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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,034 works

Engraved print of a woman in pilgrim costume with a walking stick and shell-decorated cape, with a sailboat in the distance.

Actress Charlotte Desmares playing the role of a pilgrim, shown from behind with her head turned toward the right, sh…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1710-39

Etching of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a wooden box, with straps hanging from it.

Seated man with box in his lap, he rests his right elbow on a taller box

Edmé Jeaurat, ca. 1715-38

Engraved portrait of a seated man with curly hair, holding a pen, wearing a Legion of Honour medal, dated 1814.

Portrait of J. Louis David

Eugène Bourgeois, 1814

Daumier lithograph of a seated woman and a man on a sofa as an older man peers through the doorway, with papers on the floor.

May I come in my dear, or are you still collaborating with Monsieur?, plate 29 from "The Bluestockings"

Honoré Daumier, May 30, 1844

Two heads of women

Pierre Parrocel

Pencil sketch of a man in a large turban with a sharply drawn face, inside a double brown ink border.

Head, from the Kinnaird Sketchbook

Stefano Della Bella, 17th century

Lithograph of two figures in classical robes, one reclining and one gesturing dramatically, with printed caption beneath.

Oui c'est Agamemnon c'est ton Roi qui t'éveille!... (Iphigénie), plate 13 from "Physionomies tragico-classiques"

Honoré Daumier, April 27, 1841

Lithograph of a top-hatted man propped up by a ragged figure while another man lies slumped on a cobbled street.

Ne laissez donc pas vôtre ami dans cet état-là!..., plate 4 from "Vulgarités"

Honoré Daumier, June 1, 1841

Lithograph of three men in top hats in conversation, one holding a hat, with French caption below.

A New Hat, plate 45 from "The Best Days in Life"

Honoré Daumier, March 6, 1845

Daumier lithograph of a stout man in a cap smoking on a cobbled street beside a theatre, with French caption below.

The Hired Clapper, plate 19 from "Artists and Bonvivants of Paris"

Honoré Daumier, February 13, 1842

Lithograph of a dog groomer kneeling on a street trimming a dog while an elderly woman watches with clasped hands.

Le Tondeur de chiens, plate 21 from "Bohémiens de Paris"

Honoré Daumier, February 15, 1842

Lithograph of three men in top hats, one leaning in to whisper to a stout man with a cane, over newspaper text.

Un Candidat, plate 48 from "Caricaturana"

Honoré Daumier, May 18, 1837

Head of a Woman

Dr. Paul Gachet, ca. 1859-89

Circular woodcut of Judith holding a severed head before a tent, with a battle and walled city in the background.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Israhel van Meckenem

Engraving of unicorns drawing a carriage with a seated woman and sphinx, followed by robed women near a round temple.

Triumph of Chastity: unicorns draw a carriage bearing a female figure seated next to a sphinx and holding a standard,…

Georg Pencz, ca. 1539

Engraving by Christoph Murer, 1596: a poor man and a seated rich man contrasted under a winged figure holding banners.

An Allegory of a Rich Man and a Poor Man (Der Lustige Arme und der Traurige Reiche)

Christoph Murer, 1596

Etching of three peasants on a stone ledge beside a mill with a water wheel, under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Peasants and a Mill

Franz de Paula Ferg, 18th century

Etching of a woman reaching for a wreath in smoke beside a ruined amphitheater, with kneeling and standing onlookers in 18th-

A Visit to Rome in 1764

Franz Edmund Weirotter, 1764

Etching of a woman seated by a river with two satyrs, ruined arched aqueduct and trees in the background.

Corsica seated before satyrs on the bank of a river, from a pair of plates for Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor fido"

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1640

Etching of a crumbling stone tower with an arched doorway on a rocky slope, with small figures on a path below.

Plate 2: Calidarium at the Baths of Diocletian, from "The Ruins of Rome"

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1640

Etching of a peasant family eating at a table while a satyr with goat legs sits on a chair beside cabbages.

The Satyr and the Peasant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1764

Engraving of an elderly man praying at a table with his family beside a timber house, with a woman serving bread nearby.

Enoch and his family surrounding a meal table and holding their hands in a gesture of prayer; behind them is the open…

Johann Theodor de Bry, ca. 1580-1623

Engraving of a rider on a mule with men gathering coins beneath it, crowds around a stepped platform, Latin inscription below

Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding i…

Johann Theodor de Bry, 1592-1614

Woodcut of a crowned figure among armored soldiers and courtiers in a columned hall, with a bowing figure in the foreground.

Illustration from "The White King" (Der Weiß König)

Hans Burgkmair, 15th-16th century

Engraved print of an ornate knife handle with a marriage scene, cherubs, scrollwork, and French text panels on each side.

Design for knife handle to commemorate a marriage

Johann Theodor de Bry, ca. 1580-1600

Etched title page showing harbor ships, a fortified wall, and two figures beside a ship's rigging and barrels, dated 1652.

Title page from "Quelque navieres deisseigner & graver par Remy Zeeman"

Reinier Nooms, 1652

Etching of an ornate architectural facade with a central doorway, hunting dogs, animal heads, and an archer atop the pediment

Design for an Architectural Structure with a Hunting Theme, plate 74 from "Architettura"

the Elder Wendel Dietterlin, 1598

Woodcut of a bearded horseman drawing his sword beside a kneeling beggar, with trees and a distant castle.

Saint Martin on Horseback

Hans Baldung Grien, 15th-16th century

Etching of a bearded old man in a flat cap and fur-trimmed robe, hands clasped, after Rembrandt.

Old Man with Beard and Flat Cap, after Rembrandt

Captain William E. Baillie, 1765

A bearded man wearing a tasseled headdress facing left, from "Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1648-50