Saint Job seated at right receiving the gifts of the people, archway at left, after Reni

Saint Job seated at right receiving the gifts of the people, archway at left, after Reni

Giuliano Traballesi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 5 in a series of numbered prints by Traballesi after famous Italian paintings. After a painting by Reni originally in Santa Maria della Pietà in Bologna, now in Notre Dame in Paris.


Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.