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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Engraving of two young sisters in ruffled gowns embracing on a chair beside a floral garland, with classical columns behind t

Les Jeunes Soeurs

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraved interior scene of a family in a rustic room, with an old man in a hat at an open door and birds on a perch.

Belphegor, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III…

Jean-Baptiste Patas, 1795

Engraving of the Holy Family under a tree, with the Virgin, young Jesus, Joseph holding a sprig, and a donkey.

The Virgin and Joseph with the Young Jesus

Carlo Maratti, 1710-40

Engraved oval scene of a seated mother with a child and sleeping infant in a cradle, a man pouring at right, dense trees behi

La Bonne Mere

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraved domestic scene of a mother holding an infant, surrounded by children, a dog, and a donkey near a doorway.

La Mere de Famille

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraving of a woman with children on a platform in a farmhouse interior, with a goat and a man at the doorway.

La Famille du Fermier

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Oval engraving of a seated woman holding a sleeping infant beside a boy pouring water, framed by dense garden trees.

La Bonne Mere

Nicolas de Launay, 18th century

Sepia etching of a bearded figure gesturing above a seated woman and a cherub on clouds, after a Neapolitan church ceiling.

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus interessants des Palais et des Eglises d'Italie

Richard de Saint-Non, 18th century

Etching of playful putti and a satyr with a wheeled cart and hoop beside a seated woman under a large tree.

Adolescence

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Wood engraving of children and a woman gathering chestnuts under a tree, a boy in the branches and a girl holding a sheet.

Chestnutting (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)

Winslow Homer, October 29, 1870

Etching of a peasant family in a dim interior, a man feeding broth to a baby beside a hearth with a standing woman.

Father of the Family Giving Broth to His Baby

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a rustic tavern interior with figures eating and playing cards at a table, a dog lying nearby, and hanging kitchen

The Breakfast (Le Gourmet en Compagne)

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Etching of Ceres with a pitcher, an old torch-bearing woman pointing at a nude child in a doorway, grain and vines.

Ceres Seeking Her Daughter or Ceres and Stillio

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Engraving of a barn interior with a seated woman, two children, a pig and chickens beneath a thatched roof.

Interior of a Barn with Mother and Two Children, Right in Front a Pig (copy)

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Etching of a crowned figure surrounded by ghostly faces, a prone body and severed heads in the foreground.

Macbeth III

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1918

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees, a winding path, a fence, a small building, and a seated family group in the fo

Mother and Children At Rest

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ child in a glowing halo, walking past a rocky cave with animals below.

The angel awakening Joseph to the presence of the Virgin and Child

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-49

Engraving of women and children gathered in a crowded low lodging house interior, with a window and hanging cloth.

Low Lodging House, St. Giles's; A Study from Life, from "The Graphic," vol. 6

Hubert von Herkomer, August 10, 1872

Brown ink sketch of three veiled women and a small bent boy on a pale sheet, studies by Rembrandt.

Study Sheet with Three Women and a Boy

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1638-39

Engraving of Psyche seated on a litter carried through a landscape, with a crowned king, mourners and trumpeting putti.

Plate 5: Psyche carried on a litter, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Woodcut of armored trumpeters in laurel wreaths playing long horns, with children and a dog, and Latin text above and below.

Trumpeters, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504

Drawing of a youth with two girls seated together, singing, with a potted plant and urn on a balustrade behind them.

A Youth and Two Girls Singing

Jacob Jordaens, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, infant Christ, shepherds and angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Hans Rottenhammer, ca. 1595-1606

Engraving of the Birth of the Virgin: attendants bathe the infant beside a canopied bed while cherubs assist.

Birth of the Virgin (copy)

Julius Goltzius, 1581

Red chalk drawing of the Madonna and Child in an arched niche, flanked by prophets and robed figures on a stepped pedestal.

The Holy Kinship (Madonna and Child and St. John) with Prophets and Symbols of the Four Evangelists

Joachim von Sandrart, 17th century

Pen and ink sketch of a robed saint holding the Christ Child, with a lily and two cherubs seated below.

Saint Anthony and the Christ Child Surrounded by Cherubs

Martin Johann Schmidt, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of Flora and Zephyr: a draped woman with a cornucopia beside a winged nude man lifting a cloth, with a putt

Flora and Zephyr

Josef Klieber, late 18th-19th century

Black cut paper silhouettes of a family group standing and seated in a room with tall draped windows.

Thomas Williams, the Town Crier of New Bedford with Wife and Daughter

Samuel Metford, 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned woman distributing gold from a chest to kneeling figures, with a raised sword and medieval

Kriemhild, in Mourning over Siegfried, Handing Out Treasures from the Nibelungen Hoard

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1854

Engraved frieze of acanthus scrolls with a winged siren at center and four nude children around her.

Frieze with Rinceaux, a Siren and Four Children

Enea Vico, 1541-43