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Portraits

24,376 works

Etching of a bearded man's head with curling hair, eyes lowered, and a wooden cross form at lower left.

Head of Saint John the Baptist

Jr Thomas Butts

Line engraving portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a fur hat and coat, within an oval frame with a caption below.

Benjamin Franklin. Line engraving by P.A. Le Beau after C.L. Desrais after C.N. Cochin, junior, 1777

Charles-Nicolas Cochin

Line engraving of an elderly man with long hair seated in an armchair, holding a paper and raising one finger.

Roch Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, Abbé Siccard. Line engraving by A. Aubert after J.-M. Langlois, 1812

Jérôme-Martin Langlois

Line engraving bust portrait of a man with curly hair, high white collar and dark coat, captioned Orfila.

Pierre Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila. Line engraving by P. F. Bertonnier

Pierre François Bertonnier

Line engraving portrait of a woman in a lace bonnet and fur stole, with a crest reading AD OPERAM and a French caption below.

Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier Ducoudray. Line engraving by J. Robert

Engraved oval portrait of an elderly bearded man in a ruff collar, surrounded by books, swords, and a lute.

Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

Hendrick Goltzius, 1591

Black and red chalk drawing of a standing man in a ruff collar and cloak, holding a hat at his side.

Portrait of a Man Standing

Anthony van Dyck

Black chalk portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar and cloak, hands clasped, labeled Adrianus Stalbent.

Portrait of Adrien van Stalbent, engraver (Lugt 29)

Anthony van Dyck

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated cardinal in a red cape and hat, hands resting on a wooden chair.

Portrait of Cardinal Bentivoglio (Lugt 28)

Anthony van Dyck, 1623

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a dark doublet, with a coat of arms and inscription plaque below.

Sir Thomas Browne. Line engraving by R. White, 1686

Brown wash drawing of a bearded elderly man with an open book and bookshelves behind him, inscribed 'Puteanus'.

Portrait of Erycius Puteanus

Anthony van Dyck, 1627

Red and black chalk drawing of a woman's head tilted upward, framed by a veil, study by Anthony van Dyck.

Head of the Virgin, study for a painting

Anthony van Dyck, 1622

Black and red chalk study of a woman's head tilted to one side, with curly hair and upturned eyes, in an octagonal mount.

Portrait of Margaret Lemon

Anthony van Dyck

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man in a ruff collar, shown in an oval frame with an inscription below.

Portrait of Nicholas Rockox

Anthony van Dyck, 1621

Oval line engraving portrait of a bearded man in a black cap and ruff collar, captioned as François Rabelais.

François Rabelais. Line engraving by N. Habert

Nicolas. Habert

Pen and wash drawing of a standing woman in a dark satin cloak and pale gown beside a draped curtain and pedestal.

Portrait of an unknown lady

Anthony van Dyck, 1627

Oval line engraving portrait of a bearded man in a white collar, one hand raised to his chest, with Latin text below.

Bernhard Verzascha. Line engraving by P. Aubry, 1663, after R. Werenfels

Rudolph Werenfels

Engraved double portrait of two men in oval medallions within an ornate Rococo frame, with Latin inscriptions below.

Portraits of Canaletto and Visentini

Antonio Visentini, 1735

Portrait of Lucas van Uden

Anthony van Dyck, 1627

Jean Baptiste de Senac. Line engraving by A.B. Duhamel after Fossier

Louis Denis Fossier

Watercolor study of a stag beetle surrounded by butterflies, grasshoppers, a dragonfly, a wasp, and a spider, with a wind fac

Insects and the Head of a Wind God

Joris Hoefnagel, ca. 1590-1600

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola [Johannes Picus Mirandulanus]. Line engraving by F.B. Lorieux after L. Beaudouin after…

Line engraving of a bust-length portrait of a man with curled hair, beard, bow tie and double-breasted coat.

Jean Giraudeau de Saint Gervais. Line engraving by J. M. Leroux after P. R. Vignéron

Pierre Roch Vigneron

Line engraving of a man in a wide-brimmed hat and curled wig, set in an oval frame with Latin inscriptions.

Lazare Rivière [Riverius]. Line engraving by Germain Audran

William Cheselden: profile. Line engraving by A. R. Freebairn after a medal by W. Wyon, 1829

Engraving of a wounded man on the floor of a room with a table, as onlookers react and smoke rises from the right.

Marie-François Vergèz. Line engraving by F.L. Couché, 1807

François Louis Couchè

Print of a young boy's head turned three-quarters right, drawn in chalk with white highlights on blue-grey paper.

Head of a Young Boy Turned Three-Quarters to the Right

Louis-Marin Bonnet, n.d.

Engraving of a kneeling man in a hooded robe holding a reclining figure, with a skull, book, rosary and fruit in a rocky land

Sir Francis Dashwood at his devotions. Engraving attributed to W. Platt after W. Hogarth

William Hogarth

Engraving of a woman in a dark cloak and ornate gown with a fan, standing before a Venetian square with columns and buildings

The Venetian Woman, from "Divers Portraits"

Giovanni David, 1775

Engraving of a exhausted wigmaker slumped in a chair beside a wig stand, candle, basin, and scattered grooming tools.

The Tired Wigmaker, from "Divers Portraits"

Giovanni David, 1775

Line engraving portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar and chain, inside an oval frame with Latin inscriptions.

Thomas Plater [Platter] II. Line engraving by P. Aubry

[Profile portrait of a man with long hair]

Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1786-1796