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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,959 works

Brown wash drawing of a woman nursing children beside a cherub with a palm, before classical columns and an elderly couple.

An Allegory of Charity

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, ca.1770-90

Pen and brown ink study of three overlapping female heads with lowered eyes, veils and curled hair on aged paper.

Three Female Heads

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1734-1802

Chalk drawing on gray paper of an elderly woman in a headscarf and shawl, looking upward with white highlights.

Old Woman

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, ca. 1770-80

Hand-colored satirical print of armored knights beside uniformed military dandies in a gothic hall, with women in period dres

Ancient Military Dandies of 1450 - Modern Military Dandies of 1819

George Cruikshank, August 1, 1835

Engraved caricature of a grinning dog barber with scissors beside a poodle on a stool, with a French placard above.

The Dog Barber

Henry William Bunbury, April 25, 1771

The Lilly Macaroni

Matthew Darly, November 13, 1771

Engraved-style print of a maid in an apron holding a tea tray with a teapot and cups in an ornate interior.

Morning

James Tissot, 1886

Etching of a woman in a fur hat and fur stole with a fur muff, set before snowy evergreen trees.

A Winter's Walk

James Tissot, 1880

Engraved portrait of an older man resting his cheek on his hand, gazing upward with a pensive, melancholic expression.

The Melancholic Man

Chevalier Ignace Joseph de Claussin, ca. 1800

Etched title page showing a satyr-like figure writing beside a grinning monkey on a stone block bearing the title lettering.

Title Page, from Monkey-ana, or Men in Miniature

Thomas Landseer, 1827

Engraving of a dandy with a monkey's head in a top hat and striped trousers, beside a small monkey scratching its head.

Monkey Dandy, from Monkey-ana, or Men in Miniature

Thomas Landseer, July 1828

Etching of a kneeling man presenting a book to a seated crowned figure in a stone hall with fleur-de-lis drapery.

Presentation of Valerius Maximus to King Louis XI

Charles Meryon, 1862

Etching of figures wading across a river toward a tower on a hill, with cattle in the water and a group resting under large t

Figures Crossing a River

Johann Georg Primavesi, 1807

Etching with five head studies: a smiling man, an old man in a cap, a grimacing child, a goat, and a ram.

Study of Five Heads

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1803

Etching of villagers gathered by a hearth in a dim rustic interior, with an old woman and seated men at a table.

Evening in the Village

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1800

Etching of a river landscape with a castle on a rocky cliff, a stone bridge, a mill, and figures in a boat.

View of the Convent of the Barefooted Carmelites

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1807

Etching of an old stone city gate by a river, with seated and standing men in the foreground and a small boat at left.

The Old Gate of Vaise, Lyon

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1803

Etching of peasants resting beneath trees, a woman eating from a bowl, with a river and fishermen in the distance.

Peasants Resting

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1803

Engraved print of a banquet with feasting figures, a lute player, burning buildings in panels, and a rainbow with celestial f

Mankind Awaiting the Last Judgement

Jan Sadeler, 1568-1600

Etching of a standing woman in a period hat and a child seated among tall reeds beneath tree branches.

Orphan

James Tissot, ca. 1879

Etching of a woman driving a horse-drawn chariot in a hippodrome, with other charioteers and crowded spectator galleries behi

The Ladies of the Chariots at the Hippodrome (Ces dames des chars à l'Hippodrome)

James Tissot, 1885

Engraved battle scene with horsemen, tents, and fallen horses in a valley beneath mountains.

The Battle at Oroi-jalatu

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1770

Engraved print of a ceremonial banquet with tents, a pavilion, rows of robed officials, and a stone bridge in a park.

The Victory Banquet

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1770

Etching of a watermill with a wooden waterwheel, a bridge over rushing water, a thatched cottage and trees.

The Watermill, after a painting by Ruisdaël

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1782

Etching of a public scrivener at a wooden street stall with customers, a seated woman, a child and dogs in a stone-walled str

The Public Scrivener

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1790

Engraving of Charmian and a turbaned man holding her hand, with a helmeted soldier and a veiled woman in a classical interior

Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1, Scene 2: Charmian-"Good Sir, give me good fortune"

John Hall, January 1, 1817

Sepia print of a dying man in classical dress supported by a woman, with an attendant holding a cup, within a circular frame.

The Death of Mark Anthony - Le Mort de Marc Antoine (Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 15)

Jean-Marie Delattre, January 15, 1805

Hand-colored print of Rosalind, Oliver and Celia in a forest, a man offering a white handkerchief to two figures.

Rosalind, Oliver and Celia (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 6)

Peltro William Tomkins, 1791

Plate IV, from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas

Francis Grose, February 26, 1788

Mezzotint of three hooded witches lying in bed with fingers to their lips, a moth-like figure at left, after Fuseli's Macbeth

The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3)

John Raphael Smith, March 10, 1785