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Engraving Artists

2,490 works at MoMA 8 nationalities

Leading Artists in Engraving

  1. 735 Louise Bourgeois American
  2. 183 Georges Rouault French
  3. 156 Pierre Bonnard French
  4. 138 Leonard Baskin American
  5. 128 Pablo Picasso Spanish
  6. 93 Leopoldo Méndez Mexican
  7. 71 André Derain French
  8. 68 Henri Laurens French
  9. 62 Salvador Dalí Spanish
  10. 55 José Guadalupe Posada Mexican

National Distribution

NationalityWorksShare
American117047%
French74229.8%
Spanish1967.9%
Mexican1576.3%
Czech381.5%
British311.2%
Swiss311.2%
German210.8%

Classification Sub-types

Classification Works Share
Illustrated Book 1332 53.5%
Print 1142 45.9%
Photograph 10 0.4%
Drawing 4 0.2%
Sculpture 1 0%
Installation 1 0%

Department Distribution

  • Drawings and Prints (MET) — 8672
  • Drawings & Prints (MOMA) — 2480
  • Arms and Armor (MET) — 30
  • Photography (MOMA) — 10
  • European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (MET) — 6
  • Photographs (MET) — 3
  • Robert Lehman Collection (MET) — 2
  • The American Wing (MET) — 2
  • Asian Art (MET) — 1

Production by Decade

15
0s
1
1780s
2
1800s
4
1850s
4
1870s
9
1880s
30
1890s
44
1900s
112
1910s
298
1920s
250
1930s
534
1940s
349
1950s
100
1960s
27
1970s
35
1980s
358
1990s
307
2000s
8
2010s
3
2020s

Physical Scale Distribution

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)191977.9%
Medium (30–100 cm)53921.9%
Large (1–3 m)50.2%

Artist Birth Cohorts

1
1800–1824
4
1825–1849
12
1850–1874
45
1875–1899
70
1900–1924
42
1925–1949
16
1950–1974
1
1975–1999

Gender of Artists Working in Engraving

  • Male — 178
  • Female — 23

Met Cultural Context

CultureCountryMet Records
French, Paris25
British6
French3
Italian, Venice1
German1
China1
American1

On View Now

4 Engraving works currently installed in Met galleries

Notable Highlights

Bacchanal with a Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna · Before 1475

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer · ca. 1475–80

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer · 1504

Melencolia I

Albrecht Dürer · 1514

The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess

Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1510–20