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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Pen and wash drawing of a winter landscape with two peasants walking on a road past gabled houses and bare trees.

Winter Landscape with Two Peasants Walking

August Dahlsteen, 1710-69

Engraving of a seated man turning to a ragged family beside a colonnade, with well-dressed onlookers at left and a garden bey

Clothing Beggars, from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Abraham Bosse, possibly 1635

Etching of a lavish banquet with seated diners in feathered hats, a standing servant, and a garden view through a window.

The Banquet of the Rich Man, plate 1 from "The Parable of Dives and Lazarus" (La Parabole du mauvais Riche et de Lazare)

Abraham Bosse, mid to late 17th century

Engraving of visitors in period dress gathered by a bed where a sick person lies, with a child and a caption below.

Visiting the Sick

Engraving of well-dressed people in a colonnade giving clothes to a ragged family with children, with a verse caption below.

Clothing Beggars

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraving of a robed woman holding an infant, with a child and a cherub beside her under a tree, Latin text below.

Charity, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Etching of the Flight into Egypt: a standing man, a kneeling woman with a child, a winged figure above a rocky cliff, and a p

Flight Into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1759

Engraving of a well-dressed man giving water to a crowd of poor people beside a fountain, with a building and landscape behin

Giving Drink to the Thirsty

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Watercolor of two women in 1860s crinoline dresses and a child in an orange blouse, set before a green garden backdrop.

Illustration for a French fashion magazine

Hélöise Leloir, ca. 1862

Watercolor of a woman in a burgundy dress with fashionably dressed children holding rackets and a hoop beside a stone pedesta

Fashion illustration, no. 2224

Jules David, July 1885

Engraving of the Holy Family with a kneeling Saint John the Baptist at right, set beside a palm tree and rocky landscape.

Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist who kneels at the right

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of a family dining at a table with a man raising a glass, a dog, a canopied bed and a window, with French verses be

Virility

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraved title page with a draped curtain, putti, a bearded mask, a fruit garland and a border of theatrical masks.

Title Page: Comedies of Terence (Publii Terentii Comœdiae)

Abraham Bosse, 1642

Pencil and chalk drawing of a nude woman seated by a fountain with attendants and a reclining cherub in a garden.

Bathsheba at the Bath

Antoine Pesne, 1750

Watercolor village street with a church spire, thatched cottages, market vendors, children, a dog and chickens.

May

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Watercolor of haymakers on a river with a haystack raft, windmill, sailing boats and a distant church tower.

The Twelve Months

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Watercolor of a young woman with a croquet mallet on a lawn, with a turquoise door and flowers in a garden behind her.

Girl Playing Croquet

William Stephen Coleman, 1904-35

Woodcut of a seated bearded man writing beside an eagle, while a crowned woman with a child appears in rays of light above.

The Virgin Appearing to Saint John, frontispiece to "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Woodcut of crowned rulers in ornate robes gathered under a decorated vaulted ceiling, with heraldic shields below.

The Congress of Princes at Vienna

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Christ while seated on a crescent moon, surrounded by radiating lines and sta

The Madonna on the Crescent, Frontispiece to "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1511

Woodcut of the Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint Joachim gathered beneath a large tree, with the Christ child at center.

The Holy Family with Saint Joachim and Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Lithograph of two men in a studio viewing a painting while an artist works at an easel with a portrait.

Votre tableau me plairait aussi...., from Les Bons Bourgeois, published in Le Charivari, October 12, 1846

Honoré Daumier, October 12, 1846

Woodcut of Christ bound to a column, surrounded by tormentors, with a crown of thorns on the floor at lower right.

The Scourging of Christ

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of the Virgin and Christ child surrounded by angels, one holding a crown above, with cherubs below.

The Virgin Surrounded by Many Angels

Albrecht Dürer, 1518

Engraving of a 17th-century interior with women gathered by a fireplace, a woman holding an infant, and a canopied bed.

Visit of the Nursemaid

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraving of a fireplace room with women conversing, a kneeling servant, a small dog, and a canopy bed beyond.

Visit of the Nursemaid, plate 6 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraving of a notary scene with seated figures at a table, a writing clerk, children, and a garden view through a latticed w

The Marriage Contract, plate 1 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Small woodcut of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, surrounded by angels beneath a grapevine arch.

The Virgin and the Child

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Etching of a woman in a canopied bed receiving visiting women in a tiled room with a fireplace and a small dog.

Visit to the New Mother, plate 5 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraving of a man raising his arm over a kneeling woman in a room, with two children and a dog nearby.

The Wife-Beater

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1633