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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Etching of a ruined stone arch and broken column among shrubs and cypress trees in a rustic landscape.

Rustic Landscape with Stone Monument

duc de Chartres Louis Philippe Joseph, 18th century

Etching of a stone mason in a hat chiseling a block of stone beside a column, with a garden wall and trees behind.

Stone Mason at Work

duc de Chartres Louis Philippe Joseph, 1762

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

Etching of a young man in a cap reading and writing at a table beside a barred window and shelves with vases.

Young Man Writing and Reading from Large Volume at His Left

Dominique Vivant Denon, n.d.

Etching of two women conversing on a grassy bank by a stream, with a dog and trees in the background.

Two Women in a Landscape

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a grazing cow beside a tree under storm clouds, with a shaft of light over flat fields and a distant spire.

Landscape with Storm

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etched sheet of many sketched heads in wigs and turbans, plus a seated man in a coat at lower right.

Sketches of Voltaire at Age Eighty-One

Dominique Vivant Denon, 1775

Etching of a woman in a headscarf nursing an infant on a stool, with baskets and household objects around them.

Mother and Child

Jacques François Amand, 18th century

Engraving of Adam and Eve beside a tree in a forest paradise, surrounded by horses, lions, deer, dogs, camels and swans.

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1631

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

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve by a tree with a serpent, surrounded by animals including a parrot, cat and bull.

Adam and Eve

Johannes Wierix, 1566

Engraving of God joining nude Adam and Eve beneath a fruit tree, with a crowd and banners in an arched background.

The Marriage of Adam and Eve, from The Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, ca. 1540-55

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

Etching of an allegorical procession with a chariot, a winged trumpeter in the clouds, and classical ruins beneath a zodiac s

The Triumph of Modern Art

Jean Barbault, 18th century

Engraved circular print of a seated man in a fur-trimmed robe playing a bone instrument before a castle and bridge.

The Rich Man Playing Violin on a Jaw Bone

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Engraving of a hooded beggar standing at a closed door, with a second figure at a distant doorway, inscribed with Flemish pro

One Begs in Vain at the Door of the Deaf, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Etching of many crowded head studies showing men in caps and turbans, women in bonnets, and grimacing expressions.

Studies of Heads

Louis Germain, 1773

Engraving of a scolding woman standing before a seated woman, with a rooster and hen and a broom in a round domestic interior

The Scolding Woman and the Cackling Hen

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Circular engraving of a smiling woman in a headscarf surrounded by crowned, helmeted men grasping at her.

La Coaltion

Esprit-Antoine Gibelin, n.d.

Circular engraving of a hooded figure being robbed by a man in a round sphere, with a windmill and carriage behind.

The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Etching of classical urns, vases, a Corinthian column and a caryatid figure arranged together in a landscape setting.

Fragments of Antiquity

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1765

Watercolor study of a large blue dung beetle with a green shell beside a small brown weevil and a striped longhorn beetle.

Studies of a Blue Beetle and Insects

Pieter Holsteyn II, ca. 1650-60

Drawing of a dark stag beetle viewed from above, with antlered jaws and spread legs, inside a thin brown border.

A Stag Beetle

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Etching of a reclining man on a bed attended by physicians and soldiers in a draped tent, with smoke rising from a brazier.

Death of Antiochus After His Fall

Noël Hallé, 1738

Engraving in reddish-brown ink of a battle scene with an overturned chariot, fallen soldiers, rearing horses and a banner.

Fall of Antiochus From His Chariot

Noël Hallé, 18th century

Etching of a woman and three children reaching toward a fire under a wooden shelter with exposed rafters.

Family Warming Their Hands By a Fire

Noël Hallé, 18th century

Pen sketch sheet with a man aiming a rifle, studies of faces and animal heads, and rococo ornament panels.

Sheet of sketches

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Etching of a boy seated on a column sketching among classical ruins, with statues and a stone wall behind him.

Boy Sketching Ruins

Charles Hutin, 18th century

Etching of reclining women with a lyre, a flute-playing putto, and cherubs among clouds in an allegorical scene.

The Harmony of Nature

Pierre Lélu, 1762

Etching of a girl offering a drink to a small boy in a barn beside cows, sheep and a dog, with a pail hanging overhead.

Le Bonne Petite Soeur

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1765-71