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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraving of the reclining Silenus with putti beside a wine vat, grapevines and tree trunks behind them.

Silenus reclining before wine vats

Philippe de Soye, ca. 1558

Hand-colored fashion plate of two women in bustle dresses and a girl with a doll beside a draped sofa and curtain.

The Latest Fashions Expressly Designed and Prepared for the Milliner, Dressmaker and Draper and Illustrated Household…

Jules David, 1880-82

Engraving of nude bearded Saturn holding a scythe and an upside-down infant, with a castle town and lion in the background.

Saturn holding an Infant and a Scythe, from "The Seven Planets"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1533

Engraving of Abraham leading Hagar and young Ishmael away from a house, with Ishmael carrying a bow.

Abraham sending away Hagar and Ishmael: Abraham holds forth a vessel as Hagar and Ishmael stride before him, from "Th…

Georg Pencz, ca. 1543

Etching of a young shoeblack seen from behind, wearing a bonnet, long coat and clogs, with a rolled bundle strapped to his ba

Shoeblack

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737

Painting of a large beech tree in a woodland clearing, with a mother and children resting at left and deer grazing at right.

A mother and children resting beneath a large beech tree, deer grazing beyond, possibly in Norbury Park, Surrey

the elder George Barret, 1776

Engraved interior scene of a man holding a swaddled infant, a woman watching, and a man gesturing beside a table with a bowl.

"Tristram Shandy," Volume 4, page 112

the elder Simon Francis Ravenet, January 1761

Engraving of a bewigged man holding a swaddled baby beside a woman, with a turbaned man gesturing at a table in an interior.

Illustration to "Tristram Shandy," Volume 4

William Hogarth, 19th century

Engraving of a garden scene under trees: a man with raised arms at center, a boy holding a torch, and a crowd of figures in 1

A young boy holds a torch under trees in a garden, at center a man raises both arms, surrounded by male and female fi…

Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, ca. 1784

Etching of playful children dancing and one playing a pipe beneath trees in a woodland clearing.

Four Dancing Children (Bacchantes) and Two Making Music

Erasmus Quellinus, 1640-1650

Hand-colored fashion plate of two women and a child in an interior, one wearing a black lace cape over a blue gown.

Number 473 from "La Elegancia"

Hélöise Leloir, 19th century

Hand-colored 1869 fashion plate showing five women and a child in bustled dresses in a garden with parasols.

Le Coquet, No. 22, from "Journal des Modes Spécial pour Couturières"

Laure Noël, July 1, 1869

Hand-colored fashion plate of two women in orange and green gowns with a girl reading in a lavender dress, 1869.

No. 51, from "La Mode Illustrée"

Adèle-Anaïs Toudouze, 1869

Etching of Silenus and a satyr with wreaths beneath trees, one holding a cup, with a child and a wine vessel nearby.

Silenus and Satyr

Nicolaus Chapron, 1634-56

Engraving of a seated woman reading a book while a small child holds a torch, labeled DOCTRINE, with a curtain and inkwell.

Doctrine, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Benoît-Louis Prévost, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a winged child holding a goat medallion beside a bare tree, a donkey and children, labeled Decembre.

Decembre, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Joseph de Longueil, ca. 1765-81

Engraving of a seated feathered woman allegorising America with a bow, a dog, putti and a palm tree, titled L'Amerique.

L'Amerique, from "Almanach iconologique"

Nicolas de Launay, ca. 1765-81

Etching of a seated woman holding a child, a turbaned man, a cow, and an owl on a branch beneath a tree.

The Family of the oriental Peasant, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of two bearded magicians and a child around a skull, with a dog and fire at right.

Two Magicians and a Child, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of a seated mother and two children with a donkey, sheep, a dog, and clay jars in a rural landscape.

A Mother with two Children, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of two putti with grapes and a jug beside a reclining figure, with a hazy landscape behind them.

Bacchanal

Pierre Parrocel, 17th-18th century

Etching of nude children playing outdoors, with a bearded man carrying a child on his shoulders and a draped cloth behind.

Children's Game

Pierre Parrocel, 17th-18th century

Etching of a peasant family eating at a table while a satyr with goat legs sits on a chair beside cabbages.

The Satyr and the Peasant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1764

Engraving of an elderly man praying at a table with his family beside a timber house, with a woman serving bread nearby.

Enoch and his family surrounding a meal table and holding their hands in a gesture of prayer; behind them is the open…

Johann Theodor de Bry, ca. 1580-1623

Engraving of bearded Saturn holding an infant, with a goat, scythe, and distant castle in the landscape.

Saturn, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B., 1525

Etching of the Holy Family with infant John the Baptist and a lamb beside a classical column and stone steps.

The Holy Family with the infant St John the Baptist at right

Bartolomeo Biscaino, 1650-57

Etching of women on a riverbank reaching toward an infant lying in a cloth among reeds.

The finding of Moses who is rescued from the Nile by the maidservants of Pharaoh's daughter

Bartolomeo Biscaino, 1650-57

Engraving of a seated woman nursing an infant beside a child and an older woman under a tree, with a landscape behind.

Charity

Goltzius School

Engraving of nude figures, animals and a cornucopia in an idyllic wooded landscape, The Golden Age after Adriaen Matham, 1620

The Golden Age

Adriaen Matham, 1620

Etching of the Holy Family with infant Saint John holding an apple, set in a landscape with draped figures.

The Holy Family with the infant Saint John holding an apple

Pietro Testa, ca. 1630