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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,937 works

Small 1520 engraving of an angel with halo appearing to a kneeling figure beside tall trees and rocky hills.

Joachim Receiving the Promise of the Birth of the Virgin

Sebald Beham, 1520

Daumier lithograph of a horse entering a doorway as a man in a checked robe and nightcap looks on, with city rooftops beyond.

Plaisanterie que se permettent maintenant les chevaux, dans le quatier des Champs-Élysées, No. 523 from series Actual…

Honoré Daumier, March 22, 1858

Etching of a woman in a ruffled dress and fur hat holding an umbrella in a doorway, framed by curtains and a column.

Portrait of Miss L...,or A Door Must Be Either Open or Closed

James Tissot, 1876

Hand-colored print of a skeleton pouring wine for an old man beside a young woman on a sofa, with a soldier at the window.

The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)

Thomas Rowlandson, August 1, 1814

Stylized print of a large-headed figure playing violin, framed by a geometric black border with German title text.

Vaudeville Act 6: Zoltan Toeroek, Child Prodigy (Varieténummer 6: Zoltan Toeroek, Das Wünderkind)

Moriz Jung, 1907

Stylized print of several nude figures in poses within a checkerboard border, with title text at top and bottom.

Vaudeville Act 4: Bumbery Blads & Cie, Plastic Poses (Varieténummer 4: Bumbery Blads & Cie, Plastiche Posen)

Moriz Jung, 1907

Watercolor of a reclining river-god statue by a pool with figures, swans, trees and a garden trellis.

A Park with Figures at a Statue near Water

Salomon Gessner, 1775 (?)

Engraving of a chaotic battle with war elephants, armored cavalry, archers in towers, and fallen soldiers in the foreground.

The Battle Between Scipio and Hannibal at Zama

Cornelis Cort, 1550-78

Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds: figures crowd around the Christ Child in a stable while angels appear overhead.

The adoration of the shepherds, various figures at night surround the Christ Child

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-60

Engraving of the Holy Kinship with the Christ Child receiving a bird from the infant John the Baptist among robed figures.

The Holy Kinship, in thecentre the Christ Child takes a bird given to him by the infant John the Baptist

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1560

Engraving of the Holy Family with infant John the Baptist before a ruined brick arch, with Saint Joseph at upper right.

The Holy Family and the infant John the Baptist

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of the dead Christ lying on a draped table while the Virgin sits behind him before rocky cliffs.

Pietà, Christ stretched out on a table in a landscape, the Virgin standing behind arms open

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of a plumed, fashionably dressed man holding a sword, with a castle and hills in the background.

A Frenchman, Sword in Hand

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of a seated painter in period dress working on a canvas of a cupid, with a palette and brushes beside him.

Painter at an Easel

Michel Lasne, 1620-67

Engraving of a uniformed naval officer firing a pistol at a sailor during battle, with rigging, fallen men and a barrel on de

Lewis Cass (The Gallery of Illustrious Americans)

Francis d' Avignon, 1850

Ink and wash drawing of two architectural brackets, one with a spiral scroll and one with a carved tapering console.

Two Views of a Bracket

Richard de Lalonde, ca. 1780

Ink and wash drawing of two architectural ornament designs: a scroll with beaded moulding and a panel of wavy forms.

Two Designs for Ornament

Richard de Lalonde, ca. 1770

Brown ink and wash design for a ceiling with a central flying winged couple and surrounding ornamental panels.

Design for a Ceiling

Felice Giani, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a neoclassical salon wall with urns, candelabra, a bust and a console table.

Wall Elevation for a Salon

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, ca. 1780

Head of a Man

Pietro Antonio Novelli, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a rococo cartouche frame with scrollwork, foliage, and a grotesque mask at the base.

Design for a frame

Jean Charles Delafosse, ca. 1750

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ beside a cross, with a walled city and hills behind them.

Pietà

Hieronymus Wierix

Engraving of the Virgin on a crescent moon with a starry crown, holding the infant Christ within a radiating halo.

Virgin on a Crescent with a Starry Crown

Albrecht Dürer, 1508

Engraving of a seated woman holding a tablet and pen beside classical columns, with trees in the background.

Seated Woman Holding a Tablet

Jean Antoine de Maroulles, late 17th, mid 18th century

Engraving of a confectioner's shop with bakers, a brick oven, pastries on a counter, and women with a child at right.

The Confectioner

Abraham Bosse, 1632-35

Etching of a 17th-century interior with a clerk at a desk, visitors in period dress, and a servant with a basket of apples.

Employment Bureau

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Hand-colored lithograph of street dancers and onlookers in top hats beside a barrel, with a man holding eels on a city street

Dancing for Eels

James Brown, 1848

Engraving of an old man embracing a young man under a vine pergola, with a winged angel and dog nearby, 1829.

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

Ferdinand Anton Krüger, 1829

Engraved oval portrait of a bewigged man in ceremonial robe and chain collar, with an inscription cartouche below.

Portrait of François I

Johann Christoph von Reinsperger, 1744

Engraving of a plumed drummer in period dress holding a large drum, with a coastline and ships behind him.

The Drummer

Michel Lasne, 1620-1667