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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil drawing of a woman reclining on a cloud with feathered diadem, holding a scepter, draped in flowing cloth.

Juno Seated on a Cloud

Anton Raphael Mengs, 1770

Grey wash drawing of classical figures with a three-headed dog and snake-haired women around a bearded god in a lunette.

Psyche Asks Proserpine to Put a Little of her Beauty in an Urn for Venus

Johann August Nahl The Younger, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of Apollo driving a horse-drawn chariot through clouds, with a winged figure leading the way.

Apollo in Chariot with Aurora and the Hours

Felice Giani, 1800

Red chalk design for a symmetrical decorative panel with draped nymphs, garlands, scrolls and a flaming urn.

Design for a Decorative Panel (with Nymphs and Garlands)

Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1780

Etched print of three vertical trophies with Bacchic attributes like wine cups, grapes, staves, and garlands.

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of the goddess Diana reclining with a bow and quiver beside a stag in a rocky landscape.

Diana

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraved rococo arch and fountain design with a statue of Diana, cherubs, an eagle, and garden trees behind.

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Diana

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1740

Red-toned stipple engraving of a curly-haired child in an oval frame holding a bow, looking upward.

Cupid

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

Pen and ink drawing of Penelope recognizing Ulysses, a seated woman reaching toward a bearded man beside a torch-bearing serv

Penelope Recognizes Ulysses

Felice Giani, 1800

Etched print of an ornate rocaille arch framing a statue of Venus, with cherubs, garlands and a fountain beside it.

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Venus and Amor

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1740

Engraving of Venus embracing Adonis, who holds a spear beside hunting dogs, with a cupid and a bow in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis (after Titian)

Robert Strange, 1770

Pen and brown wash drawing of bearded Jupiter reclining on clouds, offering a cup to an eagle beside him.

Jupiter

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraved rococo fountain design with a scrolled arch, three figures on a basin, cascading water, staircase and sculpted urn.

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Three Graces

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1740

Chiaroscuro print of Apollo playing a lyre beside a seated satyr, Marsyas, in an oval frame, in blue and green tones.

Apollo and Marsyas

Antonio Maria Zanetti, 1720

Pen and ink drawing of a helmeted warrior in a chariot dragging a nude body past onlookers at a city wall.

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector

Felice Giani, 1790

Etching of a satyr family beside a ruined wall and obelisk, with a seated woman, a child, and scattered objects on the ground

Satyr Family with an Obelisk, plate 11 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Hand-colored print of nymphs and a satyr with goats beside a bearded herm sculpture in a wooded garden.

Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm

Jean François Janinet, 1780

Pen and brown ink drawing of two winged putti with wreath and thyrsus staff flying in a circular frame over clouds.

Two Flying Putti with Attributes of Dionysus

Felice Giani, 1800

Etching of a seated woman with a reclining satyr child, goats, a tree and a distant village in a landscape.

Woman with an Infant Satyr, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of a seated woman and a standing man beside a dog under a tree, with a river landscape and boat in the background.

Daphne Encountered by Apollo

Giovanni Volpato, 1800

Brown ink wash stage design of a domed theatre with a winged figure, classical columns, and a crowd around a smoking altar.

Stage Design: Curtain, The Workshop of Apollo

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen etching of a satyr and bacchante in ivy wreaths seated on a lion skin, with a horned female faun and a tent behind them.

Copy of Bacchante, Satyr, and Female Faun, from the series Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Red chalk drawing of a draped female figure holding a bowl and raising one hand, within a gold and black ruled border.

Minerva Giustiniani

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pen and ink sketch of nude Hercules with club and lion skin beside a serpent in a garden, with Italian caption below.

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

Felice Giani, 1800

Etching of satyrs, a nymph and a goat in a rustic landscape, with an owl perched on a pole at right.

The Happy Satyr with His Family, plate 10 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Red chalk drawing of a draped hooded figure holding a medallion portrait and a small infant, topped by a cross.

Memorial to Sister Maria Raggi in S. Maria sopra Minerva

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Brown ink drawing of Minerva in a helmet writing on a tablet, with an owl on a pedestal and scrolls beside her.

Minerva

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a nude woman riding a sea beast with a winged child, a lion head and sea monsters below.

Thetis and Cupid Riding Fish

Fortunato Duranti, 1800

Brown wash drawing of an winged old man on a cloud handing an infant to a seated nude woman beside a column.

Time (Chronos) Entrusting Cupid to Venus

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Pencil drawing of mythological figures battling winged sea monsters in two horizontal friezes, by Felice Giani, 1800.

Triton Combats Sea Monster

Felice Giani, 1800