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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Engraving of nude Leda with children and a swan in a landscape, with a ruined Roman temple and sailboat behind.

Leda and her children playing with the swan, with a Roman temple in the background

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Etching of a satyr family resting by an obelisk and stone wall, with a woman, child, and standing figure with a staff.

Satyr Family with the Obelisk, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of Cupid and Psyche on a chariot drawn by birds, with winged children and a distant landscape.

The triumph of Cupid and Psyche who are seated on a chariot drawn by two birds restrained by children

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-67

Engraving of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, with a young boy holding a lantern walking beside them.

Aeneas rescuing Anchises, a young boy carrying a lantern at left

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1525

Pen and ink drawing with pink wash of three curly-haired girls playing ball with a racket on a seaside beach.

Three Girls Playing at Ball at the Seaside

James W. Allen, ca. 1890-1910

Pen drawing of a curly-haired child carrying a puppy on his shoulder, with a large dog and children near a tower.

Child Carrying a Puppy on his Shoulder

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Pen and watercolor design of two draped women holding a child's hands in a garden, inside an octagonal blue-bordered frame.

Design for a Porcelain Platter

Leroux, 1777

Pencil design sheet with a spread-winged eagle over a striped shield, a cherub on a sea horse panel, and a dedicatory inscrip

Designs for the ornaments and inscription on a testimonial urn

Thomas Fletcher, 1800-1866

Etching of a skeletal death figure striding across a city square while carrying a child on its back.

Death carrying a child, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1648

Black chalk study on blue paper showing several views of an infant's head with curly hair.

Studies of the Head of an Infant (after a three-dimensional model)

Poppi, 1572-74

Engraving of a workshop where men ink and print copper plates at benches and presses, with prints hung to dry on the wall.

The Workshop of an Engraver [Sculptura in Aes], plate 19 from Nova Reperta

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, ca. 1600

Watercolor of a long columned interior with draped windows, chandeliers, and a nursemaid with children on a blue carpet.

Interior, Leningrad?

Charles de Brocktorff, ca. 1825

Watercolor lunette of a kneeling woman in pink, three crowned youths around her, and putti in floral garland borders.

Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide

Moritz von Schwind, 1864

Grey wash drawing of an allegorical frontispiece with classical figures, flowers, putti and open books inscribed La Grammaire

Design for a Frontispiece

Bernard Picart, 1720

Etching of a skeletal Death figure striding over a ledge carrying an infant, with a town and small skeleton in the background

Death Carrying an Infant, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1648

Line drawing of a nude woman reclining on her side, head resting on her arm, hair loose, on a cream background.

Girl

Egon Schiele, 1918

Watercolor sheet music cover of a seated young woman beside colorful sails and a distant pink tower by the water.

Design for music cover: A Runaway Girl Waltz

W. George, 1898

Pen and watercolor drawing of a boy on a carriage step and a girl reaching toward him beside a horse and coachman.

Boy (loq.) O don't I pity them poor Nobs in Carriages this hot weather

John Leech, 1830-64

Watercolor interior with a seated mother and child, children, two men in period dress, a canopy bed and tapestried walls.

Scene with Family and Guest in Seventeenth-Century Interior

Joseph Nash, 1825-78

Watercolor of a tailor sitting cross-legged pressing cloth in a cluttered interior, with a woman carrying bread and a dog nea

The Tailor

Thomas Rowlandson, 1814

Colored drawing of fashionable people at a crowded public breakfast in a Bath assembly room, with plumed hats and tall window

The Comforts of Bath: A Public Breakfast

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1798

Pencil sketch of a woman with flowing hair carrying a tray of heads overhead, with loose drapery swirling about her legs.

Girl Carrying a Tray with Four Heads

William Bell Scott, ca. 1876

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman with a book titled Repository for Rubbish, above a trash cart and goblin figures.

"Repository for Rubbish, vol. I, L.F.C 1828", Illustration for children's book

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 1828

Watercolor design of a carved Gothic-style staircase with two children descending and a woman in a gold gown.

Design for a Jacobean-style Staircase (recto); Architectural Element Design (verso)

Matthew Digby Wyatt, ca. 1867

Etching of a man on a horse before a ruined arched building, with a boy, a dog, and figures on a staircase.

The Good Samaritan

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Pen drawing of two ornamental friezes with acanthus scrolls, cherubs, lions and winged horses.

Sketch of Two Friezes, Palazzo Mattei

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Etching of a half-dressed woman with two children and bearded men near spears, a shield, horses and a tent.

Half-dressed Nymph with two children, surrounded by four men, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Pencil drawing of a barefoot youth in a belted tunic, looking upward with open hands raised.

Standing Youth, Looking Up

Otto Speckter, 1820-71

Engraving of a wandering family and beggars on a road with a dog, a child holding an owl, and a castle in the distance.

The Beggars (Eulenspiegel)

Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Engraving of the Virgin and child resting under a tree with Joseph and a donkey in a rocky landscape.

Rest on the Flight Into Egypt

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1506