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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Etching of two figures with an umbrella and lantern walking down a dark, rainy stone street at night.

Midnight Revel (Le Réveillon)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, second half 19th century

Etching of an ornate jeweled tiara on a decorated stand, with cherub heads and a distant dome around it.

The Tiara

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1888

Etching of ghostly robed figures drifting through a stormy sky above a distant city, with a crowd and a bird in the foregroun

Spirits of Dead Cities (Les Esprits des Villes Mortes)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1860-98

Etching of Place Pigalle showing an omnibus with passengers, pedestrians, umbrellas and stone steps in a Parisian street scen

Place Pigalle in 1878

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1860-98

Etching of a busy London street with a clock tower, horse carriages and pedestrians, framed by small sketches of ships and a

Westminster Bridge, or Westminster Clock Tower

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1860-98

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 wet Parisian quay with pedestrians, horse carriages, lamp posts, tall buildings and a smoking chimney under a cl

Winter Morning on the Quays

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1860-98

Engraving of five women in a decorated interior with a fireplace, a lute and a sleeping dog, with German verse below.

The Foolish Virgins Conversing

Abraham Aubry, mid to late 17th century

Engraving of Jupiter and Callisto: two embracing women on rocks, a cupid drawing a bow, and cherubs at left.

Jupiter and Callisto

Pierre Milan, 1537-40

Engraved anatomical study of several male legs and feet in different poses, rendered in fine cross-hatched lines.

Five Legs and Three Feet

Luca Ciamberlano, 17th century

Etching of Lot seated drinking with his two daughters in a cave, a city burning in the distance.

Lot and His Daughters

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1748

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

Etched landscape of a country road lined with windswept trees, a fence, and distant houses under an open sky.

Landscape after Dürer

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, n.d.

Engraving of visitors in period dress gathered by a bed where a sick person lies, with a child and a caption below.

Visiting the Sick

Engraving of well-dressed people in a colonnade giving clothes to a ragged family with children, with a verse caption below.

Clothing Beggars

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Etching of a funeral procession of robed clergy and cloaked mourners crossing a cobbled courtyard before a church, with child

Burying the Dead

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraving of a woman welcoming pilgrims in cloaks and a turban at a stone doorway, with a garden and trees behind.

Lodge the Pilgrims

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Engraving of a couple in period dress with a cupid beside a fountain and formal garden, with French verse below.

Youth

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Etched frontispiece with two cherubs holding a garland above classical columns and a tablet reading Theologicarum ac Cardinal

Frontispiece to "The Theological and Cardinal Virtues"

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of an allegorical figure of Faith seated with a cross and open book, a dove above, under classical columns.

Faith, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a woman standing on an anchor in rough sea, gazing up at light breaking through clouds.

Hope

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a robed woman holding an infant, with a child and a cherub beside her under a tree, Latin text below.

Charity, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a woman carrying a broken column over her shoulder, with a landscape and Latin inscription below.

Fortitude, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a standing woman with a mirror beside a tree, with a distant town and cloudy sky behind her.

Prudence, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of the allegorical figure Justice holding a sword and scales, with a city of towers and spires behind her.

Justice, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Etching of a standing woman holding a goblet beside a tree, with a distant town and a Latin inscription below.

Temperance, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

The Arts and Sciences Honoring Their Protector Charles-Theodore, Count Palatine

Joseph Fratrel, 1777

Etching of the Flight into Egypt: a standing man, a kneeling woman with a child, a winged figure above a rocky cliff, and a p

Flight Into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1759

Engraving of Moses receiving the tablets of the law amid clouds, angels blowing trumpets, and putti, dated 1773.

Moses on Sinai (Le tables de Loi judaique)

Simon Julien, 1773

Engraving of a bearded old man kneeling by an open tomb with skeletal remains under a large tree, with a town on a hill.

Jacob, from "Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum"

Jan Sadeler, 1593-94