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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,943 works

Engraved ornament panel with a satyr, a sphinx, scrolling foliage, a shell motif and a cornucopia within a decorative frame.

Design for a Panel with Two Variants containing a Satyr and a Sphynx, from "Panneaux d'ornement"

Jean Le Pautre, 17th century

Engraved architectural design for a tabernacle with a central arched niche, winged figures, garlands, and relief medallions.

Design for a Tabernacle with Two Variants, from "Tabernacles à l'italienne"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1644-66

Engraved design for a decorative choir screen with carved panels, scrollwork, garlands, and figures, from Jean Le Pautre.

Design for a Choir Screen with Two Variants, from "Clôtures de chapelles"

Jean Le Pautre, 17th century

Etching of a seated satyr holding a child beside amphorae, with a tree and distant landscape at dusk.

Evening: a seated satyr clasps his child, a figure hangs a garland on a pier beyond, from "Hours of the Day"

Charles Le Brun, ca. 1640

Etching of an imaginary monument with a pyramid, spiral columns topped with statues, and a camel with figures in the foregrou

Imaginary Architecture with Camel and Figures, after Della Bella

Pierre Moreau, 18th century

Engraving of Christ seated in a room gesturing to a seated woman, with attendants and a kitchen scene at left.

Christ in the House of Mary

Gerard de Jode, 16th century

Engraving of the Raising of Lazarus, with figures gathered around a tomb and a classical town in the distance.

Raising of Lazurus

Lambert Suavius, 1544

Lithograph of a stormy Glenfinlas valley with mountains, rocks, and horsemen with dogs in the foreground.

Vallée de Glenfinlas (Glenfinlas Valley), from "Vues Pittoresques de l'Écosse"

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1826

Etching of a standing lion beside a tree, with a bird flying overhead and a distant landscape with ruins.

Plate 4 from "The Lions"

Marcus de Bye, ca. 1664

Etching of two horses in a field beside a plough and cart, one grazing, with a rocky hill in the distance.

Les deux chevaux près de la charrue

Karel Dujardin, 1657

Etching of a standing goat beside resting sheep and a goat in an open pastoral landscape with a distant herd.

Two Goats and Three Sheep

Karel Dujardin, 1655

Three engraved architectural drawings of a chapel: a floor plan, a front façade, and an interior cross section.

Floorplan, Façade and Cross Section of one of the Chapels at Château d'Anet, from "Les plus excellents bastiments de…

Jacques Androuet, 1607

Engraved bird's eye view of the Anet château, showing its formal gardens, courtyards, gatehouse and walls.

Birds Eye View of the Chateau and Grounds of Anet, from "Les plus excellents bastiments de France"

Jacques Androuet, 1607

Engraved plan and cross-section of a domed chapel with coffered dome, columns and lantern, attributed to Du Cerceau.

Cross sections of the Chapel at Chateau d'Anet

Jacques Androuet, 1607

Engraved floorplan of the Chateau d'Anet showing a gridded courtyard, surrounding wings, moat, and a chapel.

Floorplan of Chateau d'Anet, from "Les plus excellents bastiments de France"

Jacques Androuet, 1607

Etching of Saint John preaching to a crowd among rocks and trees, with his arm raised, by Jacques Callot.

Saint John Preaching in the Desert (Saint Jean Préchant dans le Désert), with arm upraised, surrounded by male and fe…

Jacques Callot, 1634-35

Etching of Lazarus rising from a stone slab in a cave while robed onlookers gather around him.

The Resurrection of Lazarus (La Resurrection de Lazare), set in a cave, from "The New Testament" (Le Nouveau Testament)

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etched title plate with scrolled ornament, drapery swags, and italic inscription reading Diverse Figures, on a cream sheet.

Title Plate

François Chauveau, 17th century

Engraving in an oval frame showing a hero fighting a man on the ground, with two horses and a stable behind, plus Latin borde

Hercules Killing Diomedes

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of a hero leading a white horse from a stable while a man lies sprawled in the foreground, with a Latin inscription

Hercules Stealing the Horses of Diomedes

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of armored warriors seizing figures from a rowing boat on a rocky shore, with ships and a classical temple behind.

Tha Abduction of Helen (L'Enlèvement d'Hélène)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre on a rock with the Muses making music in a forest, a winged horse at upper left.

Apollo on Parnassus (Apollon sur le Parnasse)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of Diana and Orion in a forest with attendants, hunting dogs, and a leaping deer, with a Latin caption below.

Diana accepts the huntsman Orion into her company (Diane admettant en sa compagnie le chasseur orion)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of an armored figure standing before a trophy of arms, with burning buildings behind her, in an oval frame.

War: Bellona sits on a trophy of arms (La Guerre: Bellone assise sur un trophée d'armes)

Etienne Delaune, 1575

Engraving of Adam and Eve fleeing as a winged angel with a sword descends from clouds above them.

Expulsion from Paradise

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of an old man in a canopied bed with a kneeling son and a woman, with a landscape visible through arches.

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Etching of a landscape with ruins on a hillside, a mountain beyond, and two men and a dog in the foreground near water.

View of hillside with ruins (an aqueduct?) and mountain crag beyond, in the foreground a man kneels on the grass besi…

Karel Dujardin, 1658

Etching of a ruined brick building with arched windows in a wooded landscape, with a stream and two small figures.

View of ruins showing the corner of a building with two arched windows, in a landscape with a stream in the foregroun…

Karel Dujardin, 1658

Etching of a billy goat standing with a nanny goat and two resting kids beside a wooden fence and a tree.

Four goats; at the back a nanny goat lies on the ground, in the middle a billy goat stands, in the front two kids lie…

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Pen drawing in an oval frame of figures in period dress in an interior, with a card table and seated woman at right.

The Rape of the Lock

William Hogarth, 19th century (?)