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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,937 works

Etching of a man in a powdered wig and lace cuffs, resting his head on his hand while reading a large sheet at a table.

Portrait of a Man Reading

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of two women conversing on a grassy bank by a stream, with a dog and trees in the background.

Two Women in a Landscape

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a grazing cow beside a tree under storm clouds, with a shaft of light over flat fields and a distant spire.

Landscape with Storm

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Engraving of Adam and Eve beside a tree in a forest paradise, surrounded by horses, lions, deer, dogs, camels and swans.

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1631

Etching of an allegorical procession with a chariot, a winged trumpeter in the clouds, and classical ruins beneath a zodiac s

The Triumph of Modern Art

Jean Barbault, 18th century

Etching of many crowded head studies showing men in caps and turbans, women in bonnets, and grimacing expressions.

Studies of Heads

Louis Germain, 1773

Etching of classical urns, vases, a Corinthian column and a caryatid figure arranged together in a landscape setting.

Fragments of Antiquity

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1765

Watercolor study of a large blue dung beetle with a green shell beside a small brown weevil and a striped longhorn beetle.

Studies of a Blue Beetle and Insects

Pieter Holsteyn II, ca. 1650-60

Etching of a reclining man on a bed attended by physicians and soldiers in a draped tent, with smoke rising from a brazier.

Death of Antiochus After His Fall

Noël Hallé, 1738

Engraving in reddish-brown ink of a battle scene with an overturned chariot, fallen soldiers, rearing horses and a banner.

Fall of Antiochus From His Chariot

Noël Hallé, 18th century

Etching of reclining women with a lyre, a flute-playing putto, and cherubs among clouds in an allegorical scene.

The Harmony of Nature

Pierre Lélu, 1762

Etching of fireworks bursting over Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome, with crowds on the riverbank and boats on the Tiber.

Fireworks in Rome Over Castel Sant' Angelo

Adriaen Manglard, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of two women and children in a domestic interior, one woman bending over a child lying on the floor.

Two women and three children in an interior

Otto van Veen, 1556-1629

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a crowned rider on horseback leading a crowd of figures past an arched gateway.

The Women of Weinsberg

Otto van Veen, late 16th-early 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanalian revel with reclining revelers, a piping satyr, putti, a dog, and trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Hendrick Berckman, 1651

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a pedimented temple, two small figures, trees, a rocky outcrop and distant mountains.

Landscape with a Pedimented Temple and Two Figures

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a winter landscape with two peasants walking on a road past gabled houses and bare trees.

Winter Landscape with Two Peasants Walking

August Dahlsteen, 1710-69

Brown wash drawing of hunters resting by a campfire in a night forest, with pack horses and a moonlit sky.

Hunters resting in a forest at night

Kilian Christoffer Zoll, 1830-60

Watercolor drawing of a twin-towered cathedral beside a river, with a stone bridge, carriages, boats and people in the foregr

View of Uppsala cathedral from the North

Elias Martin, 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor design of a coffered ceiling with gold and pink scrollwork rinceaux on blue panels and rosette centers.

Design for a coffered ceiling decorated with rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Design drawing of brown wood paneling with blue panels filled with pale scrolling foliate ornament, dated 1871.

Partial design for wood panneling inlaid with painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1871

Engraved metal printing block showing horses pulling a loaded sleigh with riders through a snowy landscape with bare trees.

The Portage Sleigh on a Lumber Road, for "Antoine's Moose-Yard," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," October 1890

Frederic Remington, 1890

Printing block showing a mounted rider in a hat beside a fence with hounds gathering near the horse in a wooded scene.

A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

Frederic Remington, 1891

Engraving of a crowned king on a throne receiving a kneeling queen, surrounded by attendants, guards and columns in a hall.

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1549

Engraving of allegorical America, a nude woman with feathered headdress riding an armadillo, with hunting and battle scenes b

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Adriaen Collaert, 1580-1600

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ Child in a classical frame, with small scenes of the Annunciation, Crucifixion and Resurre

The Nativity with Scenes of The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Shepherds, The Crucifixion and The Resurrection

Abraham Bosse, 1620-76

Engraving of elegantly dressed women conversing in a decorated room with a guitar, globe, fireplace and dog.

The Foolish Virgins Conversing

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of two groups of women in a columned hall, one holding lamps, beside a cross and open book, with French verses belo

The Wise Virgins Refuse Oil to the Foolish Virgins

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of five women seated in a room with books, a fireplace, framed paintings and a central table with a crucifix.

The Wise Virgins Conversing

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of elegantly dressed women on a checkered terrace beside classical columns, with a garden and cypress trees behind.

The Foolish Virgins Rejected

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635