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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Engraving of a young boy riding a large eagle in flight above a landscape with a river, trees, and a half-timbered house.

Ganymede as a young boy riding a large eagle (Zeus) in flight above a landscape

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1500-1505

Etching of a young nude girl riding a satyr within an oval frame surrounded by leafy foliage, with a vessel on the ground.

A Young Girl Astride a Satyr

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraving of St. John writing on Patmos with an eagle, a tree, sea and boats, and the Virgin and Child in light above.

St. John the Evangelist on Patmos

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Etching of a curly-haired toddler in flowing drapery playing with a puppet beside a small dog, by Fragonard.

Fanfan

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1778

Etching of a mounted horseman watching an elder baptize a kneeling man beside a chariot and trees.

The Baptism of The Eunuch

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Mezzotint of a sleeping girl with needlework in her lap, seated by a fireplace beside a lit candle and scissors.

Sleeping Girl with Needlework in her Lap

Gerard Valck, n.d.

Engraving of a crowded city square with stone buildings, a raised platform, armoured soldiers and townspeople watching.

Ecce Homo

Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Etching of a marble vase with figures on a garden terrace, a seated boy sketching it, cypress trees and an obelisk behind.

The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden ter…

Stefano Della Bella, 1656

Engraved scene of a curly-haired boy sketching in a book beside a large classical bust on a pedestal.

Boy Drawing a Bust of the Roman Emperor Vitellius

Wallerant Vaillant, ca. 1665-75

Engraved view of a Roman vestibule with tall Corinthian columns, coffered ceiling, small figures, and distant ruins under clo

A View of the Vestibule of Santa Maria Maggiore at Rome

Georges François Blondel, 1765-67

Mezzotint of a figure in a tricorn hat gazing at a glowing paper lantern against a dark background.

A Girl Singing Ballads By a Paper Lanthorn

James Watson, 1767-81

Virgin and Child

Parmigianino, ca. 1527-30

Two boys in dim candlelight, one holding up a glowing translucent bladder while the other looks at it.

Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light

Peter Perez Burdett, 1773

Engraving of the prophet Ezekiel seated among nude figures and architectural framing, with sibyls in the lower spandrels.

The Prophet Ezekiel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the Virgin Mary seated with the Christ Child on her lap, surrounded by a radiating halo.

Virgin and Child

Hieronymus Wierix, n.d.

Etching of a hooded bogeyman looming over a mother and two frightened children seated on a bed.

Plate 3 from "Los Caprichos": Here comes the bogey-man (Que viene el Coco)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of five nude winged cherubs reaching and reclining on a cloud, with fine cross-hatched shading.

Three Cherubs and Two Boys on Clouds

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1655

Engraved portrait of a young boy with a lace collar, gloved hand on a cane, sword at hip, curtain behind.

Charles II

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649

Etching of a woman drinking near wheat and a cart while an old woman with a candle points at a naked child at a doorway.

The Mocking of Ceres

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of six ragged beggars, women, men and a child, in a row on open ground with a ruin at right.

Six Men and Women Beggars

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1630

Etching of Tobias crossing stepping stones with a winged angel beside him, in a wooded river landscape with cattle and a rabb

Tobias and the Angel

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Etching of a woman with a child beside a pond, with peasants crouching at the water and a wooded landscape behind.

Latona and the Lycian peasants

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649

Head and shoulder of a child, in profile to right

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of a she-wolf nursing two naked infants beside a rock, after a design by Giulio Romano, 1652.

Romulus and Remus

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1652

Etching of a nude infant asleep under a tree with two birds in the branches above and a rocky outcrop behind.

Infant Hercules asleep

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1639

Three children's heads

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of nude putti with satyrs, a goat, grapes and a wine vessel in an outdoor landscape.

Four boys, two satyrs and a goat

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1654

Etching of putti, two satyrs and a goat with grapes and wine in an outdoor bacchanal scene.

Four boys, two satyrs, and a goat (copy in reverse)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century

Etching of four nude children and a goat in a landscape, one child wearing a leafy wreath, seen from behind.

Four boys, a young satyr and a goat

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etching of four nude boys and a satyr with a shaggy goat in a hilly landscape under clouds.

Four boys, a young satyr and a goat (copy in reverse)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century