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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,826 works

Album page with several etchings: a reclining figure, two embracing figures, and a crowd gathered around an embrace in a door

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Georges Reverdy

Engraving of the Annunciation: a winged angel flies at upper left toward a kneeling woman beside a draped curtain and carved

The Annunciation with Flying Angel

Enea Vico, 1548

Engraving of Mars and Venus reclining on a bed with Cupid, plus a mirrored reverse copy beside it.

Mars and Venus

Enea Vico, [1543]

Engraving of a nude woman seated on a couch holding a dagger, with a curtain and a town view through a window behind her.

Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself

Enea Vico, ca. 1542-43

Grey wash drawing of a rocky hillside with trees, a stone path, arched ruins, and a building on the ridge.

Italianate Buildings on a Hill at Tivoli

Adriaen Honich, 17th century

Engraving of a bearded man with a dagger leaning over a nude woman on a draped bed, with a servant behind curtains.

Tarquin and Lucretia

Cornelis Cort, 1571

Engraving of Christ gesturing to kneeling apostles in a boat on a lake, framed by a decorative vine border.

The Calling of the Apostles St. James and St. John

Friedrich August Pflugfelder, 1839

Engraving with two scenes: a nude woman at her toilette with a child, and a muscular smith hammering at a forge.

Venus at her Toilette

Enea Vico, 1546

Engraving of a muscular bearded smith hammering at an anvil beside a glowing forge, with a bow and arrows on the floor.

Venus and Mars Embracing as Vulcan Works at His Forge (right half only)

Enea Vico, 1543

Engraving of a draped woman extending her arm toward a flying bird under clouds, on a rocky landscape.

Proserpine Changing Aesculapius into an Owl

Enea Vico, 1548

Two impressions of an engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds with a star, the Christ child, shepherds and a lamb.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Pietro Aretino

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Engraved print of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a kneeling figure, a seated judge, and classical columns and steps.

The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1527

Engraving of a bearded seated man with a staff, open book, geometric solid and a bird in a landscape.

Diogenes

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1527

Engraving sheet with three prints: a seated woman, a Madonna and child, and a satyr watching a mother nursing on a bed.

Satyr Watching a Young Mother and Child Sleeping

Angiolo Falconetto

Engraved still life of a wicker basket overflowing with peonies, tulips and honeysuckle on a stone ledge.

Basket of Flowers from the Book of Several Baskets of Flowers, Designed and Engraved by Baptiste Monnoyer (Livre de P…

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, 17th century

Etching of Othello's final scene: a kneeling man with a sword beside a dead woman on a bed, with cloaked men holding torches

"O Spartan dog": plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Pen and grey wash drawing of a female Fortune figure between two river gods, with sea creatures and reeds in a landscape.

An Allegory of Fortune with Two River Gods

Hans Jakob Ebelmann, 1624

Circular ink and wash drawing of a prophet amid skeletons and nude figures beneath clouds and a divine figure.

Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones

Georg Pecham, late 16th-mid-17th century

Pencil drawing of an officer in a tricorn hat and his wife leaning on a stone balustrade, study by Arthur Devis.

Study for a Portrait of an Officer and His Wife

Arthur Devis, ca. 1756-58

Pen and brown ink drawing of a large old tree with dense foliage, a seated figure at lower left and distant walkers at right.

Study of an Old Tree

Gillis Neyts, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a river with sailboats, a walking couple on a bank, and a cloudy sky with birds.

River Landscape

Jan Porcellis, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of sailing boats on choppy sea, two figures on shore by wooden posts, ships on horizon.

Choppy Sea with Boats near the Coast

Pieter van Everdingen, n.d.

Watercolor of a pink poppy in several flowering stages with a caterpillar, pupa and moth on the stems and leaves.

A Poppy in Three Stages of Flowering, with a Caterpillar, Pupa and Butterfly

Johanna Helena Herolt, late 17th-early 18th century

Watercolor of a black curassow with a curled crest and yellow beak standing on a grassy mound.

A Black Curassow

Johannes Bronckhorst, late 17th-early 18th century

Watercolor of several black, blue and yellow birds perched on a gnarled branch, with a small river scene below.

Six South American Birds

Abraham Meertens, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of an arcadian landscape with a gnarled tree, robed figures on a path, and a distant town.

Arcadian Landscape with Figures

Johannes de Bosch, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a winter road framed by bare trees, with two figures and a distant windmill under an overcast sky.

A Winter Landscape

Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers, 1854

Lithograph titled Pantheon Nadar showing hundreds of caricatured male figures arranged in tiers on a slope.

Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar)

Nadar, 1854

Oval graphite and chalk drawing on blue paper of a young man with curled powdered hair and a buttoned coat.

Oval, bust-length portrait study of a young man

Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740-60