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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Engraving of three winged putti reclining on clouds, one holding a grapevine and another wearing a grape garland.

Three Children in Clouds

Monogrammist DA, 18th century

Etching of cherubs fishing with a net and rods on a riverbank, with trees and a cloudy sky behind them.

Children Fishing

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, ca. 1738

Engraving of nude putti playing on a seesaw branch in a rocky landscape with pine trees and clouds.

The Seesaw

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, ca. 1738

Etching of two sleeping children with sheep and a goat in a rocky landscape with plants and grapes.

Two Sleeping Children With Three Sheep

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 18th century

Etching of a standing woman in a ruffled gown holding a basket and bouquets of flowers, with a rustic building behind her.

Flower Girl

François Boucher, 18th century

Etching of a figures gathered at a breakfast table in an ornate room with a large mirror and a child playing with a doll.

Breakfast, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"

Émile Boilvin, 1897

Red-chalk style print of a young girl with tousled hair looking up while holding a striped cat on her lap.

A Young Girl holding a Cat

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1769

Engraving of two women reading a letter by a fountain in a wooded garden, with a goat and a peeking child.

The Secret

Jacques Bonnefoy d'Arles, ca. 1804-31

Etching of a round tower and ruins beside a river, with a woman and child, a fisher, and a wooden bridge.

Second View of Charenton near Paris

Peter Paul Benazech, mid to late 18th century

Etching of a standing flute player and a seated child drummer in a chinoiserie garden with a pagoda and palm plant.

Flautist and a Child Timpanist

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Etching of a chinoiserie garden with a woman and child, a child ringing hanging bells, a pagoda, pine tree and ducks.

Bells

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Etching of a woman standing in a boat with a child and a cormorant, beside a thatched pavilion and palm trees on a river bank

Cormorant Fishing

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Engraving of putti gathered by a fire near a thatched hut in winter, one carrying a bundle of branches, under a cloudy sky.

Winter

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 1735-86

Engraving of a reclining woman feeding a goat while two putti hold grape bunches beneath a tree.

Autumn

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 1735-86

Engraving of three putti playing with flowers and leaves beside a sculpted urn, with clouds and foliage behind them.

Spring

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 1735-86

Engraving of a boy in a pastoral setting tenderly holding a lamb beside a tree, with a straw hat and crate nearby.

The Shepherd

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Engraving of a young girl feeding chickens and a rooster in a farmyard beside a thatched barn and dovecote.

The Little Farm Girl

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Engraving of a boy playing a pipe under a tree while a dog stands on hind legs beside sheep in a landscape.

The Little Shepherd

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Engraving of a reclining child poet writing beside a lyre and swans on a pond, under a draped tree, with French verse below.

The Poet

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Sepia-toned print of three winged putti playing among billowing drapery, drawn in soft crosshatched chalk-like shading.

Three Children On Dolphin

Gilles Demarteau, 1755-76

Engraved schoolroom scene with a seated schoolmistress teaching children near a window, with books and a dog on the floor.

The Little Schoolmistress

A. J. Defehrt, mid to late 18th century

Stippled print of a young boy's head with tousled light hair and a serious expression, framed by a dotted dark halo.

Head of a Young Boy

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, n.d.

Engraving of two children sharing a bowl of milk under a tree, with a dog jumping up and a sheep nearby.

Drinking Milk

Jean Daullé, 18th century

Engraving of three children fishing with a net and rod in a pool among reeds and flowers under a cloudy sky.

Water

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Engraving of three putti gardening beside a well, with a hoe, wheelbarrow, watering can, trees and French verse below.

Earth

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Engraving of a boy in a headscarf fishing from a pond bank beside a thatched shelter, reeds and flowering shrubs.

Fisherman

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Engraving of a startled boy seated in a cluttered workshop beside a furnace, with glass flasks, a mortar and an arched window

Glass Blower

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Engraving of three cherubs with a bird cage and a net beside a broken tree, birds flying over a ruined tower in the distance.

Air

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, 18th century

Etching of four boys playing outdoors in a landscape, one flying a kite, with birds in the sky and sheep behind.

Leapfrog

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Red chalk print of a young man with curled hair blowing a soap bubble through a clay pipe over a bowl.

The Soap Bubble

Gilles Demarteau, 1756-76