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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraving of the Virgin holding the infant Christ while two angels hold a crown above her, with a fence and landscape behind.

Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels

Albrecht Dürer, 1518

Engraving of the Virgin on a crescent moon holding the Christ Child and a scepter, crowned, with radiating light lines.

Virgin on the Crescent with Scepter and Starry Crown

Albrecht Dürer, 1516

Engraving of the Virgin holding a sleeping swaddled infant, with radiant halos and a hatched landscape behind.

The Virgin with the Swaddled Child (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of the Virgin and Child seated on a bench as an angel lowers a crown, with a town in the distance.

Virgin and Child Crowned by an Angel

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Engraving of a seated Virgin nursing an infant Christ, with a radiating halo and tufts of grass, by Albrecht Dürer, 1519.

The Virgin Nursing the Child

Albrecht Dürer, 1519

Engraving of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ beside a shelter, with God and angels in clouds above a distant town.

Virgin and Child

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Engraving of nude Leda beside a swan and a bed with curtains, two infants on the floor, Italian verse below.

Leda and the Swan, from 'The Loves of the Gods'

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraved oval print of the Madonna holding roses while the Christ child reaches for them, with a sleeping infant beside them.

Madonna and Child

Aegidius Sadeler, n.d.

Madonna and Child

Parmigianino, 16th century

Etching of Saint Christopher bearing the Christ Child on his shoulders, holding a staff, with a rocky landscape behind him.

Saint Christopher with the Christ Child on his shoulders

Orazio Borgianni, ca. 1614-16

Etching of an older woman in a fur hat cooking at a hearth, surrounded by children, onlookers and a cat, dated 1635.

The Pancake Woman

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Etching of a bagpiper in a fur-trimmed cloak with a dog, watched by a woman, a child and a man at a doorway.

The Strolling Musicians

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1635

Etching of a man in a plumed hat and fur-trimmed cloak with a woman in a lace cap seated behind him.

Self-Portrait with Saskia

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636

Etching of a boy standing among bearded, turbaned men while a scribe writes in a book, with a dog in the foreground.

Joseph Telling His Dreams (reverse copy)

Rembrandt van Rijn, n.d.

Etching of two women standing together under dark trees, one older with a head covering, the other in a patterned dress.

Ruth and Naomi, or a scene from Cervantes's "La Gitanilla"

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1642

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ child on clouds, with radiating light behind them.

The Virgin and Child in the Clouds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Portrait of a Boy, in Profile

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Watercolor design of an ornate gilt child's cot with red drapery, scrolling frame and crown finial, with a white pillow insid

Design for Fancy Child's Cot

Robert William Hume, 1830-1900

Etching of a seated nude man and a standing figure in an interior, with a woman and baby faintly visible by a hearth.

Nude Man Seated and Another Standing, with a Woman and a Baby Lightly Etched in Background

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1646

Hand-colored Gillray caricature of robed clergy and gentlemen around a table with an infant in a basket, under gilded candela

L'Enfant Trouvé:-a Sample of Roman Charity!-or-the Misfortune of Not Being Born with Marks of "the Talents"

James Gillray, May 19, 1808

Oval sepia print of a young child in a wide-brimmed flowered hat with arms crossed, with handwritten inscription below.

Portrait of a Child [Master Lamb]

James Gillray, 1781

Red-toned print of Saints Peter and John healing a kneeling man among columns, with figures and putti in a colonnaded hall.

Saints Peter and John healing the Sick

Parmigianino, 16th century

Etching of beggars receiving coins at a doorway, with an elderly woman carrying a child and a boy on steps.

Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Engraving of the infant Christ lying on straw, surrounded by cherub heads in clouds above.

The Christ Child on a Bed of Straw

Claude Mellan, 1662

Engraving of the Virgin Mary embracing the infant Christ within an oval frame with radiating light lines behind them.

Virgin and Child

Abraham Blooteling

Etching of an older peasant man with a staff and a child in a fur coat, with a woman at left, on a pale background.

Peasant Family on the Tramp

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652

Etched portrait of a young man in a fur cap and buttoned jacket, with curly hair and a direct gaze.

The Artist's Son, Titus (copy)

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca.1656

Etching of a child seated among bearded, turbaned men in an arched interior, with onlookers and a cane-bearing old man at rig

Christ Seated Disputing with the Doctors

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Woodcut of the Virgin and Child with an older man in fur-trimmed robe praying beside them, with a castle landscape behind.

Frederick the Wise in Prayer before the Virgin and Child

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1490-1553

Engraved magazine page with a woman in black and a child, a parsonage among trees, and columns of printed story text.

The Lady in Black, Meadowbrook Parsonage (from "The Mistress of the Parsonage," in "Harper's Weekly")

Winslow Homer, March 17, 1860