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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Engraving of the reclining Silenus with putti beside a wine vat, grapevines and tree trunks behind them.

Silenus reclining before wine vats

Philippe de Soye, ca. 1558

Engraving of nude Judith with a sword beside a servant holding a basin, while Judith holds the head of Holofernes.

Judith standing to right and holding the head of Holofernes in her right hand and a sword in her left hand, her serva…

Sebald Beham, ca. 1520-30

Engraving of a seated nude woman with a sword, looking down at a severed head beside her, with a village landscape behind.

Judith, seated nude with a sword in her right hand, gazing down at the head of Holofernes in her left hand

Barthel Beham, 1523

Engraving of nude Judith seated on Holofernes' body, holding a sword and the severed head, with grasses behind her, dated 152

Judith, looking towards the right, seated nude atop the dead body of Holofernes, with a sword in her right hand and t…

Barthel Beham, 1525

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve beside the tree of knowledge as a bearded God in robes points a warning finger, 1540.

God at right forbidding the nude Adam and Eve at left to eat from the tree of knowledge in center, from "Adam and Eve"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540

Engraving of a man pulling away as a woman on a bed grasps his cloak, in a richly furnished interior.

Joseph strides away from Potiphar's wife, who clutches his cloak with both hands as she straddles the corner of a bed…

Georg Pencz, 1546

Engraving of nude Tomyris placing a severed head into a sack held by a soldier, with a body on the ground.

Tomyris, shown nude from behind, placing the head of Cyrus into a sack held by a soldier, the decapitated body of Cyr…

Georg Pencz, ca. 1539

Engraving of a seated nude woman in reeds with a crowned archer drawing a bow in the background.

Cephalus and Procris, from "Four Mythological Scenes"

Georg Pencz, 1539

Engraving of nude Hercules wrestling a centaur beside draped curtains, with another centaur on a bench behind.

Hercules Fighting the Centaurs

Master PM, 1577

Engraving of a seated nude woman beside a tall urn, with a tree and distant castle in the background.

Seated nude next to a vase

Master FG, 1537

Engraved frieze of armor, weapons, banners and trumpets with a helmeted female warrior at center and reclining figures.

Combats et Triomphes

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraved frieze of a winged woman seated among armor, shields, trumpets, banners and cannons, with reclining figures at the s

Plate from "Battles and Victories" (Combats et Triomphes)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Medal commemorating the Capture of Valencia in Italy (La Prise de Valence en Italie)

Louis Simonneau, ca. 1690-1710

Etching of a man at an open window with a sword, a figure sprawled on the floor beside a curtained bed, and a town view outsi

Illustration for "Philosophie de la nature"

François Denis Née, 1776

Engraving of an allegorical woman representing Rhetoric, flanked by two men, with architectural and scroll ornament.

Rhetoric (Retorique)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of a female allegory of Astronomy with a globe and instruments, framed by ornamental scrolls, birds, and a cartouch

Astronomy (Astronomie)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of a seated bearded man at a stone block with a nude figure leaning over, watched by helmeted soldiers and a crowd.

Untitled - Etienne Delaune, 1540

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of a seated feathered woman allegorising America with a bow, a dog, putti and a palm tree, titled L'Amerique.

L'Amerique, from "Almanach iconologique"

Nicolas de Launay, ca. 1765-81

Two Designs for Friezes, of which one has a Round Portrait Medaillon, from "Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins anti…

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Engraved oval print of a vase with serpent handles, a satyr mask base, and a nude figure riding a goat.

Vase with mask, a nude cup-bearing figure riding a goat followed by a satyr, and reptile handles, an oval composition…

Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 1751-58

Vertical engraved ornament print with a candelabra grotesque of scrolls, foliage, putti, dolphins and dragon heads.

Candelabra Grotesque with Heads of Dolphins and Dragons in the Center

Lambrecht Hopfer, ca. 1525-50

Etching of a chaotic battle in a forest, with rearing horses, armored foot soldiers with shields and spears, and a flag.

Battle between cavalry and infantry in a wood

Hieronymus Hopfer, 16th century

Etching of satyrs carrying a drunken Silenus, with a putto holding grapes and a woman at left.

Three satyrs carrying the drunken Silenus, preceded by a putto carrying grapes; behind them a satyr carrying a large…

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Engraved architectural ornament plate with an arched gated doorway, columns, a lion, winged figures and grotesque masks.

Ornament plate, from "Architettura"

the Elder Wendel Dietterlin, 1598

Etching of an ornate fountain with nude female figures, putti, and dragons supporting a balustrade, from Dietterlin's Archite

Design for a Fountain, plate 119 from "Architettura"

the Elder Wendel Dietterlin, 1598

Engraving of nude figures, animals and a cornucopia in an idyllic wooded landscape, The Golden Age after Adriaen Matham, 1620

The Golden Age

Adriaen Matham, 1620

Engraving of muscular nude smiths hammering at an anvil in a forge, with a winged child and a draped woman at right.

The Forge of Vulcan

Cornelis Bos, 1546

Engraving of Pluto, a nude bearded male figure holding a torch in an arched classical niche flanked by columns and winged put

Pluto; on verso sketches of a figure, four heads, and a column

Hendrick Goltzius, 1592

Engraving of a naval battle with ornate ships, muscular warriors with shields, and sea creatures in choppy waves.

Plate 7: a battle taking place between men in boats

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Engraving of soldiers fighting on a ship while nude men climb its side, with a river god reclining at right.

Plate 8: battle between soldiers on a boat and naked men trying to climb in, a river god at right

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90