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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,465 works

Pen and ink perspective drawing of a receding row of classical Doric columns under a projecting entablature.

Study for a Colonnade in Perspective

Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi, ca. 1530

Pen drawing of a gothic-style sideboard table elevation with tracery frieze and carved legs, plus a plan of octagonal feet.

Sideboard Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, ca. 1760-70

Engraving of blindfolded Cupid riding an eagle inside an oval medallion within a decorative rectangular frame.

Cupid Astride an Eagle

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of blindfolded winged Cupid seated on a sphere, holding a torch and arrow, inside an oval medallion with a Latin ti

Triumphant Cupid

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of an elderly bearded man and a young woman seated together, with a saddled horse, trees, and a castle in the backg

Ill-Matched Couple

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Round engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, mourning women, a skull, and rays of light around the figure.

The Crucifixion (Round) (copy)

Johannes Riepenhausen, n.d.

Circular engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ, haloed mourners, a kneeling woman and a skull at the cross base.

The Crucifixion (Round) (copy)

Carl Kappes, 1847

Circular engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, mourning figures, a kneeling woman, a skull, and a soldier.

The Crucifixion (Round) (copy)

Johannes Wierix, n.d.

Circular engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, mourners at his feet, a skull, and veiled women at right.

The Crucifixion (Round) (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Circular engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, Mary in prayer at right, and a kneeling figure with a skull a

The Crucifixion (Round)

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1519

Etched caricature of a singing man in a cocked hat with musicians, a dog, and two snarling donkeys beside him.

A Medley of Musicians, or, Campbell's Concert

Circular engraving of three nude women before a bearded man holding an apple, with a fallen armored figure and castle behind.

Judgment of Paris

Alois Petrak, 19th century

Engraved bust portrait of a man in a fur hat and cloak, rendered in fine parallel hatching on a striped background.

Joachim Patinir

Aegidius Sadeler, n.d.

Etching of an old bearded man with tousled hair, head bowed and turned three-quarters right, shaded with dense crosshatching.

Bust of an Old Bearded Man Looking Down, Three-Quarters Right

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1631

Polander Standing with Arms Folded

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630-40

Etching of a bound, crowned man surrounded by helmeted soldiers with spears and banners beneath a draped curtain.

Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate (copy in reverse of center)

Rembrandt van Rijn, n.d.

Etching of a man in a plumed hat and fur-trimmed cloak with a woman in a lace cap seated behind him.

Self-Portrait with Saskia

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636

Etched portrait of a seated man in a tall hat and cloak beside a table with papers, in front of a large canvas.

Jan Asselijn, Painter (Krabbetje)

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1647

Sepia satirical print of crowded gallery visitors with caricatured faces viewing framed paintings on the walls.

An Exhibition

Philip James de Loutherbourg, January 29, 1776

Pen and wash drawing of Venus seated beside a sleeping Cupid on a bed beneath a curtain.

Venus and Sleeping Cupid

Hans Stutte, 1600-1625

Etched print of a crowded choir of wigged singers with open mouths, a conductor raising his arm above them.

A Chorus of Singers, or The Oratorio

William Hogarth, December 1732

Etching of a dressed monkey watering bare saplings in pots labeled OBIT, examining them through a magnifying glass.

Tailpiece to the Catalogue of Pictures Exhibited in Spring Garden

I Charles Grignion, May 7, 1761

Circular engraving of Circe raising a cup beside Ulysses' companions in a boat, with monstrous figures near her.

Circe drinking from a cup with the companions of Ulysses in a boat at left, a circular composition

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Caricature of a journalist striding over rocky ground holding a journal and a Johnson biography, with ruins and mountains beh

The Journalist, With a View of Auckinleck-or the Land of Stones (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

Thomas Rowlandson, May 15, 1786

Hand-colored caricature of a stout spectacled man in blue peering at a crowned figure in a red robe holding a scepter.

A New French Phantasmagoria

Thomas Rowlandson, 1803

Pen and ink caricature of a seated woman and two men, with books labeled The Right of Woman and The Duty of Man.

Melpomene in the Dumps, or Child's Play Defended by Theatrical Monarchs

Thomas Rowlandson, December 14, 1804

Circular watercolor of an obelisk, city walls, palm trees and ships on a bay, with a figure in pink in the foreground.

View of the Obelisk of Thutmosis III Seen from the Walls of Alexandria

Jan van Call, late 17th-early 18th century

Circular engraving of three nude women before a seated bearded man, with a helmeted figure holding a caduceus behind him.

Judgment of Paris (copy)

Barthel Beham, 16th century

Hand-colored satirical print of two gluttonous friars feasting on roast pig in a vaulted room with a skull and hourglass.

The Holy Friar

Thomas Rowlandson, May 6, 1807

Engraving of the Holy Family resting in a landscape with angels above, a young John the Baptist, rabbits and a distant villag

The rest of the Holy Family on their flight to Egypt

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76