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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,661 works

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

Etching of a harbor with classical arch, stone towers, rowboats, sailing ships and figures on the shore under a rising sun.

Harbor Scene with Rising Sun

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Etched frontispiece of ruined classical architecture overgrown with trees, figures among fragments, and a tilted inscribed ti

Frontispiece from "Prima Parte di Architetture, e Prospettive"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Engraving of two nude men in an infernal scene, one attacked by a serpent, with robed figures watching at left.

The Circle of the Thieves; Buoso Donati Attacked by the Serpent

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Etching of spectators seated on chairs in the Tuileries gardens beside a statue group under tall trees.

Scene in the Tuileries: The Chairs

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1760

Etching of men pulling a watering cart past a statue on a pedestal in a shaded garden with trees and onlookers.

Scene in the Tuileries: The Watering Cart

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1760

Black and white woodcut of Christ with a crown of thorns on a balcony above a crowd of soldiers and onlookers.

Ecce Homo, from the series The Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498-99

Engraving of a crowded city square with stone buildings, a raised platform, armoured soldiers and townspeople watching.

Ecce Homo

Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a striped turban holding a falcon, with Latin and Persian inscriptions below.

Mechti Kuli Beg, Persian Ambassador to Prague

Aegidius Sadeler, 1605

Engraved panoramic view of Jerusalem with walls, a large central temple complex, hills, and an inset map.

Prospect of Jerusalem

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1660

Engraved view of a palace facade with a formal garden, strolling figures, rowing boats on a canal, and a distant church spire

View of the Summer Palace

Giuseppe Valeriani, 18th century

Engraved print of a dense bouquet of irises, tulips and blossoms in an urn with a serpent handle, standing on a ledge.

Flowers in a Vase

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, ca.1670-80

Black and white lithograph of a rider in a top hat leading two horses past a stone wall and pillar.

Two Horses Exercised by a Jockey

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Engraved oval print of an embracing couple in a leafy garden with cherubs and a stone pedestal.

The Pledge of Love

Jean Mathieu, 1786

Etching of a marble vase with figures on a garden terrace, a seated boy sketching it, cypress trees and an obelisk behind.

The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden ter…

Stefano Della Bella, 1656

Etching of a drunken Silenus raising a cup while a satyr pours wine beside a barrel, with a donkey at right.

Drunken Silenus holding a cup aloft into which a Satyr pours wine

Jusepe de Ribera, 1628

Large Grotesque Head

Jusepe de Ribera, ca. 1622

Hand-colored caricature of a woman with enormous blue sleeves, a feathered hat, and a parasol, 1829.

Modern Oddities, by P. Pry Esq., Plate 1st

William Heath, June 30, 1829

Etching of a half-naked man embracing a woman while pointing, surrounded by grotesque faces and a crowd in a dark setting.

Disorderly Folly, from "The Disparates" (Follies / Irrationalities)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1815-19 (published 1864)

Black and white print of a helmeted warrior, women and children in a classical interior with a statue of Minerva and shield.

The Constancy of Coriolanus

Jean François Janinet, ca. 1778

Woodcut of Saint Michael and angels fighting a dragon in the sky above a river landscape with a town.

Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1498

Hand-colored lithograph of five men and a woman intently examining a framed painting, one using a monocle and spectacles.

The Art Connoisseurs

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1823-28

Engraved scene of a curly-haired boy sketching in a book beside a large classical bust on a pedestal.

Boy Drawing a Bust of the Roman Emperor Vitellius

Wallerant Vaillant, ca. 1665-75

Engraved view of a Roman vestibule with tall Corinthian columns, coffered ceiling, small figures, and distant ruins under clo

A View of the Vestibule of Santa Maria Maggiore at Rome

Georges François Blondel, 1765-67

Mezzotint of a figure in a tricorn hat gazing at a glowing paper lantern against a dark background.

A Girl Singing Ballads By a Paper Lanthorn

James Watson, 1767-81

Head of a Man Wearing a Turban

Thomas Frye (, 1760

Etching of two large moths and six smaller insects including a bee and beetles, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Two moths and six Insects

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645