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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,466 works

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

Engraving of a monkey dressed in a robe and beret, seated at an easel holding a palette, with a painting on the wall behind.

Painting (La Peinture): a monkey seated at an easel, dressed in a robe and beret and holding a painter's palette, a f…

Louis Desplaces, ca. 1700-1739

Engraved portrait of a seated man with curly hair, holding a pen, wearing a Legion of Honour medal, dated 1814.

Portrait of J. Louis David

Eugène Bourgeois, 1814

Daumier lithograph of a seated woman and a man on a sofa as an older man peers through the doorway, with papers on the floor.

May I come in my dear, or are you still collaborating with Monsieur?, plate 29 from "The Bluestockings"

Honoré Daumier, May 30, 1844

Pen drawing of a frontispiece with an Italian text cartouche, putti, an owl and birds, dated 1653.

Frontispiece with Putti and Animals

Valerio Spada, 1653

Pencil sketch of a man in a large turban with a sharply drawn face, inside a double brown ink border.

Head, from the Kinnaird Sketchbook

Stefano Della Bella, 17th century

Etching of a woman seen from behind with an elaborate hairstyle, black dress, and white glove, with handwritten inscription a

The Diva (La Diva)

Dr. Paul Gachet, 1888

Lithograph of a top-hatted man propped up by a ragged figure while another man lies slumped on a cobbled street.

Ne laissez donc pas vôtre ami dans cet état-là!..., plate 4 from "Vulgarités"

Honoré Daumier, June 1, 1841

Lithograph of three men in top hats in conversation, one holding a hat, with French caption below.

A New Hat, plate 45 from "The Best Days in Life"

Honoré Daumier, March 6, 1845

Daumier lithograph of a stout man in a cap smoking on a cobbled street beside a theatre, with French caption below.

The Hired Clapper, plate 19 from "Artists and Bonvivants of Paris"

Honoré Daumier, February 13, 1842

Lithograph of a dog groomer kneeling on a street trimming a dog while an elderly woman watches with clasped hands.

Le Tondeur de chiens, plate 21 from "Bohémiens de Paris"

Honoré Daumier, February 15, 1842

Lithograph of three men in top hats, one leaning in to whisper to a stout man with a cane, over newspaper text.

Un Candidat, plate 48 from "Caricaturana"

Honoré Daumier, May 18, 1837

Etching of a man with closed eyes, long wavy hair and a cap, bust-length within a dark oval, on cream paper.

Head of the Republic

Dr. Paul Gachet, 1877

Head of a Woman

Dr. Paul Gachet, ca. 1859-89

Etching of classical ruins with columns, stairs and fallen capitals, with a standing man and a seated figure in the foregroun

Classizing Landscape with Three Figures, from a series of architectural ruins with figures, in reverse after prints b…

Virgilius Solis, ca. 1550-62

Engraving of a flooded ruined colonnade with columns and arches, and a rowing boat with passengers in the foreground.

Boats Rowed Through Inundated Ruins

Virgilius Solis, ca. 1550-62