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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,065 works

Etching of a seated man in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a staff, with a classical building behind him.

Chef des Eunuques (head of the Eunuchs), from the series "Caravane du Sultan à la Mecque..." (Caravan of a Sultan Goi…

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1748

Engraving of visitors in period dress gathered by a bed where a sick person lies, with a child and a caption below.

Visiting the Sick

Engraving of well-dressed people in a colonnade giving clothes to a ragged family with children, with a verse caption below.

Clothing Beggars

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Etching of a funeral procession of robed clergy and cloaked mourners crossing a cobbled courtyard before a church, with child

Burying the Dead

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraving of a woman welcoming pilgrims in cloaks and a turban at a stone doorway, with a garden and trees behind.

Lodge the Pilgrims

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraving of a couple in period dress with a cupid beside a fountain and formal garden, with French verse below.

Youth

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of an allegorical figure of Faith seated with a cross and open book, a dove above, under classical columns.

Faith, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a woman standing on an anchor in rough sea, gazing up at light breaking through clouds.

Hope

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a standing woman with a mirror beside a tree, with a distant town and cloudy sky behind her.

Prudence, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

The Arts and Sciences Honoring Their Protector Charles-Theodore, Count Palatine

Joseph Fratrel, 1777

Etching of the Flight into Egypt: a standing man, a kneeling woman with a child, a winged figure above a rocky cliff, and a p

Flight Into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1759

Engraving of Moses receiving the tablets of the law amid clouds, angels blowing trumpets, and putti, dated 1773.

Moses on Sinai (Le tables de Loi judaique)

Simon Julien, 1773

Engraving of a bearded old man kneeling by an open tomb with skeletal remains under a large tree, with a town on a hill.

Jacob, from "Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum"

Jan Sadeler, 1593-94

Engraving of a bearded hermit kneeling at a cave entrance with a rosary, beside a waterfall and palm trees.

Onofrius, from "Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum"

Jan Sadeler, 1585-86

Engraving of Saint Euphrosyne kneeling with a cross and open book, flanked by two figures, dense cross-hatched lines.

Sancta Euphrolyna, from "Female Hermits"

Abraham Bloemaert, 1600-1633

Engraving of a well-dressed man giving water to a crowd of poor people beside a fountain, with a building and landscape behin

Giving Drink to the Thirsty

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraving of elegant visitors entering a stone prison hall where ragged prisoners sit near barred windows and a jailer.

Visiting Prisoners, from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraved horizontal frieze with clasped hands over an anchor, a dove, flanking cherubs, and scrollwork ornament.

Frieze of Ornament with Clasped Hands and Anchor

Abraham Bosse, 1625-76

Engraving of an interior with two women, a man aiming a gun at a window, and a small dog, captioned VISUS, LA VEUE.

Sight, from "The Five Senses" (Les Cinq Sens)

Abraham Bosse, 1635-38

Engraving of a couple on a terrace holding flowers, with a formal garden, dogs and a cherub beside a balustrade.

Smell, from "The Five Senses" (Les Cinq Sens)

Abraham Bosse, 1635-38

Engraved title page with an allegorical figure offering crowns to two kneeling kings beside a central text cartouche.

Title-page: De la Monarchie du Verbe incarné

Abraham Bosse, 1638

Engraving of a crowned woman with wings beside a crowned dragon, with angels and stars above in an arched frame.

The Woman Clothed with the Sun, from the Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Engraving of an angel above a measuring scene, with two figures measuring a temple and a burning city and dragon below.

The Measurement of the Temple, from the Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Engraving of armed winged angels beside a crowd, with a cross and divine figure in clouds above a city.

Four Angels holding back the Winds, from the Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Engraving of the Deposition: Christ being lowered from the cross by ladder, mourners below, two thieves on crosses, a city be

The Deposition

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Engraving of four horsemen riding through clouds under an angel, with fallen figures below, in dense black line work.

Saint John sees the Four Horsemen, from the Apocalyspe

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Engraving of an apocalyptic scene with an enthroned figure, seven trumpeting angels, an altar, fire and fallen bodies below.

The Opening of the Seventh Seal, from the Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Etched plate of rococo ornament with scrolling foliage, a central cartouche, putti, griffins and garlands, from Orthographia.

Plate 8, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Engraved ornamental plate with scrolling foliage, decorative initials, a central cartouche, and an upper frieze with urns and

Plate 5, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Engraved plate of three ornamental letters decorated with scrolls, putti, flower baskets, and foliage.

Plate 2, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century