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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,269 works

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a bald head and curly hair, wearing a buttoned collared garment, shown in bust view.

Bust of an Elderly Man

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

Etching with a tall tree and a small figure on the left, and a dark study of a man's head in a cap on the right.

Sheet with Two Studies: A Tree and the Upper Part of a Head of Rembrandt Wearing a Velvet Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1642

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a striped turban holding a falcon, with Latin and Persian inscriptions below.

Mechti Kuli Beg, Persian Ambassador to Prague

Aegidius Sadeler, 1605

Engraved scene of a curly-haired boy sketching in a book beside a large classical bust on a pedestal.

Boy Drawing a Bust of the Roman Emperor Vitellius

Wallerant Vaillant, ca. 1665-75

Head of a Man Wearing a Turban

Thomas Frye (, 1760

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a feathered cap and slashed fur-trimmed garment holding a sword, against a hatched sky.

Portrait of Kunz von der Rosen

Daniel Hopfer, ca. 1515/1518

Engraved portrait of a woman with curled hair and a large white collar, inside an arched frame with Latin inscription below.

Amelia Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse

Ludwig von Siegen, 17th century

Engraved half-length portrait of a woman with curled hair, pearls, and a fur-trimmed satin gown beside a draped curtain.

Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650

Etched portrait of a bearded older man in a skullcap and dark robe seated beside a column, with Latin text below.

Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, physician

Jan Lievens, 17th century

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a divided fur cap and fur-trimmed coat, hand resting on his chest.

Old Man with Divided Fur Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraved frontispiece showing two seated men, a bust on a pedestal, a winged angel with a laurel wreath, and scientific instr

Frontispiece from Thomas Sprat's "The History of the Royal Society of London"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1667

Etching of a bearded seated man in a dark coat holding a top hat on his knee, turned toward the left.

Édouard Manet, Seated, Turned to the Left

Edgar Degas, ca. 1868

Brown wash drawing of clergy in vestments carrying a reliquary bust through a vaulted church interior with kneeling figures.

Scene 36: Reception of the heart and head of the Blessed Father Dom Jean de la Barrière, brought from Rome to his Abb…

Matthieu Elias, 1706-07

Engraved oval portrait of Henrietta Maria with curled hair, pearl necklace and lace collar, inscribed below.

Henrietta Maria

Wenceslaus Hollar, after 1641

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat inside an ornate cartouche with painter's palettes and brushes.

Peter Paul Rubens (Petrus Paulus Rubenius)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark cap and white collar, holding a book, with Latin inscription.

Gulielmus Oughtred Anglus (frontispiece from Oughtred's "The Key of the Mathematicks New Forged and Filed," 1647)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Engraved portrait of a young boy with a lace collar, gloved hand on a cane, sword at hip, curtain behind.

Charles II

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649

Etched roundel portrait of a woman in a large pleated lace ruff and dark gown, by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644.

Woman with circular lace ruff, from "Women's Heads Framed in Roundels"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Head of a bald man in profile to left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Bust of a woman looking downwards towards left with elaborately decorated hair

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1648

Engraved half-length portrait of a veiled woman with a halo, holding a palm frond and a book.

St. Catherine of Alexandria

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Etching of a classical-style bust of a woman with curled hair and a gathered draped garment, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Antique bust of a woman

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Bust of a deformed old woman with one tooth, facing left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Title page to Diversae Probae

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Head of Young Man

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Bearded old man with a tilted head

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Bust of a deformed woman with curly hair in profile to the left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Etching of a bald man with a downward gaze and faint smile, shown from head to shoulders, with dense hatched shading.

Head of a bald, sinewy man looking downwards

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1648

Head of a man with protruding chin and snub nose looking upwards in profile to left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Bust of a deformed man with a hat and a fat, protruding lower lip in profile to left

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665