Works on Paper

One of the museum's largest and most varied collections, our extraordinary European works on paper feature well-known artists and movements. Strengths include 16th- and 17th-century prints from the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy; prints engaging with social satire and critique from the 18th and 19th centuries; and prints by Cubist, Surrealist, and Expressionist artists in the early 20th century.

Federico Zuccaro, Italian, about 1541 - 1609 | after Correggio, Italian, about 1489 - 1534
The Madonna of Saint Jerome (Ill Giorno)
not dated
2005.40
John Walker, English, born 1939
Passing Bells V
2000
2006.3.13
Federico Barocci, Italian, 1535 - 1612
Il perdono de San Francesco d'Assisi (The Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi)
1581
2006.30
Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, German, about 1458 - 1494 | Michael Wolgemut, German, 1434 - 1519 | Hartman Schedel, German, 1440 - 1514
God the Father Enthroned; frontispiece from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)
1493
2006.57
Käthe Kollwitz, German, 1867 - 1945
Tod und Frau (Death and the Woman)
1910
2011.45
Otto Dix, German, 1891 - 1969
Gesehen am Steilhang von Cléry-sur-Somme (Seen in a Trench near Cléry-sur-Somme), plate 28 from a set of...
1924
2013.22
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
Saint Jerome in his Study
1514
2013.7.1
Salvator Rosa, Italian, 1615 - 1673
Jason and the Dragon
about 1663-1664
2014.57.4
William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764
A Rake's Progress, Plate 2
published June 25, 1735
2015.9.2
Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch, 1610 - 1685
The Painter in His Studio
about 1647-1653
2016.28.2
Stefano Della Bella, Italian, 1610 - 1664 | after Alfonso Parigi, the Younger, Italian, 1606 - 1656
Funeral of Francesco de' Medici
etched 1634; published 1637
2016.55.2
Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
Venus and Cupid
1596
2019.43
Louis-Léopold Boilly, French, 1761 - 1845
Jeune femme lisant dans un paysage (Young Woman Reading in a Landscape)
1798
d.2003.19
Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798 - 1863
The Crucifixion, after Le Coup de Lance by Peter Paul Rubens
about 1850
d.962.109
Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955
Study for The City of Light Consolidated Edison Company New York World's Fair 1939-1940 Pavilion Mural
1938-1939
d.973.11
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French, 1758 - 1823
Diana Imploring Jupiter Not To Make Her Submit to Marry Hymen
about 1803
d.985.52
Hans Holbein, the younger, German, 1497 - 1543
The Count from the Dance of Death
designed about 1526, published 1547
pr.939.4.1
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
Le passé. Le présent. L'Avenir. (The Past, the Present, the Future), plate 349 in La Caricature
published January 9, 1834
pr.945.71
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, English, 1872 - 1898
Isolde (Illustration for Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" : supplement to The Studio, October 1895)
about 1893
pr.948.13
Henry Spencer Moore, English, 1898 - 1986
Six Reclining Figures
1963
pr.963.111
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Blind Minotaur Led by a Young Girl, III (Minotaure aveugle guide par une fillette, III), from The...
November 4, 1934
pr.965.23.92
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, from the series Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'Invenzione)
about 1745-1750, published 1753
pr.977.25.60
Stanley William Hayter, English, 1901 - 1988
Story; from the portfolio Death of Hektor
1979
pr.980.253.6
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746 - 1828
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruos), plate 43; from the...
1797; published 1799
pr.986.26
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Italian, 1697 - 1768
La libreria, Venice (The Library, Venice), from the series Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate...
about 1740-1744
pr.997.5.37
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses
1653-about 1660
pr.997.5.93
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian, 1866 - 1944
Kreisen (Circling)
1924
w.966.1