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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,828 works

Young man with a trumpet facing left, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Etching of a bearded old man in a fur-trimmed turban, with small sketches of an animal head and hand below.

Head of an old bearded man with a turban, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Young man wearing a plumed turban, facing right, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Head of an old bearded man facing right, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Head of a bearded man with a turban facing right, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Head of an old man looking down, facing left, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Young man facing three quaters right wearing a fur headdress with a plume, jewel and a headband, from "Small Heads in…

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a fur cap with curly hair, looking toward the viewer against a pale background.

Head of a man wearing a feathered cap (possibly Bernini, possibly a self portrait), from "Large Oriental Heads"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Etching of a man's head in shadow wearing a fur hat with a feather, turned slightly left, with a wrapped cloth at the shoulde

Head of a man in shadow turned slightly to the left, from "Large Oriental Heads"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Etching of four men among classical ruins and tombs, with an inscribed tablet reading Temporalis Aeternitas and a winged figu

'Temporalis Aeternitas', four scholars amongst ruins

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645

Etching of a woman and boy approaching a stone pedestal among classical ruins, with a kneeling figure and a carved urn behind

Theseus finding his father's arms

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645 (published 1648)

Etching of shepherds with a cow, dogs and flock of sheep in a wooded landscape with distant hills.

Shepherds with their flock

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1650-55

Head of an old bearded man facing right, from the series of 'Small Heads in Oriental Headdress'

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-1650

Head of an old man looking down, facing left, from "Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Etching of a bearded man in a feathered cap with curly hair, gazing sharply toward the viewer.

Head of a man wearing a feathered cap (possibly Bernini, possibly a self portrait), from the series of 'Large Orienta…

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-1650

Etching of a young herdsman on horseback playing a pipe, followed by sheep, a cow and a dog beneath trees.

Young herdsman on horseback

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1638

Etching of a melancholic seated woman with a skull, surrounded by an armillary sphere, urn, cat, dog and tools.

Melencholia

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-46

Etching of figures gathered by torchlight around two draped bodies on the ground in a dark wooded landscape.

Finding of the bodies of Saints Peter and Paul

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1647-51

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man with long hair resting his hand on his chin, pensive pose, on tinted paper.

Self-Portrait

Gustave Courbet, ca. 1866

Brown ink and wash drawing of two women embracing in a classical courtyard, with onlookers and angels with a child on clouds

The Visitation

Nicolas Mignard, ca. 1649

Grey wash drawing of a saint ascending among clouds and angels, framed by an ornate oval border with allegorical figures.

The Apotheosis of a Saint, Project for a Ceiling

Johann Anwander, 18th century

Engraved bust portrait of a woman with pearl necklace and upswept curled hair, with Latin inscription banner below.

Portrait of Agathe de Châtillon

Engraving of the full moon showing craters and dark plains rendered in fine parallel hatched lines on a dark background.

Full Moon

Claude Mellan, 1635

Engraving of a young man strangling a lion on rocky ground, with a billowing cloak and grazing sheep in the background.

David Strangling the Lion

Claude Mellan, 1631

Engraving of seated Minerva in a plumed helmet holding a spear, with a shield, books, a sphere and instruments beside her.

Minerva

Watercolor of a domed baroque church seen across a park, with strollers in top hats and tree-lined paths in the foreground.

View of St. Charles Church and the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna

Rudolf von Alt, 1831

Engraving of satyrs around a table in a garden, gazing at a cylindrical mirror showing an anamorphic elephant.

Satyrs Admiring the Anamorphosis of an Elephant

Hans Troschel, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of two servants filling urns at a fountain, one bending while water pours from an urn.

Servants Filling Urns

Francisco Vieira de Mattos, 18th century

Engraving of French royal arms with fleurs-de-lis, two putti, and two seated allegorical women holding a book and a laurel br

The Arms of France Accompanied by Personifications of Law and Good Faith

Claude Mellan, 1664

Engraving of winged Fame flying with a trumpet and a shield bearing a crown and the letter L, with a Latin inscription below.

Fame Bearing a Shield with the Initial of Louis XIV (La Renommée volant)