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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,394 works

Nude Venus in a red plumed hat stands beside winged Cupid with a bow on a pedestal against a dark background.

Venus and Cupid

Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca. 1525-27

Painting of a draped white figure on a cliff while several dogs bark and leap across a sunlit, ochre landscape by the sea.

Pallas Athena and the herdsman’s dogs

Briton Rivière, 1876

Painting of nymphs and a wreathed figure in a wooded landscape with flying cherubs and a pink evening sky.

Bacchus and Nymphs in a Landscape

Abraham van Cuylenborch, probably 1640s

Painting of the goddess Diana with a bow, a cupid holding a torch, hunting dogs, and companion nymphs beneath a tree.

Diana

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1849

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph in a dark forest, watched by a satyr with a staff, a shepherd nearby.

Nymph and Shepherd

Johann Liss, 1625

Painting of elegant figures in a wooded glade, with cupids, a masked harlequin and a reclining man in a gold gown.

Surprised, or Infidelity Found Out

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Painted cassone fragment: a seated woman in a gilded chariot pulled by winged beasts, surrounded by a crowd of women.

Goddess of Chaste Love

Francesco di Giorgio, 1468-75

Nude Leda stands beside a swan in a wooded landscape as cherubs hatch from broken eggs around her.

Leda and the Swan

Francesco Bacchiacca, 1550

Painting of a reclining nude nymph with a greyhound in an oval landscape, framed by Mannerist ornament with caryatids and put

The Nymph of Fontainebleau

Painting of a sculptor embracing a nude marble statue in a studio, with Cupid above and plaster busts along the wall.

Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Léon Gérôme, ca. 1890

Painting of a seated woman and a wreathed man on a rocky shore, with bathers, chalk cliffs, and a sailboat at sea.

Consolation of Ariadne

Bryson Burroughs, 1915

Nude woman with bow and quiver beside a reclining deer in a dark wooded landscape.

Diana the Huntress

Reclining nude woman on a white bed with a man in a turban beside her and an eagle among clouds above.

Aegina Visited by Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1767-69

Ochre-toned painting of a seated nymph gathering grapes beside a vessel, with putti carrying fruit and an amphora on a dark g

Nymph and Putti in a Vintage Scene; Nymph with a Wreath and Putti with Garlands of Flowers

Piat Joseph Sauvage, 1763

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly brown hair in a green cloak and lace collar, set in a gilt frame.

Endymion Porter (1587-1649)

John Hoskins, ca. 1630

Painting of a sorrowful young man in yellow seated among classical women serving fruit and water beneath a grapevine.

The Sorrow of Telemachus

Angelica Kauffmann, 1783

Monochrome painting of Venus seated on a rock embracing winged Cupid, with a bow and arrows at her feet and drapery behind.

Venus and Cupid

Piat Joseph Sauvage

Painting of a red-cloaked charioteer driving horses through clouds beside a woman scattering flowers from a basket.

Apollo and Aurora

Gérard de Lairesse, 1671

Classical painting of robed women and an elderly man with a young seated man, with flower garland and sunset sea behind them.

Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso

Angelica Kauffmann, 1782

Octagonal panel of women around a fountain with hunters and hounds chasing deer through rocky hills under a dark sky.

Ameto's Discovery of the Nymphs

Master of, ca. 1410

Horizontal panel with armored riders, hunting dogs, a fortified gate, rocky cliffs and a ship in a gilded frame.

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Jacopo di Arcangelo, ca. 1465

Reclining nude woman with an infant and attendants in draped robes beside an ornate couch, in a dark interior.

The Birth of Cupid

Master of Flora

Painting of Bacchus in a leaf wreath gesturing toward Ariadne, who looks up at him, with pink clouds and sea behind them.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1720s

Figures with satyrs and a centaur unload hunted animals onto boats on a shore beneath a stormy sky.

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494-1500

Classical landscape with a lyre player in red robes, a gesturing standing man, seated figures, and a distant hilltop city.

Orpheus and Eurydice

Nicolas Poussin

Painting of a nude woman standing with bowed head among colorful flowers beneath a bare tree and turquoise sky.

Pandora

Odilon Redon, ca. 1914

Painting of a woman in gleaming armor and gold helmet holding a Medusa-head shield, before a dark arched background.

Bellona

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Painting of Venus clasping the arm of Adonis in red tunic with a spear, a cupid, hunting dogs and a dark forest.

Venus and Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens, probably mid-1630s

Painting of a young man crowned with laurel by a nude Apollo holding a lyre, with a bound satyr and harp nearby.

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614-1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi, 1641

Grayscale-toned frieze of putti in a bacchanal around a horned goat, holding wreaths, grapes and a thyrsus staff.

Infant Bacchanal

Piat Joseph Sauvage, 1780s