New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,069 works

Engraving of a fireplace room with women conversing, a kneeling servant, a small dog, and a canopy bed beyond.

Visit of the Nursemaid, plate 6 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraving of a notary scene with seated figures at a table, a writing clerk, children, and a garden view through a latticed w

The Marriage Contract, plate 1 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Woodcut of a bearded, haloed saint holding scales and a staff against a hatched background with clouds.

Saint Judas

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of Saint John with halo, holding a chalice with a serpent, before a fence, foliage and distant church spire.

Saint John

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of a haloed woman holding a cloth bearing the bearded face of Christ crowned with thorns, between two trees.

Saint Veronica

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Etching of a woman in a canopied bed receiving visiting women in a tiled room with a fireplace and a small dog.

Visit to the New Mother, plate 5 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraving of a man raising his arm over a kneeling woman in a room, with two children and a dog nearby.

The Wife-Beater

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1633

Woodcut of a seated woman in a canopied bed, a knight with raised sword, and a castle on a hill in the distance.

Illustration from "The Ritter von Turn"

Albrecht Dürer, 1493

Woodcut of a fool in a cap leading a cow past a ship and mountains, with Latin text above and below.

Illustration from Sebastian Brandt's "Navis Stultifera", Basle, Bergmann van Olpe, 1497

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of two men in period dress talking outdoors, one plumed and sword-bearing, beside village houses and trees.

Heauton Timouroumenos, from "The Comedies of Terence", 19th century reprint

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of two men outdoors, one older with a fur hat holding beads, one younger in a cloak, with buildings and trees behind.

Eunuches, from "The Comedie of Terence", 19th century reprint

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of a bearded man and a woman in a headdress gesturing toward each other in a town street with houses behind.

Adelphi, from "The Comedie of Terence", 19th century reprint

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of two men in a medieval-style street, one gesturing with an open hand, the other with hands together.

Hecyra, from "The Comedie of Terence", 19th century reprint

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of a feathered-cap young man walking a city street past brick walls and gabled houses.

Phormio, from "The Comedie of Terence", 19th century reprint

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut print of a curly-haired man standing before a medieval town with towers, a stone wall and a timber structure.

Eunuchus, from "The Comedie of Terence", 19th century reprint

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of tumbling figures and pipe players on a stage under an arch, with a seated audience watching from above.

Illustration from "The Comedie of Terence", 19th century reprint

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a woman beating a kneeling blindfolded man in a domestic room with a fireplace, rooster, and window.

Husband-Beater

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1633

Engraved interior of a bride in a bedchamber with women, a feathered-hat man, and a groom beside a curtained bed by candlelig

The Bride Taken Home

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Illustration and Text from Dürer's "Vier Bucher von Menslicher Proportion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1528

Illustration from Dürer's "Vier Bucher von Menslicher Proportion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1528

Two outlined figures, a man and a woman, in side and front views with horizontal proportion lines and German labels.

IIllustration from Dürer's "Vier Bucher von Menslicher Proportion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1528

Engraving of a childbirth scene with a midwife, a woman in bed, a standing husband, and onlookers in a richly furnished room.

Childbirth

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Woodcut of a haloed enthroned woman with crowned kings, angels, a bearded judge above, and flames and dragon figures below.

Illustration from "Revelations Sancte Birgitte"

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraved portrait of a seated woman with curled hair, fur-trimmed embroidered gown and lace cuffs, before a draped curtain.

Portrait of Isabella d'Este

Lucas Vorsterman, 1620-30

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in plate armor holding a sword, with a plumed helmet on a ledge behind him.

Portrait of Emperor Charles V

Lucas Vorsterman, ca. 1620-30

Engraved interior of the Grande Galerie at Versailles with chandeliers, arched windows, sculptures and elegantly dressed figu

Galerie des Glaces at Versailles

Sébastien Leclerc I, 1684

Black and white woodcut of a crowded church interior with robed figures gathered around an infant beneath an arched ceiling.

The Circumcision, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Black and white woodcut of the Nativity: Mary kneels by the Christ Child in a stable, with angels, a star, and shepherds.

The Nativity, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, 1502-3

Engraving of scholars working among globes, instruments, and maps in a columned classical hall, with a ship visible beyond.

L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts

Sébastien Leclerc I, 1698

Woodcut of the Virgin Mary seated among saints and angels in an arcaded interior, with a prophet in a niche above.

The Glorification of the Virgin, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1502