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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

A Country Girl at Surrentum

Allan Ramsay?, September 1776

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin seated with the Christ Child, flanked by two saints, one bearded and one young.

Virgin and Child with Two Saints (recto); Fragmentary Design of a Pietà (verso)

Domenico Puligo, 1515-20

Engraving of a haloed saint at a window beside a richly furnished bedchamber with women and an older man seated within.

Saint Nicholas of Bari and the Three Poor Girls

Cristofano Cartaro, 1587

Engraving of a flood scene with a crowded boat, struggling figures in water, a waterfall, rocky cliffs and a stormy sky.

Winter

Nicolas Poussin, n.d.

Etching of a woman in a headscarf blowing on a spoon while a child rests against her in a dim interior.

Cooling the Porridge

Jean-François Millet, 1861

Etching of a woman in a bonnet beside a tree trunk in a sketched rural landscape with small buildings.

The Goose Girl

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Etching of a dim interior at night: a woman sews, a man knits by a lamp, and a child sleeps in a basket.

Night, from "Four Times of the Day"

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Etching of a girl by a tree watching geese on a pond in a rural landscape with cattle in the distance.

The Guardian of the Geese, after Millet

Émile Boilvin, 1888-99

Etching of a woman in a bonnet holding a candle while an older woman sews, with a sleeping figure in the dim background.

Sewing by Lamplight

Jean-François Millet, 1873

Etching of putti harvesting wheat under a sun and tree, with a sickle, sheaves, a thatched hut and a pitcher.

Summer (L'Été)

Charles-Joseph Natoire, ca. 1735

Engraved oval portrait of two curly-haired children embracing, one raising a hand, against a cloudy background.

Nature (The Calmady Children)

Samuel Cousins, 1835

Drawing of Bacchus with vine crown and jug beside an urn, with putti and a seated woman among grapevines and a tree.

Arcadian Scene with Bacchus

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Etching of a beggar family receiving alms at a doorway, with a man giving coins and a mother carrying a child.

The Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player and Family Receiving Alms

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Engraving of St. Peter and St. John healing a lame man among tall columns, with onlookers and putti.

St. Peter and St. John healing the lame man at the gate of the temple

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1554-61

Pencil drawing of a large tree over a ruined stone archway, with two figures on a path and a distant church spire.

Mother and Child Praying at a Roadside Shrine

Eduard von Steinle, 1859

Engraving of a classical hall with columns, a kneeling ruler before a bishop on a dais, a crowd, and a child with a dog.

Constantine Presenting the City of Rome to the Holy See, at right, many spectators throughout, a child playing with a…

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraving of draped women, a bearded man holding an infant, and an altar with plants before a classical doorway and tree.

The sacrifice to Priapus (the larger version)

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1499-1501

Engraving of the Madonna nursing the Christ Child seated against a large tree trunk in a bare landscape.

The Madonna nursing the Christ Child at the foot of a tree

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1501-3

Woodcut-style print of soldiers attacking women and children before classical arcades and columns, with bodies on the ground.

The Massacre of the Innocents (Right side) with group of male figures attacking women and children; classical buildin…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Engraving of the Massacre of the Innocents with a mounted soldier, fleeing women and children, and a seated ruler on a throne

The Massacre of the Innocents (Left side), with man on horseback at center left, women and children below, group of f…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Woodcut of the Virgin and infant under trees with Joseph, Saint Jerome, Saint John, a lion, and a town in the distance.

Mary seated beneath trees with baby, flanked by Joseph at left and St. Jerome at right; St. John the Baptist seated i…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Watercolor of a pastoral landscape with shepherds and sheep framed by an archway, with castle ruins on distant hills.

The Four Castles of Neckarsteinach

Carl Philipp Fohr, 1800-1818

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist seated in a wooded landscape, Saint Joseph at lef

The Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist in a landscape, St Joseph at the left

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1503

Old Woman and Child in Oval (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Etching of a seated young girl with long dark hair and a dark dress, shaded with cross-hatched lines on buff paper.

Annie

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Etching of a crumbling timber farmhouse with a woman in white standing by a doorway and tools in the yard.

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Etched title page showing a crowd of figures around a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat, with handwritten inscriptions above a

Title Page from the "French Set" (Douze Eaux-Fortes d'Après Nature)

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Etching of a boy standing beside a seated woman at a table in a dim interior, framed by a doorway and hanging cloth.

The Rag Gatherers (Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris)

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat surrounded by standing women, children and men in a street scene.

Title to the French Set

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Seymour Seated

James McNeill Whistler, 1857-58