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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Etched title page with cartouche, heraldic tower shield, putti, seated satyrs and two draped women flanking the lettering.

Frontispiece for Epigrammi de Guelfi

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1636

Brown etching of a seated boy with hand to chin beside a cooking pot, with a nanny figure behind him in a dark room.

Plate 4 from "Los Caprichos": Nanny's boy (El de la rollona)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a young woman with a fan beside an older woman with a cane and shawl, with a Spanish caption below.

Plate 16 from "Los Caprichos": For heaven's sake: and it was her mother (Dios la Perdone: Y era su madre)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a kneeling man embracing a woman beside a broken pitcher, with laundry hanging behind them and a basin on the floo

Plate 25 from "Los Caprichos": If he broke the pot (Si quebró el Cantaro)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a man in a cloak and two women, one bowed with head down, beside a dark wall; Goya's Caprichos plate 22.

Plate 22 from "Los Caprichos": Poor little girls! (Pobrecitas!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Engraving of two dogs dancing upright as a man cracks a whip, with a seated woman, children, and a piper nearby under a tree.

Dancing Dogs

Thomas Gaugain, 1790

Colored print of a kneeling man and family at a cottage door watching two guinea pigs on straw under a tree.

Guinea Pigs

Thomas Gaugain, 1789

Pen and ink drawing of a seated woman holding two children, framed by stylized foliage within an oval.

A Seated Personification of Charity with two Children

Jost Amman, 1539-91

Pen and wash drawing of a weeping putto beside a lute, with a river and city skyline behind him.

Sketch for Title Page of the Neujahrsblatt vom Musiksaal, Zurich

Johannes Meyer the Younger, ca. 1699

Red chalk drawing of a young woman with a ribbon in her hair, with a handwritten Italian inscription below.

Head of a Girl

Rudolf Escher, 1694

Hand-colored winter print of a log cabin in snowy woods with a woman feeding chickens, men and a horse by a pond.

A Home in the Wilderness

Currier & Ives, 1870

Etching of a cloaked man and two bowed women beside a dark wall, with the caption Probrecitas below.

Plate 22 from 'Los Caprichos': Poor little girls! (Probrecitas!)

Francisco Goya, 1799, posthumous impression

Etching of armed men struggling over a prone figure, with a child on the ground and a small building behind.

Plate 11 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): Not even in that way (Ni por esas)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of a gaunt old woman holding a nude figure aloft while shadowy faces and an old man watch from below.

Plate 69 from "Los Caprichos": Blow (Sopla)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Two-part lithograph of a New York infant schoolroom with seated children on benches and children marching and reciting.

First Infant School in Green Street, New York

Anthony Imbert, 1828

Hand-colored print of two dealers and a boy in a gallery of paintings, with a reclining nude and an auction notice.

Vive la France, Marchands de "Tableaux" se Preparant pour la Vente Publique / Picture "Dealers" Preparing for "Auction"

Alfred E. Baker, 1840

Etching of women carrying bundles past a dead animal and a crowd under a hatched, stormy sky.

Plate 45 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'And this too' (Y esto tambien)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of a night scene with men restraining a woman as a small child covers her face nearby, titled Madre infeliz.

Plate 50 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Unhappy mother!' (Madre Infeliz!)

Francisco Goya, 1811-12 (published 1863)

Engraving of the seated Virgin Mary tenderly holding the Christ Child, with a halo and draped robes against hatched lines.

The Virgin and Child

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1480-85

Engraving of the Virgin and Child on a canopied seat with two winged angels playing lutes beside them.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Musical Angels

Johannes Wierix, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of two children playing on a floor while a mother reads at a table near a window.

Mother Watching Over Two Young Children Playing (recto); Baby in a Bassinet (verso)

Lorenz Frølich, 1835-1903

Brown ink study of two seated women with children and a flying angel above, framed by a ruled border.

Study Sheet with Two Seated Children and an Angel

Hendrick Goudt, early 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd of soldiers and kneeling women.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Caspar Fraisinger, 1590

Engraving of a woman kneading at a table while a young girl holds a bowl by a fireplace in a dim kitchen.

The Parable of the Leaven (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Brown wash drawing of a forest scene with a young girl in a hat beside a waterfall beneath a large tree.

Landscape with a Young Girl at a Waterfall

Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, late 18th-19th century

Woodcut title page with a central Virgin Mary surrounded by angels and stars, and four corner medallions of animals.

Title-page from Pelbartus de Temesvar

Johann Otmar, 1502-14

Pen and ink drawing of a martyrdom scene with a mother embracing a child, soldiers with spears, and a robed ruler pointing.

The Martyrdom of the seven brothers; verso: Sketch of two men wrestling (?)

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1826

Sepia drawing of a farewell: a man in a boat, a grieving man, embracing women and children, with a domed interior scene above

"The Farewell"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Watercolor of three nude boys bathing by a wooded riverbank with dense trees and leafy plants.

Riverside with Three Bathing Boys

Christian Friedrich Gille, 19th century

Drawing of a family group with children, a seated woman in a lace bonnet, and a standing man in a powdered wig beside a table

Family Portrait

Georg David Matthieu, 1737-78