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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,661 works

Engraved print of a woman in a long gown on a cliff edge, with a raven on a branch, a fir tree and distant mountains.

Woman with a Raven at a Precipice

Christian Friedrich, 1803

Etching of a bearded orator gesturing to a crowd of listeners beside a classical column and arched colonnade.

St. Paul Preaching in Athens

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1548-53

Head of Christ

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1550 (?)

Etching of a woman bathing in a stream under willows, with three ducks in the grass in the foreground.

Canards surpris

Félix Bracquemond, 1882

Album page with three prints: a bearded man in an oval frame, a interior scene, and a Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine.

Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-47 (?)

Album page with four religious prints of the Madonna and Child with saints and angels, in etching and engraving.

Madonna with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-46

Etching of a man's distressed face rising from dark stormy sea under a heavy cloudy sky.

Going Under (from the series A Life)

Max Klinger, 1884, 4th edition 1898

Album page with four prints of Madonna and Child scenes with saints, one showing a bishop beneath a vine pergola.

Madonna with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1548-52

Album page with four religious etchings of the Holy Family, one with saints and angels, rendered in hatched grey and yellow t

The Holy Family with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1550-55 (?)

Etching of a Holy Family with saints, a standing woman, a kneeling man, and a child beside a classical column.

Holy Family with Saints

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1549-53

Engraved print of allegorical scenes in rows showing figures, animals, a ladder and a ship, with verse captions.

Proverbi (Proverbs)

Nicolò Nelli, 1564

Pencil sketch of acrobatic theatre performers in costume, with a masked figure, a woman in a ruffled dress, and a plumed figu

Théâtre Italien (Gioacchino Rossini, 1792-1868)

Eugène Delacroix, 1821

Lithograph of an acrobat balancing three costumed figures on his raised hands above a wooden stage floor.

Théâtre Italien, from "Le Miroir"

Eugène Delacroix, August 13, 1821

Woodcut print of robed men carrying ornate banners in a procession, with spectators watching from arcaded balconies above.

Procession of the Doge in Venice

Matteo Pagano, 1556-61

Etching of satyrs and bacchantes celebrating Bacchus around a garlanded herm statue in a rocky wooded grotto.

The Fête of Bacchus

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Engraving of the Circumcision by Hendrick Goltzius: a priest holds an infant before onlookers in a Gothic church interior.

The Circumcision, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Hendrick Goltzius, n.d.

Woodcut of a crowned figure leaning over a sleeping nude man among animals, under clouds with sun and moon faces.

Creation of Eve, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of Adam reaching for fruit as Eve holds an apple beneath a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals.

Fall (or Temptation of Adam), from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of an angel with a sword driving a naked man and woman away as a skeleton reaches toward them.

Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a skeleton guiding a straining man at a plough, with a nursing woman and bare trees beside them.

Adam Ploughing, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of skeletons playing trumpets and kettledrums among arches and scattered bones, from The Dance of Death.

Skeletons Making Music (or the Cemetery), from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a seated pope in a crown with skeletal Death figures and a kneeling man, with a devil above.

The Pope, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a skeleton standing behind a crowned emperor on a throne, with a kneeling figure and an hourglass below.

The Emperor, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a cardinal in a wide hat walking beside a skeletal Death figure, framed by grapevines.

The Cardinal, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a crowned empress in a patterned gown taken by a skeleton Death figure, with onlookers and a Gothic town behind.

The Empress, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a crowned queen dancing with a skeleton holding an hourglass, watched by startled courtiers under an arcade.

The Queen, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a skeleton leading a bishop with a crozier past sheep, with mountains and a sun behind them.

The Bishop, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a duke in fur-trimmed robes confronted by a skeleton Death reaching for his arm, with courtiers and a kneeling chi

The Duke, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a skeleton leading a terrified abbess holding a rosary past a Gothic arch, with an hourglass on the ground.

The Abbess, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a bearded nobleman grappling with a skeleton wielding a raised sword, with an hourglass at left.

The Nobleman, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538