatched landscape background.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737