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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,272 works

Ritratti di alcuni Ostrogotti

Joseph François Foulquier, 1768

Etching of a man in a powdered wig and lace cuffs, resting his head on his hand while reading a large sheet at a table.

Portrait of a Man Reading

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Chalk drawing of a bearded man's head turned upward to the right, with white highlights on grey paper.

Head of a Bearded Man, Looking up to the Right

Bartolomeo Schedoni, ca. 1595-1615

Mezzotint portrait of a seated woman with a braid, pointing outward, set before a shaded landscape with trees and a bird.

Isabella, Duchess of Grafton

John Smith, 1692

Engraving of a bearded man in a fur-trimmed robe seated among classical statues, with coins and a box on a table.

Andrea Odoni

Cornelis Visscher, 1649-58

Graphite drawing of a bearded man's head and shoulders, gazing directly forward, on grey-toned paper.

Head of a Bearded Man

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, ca. 1820-25

Etching of a seated man in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe holding a staff, with a classical building behind him.

Chef des Eunuques (head of the Eunuchs), from the series "Caravane du Sultan à la Mecque..." (Caravan of a Sultan Goi…

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1748

Hand-colored 1888 fashion plate showing five women wearing elaborate hats with ribbons, bows, and lace.

Ladies' Hats, No. 4671, from "Journal des Demoiselles"

Paul Deferneville, April 1, 1888

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Le Blanc

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1750

Portrait of Madame de Pompadour (Madame Le Normant d'Estiolles)

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1764

Engraving of a seated woman with a book, attended by a winged trumpeter with a wreath and playful putti before a classical te

Portrait of Madame de Pompadour

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, ca. 1745

Portrait of David Garrick

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1764

Le Marquis de Marigny

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1752

Le Marque Scipion Maffei

Le Seur, Professeur de Mathématiques á la Sapience, a Rome

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1750

Engraved portrait of a man in a tall hat beside a cannon, with a burning tower and fireworks in the background.

Fire, from "The Four Elements" (Les Quatre Eléments)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1630

Engraving of a woman in lace-trimmed dress holding out her hand to a bird, with birds flying and hunters in a landscape behin

Air, from "The Four Elements" (Les Quatre Eléments)

Abraham Bosse, 1630

Engraved portrait of Jacques Callot in an oval medallion, framed by cherubs, a skull, and a French inscription panel.

Portrait of Jacques Callot

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Chalk drawing of a helmeted bust of Minerva in a dark niche above a pedestal with a winged relief.

Bust of Minerva

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1798

Engraving of a smiling pikeman with a plumed hat carrying a long pike, with a town and towers behind him.

A Pikeman

Abraham Bosse, 1632

Engraving of a curly-haired man in elaborate dress playing a lute beside a stone column, with French verse below.

Man Singing and Playing a Lute

Abraham Bosse, mid to late 17th century

Engraving of a man in a lace collar and tasselled garters beside embroidered clothes, a trunk, and leaded windows, with Frenc

A Valet Putting Away the Luxious Clothes of His Master

Abraham Bosse, mid to late 17th century

Woodcut of a crowned seated woman, Philosophy, surrounded by medallion portraits, wind heads, foliage and Latin inscriptions.

Philosophy

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut portrait of a man in a fur-trimmed robe and feathered hat, with heraldic shields and an eagle above.

Copy of Portrait of Charles V

Hans Weiditz the Younger, n.d.

Engraved portrait of a man in a feathered hat raising a wine glass, with an easel behind him and verse text below.

Allegory of Taste (Portrait of the Painter Jan Davidsz. de Heem, after a self-portrait)

Lucas Vorsterman, 1630 -50

Etching of a young man with curly hair and a loose collar, gazing upward, with fine hatched shading.

Self-Portrait as a Young Man

Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1733

Woodcut of an artist at an easel drawing a seated man in a curtained room with a bed and candle.

Artist Drawing a Portrait of a Man

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of Mercury helping a man out of a pile of nude bodies, with a tree and woman's torso at left.

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand…

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, ca. 1490-1525

Engraved portrait of a seated woman with curled hair, fur-trimmed embroidered gown and lace cuffs, before a draped curtain.

Portrait of Isabella d'Este

Lucas Vorsterman, 1620-30

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in plate armor holding a sword, with a plumed helmet on a ledge behind him.

Portrait of Emperor Charles V

Lucas Vorsterman, ca. 1620-30