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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,828 works

Engraved title page with two draped allegorical women, winged putti, a papal tiara and coat of arms, and a Latin title on a p

Title Page: Philomathi Musae Juveniles

Claude Mellan, 1655

Engraving of a kneeling monk gazing up at the Virgin and Child seated on clouds, with cherubs around them.

Saint Bernard Kneeling before the Virgin and Child

Claude Mellan, 1640

Engraved oval portrait of Ludovica Maria Gonzaga with curled hair, pearl necklace and inscribed border, with crowned monogram

Ludovica Maria Gonzaga, Queen of Poland

Claude Mellan, 1645

Engraving of a storm-battered rock in churning sea with lightning, two figures on the shore, and a coat of arms on the rock.

Allegory Against the Pelagian Heresy (Allégorie contre l'hérésie pélagienne et armoiries de la duchesse d'Aiguillon)

Engraved portrait of Cardinal Richelieu seated at a desk writing, with cherubs holding laurel and a harbor view.

Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu

Claude Mellan, 1651

Engraving of a reclining nude woman with three children, one holding grapes, beneath draped fabric, with small sketches in th

Allegorical Subject: Nude Woman, Three Children and a Mousetrap (La Sourcière)

Engraved headband with three putti, a cardinal's hat, tassels, and a banderole reading POUR LE GRAND ARMAND.

Headband: Two Infants with a Cardinal's Hat, a Third with a Banderole

Engraved ornamental frieze with a central ram's head, drapery swags, rosettes and a fruit garland along the top edge.

Headband with Ram's Head

Engraved horizontal band with two cherubs holding a crown over a shield with fleur-de-lis, flanked by birds and scrolls.

Headband: Two Infants with the Arms of France and Navarre

Hand-colored print of the Virgin and Child on a crescent moon, surrounded by an oval of rays and saint medallions.

The Virgin and Child on the Crescent

Master d, ca. 1450-1460

Antique 1857 map of Llewellyn Park and villa sites on Eagle Ridge, with curving roads, wooded lots, and a turreted villa vign

Map of Llewellyn Park and Villa Sites, on Eagle Ridge in Orange & West Bloomfield

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1857

Engraved self portrait of a bearded man with curly hair and lace collar, set against a cross-hatched background.

Claude Mellan: Self Portrait

Claude Mellan, 1635

Engraved title page of Code Louis XIV showing a seated king in a fleur-de-lis robe with a lion, scales, and an open book.

Title Page: Le Code Louis XIV

Claude Mellan, 1667

Engraved frontispiece by Claude Mellan showing a winged angel writing Greek text on a cross, with cherubs holding a ribbon ab

Frontispiece for New Testament in Greek

Claude Mellan, 1642

Engraved title page showing a bearded man with a harp beside a crowned figure, with arches and a Latin inscription below.

David: Title Page for Talon, L'Histoire sainte, III

Claude Mellan, 1645

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair, pearl necklace and lace collar, with an inscription panel below.

Henriette-Marie de Buade-Frontenac

Claude Mellan, 1641

Engraving of a man and a draped woman with a mask, a laurel-wreath-bearing cherub above, and laurel branches.

Frontispiece: Horace, Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera

Claude Mellan, 1642

Engraved frontispiece with a draped man holding a book, a winged youth with a lyre, and a putto lifting a laurel wreath.

Frontispiece: Virgil, Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera

Claude Mellan, 1641

Engraved title page with a winged cherub above an oval laurel garland with ribbons and tassels, centre left blank.

Title Page: Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, L'Office de la Vierge Marie

Claude Mellan, 1645

Circular etching of two caryatid terms supporting cornices, a draped central pillar, and flanking architectural fragments, da

Two Terms, Two Cornices and a Pillar

Hugues Sambin, 1554

Engraving of a blacksmith raising a hammer over an anvil, with a sheep and trees in a rural landscape behind him.

The Smith

Dirck Vellert, 1520-25

Engraving of a curly-haired man in a cloak holding a fish, with a bird flying above and a distant landscape with a sailboat.

Man with a Fish

Dirck Vellert, August 16, 1522

Engraving of haloed St. Barbara holding a sword beside a tower, with rays behind her and drapery falling to the ground.

St. Barbara

Nicolaas Hogenberg, 1525

Engraving of a standing lansquenet soldier in slashed dress and plumed hat, leaning by a tree, with mountains behind him.

A Lansquenet

Sebald Beham, 1520

Engraving of a plumed lansquenet soldier in puffed costume standing beside a tree trunk, with mountains behind him.

A Lansquenet Standing by a Tree

Sebald Beham, 1520

Small engraving of a seated woman with curly hair playing a harp beside a tree, with a grassy landscape behind her.

Woman with a Harp

Sebald Beham, 1520-25

Engraving of two men in ornate costume facing each other beneath a decorative arch with putti, ca. 1531.

Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I

Christoph Bockstorffer, ca. 1531

Engraving of Christ's face wearing a crown of thorns, rendered in fine curving lines with long hair and beard.

Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Cloth

Claude Mellan, 1649

Engraving of Saint Catherine kneeling by a spiked wheel as an angel with a palm and sword hovers above in clouds.

Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Claude Mellan, 1625

Engraving of a bearded saint reclining with a cross on his chest beside stone steps, with onlookers and a distant procession.

St. Alexis

Claude Mellan, 1649