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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Etching of an elderly man in a dim study gazing at a glowing circular diagram inscribed with letters, beside a tall arched wi

Faust

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652

Etching of a seated young man in a plumed hat beside a woman with a fan, an older man behind them, and pewter dishes and grap

The Enamored Couple: Lucelle and Ascagnes

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1616

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a bald head and curly hair, wearing a buttoned collared garment, shown in bust view.

Bust of an Elderly Man

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

Etching of a mounted rider in a plumed hat spearing a charging bull in an arena, from Goya's La Tauromaquia.

Plate 11 from "La Tauromaquia": The Cid campeador spearing another bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Engraved view of a crowded Versailles gallery with masked guests, chandeliers, and a painted ceiling during a masked ball.

Decoration for a Masked Ball at Versailles, on the Occasion of the Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Th…

Charles Nicolas Cochin I, 1764, reprinted ca. 1860

Etching of a costumed Chinese masquerade procession with a carriage passing a carved column in a Roman street.

The Chinese Masquerade (La Mascarade chinoise)

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1735

Engraving of a couple kissing in a kitchen by a hearth while a servant kneels nearby and a figure stands in the doorway.

On ne s'avise jamais du tout, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de…

Jean-Baptiste Patas, 1795

Engraving of winged cherubs holding a scroll above skeletons, bones and classical tombs on rocky ground.

The Vision of Ezekiel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1554

Etching of a fantastical triumphal arch with classical ruins, a bust, overgrown fragments, and small armored figures.

The Triumphal Arch, from "Grotteschi" (Grotesques)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etching of a gnarled tree by a river with a standing man in a hat, sailboats, a windmill, and houses on the far bank.

The Omval

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1645

Etching with a tall tree and a small figure on the left, and a dark study of a man's head in a cap on the right.

Sheet with Two Studies: A Tree and the Upper Part of a Head of Rembrandt Wearing a Velvet Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1642

Etching of a mounted horseman watching an elder baptize a kneeling man beside a chariot and trees.

The Baptism of The Eunuch

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Etching of a rustic barn interior with thatched roof, chickens, barrels, a cart, and a ladder by Adriaen van Ostade.

The Barn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1647

Engraving of an ornate garden with mathematical instruments, urns, a central fountain, and a peacock.

Garden of Mathematical Sciences

Francesco Curti, 17th century

Engraving of muscular Hercules with a club facing a winged, many-headed hydra coiled among rocks under a cloudy sky.

Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro

Engraving of a crowded fantastical landscape with monsters, soldiers and a seated woman labeled Patientia, with a distant cit

Patience (Patientia)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1557

Engraving of the adoration of the shepherds with the Virgin, Joseph, kneeling shepherds and angels above a manger.

The adoration of the shepherds

Diego de Astor, 1605

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, angels above a star, and a procession of figures and horsemen

The Adoration of the Magi, set before and architectural colonnade

Pietro Testa, ca. 1640

Engraving of women in lace collars dozing in a furnished room with a fireplace, tapestries and a flower basket.

Foolish Virgins Sleeping

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of a family seated at a dining table in an interior, with a servant holding a book and a bed at left.

A Family Saying Grace

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, 1609

Mezzotint of a sleeping girl with needlework in her lap, seated by a fireplace beside a lit candle and scissors.

Sleeping Girl with Needlework in her Lap

Gerard Valck, n.d.

Engraving of nude mythological figures with Jupiter descending from clouds above a reclining man and a woman holding wheat.

The Four Elements, plate 1 from "Mythological Subjects"

Jacob Matham, 1588

Engraved print of a veiled, haloed standing woman in a long robe within a decorative border, labeled Aritmetricha.

Arithmetic

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, 1460-70

Woodcut print of an eagle carrying a youth aloft over nude men, horses and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Zeus as an eagle, abducting Ganymede

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Engraving of Ixion embracing Juno on a dark cloud above classical ruins, a lion, and small figures below.

Ixion attempting to seduce Juno, surrounded by clouds with ruins below

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1520-39

Engraving of Minerva and Mercury arming Perseus in a wooded landscape, with nymphs watching from rocks above.

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Müller, 1604

Lithograph of a costumed street performer on a stone step with a dog, bowing man, onlookers and a table with a chest.

The Fool Who Sells Wisdom

Carle Vernet, ca. 1818

Lithograph of a street show with a monkey jumping through a hoop, musicians, a ladder, and onlookers in period dress under te

The Monkey and the Leopard (The Monkey)

Carle Vernet, 1818

Engraving of Saint Sebastian tied to a bare tree, pierced by arrows, standing on a rocky mound.

Saint Sebastian

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Etching of Christ shown to a crowd on a platform before a classical building, with soldiers, a cross, and a Latin inscription

La Présentation au Peuple (The Presentation of Christ to the People), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)

Jacques Callot, ca. 1619-24