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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Pen and ink drawing of a draped female figure pointing to a crescent moon with two infants beside her and a tree.

Classical Female Figure (Diana or Venus) with Two Infants

Francesco Primaticcio, ca. 1539-42

Etching of a young girl with long hair in a long dress, standing beside a hoop with its shadow on the ground.

Florence Leyland

James McNeill Whistler, [1873]

Pen and brown ink sketch of a winged infant riding a crouching horse, holding its reins, on a pale sheet.

Winged Infant Riding a Crouching Horse

Giulio Romano, n.d.

Loose etching of a seated mother leaning over a small child, with hatched lines modeling her gown on cream paper.

Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child)

James McNeill Whistler, 1880-1903

Seymour Seated (Seymour Haden, Jr., Seated)

James McNeill Whistler, 1857-58

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat reading among a crowd of onlookers, with handwritten French inscriptions above.

The Title to the French Set

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Pencil portrait of a young woman in a lace headscarf and white blouse, turned to the left with a calm gaze.

Swiss Girl

August Ferdinand Hopfgarten, 1833

Pale grey lithograph of a dancing female figure with arms outstretched, holding a billowing veil of drapery.

Dancing Girl

James McNeill Whistler, 1889

Loose sketch of a standing woman in a headscarf and flowing dress, leaning on a bowl, drawn in dark lines on cream paper.

Girl with a Bowl

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Sketch of two children standing at a doorway beside a house with bay windows, drawn in loose grey lines on cream paper.

Little Doorway, Lyme Regis

James McNeill Whistler, 1895

Watercolor of a fisherman's family with a dog-drawn cart on a dune beach, boats and birds under a pale sky.

A Fisherman's Family at the Beach, the Mother and One of the Children Sitting in a Cart

Jan Gerard Smits, 1855

Sketch of a dancing girl with billowing drapery and an outstretched arm, drawn in soft grey strokes on cream paper.

Dancing Girl

James McNeill Whistler, 1890

Loose lithograph sketch of a young girl in a long dress standing before a shaded background, by James McNeill Whistler.

Little Evelyn, from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 88

James McNeill Whistler, March 1896

Lithograph of a Chelsea fishmonger's shop front with the name Maunder on the fascia and figures at the counter.

Maunder's Fish Shop, Chelsea, from "Whirlwind," December 27, 1890

James McNeill Whistler, 1890

Grey wash drawing of a religious scene with two women, an infant, a winged angel and a cherub inside a tall arched panel.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1761

Engraving of nude revelers and satyrs around a wine vat under a grapevine, with sleeping putti in the foreground.

Bacchanal with Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1475

Etching of the Virgin and Child at left with winged angels dancing in a line across a landscape with a castle.

Virgin and Child with Angels Dancing in a Landscape

Daniel Hopfer, 1530s

Etching of a seated woman holding an infant beside a bearded man, with a tree, birds on a branch and a basket.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt; lightly etched

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1645

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin and Child with a bearded cleric holding grapes, with hatched drapery.

Virgin and Child with a Cleric

Hans Burgkmair, ca. 1503-05

Brown wash drawing of children in turbans and oriental dress beside a waterfall, stone pedestal with cherubs, and a tree stum

Landscape with Children in Oriental Costume

Tiberius Dominikus Wocher, 1773

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, with a halo, two birds, a tree and a distant landscape.

Virgin and Christ Child

Stefano Della Bella, 1641

Octagonal etching of the Virgin Mary embracing the haloed Christ Child, with drapery and a curtain in the background.

Virgin and Christ Child, an octagonal composition

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1649

Etching of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child in a circular frame, with draped cloth and a distant landscape at right.

Virgin Nursing the Christ Child

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of the Virgin Mary embracing the Christ Child within an oval frame, with a radiant halo behind them.

Virgin Embracing the Christ Child

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Pencil drawing of a young girl with hair pinned up, looking downward, with loosely sketched blouse folds.

Portrait of a young girl

Edward Burne-Jones, 1866-80

Engraving of a bearded man holding a bow beside a woman in a turban carrying a baby, on a hatched landscape.

The Turkish Family

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1496

Ink and wash drawing of Juno on a chariot above a reclining woman and bearded river god with a peacock and putti.

Juno on Her Chariot Visiting a Young Woman and a Rivergod

Richard van Orley, late 17th-mid 18th century

Etching of the Virgin Mary embracing the infant Christ, both facing each other within an oval frame with radiating light.

The Virgin and Child

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of the Virgin and Child with young John the Baptist kneeling beside a lamb, with Saint Elizabeth in a niche above.

Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Elizabeth

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of the infant Saint John the Baptist with his lamb in a wooded landscape, with a halo above his head.

The Infant St. John the Baptist with his Lamb

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1649