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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,362 works

Etched frontispiece with a cartouche reading LA VIE DE N.S. JESUS.C, a cross above, angels and kneeling figures below.

Frontispiece to the series The Life of Christ

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of men hoisting a crucified Christ on a cross with ropes and a ladder against a hatched sky.

Elevation of the Cross

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of Christ collapsing under the cross with soldiers, a crowd, and mourners on a rocky hillside.

Carrying the Cross

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of the Annunciation: an angel kneels on a cloud pointing up at a dove, while Mary kneels at a prie-dieu beside a chai

Annunciation

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of the risen Christ rising above a tomb as soldiers sleep and an angel gestures in the foreground.

Resurrection

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of figures lowering the body of Christ toward a stone tomb beneath rocky hills and trees.

Entombment of Christ

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of the Descent from the Cross with figures on ladders lowering Christ's body beside a standing mourning woman.

Descent from the Cross

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene at a tomb, with a haloed Christ standing and two angels in a cave above.

Christ appearing to Mary Magdelen

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of a haloed figure above a table where two seated men share bread in a tiled interior room.

Division of the Bread

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of a robed figure rising into the sky with a halo while figures below reach upward in a wooded landscape.

Ascension

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of mythological figures in a forest, with satyrs lifting a beam, a helmeted warrior, and a seated nude woman.

Manhood

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of elderly figures gathered around a fire in a gnarled woodland, one figure on crutches, with French caption below.

Old Age

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of playful putti and a satyr with a wheeled cart and hoop beside a seated woman under a large tree.

Adolescence

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of horned, goat-legged figures gathered beneath a large tree in a wooded landscape, with a French verse caption below

Youth

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of the Nativity with the Virgin and infant Christ, a kneeling man, shepherds, and angels in clouds above.

Nativity

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Engraving of an allegorical artist's workshop with draftsmen, a skeleton, a sculpted horse, and a helmeted female figure pres

The Practitioners of the Visual Arts

Cornelis Cort, 1578

Engraved portrait of Sixtus V in papal dress, framed by small views of Roman obelisks, churches, columns and ships.

Portrait of Sixtus V

Nicolaus van Aelst, ca. 1589

The Celestial Art

Odilon Redon, 1894

Pencil sketch of a sleeping woman with head tilted and eyes closed, hair drawn in dark hatched strokes on cream paper.

Sleep

Odilon Redon, 1898

Dark lithograph of grotesque, mask-like faces and a clawed form emerging from shadow above a pale ground.

Hideous Larvae

Odilon Redon, 1896

Cream title page for La Maison Hantée with French text and a small lithographed vignette by Odilon Redon, 1896.

Title page to the series, The Haunted House (La Maison Hantée)

Odilon Redon, 1896

Etching of two nude figures struggling, one raising a club overhead while the other crouches on rocky ground.

Cain and Abel

Odilon Redon, 1886

Perversity

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph of a hooded pilgrim seated in shadow, gazing toward a glowing crescent and rays of light in a dark sky.

Pilgrim from a sublunar world

Odilon Redon, 1891

Druidesse

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph by Odilon Redon of a pale face with curly hair set within a dark rectangular frame, with a French caption below.

A Veil, a Printed Image

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph of a dark winged figure on a rocky ledge under a large shadowy wing, with a dark sphere floating to the left.

In the shadow of the wing, the black creature bit

Odilon Redon, 1891

The vague glimmer of a head suspended in space

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph of a hooded robed woman holding a staff inside a large circle, by Odilon Redon, 1891.

And over there, the Astral Idol, the Apotheosis

Odilon Redon, 1891

Brunnhilde (The Twilight of the Gods)

Odilon Redon, 1894