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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,349 works

Engraved fireplace design with sphinxes, a cupid on draped canopy, urn and garlands, title banner below.

Design for a Fireplace Surmounted by Sphynxes and Cupid, title page from "Nouveaux dessins de cheminées à l'italienne"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Engraved print of a classical altar with columns, winged putti, and a central panel showing the Resurrection of Christ.

Altar with the Resurrection of Christ, plate 2 from "Nouveaux dessins d'autels à la romaine"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Etching of two ornamental panels with putti, acanthus scrolls, grapevines, satyr figures and a candelabra.

Two Designs for Panels with Candelabra Decorations, from "Montants d'ornement"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Brown wash drawing of a man playing a pipe near three seated figures under a tree, with a tent beside them.

Le Joueur de Chalumeau

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1770

Bearded man shown in half-length with bundle slung over right shoulderblade, flanked by a woman shown in half-length…

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Man in top hat with umbrella peering at corsets in a shop window, hand-colored lithograph by Honoré Daumier.

C'est Unique! J'ai Pris Quatre Tailles..., from Émotions Parisiennes, published in Le Charivari, February 7, 1840

Honoré Daumier, February 7, 1840

Etching of a kneeling woman before a stone pedestal with a lion mask, with a bearded magician and onlookers beside her.

Woman kneeling in front of Magicians and other Figures, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a shepherd bending over a ram beside two robed magicians, a tall tree, and a flock of sheep in a landscape.

A Shepherd with two Magicians, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a seated woman holding a child, a turbaned man, a cow, and an owl on a branch beneath a tree.

The Family of the oriental Peasant, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a bearded philosopher in a turban reading a book beside a lamp, with smoke rising from rocks behind him.

The Philosopher, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of three men beside a horse, with a bird perched on a raised bare branch in a sketchy landscape.

Three Men standing beside a Horse, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a seated mother and two children with a donkey, sheep, a dog, and clay jars in a rural landscape.

A Mother with two Children, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a young shepherdess beside an ox, with a monkey and an old man, a bird on a bare tree at left.

Young Shepherdess and old man with a Monkey, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Hand-colored caricature of a grinning horned devil holding a sleeping child in a striped blanket, with flames below.

The Devil's Darling

Thomas Rowlandson, March 12, 1814

Printed broadside titled The Devil's Darling with verse in which the Devil addresses his child, published by R. Ackermann.

The Devil's Darling: Text

London Rudolph Ackermann, March 12, 1814

Pencil sketch of a Gothic cottage elevation with gabled roofs and pointed windows, above a labeled floor plan with dimensions

Design for Small Gothic Cottage, Design IV from The Architecture of Country Houses

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1850

Oval engraved portrait of a young man with curly hair, embroidered doublet and sword hilt, with a verse below.

Charles of Gonzague and of Cleves, Duke of Nevers and of Retellois, Governor of Champagne and Brie at age eighteen

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Pencil architectural sketch of a wood farmhouse with two floor plans, an elevation showing chimneys and dormers, and notes.

Design for Bracketed American Farm House, Design XVII from The Architecture of Country Houses

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1850

Engraving of a veiled, robed woman beside a plinth holding a palm branch, with a harp resting against the base.

Robed woman standing next to a plinth, her right hand bears a palm branch, a harp rests against the plinth

Claude Mellan, ca. 1620-88

Etching of Saint John the Baptist with a halo, holding a staff beside a resting lamb in an oval wooded landscape.

Saint John the Baptist

Balthazar Moncornet, 17th century

Engraved half-length portrait of Michaelis de Marolles in a dark cloak and white collar, with Latin text below.

Michaelis de Marolles

Robert Nanteuil, 1657

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair and pearl necklace, inside an inscribed frame, dated 1653.

Portrait of Louise Marie, Queen of Poland and Sweden

Robert Nanteuil, 1653

Engraved oval print of a vase with serpent handles, a satyr mask base, and a nude figure riding a goat.

Vase with mask, a nude cup-bearing figure riding a goat followed by a satyr, and reptile handles, an oval composition…

Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 1751-58

Physionotrace

Engraved title page with an ornate cartouche, a grotesque mask at top, and the title Figures Françoises et Comiques.

Frontispiece for "Figures French and comic" (Figures francoises et comiques)

Engraving of a seated woman in period dress holding a closed fan, with a drawn curtain and a tree and clouds behind her.

A seated woman holding a closed fan before a drawn curtain, a tree and sky beyond

Henri Simon Thomassin, ca. 1710-41

Etched print of a standing officer in a long coat and tricorn hat with a sword, trees behind him.

Man in officer's dress, with sword hanging at left hip, shown in frontal view with his head turned toward the left, t…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1700-39

Etching of a man in a tricorn hat holding a vine-wrapped staff, with trees and a cottage in the landscape behind him.

Man in tricorn hat and overcoat, shown in frontal view and holding a staff with a winding vine, landscape with trees…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1710-39

Engraved print of a woman in pilgrim costume with a walking stick and shell-decorated cape, with a sailboat in the distance.

Actress Charlotte Desmares playing the role of a pilgrim, shown from behind with her head turned toward the right, sh…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1710-39

Etching of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a wooden box, with straps hanging from it.

Seated man with box in his lap, he rests his right elbow on a taller box

Edmé Jeaurat, ca. 1715-38