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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,465 works

Etching of three winged putti among clouds, one holding a palm frond and another flying with drapery.

Three Children Among Clouds Near a Palm Leaf

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Etching of three winged putti floating among clouds, one holding a billowing drapery, with fine hatched lines.

Three Children Among Clouds Carrying a Drapery

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

David Crockett

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1836

Etching of a quack vendor in a plumed hat presenting a bottle to a crowd of bird-headed onlookers before a city skyline.

Ladies and Gentlemen

Joseph François Foulquier, 1776

Pen and brown wash drawing of a monument design: a bull's head between two winged putti holding drapery, above a lion mask.

Design for a monument (recto); Architectural sketches (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Red and black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man in a tall hat, looking to the side.

Head of a Bearded Man in a Hat

Adriaen van Ostade, ca. 1650

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash showing two studies of a standing soldier holding a spear, in patterned tunics.

Studies of a Soldier

Giovanni Buonconsiglio, n.d.

Lithograph of a standing armed man gesturing toward a kneeling woman beside a stone wall, water jug, and tree.

The Klepht

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1830

Lithograph of a seated woman holding an infant in an arched doorway, with a tower in the distance and a basket and cradle nea

The Little Baby

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1830

Circular grey wash drawing of helmeted Minerva leading a procession of women beneath a tree in a landscape.

Minerva Leading a Procession of Women

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, mid-16th century

Etching of a nude woman with a cherub, a seated man holding a child, and grotesque faces peering from a tree at left.

La Rascienne Honteuse

Watercolor design of an ornate theater curtain with red drapery, green damask, gold tassels, and a procession frieze.

Design for a Theater Curtain

Aimé Chenavard, 1818-38

Watercolor of a young couple on a path under a ruined stone arch, with green trees and a sunlit ruin beyond.

A Young Couple Viewing Ruins near Bingen

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, 1801

Etched portrait of an elderly woman in a cloth headdress with head bowed and eyes lowered, inscribed Rembrandt 1633.

Rembrandt's Mother in a Cloth Headress, Looking Down

Dominique Vivant Denon, 17th century

Etching of a man in a plumed hat and a woman in a bonnet, with the man holding a quill over paper.

Rembrandt and his Wife (copy)

Chevalier Ignace Joseph de Claussin, 1786-1844

Etching of a seated woman in draped robes holding a small child against her chest, with cross-hatched shading.

Virgin and Child

Simone Cantarini, 1775

Etching of a bearded schoolmaster in a tall hat instructing three pupils at a table in a small interior with a leaded window.

The Schoolmaster

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of villagers butchering a pig in a rustic yard, with children watching beside a pump, in a circular frame.

Pork Butcher

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Engraved grotesque mask with bulging eyes, open mouth, curled beard and leafy ornament above.

Mask from Libro di Variate mascare

René Boyvin, 1560

Etching of a crowded tavern interior with men smoking clay pipes, drinking, and sitting near a large fireplace.

Smokers at the Inn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a peasant kitchen interior with a woman nursing a baby, a man at the hearth, a child, a dog, and hanging pots.

The Family (reverse copy)

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Sepia print of putti painting and sketching in a studio beside a classical female statue, with Latin inscriptions above and b

Boys Peeping at Nature

Richard Livesay, 1782

Brown wash drawing of shepherds resting on a mound beside a bare tree, with cattle, a donkey and a rifleman in a rocky landsc

Shepherds at rest

Ferdinand Kobell, late 18th century

Grey wash drawing of haloed shepherd kneeling by his staff among sheep in a wooded landscape.

Saint Eberhard of Tüntenhausen as a Shepherd

Jan Sebastiaen Loybos, late 17th-early 18th century

Etching of a crowd of men with staves, a bear on a leash, and a mounted rider gesturing beneath a large tree.

Hudibras First Adventure (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 2)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crouching male nude hiding his face and body against a dark background.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) Trying to Hide Himself

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Circular etching of the Virgin Mary cradling the sleeping infant Christ, with a radiating halo behind her head.

The Virgin holding the infant Christ with the fingers of her right hand hidden, a circular composition

Guido Reni, ca. 1600-40

Five framed allegorical scenes of classical figures, clouds and putti in fine engraved lines on cream paper.

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO F…

Guido Reni, 1603

Five numbered etched scenes of mythological figures including Jupiter, the Fates and Mars, with text panels below.

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO F…

Guido Reni, 1603

Etching with five numbered mythological scenes framing a central bearded head, with cross-hatched shading.

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO F…

Guido Reni, 1603