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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,466 works

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in armor and ruff collar, with French verse inscription below.

Philip Emanuel de Loraine

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in armour and lace collar, surrounded by helmets, weapons and a Latin inscription.

Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Henry Fielding

William Hogarth, ca. 1835

Handwritten manuscript page in brown ink about Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers, with pencil notes below.

Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers, attached letter

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Engraved plate with two fur-clad figures, a reindeer, and medallion portraits on a pedestal inscribed LAPONIA.

Laponia (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, pl. 312)

William Hogarth, 1723-24

Engraving of a seated couple in an ornate room, with a horned satyr figure beside them and a tea service on a table.

Lafontaine Tales, Amsterdam

Joseph de Longueil, 1763

Etching of Saint Mark with a winged lion, an angel, and putti among clouds, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Saint Mark

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1761-65

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat writing with a quill at a desk beside an organ and books.

Thomas Morell, S.T.P.- S.S.A.

the elder James Basire, February 1762

Engraving of an allegorical woman in drapery holding a book among cacti, agave and large plants, titled La Botanique.

La Botanique, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a seated woman reading a book while a small child holds a torch, labeled DOCTRINE, with a curtain and inkwell.

Doctrine, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Benoît-Louis Prévost, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a winged figure holding a wreath around a bull, with a crowned woman on a pedestal and cattle in the background.

Avril, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Jean François Rousseau, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a winged child holding a goat medallion beside a bare tree, a donkey and children, labeled Decembre.

Decembre, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Joseph de Longueil, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of allegorical Africa with elephant headdress, lion, crocodile and serpents, labeled L'Afrique.

L'Afrique, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a seated feathered woman allegorising America with a bow, a dog, putti and a palm tree, titled L'Amerique.

L'Amerique, from "Almanach iconologique"

Nicolas de Launay, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a woman in a turban holding incense and a branch beside a camel and palm tree, labeled L'Asie.

L'Asie, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt, ca. 1765-81

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