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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,065 works

Lithograph of two porters: one standing with a bundle strapped to his back, one seated beside wooden buckets.

Hired Hands

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph of two men playing cards, one seated on a crate and one kneeling, in a plain interior setting.

The Card Players

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Hand-colored lithograph of two men fighting in the street, one in a blue coat grabbing the other in a brown coat and apron.

The Comb Punch

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph of two figures in headscarves, one holding a small dog and a wooden box, the other holding a hurdy-gurdy.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph of an elderly rag picker with a basket on her back supporting a young man in tattered clothes with a cane.

The Rag Picker

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph of two men seated and smoking pipes, one in a wide-brimmed hat and one in a flat cap, with walking sticks on the g

The Smokers

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph of an elderly beggar with a walking stick resting his hand on a young boy holding a top hat.

The Beggar

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph of five ragged men with exaggerated, grimacing faces crowded together, titled Les Gueux.

The Beggars

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1823

Hand-colored lithograph of a group of figures, including a woman in a lace bonnet, a boy, and a man smoking a pipe.

The Little Beggar

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1826

Hand-colored print of a frightened woman with children, a dog, and a boy holding a gray mouse over a chair back.

Fear

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1825

Lithograph of three Osage individuals with feathered headdresses, beaded necklaces and ear ornaments, signed by Louis Léopold

Osages: peuplade sauvage de l'Amérique Septentrionale dans l’Etat de Missouri [Osages: Native Tribes of North America…

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1827

Engraving of three thieves around a sleeping woman on a sofa, with a man at an open door and a face at the window.

First Scene of Thieves

Gror, ca. 1805

Engraving of thieves attacking a household in a bedroom, with a man fighting off intruders and a woman embracing a child.

Second Scene of Thieves

Gror, ca. 1805

Sepia print of armed thieves attacking a family in a room, with a woman and child on a bed and a man raising a blade.

Second Scene of Thieves

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1805

Lithograph portrait of a curly-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, with decorative Institut Royal de France caption b

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1820

Ink and wash sketch of a winged figure with a scythe on a globe, flanked by a bearded man and reclining putti.

Design for a sepulchral monument with an allegory of Time

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

Pen and ink drawing with wash of a sepulchral monument with an urn and two flanking figures on a scrolled base.

Design for a sepulchral monument with two figures

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

Pen and wash drawing of a winged old man with a scythe and hourglass, draped in grey cloak, on red chalk paper.

Design for a sepulchral monument with an allegory of Time (recto); Design for a sepulchral monument (verso)

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

Pencil and red chalk sketch of two winged figures seated on a ledge above a plinth, part of a monument design.

Design for a sepulchral monument with an allegory of Time (recto); Design for a column (verso)

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

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man reading on a scroll-decorated architectural ledge, with a carved mask below.

Design for a sepulchral monument with a seated prophet or philosopher (recto); Sketches (verso)

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

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk wash of a sepulchral monument design showing a seated figure with a scythe and ornate scro

Design for a sepulchral monument with an allegory of Time (recto); Architectural sketch and fragment of a letter (verso)

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

Pen and ink design sheet for a sepulchral monument with an urn, scrolled cartouche, portrait medallion and two seated figures

Design for a sepulchral monument (recto); Design for a monument (verso)

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

Ink and red chalk design for a tomb monument with a winged figure on top and seated and reclining figures at its sides.

Design for a sepulchral monument (recto); Fragment of a letter and notes (verso)

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

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

Pen and brown ink design for a sepulchral monument with two kneeling figures and cherubs above a scrolled base.

Design for a sepulchral monument with Mary Magdalen and Saint Jerome (recto); Sketch (counterproof) and writing exerc…

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

Pen and wash drawing of a draped sepulchral monument with a cross finial, a sarcophagus, and a seated figure beside it.

Design for a sepulchral monument in the form of a pulpit (recto); Fragment of a text (verso)

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

Pen and wash drawing of a sepulchral monument with a reclining figure, oval portrait bust, urn, and draped base.

Design for a sepulchral monument with a portrait bust

Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen, 1673

Engraving of Christ with two disciples at a supper table, with bread, wine, roast fowl and a candle.

Christ in Emmaus

Jan Sadeler, late 16th century

Graphite and white chalk portrait drawing of a man in a curled powdered wig, on blue-grey paper.

William Pitt the Elder

William Hoare, ca. 1754

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