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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,187 works

Engraving of women with garlands beside a bull, cupids on clouds above, and an eagle in a landscape with a waterfall.

Enlevement d'Europe (Abduction of Europa)

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 18th century

Engraved circular print of Arion playing a lyre on a dolphin, surrounded by a border of sea creatures and putti.

Arion on a Dolphin surrounded by a Border decorated with Sea Creatures, from a set of circular designs with sea gods

Adriaen Collaert, 1580-1600

Engraving of Noah's ark on a rock above a stone arch, with human bodies on the ground, birds in flight, and a distant town.

Aftermath of the Flood: human bodies strewn on dry land in the foreground, Noah's ark moored on a rocky outcrop beyon…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of a lavish banquet with embracing nude couples around a table, with a castle and landscape behind.

Mankind surrendering to lechery before the Flood: embracing couples on benches around a table with food and drink, fr…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of an ornate cross-shaped pendant with two flying cherubs, two seated nude men, and decorative motifs.

Cross-shaped Pendant and Four Other Motifs

Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1622

Engraving of two nude male figures holding ornamental scrollwork motifs beside a large octagonal decorative panel.

Octagonal Case and Two Other Motifs Held by Ignudi

Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1622

Brown ink and grey wash drawing of a centaur carrying off a nude woman, raising a staff with a billowing cloak behind.

The Centaur Nessus Abducting Deianira

Nicolai Abildgaard, 1763-1809

Engraving of a painter at an easel beside an armoured man embracing a nude woman, framed by an ornate arch with putti and fol

Apelles Painting Alexander and Campaspe

Woodcut of nude Adam and Eve in a forest, a serpent coiled around a tree offering fruit between them.

Adam and Eve

Hans Baldung Grien, 1514

Woodcut of an angel with a raised sword expelling nude Adam and Eve from a fruit tree.

Expulsion from Paradise

Hans Baldung Grien, 1514

Engraved frieze of mounted and foot warriors fighting, labeled Achilles and Hector, with a fallen soldier below.

Achilles and Hector

Sebald Beham, 1518-30

Woodcut print of a partially nude woman holding a dagger to her chest, framed by a garland and a plaque inscribed LVCRECIAE.

Lucretia

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1519

Woodcut of two women nursing infants amid playing naked children, a dog, and foliage in an outdoor setting.

Two Mothers with Children (Die Kinderaue)

Hans Baldung Grien, ca. 1512

Small hand-colored woodcut of a hell scene with a bearded man, a nude figure, and winged demons in dense black hatching.

Hell (copy)

Hans Baldung Grien, after 1511

Woodcut of three nude Fates with a spindle and shears beneath a tree, with a child crouching at lower left.

The Three Fates: Lachesis, Atropos and Klotho

Hans Baldung Grien, 1513

Etching of Satan, Sin and Death from Paradise Lost Book II, with Satan in armor, Sin at center and Death at iron gates.

Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book II)

Samuel Ireland, May 1, 1788

Pen and wash drawing of a nude youth with a cloak standing beside a winged horse grazing at the ground.

Bellerophon and Pegasus

Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1790-1844

Engraved battle frieze with armored warriors on horseback, shields and spears, and fallen figures on the ground.

Combat Between Greeks and Trojans

Sebald Beham, 1518-30

Engraved frieze of centaurs with human riders in combat above a scrolling foliate ornament, with a monogram at top.

Frieze with Centaurs Fighting at Center with Human Riders

Sebald Beham, 1500-1550

Engraved design of an ornate covered goblet with round medallions of nude figures and decorative foliate ornament.

Goblet with Round Medallions

Sebald Beham, 1530

Brown wash drawing of Adam and Eve in a forest, Eve holding a branch as a serpent coils around the tree above.

The Temptation of Eve

Pieter van Lint, 1639

Engraved ornament panel with two figures embracing in a central roundel, flanked by two tritons among scrolling foliage.

Cimon and Pero Flanked by Two Tritons

Sebald Beham, 1518-30

Engraving of a nude male figure with a spear in an oval landscape, framed by ornate scrolls, grotesques and winged horses.

Paris in a Decorative Frame with Grotesques

Adriaen Collaert, ca. 1580-1600

Engraving of a nude allegorical woman in a chariot pulled by two lions, with elephants and palms behind her.

Allegory of Africa, from "The Four Continents"

Julius Goltzius, ca. 1560-90

Circular engraving of gods gathered in clouds around a central enthroned figure with an eagle, with Latin text around the bor

Concourse of the Gods on Mount Olympus

Cornelis Cort, 1565

Engraving of a classical tomb with two reclining figures on a sarcophagus and a seated statue in a central niche.

The Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici from The Tombs of the Medici

Cornelis Cort, 1570

Engraving of a Medici tomb with a seated statue in a niche above two reclining nude figures on a sarcophagus.

The Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici from The Tombs of the Medici

Cornelis Cort, 1570

Engraved horizontal panel of two nude boys among scrolling leafy tendrils on a dark hatched background.

Horizontal Panel with Two Nude Boys Surrounded by Tendrils

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1549

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a cherub head, scrolling foliage, a candelabrum, and a woman with fish tails.

Vertical Panel with a Candelabrum Containing a Child's Head and a Woman with Two Fish Tails

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1528

Engraved ornament panel with a seated female satyr on a helmet, flanked by candelabra, owl, bird, and draped figures.

Panel with a Candelabrum Containing a Female Satyr Seated on a Helmet

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1549