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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,817 works

Etching of a Chinese figure playing a long flute beside a cat and monkey on a stone pedestal bearing a French title.

Collection of Diverse Chinese Figures

François Boucher, 1738-45

Etching of a seated woman in Chinese-style dress with a parasol, a small dog, a teapot and smoking vase beside her.

Chinese Lady

François Boucher, 1738-45

Etching of a young couple startled beside a tree, with sheep, a goat and a wooden gate in a pastoral landscape.

Surprised Young Couple Under a Tree

François Boucher, 1730-70

Etching of armored cavalry charging over rocky ground, with a fallen horse in the foreground and smoke in the sky.

Cavalry Charge

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, mid to late 18th century

Watercolor design of a gilded ceiling with a blue cloudy sky, birds in flight, and ornamental panels.

Design for a ceiling decorated with clouds and birds

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Collage of thirteen ornamental design studies for interior decoration, with scrolls, foliage, animals and painted bands.

Thirteen designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Ink and wash design sheet with four corner panels of griffins, birds, dolphins and scrolling foliage around a central motif.

Grotesque designs featuring griffin, birds, and dolphins

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of men and youths with donkeys in a landscape, one man lifting a cup from a grain sack while others react.

Joseph's cup being discovered in Benjamin's sack of grain

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of Saint Mark seated and writing with a winged lion beside him in a stone interior.

Saint Mark writing his Gospel, a winged lion at the right

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Etching of two hunters with a boar, playful cupids, a reclining figure by a fountain, and a wooded landscape.

Meleager and Atalanta

François Chauveau, 1643

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned emperor at a banquet between columns, with courtiers, a page, and a dog in the foreground.

Episode from the "Gesta Romanorum": The Emperor and the Page

Jörg Breu the Elder, 1500-1537

Tall decorative door design with gilded panels, a dancing woman with a tambourine, and a lower roundel of ducks among flowers

Design for a decorated door

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Etching of two women conversing on a grassy bank by a stream, with a dog and trees in the background.

Two Women in a Landscape

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a grazing cow beside a tree under storm clouds, with a shaft of light over flat fields and a distant spire.

Landscape with Storm

Dominique Vivant Denon, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of an allegorical procession with a chariot, a winged trumpeter in the clouds, and classical ruins beneath a zodiac s

The Triumph of Modern Art

Jean Barbault, 18th century

Circular engraving of a hooded figure being robbed by a man in a round sphere, with a windmill and carriage behind.

The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Engraving in reddish-brown ink of a battle scene with an overturned chariot, fallen soldiers, rearing horses and a banner.

Fall of Antiochus From His Chariot

Noël Hallé, 18th century

Pen sketch sheet with a man aiming a rifle, studies of faces and animal heads, and rococo ornament panels.

Sheet of sketches

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Etching of a girl offering a drink to a small boy in a barn beside cows, sheep and a dog, with a pail hanging overhead.

Le Bonne Petite Soeur

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1765-71

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a crowned rider on horseback leading a crowd of figures past an arched gateway.

The Women of Weinsberg

Otto van Veen, late 16th-early 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted rider on a horse gesturing to soldiers, with a standard bearer and dog in the foreground.

Scene from the Life of Saint Bartholomew (fragment)

Erasmus Quellinus, 1620-78

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanalian revel with reclining revelers, a piping satyr, putti, a dog, and trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Hendrick Berckman, 1651

Brown wash drawing of hunters resting by a campfire in a night forest, with pack horses and a moonlit sky.

Hunters resting in a forest at night

Kilian Christoffer Zoll, 1830-60

Engraved metal printing block showing horses pulling a loaded sleigh with riders through a snowy landscape with bare trees.

The Portage Sleigh on a Lumber Road, for "Antoine's Moose-Yard," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," October 1890

Frederic Remington, 1890

Printing block showing a mounted rider in a hat beside a fence with hounds gathering near the horse in a wooded scene.

A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

Frederic Remington, 1891

Engraving allegory of Africa with a central female figure, an elephant, a lion, palm trees, archers and a chameleon.

Allegory of Africa, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of crowned allegorical figure of Europe flanked by armed men, a horse, a bear, grapevines and fruit ornament.

Allegory of Europe, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraved allegory of Asia with a central female figure, a camel, an elephant, winged griffins and decorative foliage.

Allegory of Asia, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of allegorical America, a nude woman with feathered headdress riding an armadillo, with hunting and battle scenes b

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Adriaen Collaert, 1580-1600

Etching of cavalry riders clashing with swords near trees, with a fallen horse in the foreground and a cloudy sky.

Clash of the Cavalry

Hubert Robert, n.d.