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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,048 works

Engraving of a seated woman reading a book while a small child holds a torch, labeled DOCTRINE, with a curtain and inkwell.

Doctrine, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Benoît-Louis Prévost, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a winged figure holding a wreath around a bull, with a crowned woman on a pedestal and cattle in the background.

Avril, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Jean François Rousseau, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of allegorical Africa with elephant headdress, lion, crocodile and serpents, labeled L'Afrique.

L'Afrique, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a woman in a turban holding incense and a branch beside a camel and palm tree, labeled L'Asie.

L'Asie, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt, ca. 1765-81

Etching of a satyr on stage pulling back a curtain and pointing at an audience, with jesters at lower left.

Satyr standing on a stage and pointing downward toward an audience, two jesters gesticulate at lower left

Pierre Hutin, 1755

Engraving of two men presenting a grey horse to a crowd of seated and standing onlookers in a stone-walled room, with a dog.

Standing men presenting a horse before a group of seated men

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, ca. 1725-83

Etched ornamental print with two friezes of acanthus scrolls, fruit garlands, sea figures and a classical bust in a medallion

Two Designs for Friezes with Acanthus Scrolls, from "Frises, Feuillages ou Tritons Marins à la romaine"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Engraved architectural frieze with a sea chariot procession above, and dolphins, scrolls and a reclining river god below.

Two decorated Frieze Designs for Cornices, from "Frise pour les architraves, corniches et autres ornaments d'architec…

Jean Le Pautre, before 1666

Brown wash drawing of a man playing a pipe near three seated figures under a tree, with a tent beside them.

Le Joueur de Chalumeau

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1770

Etching of a seated man with staff and dog beside a pack horse, viewed from behind, with distant riders in a landscape.

Pack-horse, seated man with staff in right hand, and dog, all viewed from the rear, from "The Small Landscapes"

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Study of heads in profile view, a woman with headcloth and bearded man whose heads overlap above, two facing profiles…

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Bearded man shown in half-length with bundle slung over right shoulderblade, flanked by a woman shown in half-length…

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Man in top hat with umbrella peering at corsets in a shop window, hand-colored lithograph by Honoré Daumier.

C'est Unique! J'ai Pris Quatre Tailles..., from Émotions Parisiennes, published in Le Charivari, February 7, 1840

Honoré Daumier, February 7, 1840

Etching of a kneeling woman before a stone pedestal with a lion mask, with a bearded magician and onlookers beside her.

Woman kneeling in front of Magicians and other Figures, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a seated woman holding a child, a turbaned man, a cow, and an owl on a branch beneath a tree.

The Family of the oriental Peasant, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a bearded philosopher in a turban reading a book beside a lamp, with smoke rising from rocks behind him.

The Philosopher, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of two bearded magicians and a child around a skull, with a dog and fire at right.

Two Magicians and a Child, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of three men beside a horse, with a bird perched on a raised bare branch in a sketchy landscape.

Three Men standing beside a Horse, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a young shepherdess beside an ox, with a monkey and an old man, a bird on a bare tree at left.

Young Shepherdess and old man with a Monkey, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Oval engraved portrait of a young man with curly hair, embroidered doublet and sword hilt, with a verse below.

Charles of Gonzague and of Cleves, Duke of Nevers and of Retellois, Governor of Champagne and Brie at age eighteen

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Etching of a ruined classical arch with two standing figures on rocks, crumbling ruins and trees on the right, and small figu

Le Pan de Muraille

Henri Mauperché, 17th century

Engraving of a veiled, robed woman beside a plinth holding a palm branch, with a harp resting against the base.

Robed woman standing next to a plinth, her right hand bears a palm branch, a harp rests against the plinth

Claude Mellan, ca. 1620-88

Engraved half-length portrait of Michaelis de Marolles in a dark cloak and white collar, with Latin text below.

Michaelis de Marolles

Robert Nanteuil, 1657

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair and pearl necklace, inside an inscribed frame, dated 1653.

Portrait of Louise Marie, Queen of Poland and Sweden

Robert Nanteuil, 1653

Etching of figures performing an ancient sacrifice at a draped altar beneath trees, with a smoking offering and pouring jug.

Ancient Sacrifice

Philippe Louis Parizeau, 18th century

Engraving of a peacock carrying a cherub, framed by grapevines, a wine barrel, and two perched peacocks, with a Latin motto a

Epithalamium

Bernard Picart, 1726

Physionotrace

Engraving of a seated woman in period dress holding a closed fan, with a drawn curtain and a tree and clouds behind her.

A seated woman holding a closed fan before a drawn curtain, a tree and sky beyond

Henri Simon Thomassin, ca. 1710-41

Etched print of a standing officer in a long coat and tricorn hat with a sword, trees behind him.

Man in officer's dress, with sword hanging at left hip, shown in frontal view with his head turned toward the left, t…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1700-39

Etching of a man in a tricorn hat holding a vine-wrapped staff, with trees and a cottage in the landscape behind him.

Man in tricorn hat and overcoat, shown in frontal view and holding a staff with a winding vine, landscape with trees…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1710-39