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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,335 works

Hand-colored woodcut of a haloed woman in a red cloak before a city wall, with a kneeling figure and a tree beside her.

St. Elizabeth (adaptation)

Hans Baldung Grien, after 1512

Engraving with two oval scenes: a midwife presenting an infant to a man in a hat, and a violinist with dancing putti below.

Allegories in Honor of the Birth of the Dauphin

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Pen and ink print of a clergyman in a white wig christening an infant at a font, surrounded by onlookers.

Orator Henley Christening a Child

Jane Ireland, 1794

The Half-Starved Boy

F. Sykes, 1738-39

Hand-colored woodcut of a haloed figure gesturing beside a green-robed elder on a cloud, framed by foliage and birds.

Illustration from Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkranz Mariae

Hans Baldung Grien

Etching of a roadside procession with a horse-drawn cart, a whip-cracking rider, and walking men, women and children.

Procession of Roma men, women, and children with horse-drawn cart

Jacques Callot, early 17th century

Engraving of Aurora on a chariot with cherubs, riders, personifications and many animals in a pastoral procession.

Childhood (Dawn), from "The Four Ages of Man and Death with the Last Judgment"

Hieronymus Wierix, Before 1619

Etching of a travelling procession: veiled women with children, plumed riders on horseback, and a pedestrian with a long pole

Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot [historically known as Les Bohémiens en Marche, pièce aussi ap…

Jacques Callot, early 17th century

Etching of a travelling procession with veiled women and children on horseback, armed men on foot, and a verse inscription ab

Procession of Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot

Jacques Callot, early 17th century

Etching of travelers on horseback and on foot, including a woman in a plumed hat, with a French verse caption above.

Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot [historically known as Les Bohémiens en Marche, pièce aussi ap…

Jacques Callot, 1621-22

Etching of a seated woman in a palace with attendants, a woman holding a small child and an older man at right, with a river

Moses Brought to Pharoah's Daughter

Dent, ca. 1800

Etching of a city street with an angry musician at a window above a crowd of street musicians and a drumming child.

The Enraged Musician

Dent, ca. 1800

Etching of a travelling procession of Roma men, women and children on horseback and on foot, with plumed hats and staffs.

Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot [historically known as Les Bohémiens en Marche, pièce aussi ap…

Jacques Callot, 1621-22

Pencil drawing of figures in an arched Italian city setting, with a woman gesturing near a basin and a child and dog in front

Scene in an Italian City with Figures Near a Fountain

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Grey wash sketch of a baby in a bonnet with a rooster and dog, centered on an album page.

A Baby in 16th century Dress with a Rooster and a Dog

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Grey wash drawing of two children kneeling by a bed with a pale sheet in a dim room, one looking up.

A Deathbed Scene

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of a group of naked children in loose scribbled background lines, on a sketchbook page.

A Group of Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Sketches of Figures

Lord Leighton Frederic, 1840-60

Graphite sketchbook page with three studies of young children in varied poses, including a reaching child and a seated child.

Three Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of three seated children on a sketchbook page, one wearing a round cap, with a handwritten Bruxelles note.

A Group of Seated Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of two seated children, one lifting a large jar and one holding out a bowl.

Two Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Portrait of Giovanni Ricasoli, aged 5

Luigi Sabatelli, 1808

Red chalk drawing of a seated sibyl reading a book with putti, plus a lunette study of reclining figures.

The Cumaean Sibyl (after Michelangelo)

Jean-Robert Ango, 1767

Lithograph with an oval portrait of a man above a grid of sixteen small figure scenes with French captions.

Augustin-Eugène Scribe with Characters

Victor Adam, 19th century

Lithograph of a family visit in a hearth-side room: a man stands, two women sit with an infant, and a child plays with a toy.

Visite Chez la Nourrice (Visit to the Wetnurse), from "L'Artiste"

Victor Adam, 19th century

Engraving of robed figures gathered around a wooden cabinet, with palms, a parrot, a flowering branch and chickens.

Vision

Chez Huquier, 18th century

Etching of a ragged mother holding an infant, with a child on her back and another child standing in a hat beside her.

La Mère et ses Trois Enfans (The Mother and her Three Children), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, L…

Jacques Callot, ca. 1623

Green-toned print of soldiers seizing infants while mothers flee among classical arches and ruins, with a city skyline behind

Massacre of the Innocents

Master ND, ca. 1544

Chromolithograph card of a catfish in water, with two children fishing from a wooden dock above.

Catfish, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1889

Card showing a tomcod fish below and two boys fishing from a wooden pier above, in muted green and brown tones.

Tomcod, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1889