New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,361 works

Etching of a seated man attacked by horned devil figures in a barred room, one holding a lantern at right.

Hudibras Catechized (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 14)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Etching of a seated lawyer at a desk with papers and coins, speaking to a standing man, with law books on shelves behind.

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no.16)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Etched theatre benefit ticket showing figures in a barred brick cell, with printed text for Theatre Royal Lincolns Inn Fields

Benefit Ticket for Milward

Samuel Ireland, 1788

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a cap and coat, labeled Mr Samuel Butler, signed W. Hogarth sculp.

Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, April 1726

Etched interior of a study with figures at a table, a celestial globe, books, and a hanging bat.

Hudibras Visiting Sidrophel (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 11)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Engraving of two men on horseback on a wooded path, one pointing forward, beneath a large leaning tree and cloudy sky.

Hudibras Sallying Forth (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 1)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Engraving of a street brawl with men fighting with sticks beside brick buildings, a fallen man and a discarded hat in the for

Hudibras Vanquished by Trulla (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 5)

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Engraving of standing bearded Christ with halo, holding a cross in an arched niche, with a chalice at right.

Christ Holding a Cross in a Niche

Engraving of nude Venus lifting a drape beside a winged Cupid in a landscape with a tree stump.

Venus and Cupid

Engraving of Mercury piping beside sleeping Argus above a hanging festoon of instruments, books, clock, armor and tools.

Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep and Festoon of Instruments, from "Festoons of Flowers, etc. no. 3"

Engraving of Flora on a cloud receiving flowers, above a long cascading festoon of flowers and leaves.

Flora Receiving Flowers and Festoon of Flowers, from "Dessins d'aiguières, etc., no. 5"

Engraving of Vulcan at a forge forging wings for Cupid, above a vertical bundle of tools ending in a basket.

Vulcan Forging the Wings of Cupid, from "Dessins d'aiguières, etc., no. 4"

Engraving of the Virgin with the infant Christ, crowned by two angels above, with a wooden fence and landscape behind.

The Virgin Crowned by Two Angels

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child, seated in a grassy landscape with a radiant halo and draped robe.

The Virgin Nursing the Christ Child, copy

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of the Last Supper with Christ at a central table surrounded by disciples, a radiant halo above him, and a pitcher

The Last Supper, from The Small Passion (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of nude Adam and Eve beside the tree with a serpent coiling above, with an ox and hare in the foreground.

Adam and Eve, from "The Small Passion" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of an angel with a sword expelling nude Adam and Eve from a fruit tree, with dense line hatching.

Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Small Passion" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of an angel pointing to a kneeling woman in prayer beside a candle and book, with a dove above her.

The Annunciation, from "The Small Passion" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a winding forest path with a strolling couple, two seated beggars, and a fallen log beneath tall trees.

A Path Bordered by Trees with two Beggars and a Couple Strolling

Ferdinand Kobell, late 18th century

Pastel portrait of a young woman with curly hair in a black top hat and white shawl against a blue background.

Portrait of Petronella Cornelia Rømeling

Jens Juel, ca. 1792?

Pencil study of a standing nude man shouldering a wooden block, with a smaller repeated sketch of the pose at right.

Study of a Male Nude Shouldering a Wooden Block

Christen Købke, ca. 1832

Engraving of Hercules wrestling a lion beside a tree and rocks, with a club and lion skin on the ground.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Engraved shop card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse with allegorical figures, a ship, and views of Italian cities.

Shop Card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse

William Hogarth, 1720-72

Engraved oval portrait of an older bearded man in a white ruff collar and dark cloak, with Latin inscriptions.

Portrait of Peter Scriverius

Jan van de Velde II, n.d.

Engraving of a drowsy church congregation, a preacher reading in the pulpit beside an hourglass, and a sleeping woman with a

The Sleeping Congregation

William Hogarth, April 21, 1762

Etched portrait of a seated heavyset man in a buttoned coat and curled wig, beside a desk with a book and quill.

Simon Lord Lovat

William Hogarth, 1746

Woodcut of the Birth of the Virgin: an angel above, women attending a newborn in a curtained bed, and a domestic interior.

The Birth of the Virgin, from "The Life of the Virgin" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Brown ink and wash study of a seated male nude twisting with one arm outstretched, on aged paper.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Engraving of the Virgin and Child in a garden with animals, a shepherd scene, and an angel in the clouds above.

Virgin and Child in a Landscape

Aegidius Sadeler, ca. 1597

Etching of two women embracing on a cloud, one draped in cloth and one nude, with fine hatched sky and clouds.

Mythological Scene, possibly Diana Seducing Callisto

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1764