New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,465 works

Chiaroscuro woodcut of Saint John the Baptist pointing beside a lamb in a desert landscape, printed in yellow and black.

Saint John the Baptist in the desert, a lamb by his side

Antonio da Trento, ca. 1527-30

Engraving of Judith beheading Holofernes with a sword in a canopied bed chamber, a maidservant watching from the doorway.

Judith, from "Famous Women from the Old Testament"

Cosimo de Medici, Prince of Tuscany, and His Wife, Marguerite Louise d'Orleans

Stefano Della Bella, 1661

Round etching of the Virgin and Child with the infant Saint John holding a cross-shaped staff, against hatched background.

The Virgin and Child with Saint John, a round composition

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Engraved interior scene of four men in period dress around a curtained bed with a seated woman, with a Latin caption below.

The Discovery

Samuel Ireland, 1788

Circular engraving of an alchemist's laboratory with a kneeling scholar, furnaces, flasks, and a ring of Latin text.

The Alchemist's Laboratory from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae

Peter van der Doort, n.d.

Circular engraved Kabbalistic diagram with Hebrew letters, Latin text, a central figure, rays and clouds.

Scheme of Christian Kabbalism from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae

Peter van der Doort, n.d.

Circular alchemical diagram with concentric text rings, a central globe labeled Chaos, and a winged figure in the middle.

The Philosopher's Stone from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae

Peter van der Doort, n.d.

Engraved concentric diagram with Latin and Hebrew text, a central triangle, a figure and an open book, from Khunrath's Amphit

Syzygy or the Conjunction of the Macrocosmic Unity with the Microcosmic Triunity from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum…

Peter van der Doort, n.d.

Portrait of a Man

Louis Lafitte, 1793

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of nymphs surprised near a bath, with a reclining river god in the foreground.

Diana Surprised at her Bath

Hans Rottenhammer, after 1610

Engraved certificate with a theatrical mask, palette, laurel branch and drapery, plus script entitling the bearer to a Garric

Mask and Palette

Richard Livesay, 1781

Engraving by William Hogarth showing paintings flying and tumbling through a street among rooftops and a weathervane.

The Battle of the Pictures

William Hogarth, 1745

Etching of a crowded rustic tavern interior with a seated violin player, drinking companions, a dog and a large hearth.

The Violin Player Seated in the Inn

Cornelis Dusart, 1685

Etching of a couple embracing in a rocky cave as a turbaned servant spills a bucket and another man looks on.

L'intrigue découverte

Ink and grey wash drawing of an angel blowing a trumpet above a crowd of figures with raised arms.

The Last Trumpet (recto); Two studies of a right eye, a profile of an open-mouthed young man, the head of an eagle, a…

William Blake, 1780-85

Lithograph of a reclining man attended by grotesque mourners as an armored winged woman with spear and shield descends.

Repas de Corps. Epoque Mémorable de 1821

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, 1821

Etching of an ornate cup base with cherubs, a griffin, a lion and a dog among scrollwork and bead garlands.

Base of an ornamental cup

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Painting of a large beech tree in a woodland clearing, with a mother and children resting at left and deer grazing at right.

A mother and children resting beneath a large beech tree, deer grazing beyond, possibly in Norbury Park, Surrey

the elder George Barret, 1776

Pen drawing of a coat of arms with Nature and Britannia figures, an infant on the shield, a lamb crest and a HELP banner.

Arms for the Foundling Hospital

William Hogarth, December 22, 1781

Circular etching of figures skating on a frozen lake with bare trees in the foreground and a town with windmills beyond.

Winter landscape with figures skating on a frozen body of water in a roundel composition; a church and trees in the f…

Matthijs van Plattenberg, ca. 1625-60

Circular etching of a stormy sea with sailing ships, rough waves, dark clouds, and figures on a shore at lower left.

Tempest in a roundel composition, at left waves toss a small ship occupied by seven figures, ships and dark clouds be…

Matthijs van Plattenberg, ca. 1625-60

Engraved architectural prints of the Chateau d'Anet courtyard interior and a frontal view of its gateway with arches and pila

Interior View of the Court Yard and Frontal View of the Defense Mechanism at Chateau d'Anet, from "Les plus excellent…

Jacques Androuet, 1607

Etching of two mules with panniers, plumes and tassels in the foreground, and a horseman driving more mules across a field.

Two mules bearing panniers and outfitted with blinders, plumes, and tassels; one mule in three-quarter view and behin…

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Etching of three pigs resting in the foreground beside a thatched pigsty, with grazing animals and trees under a cloudy sky.

Three pigs lying on their sides, a pigsty and trough beyond

Karel Dujardin, 1652

Hogarth's 1728 print of a stage performance of The Beggar's Opera with masked actors, musicians, and an audience in galleries

The Beggar's Opera

William Hogarth, 1728

Circular etching of Adam and Eve leaving Paradise, with a winged angel at right and a serpent in a tree above.

Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-19th century

Medal of Louis XIV

Gerard Edelinck, 17th-18th century

Medal

Gerard Edelinck, 17th-18th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental cartouche with a crowned shield flanked by two winged figures and shell scrolls.

Cartouche for Le Pont Neuf

Stefano Della Bella, 17th century