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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

130 works

Hand-colored page with a poem in red text, showing a reclining nude, two children, lions, and a twisted tree.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Circular engraving of the Virgin and Child in a landscape, crowned by two angels above.

The Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels above a Landscape

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1504

Etching of a man in a plumed hat and fur-trimmed cloak with a woman in a lace cap seated behind him.

Self-Portrait with Saskia

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636

Hand-colored page with an old man in blue bending toward a child beside a brick wall, above the poem "London".

Songs of Experience: London

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Sepia drawing of a family in classical dress walking a path with children and a dog, with a seated reader in a vignette above

"The Return"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Engraving of putti with a sickle and wheat sheaves under a tree and sunbeams, representing summer.

Summer

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1735

Hand-colored page showing a mother in pink reaching for a naked infant on a bed beneath the poem Infant Sorrow.

Songs of Experience: Infant Sorrow

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Engraving of Sancho pursued by kitchen boys in a grand hall, with dogs in the foreground and elegant onlookers at a table.

Sancho Pursued by the Kitchen Boys of the Duke

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 18th century

Etching of putti warming themselves by a fire beside a thatched cottage, with swans on a pond and a bare winter tree.

Winter

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Hand-colored page with the poem A Little Boy Lost, kneeling figures, flames and a thorny green vine beside the text.

Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Engraving of putti gathered by a fire near a thatched hut in winter, one carrying a bundle of branches, under a cloudy sky.

Winter

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 1735-86

Etching of putti playing with garlands of flowers in a garden with a fountain, a trellis arbor, and a flying cherub above.

Spring

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Hand-colored illuminated page of Blake's poem A Little Girl Lost, with red script and a tree with vines on the right.

Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Engraving of a reclining woman feeding a goat while two putti hold grape bunches beneath a tree.

Autumn

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 1735-86

Etching of putti with grapes, a goat, a wine barrel and a basket, with a dedication inscription below.

Fall

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Etching of two winged putti on clouds, one carrying a basket of flowers while the other reaches toward it.

Two Children, One Holding a Basket with Flowers

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Engraving of three children fishing with a net and rod in a pool among reeds and flowers under a cloudy sky.

Water

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Lithograph of a seated woman holding an infant in an arched doorway, with a tower in the distance and a basket and cradle nea

The Little Baby

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1830

Etching of three winged putti among clouds, holding a garland of grapes and fruit, with drapery trailing across the scene.

Three Children with a Fruit Plate

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Engraving of three putti gardening beside a well, with a hoe, wheelbarrow, watering can, trees and French verse below.

Earth

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Etching of a nude woman with a cherub, a seated man holding a child, and grotesque faces peering from a tree at left.

La Rascienne Honteuse

Etching of two winged putti on clouds, one holding a sword and the other lifting a plumed helmet.

Two Children, One With A Sword, Another With A Helmet

Gabriel Huquier

Engraving of a boy in a headscarf fishing from a pond bank beside a thatched shelter, reeds and flowering shrubs.

Fisherman

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Etching of a seated woman in draped robes holding a small child against her chest, with cross-hatched shading.

Virgin and Child

Simone Cantarini, 1775

Etching of three winged putti among clouds, one holding a palm frond and another flying with drapery.

Three Children Among Clouds Near a Palm Leaf

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Engraving of a startled boy seated in a cluttered workshop beside a furnace, with glass flasks, a mortar and an arched window

Glass Blower

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Etching of a peasant kitchen interior with a woman nursing a baby, a man at the hearth, a child, a dog, and hanging pots.

The Family (reverse copy)

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of three winged putti floating among clouds, one holding a billowing drapery, with fine hatched lines.

Three Children Among Clouds Carrying a Drapery

Gabriel Huquier, 1738-45

Engraving of three cherubs with a bird cage and a net beside a broken tree, birds flying over a ruined tower in the distance.

Air

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Sepia print of putti painting and sketching in a studio beside a classical female statue, with Latin inscriptions above and b

Boys Peeping at Nature

Richard Livesay, 1782