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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Engraving of a caparisoned elephant with heraldic banners, armored men, and a crowd on a classical balcony.

Royal Elephant

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1542-45

Engraving of Athena and Poseidon in a mythological contest, with a rearing horse, sea figures, and a winged figure above.

Contest between Athena and Poseidon

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a rocky river landscape framed by classical figures, putti, fruit garlands and an ornamental pediment.

Frame of Ignorance Defeated

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraved landscape with rocky peaks, a walled hilltop town with a domed church, trees, a house and ducks in the foreground.

Landscape from "Venus Pushing Cupid" frame

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Etching of a river landscape with boats framed by ornate scrollwork, reclining figures, putti, and flaming urns.

Landscape with Ornamental Frame

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1543

Red-toned engraving of classical goddesses on a staircase before bearded gods, framed by reclining nudes and putti.

Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite Leaving Olympus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of Silenus carried by attendants of Bacchus, with satyrs, a horse, a ram, and figures holding vessels and fruit.

Silenus Carried by Two Attendants of Bacchus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of a drunken Silenus carried by satyrs and revelers in a bacchanal procession with a goat and cornucopia.

Silenus Carried

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of a crowded classical banquet hall with columns, fruit garlands, dining men, musicians and a dog in the foreground

Banquet of Scipio

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of Christ washing the feet of his disciples in an interior with a banquet table, basin, and attentive onlookers.

Christ Washing the Feet of his Disciples

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a bearded God seated on a globe with winged female figures, a laurel wreath, and putti among clouds.

God Seated on the World

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of women spinning in an interior room while armed men stand at an arched doorway, with Latin verses below.

Lucretia and Her Women Spinning

Hendrick Goltzius, 1578-79

Engraving of a nude youth guiding an ox plow as helmeted warriors rise from the earth among tree trunks.

Cadmus Tilling the Field Where He Sawed the Dragon's Teeth

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a reclining nude woman beside a horned satyr-like figure, with a pile of fruit and vegetables in the foreground.

Jupiter and Antiope

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Oval engraving of winged and reclining mythological figures with horses and sun rays, dated 1544.

Night Protecting Sleeping Time from the Last Rays of the Sun

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1544

Engraving of nude mythological figures, a man carrying a boar's head to a seated woman, with winged putti and a dog.

Meleager Bringing the Boar's Head to Atalanta

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of three women weaving at a loom in an arcaded classical interior with marble walls and a relief sculpture.

The Daughters of Minyas

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1545

Engraving of Phaeton falling from his chariot as horses rear, with Jupiter hurling a thunderbolt from the clouds above.

The Fall of Phaeton

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1545

Engraving of a chaotic sea battle with ships, struggling nude figures in the waves, and a rocky coast with a lighthouse.

Revenge of Nauplius

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a rocky grotto facade with three arched openings, bearded herm figures, niches with busts, and statues visible i

A Grotto

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1545

Pencil drawing of six women in flowing gowns dancing in a circle, holding hands, before a wooded landscape.

The Round Dance, or Rays of Sunlight

Anne-François-Louis Janmot, 1835-55

Ink and wash drawing of sea gods kneeling before a standing king on a pedestal, with cherubs and clouds above a harbor.

Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV

Michel Corneille the Younger, n.d.

Etching of the sacrifice of Polyxena: a bearded man gestures at an altar beside a burning brazier as mourning women crowd aro

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Giovanni David, 1776

Printed interior of an artist's studio with men at easels, a white horse, hanging saddles, dogs, and a drummer in the foregro

The Studio of Horace Vernet (Intérieur d'un Atelier)

Horace Vernet, 1824

Brown wash drawing in a circle of a bound nude man on a diagonal cross, with helmeted soldiers and a kneeling woman.

Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Ferdinand Pierre Joseph Ignace Delamonce, n.d.

Watercolor of workers demolishing a classical building, with carts, rubble, and a statue in an arched niche.

Demolition of the Old Vestibule of the Palais-Royal, Paris

Pierre-Antoine Demachy, ca. 1767

Pen and ink sketch of a crowd of armed men with a severed head raised on a pike above them.

The Head of Jean Féraud (1759-1795), a Deputy at the Convention, Carried on a Pike, May 21, 1795

Dominique Vivant Denon, ca. 1795

Black and white chalk drawing of a reclining female nude on blue-grey paper, head resting on her arm.

Reclining Female Nude

Govert Flinck, mid-17th century

Charcoal drawing of a forest pond with a seated fisherman, boulders and leaning trees under a cloudy sky.

A Pond with a Fisherman along the River Ain

Adolphe Appian, 1868-70

Brown wash drawing of a crowded classical hall with seated judges and a kneeling woman reaching toward them.

Phryne Before the Areopagus

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, mid-18th century