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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Black chalk drawing with white highlights of a seated woman holding an infant, with an attendant holding a torch at left.

Allegorical Figures for a Ceiling Decoration

Michel Corneille the Elder, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a woman with a basket beside a small child in a cap holding a bundle of herbs.

Menghina Coming from the Garden Meets Cacasenno

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1665-1747

Red chalk drawing of a woman holding a horse's bridle while a child points at the horse.

Marcolfa Persuades Cacasenno to Mount a Horse

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1685-1747

Pen and ink sketch of a crowned female allegorical figure seated on a cloud, surrounded by putti and study lines.

Allegorical Figure of Painting

Cesare Dandini, 1596-1656

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a seated Madonna and child, dancing children, nude figures and drapery studies.

Figure Studies: The Holy Family, a Running or Dancing Child, Drapery Studies

Francesco Curia, 1565-1608

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child in an oval with angels and clouds, attributed to Francesco Guardi.

The Virgin and Child Holding Scapulars

Francesco Guardi, 1712-93

Brown ink and wash drawing of Hector embracing Andromache as a nurse holds a frightened infant in a colonnaded hall.

Hector taking leave of Andromache: the Fright of Astyanax

Benjamin West, 1766

Illuminated letter B with a dragon, a knight with a sword, a tree, and figures being anointed in blue, red and gold.

Illuminated Initial "B"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Pen sketch of a small child riding a long-bodied dog above a symmetrical scrolled ornament study.

Sketch of a Child Riding a Dog

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pen and wash drawing of two nude children playing a bowling game with a ball and pins in a landscape.

Two Children Playing with a Ball

Peter Flötner, 1500-1546

Watercolor of a crowded domed hall with dancing guests, potted trees, and a balcony audience beneath a glass ceiling.

Innere Ansicht des Deutschen Volks Winter Gartens. IInterior of the German Winter Garden. 45 Bowery, New York

Fritz Meyer, 1856

Watercolor of two children outdoors, a girl in white with a pink sash standing beside a seated boy in a brown jacket.

Portrait of two children

George Richmond, 1837

Etching of nude children playing with a donkey, one riding on its back while others push and pull around it.

Bacchanale with Children and Donkey

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 19th century

Circular drawing of Christ preaching in an arcaded synagogue, with a crowd and figures bringing forward a woman at right.

Christ Preaching in the Synagogue, with the Pharisees Bringing the Woman Taken in Adultery

Dirck Vellert, 1523 (?)

Etching of a haloed saint surrounded by monks, kneeling figures and angels in clouds, under an arched frame.

The Death of St. Benedict, plate 13 from "Les Eglises Jubilaires" (The Paintings of Rome, The Churches Jubilee)

Jacques Callot, 1607-11

Watercolor of a boy in a blue tunic leaning from a cabinet window, surrounded by pencil-sketched toys on cream paper.

Prince Paul Clemens von Metternich as a Child, Surrounded by Toys

Rudolf Gaupmann, 1841

Etching of a grotesque ornamental head with foliage and scrolls, rendered in fine parallel hatching on cream paper.

Head of a Child on the Bow of a Ship, from "Divers Masques"

François Chauveau, ca. 1635-45

Grey wash drawing of soldiers distributing sacks of grain to crowds of desperate townspeople in a colonnaded city.

Roman Soldiers Defending a City Plagued by Famine

Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1734

Engraving of about fifteen nude children dancing in a line, one playing a trumpet at left, hands linked.

Fifteen Nude Children Dancing

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1535

Woodcut of soldiers on horseback attacking infants and mothers beneath a classical colonnade, with a castle on a distant hill

Massacre of the Innocents

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1511

Hand-colored print of a young woman in a red bodice reading a book in a pink chair, captioned The Girl He Left Behind.

Life in Camp, Part 2: The Girl He Left Behind

Winslow Homer, 1864

Graphite drawing of a woman looking upward beside a turbaned bearded man holding a sleeping child.

A Woman and a Turbaned Man in Despair with a Young Child

François Joseph Navez, 1807-69

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child with saints and angels, and God the Father enthroned among clouds and putti above.

The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, and God the Father in the Sky

Johann Lorenz Haid, mid-18th century

Pen drawing of Roman bandits with women and children resting by a campfire beneath a rocky overhang, one man smoking a pipe.

A Group of Roman Bandits with Their Families and Companions after a Robbery

Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau, 1824

Watercolor of a girl pouring water into a pig trough beside a fence, with a cottage and tree behind her.

Girl Feeding Pigs

Richard Westall, 1800

Charcoal drawing of two seated women in headscarves beside a baby lying in a woven cradle.

Two Seated Italian Women with a Baby in a Cradle

Kristian Zahrtmann, 1889

Hand-colored view of 1851 Great Exhibition hall with a white marble statue, United States display, and visitors in period dre

View in the East Nave; The Greek Slave, by Power [sic], from "Recollections of the Great Exhibition, 1851"

John Absolon, 1851

Ink and wash drawing of a seated king receiving kneeling women and a child under classical arches and columns.

Pyrrhus in the House of Glaucias

Augustin Pajou, ca. 1752-56

Engraving of an old bearded man with a hand on a young boy's head beside a pine tree, birds flying overhead.

Abraham and Isaac, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Simeon Solomon, 1863-81

Engraving of an older woman in a headscarf holding an infant beside a veiled young woman in a dim interior with flowers.

Naomi and the Child Obed, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

Simeon Solomon, 1863-81