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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,432 works

Color print of Venus at her toilette, nude and reclining, attended by cherubs and doves beside draped curtains and a classica

The Toilet of Venus

Jean François Janinet, 1783

Drawing of Neptune and Amphitrite in a shell chariot pulled by two sea horses, with a trident and a distant castle.

Neptune and Amphitrite

Hans Ulrich Franck, 1595-1675

Engraving of a triton carrying a reclining nymph over rippling waves toward a rocky shore.

A Triton Carrying off a Nymph, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Pen and brown ink study sheet with several nude figures, intertwined couples, and a winged cupid at upper left.

Studies for Apollo and Daphne, Zeus and Juno, Orpheus and Eurydice and other figures (recto and verso)

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, n.d.

Pen and wash study of a fountain with a seated woman, dancing figures, statues and an ornate scrolled frame.

Study for The Allegory of Spring

Federico Zuccaro, 1579

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a rearing horse and rider, ornate chariot scrollwork, and studies of male heads.

Sheet of Sketches: Sculpture for a Banquet Honoring Queen Christina of Sweden

Giovanni Paolo Schor, early 17th-late 17th century

Hand-colored caricature of four elderly gentlemen in wigs peering at a reclining nude painting on an easel in a classical int

Connoisseurs

Thomas Rowlandson, June 20, 1799

Graphite sketch of a fallen male nude with raised arm and studies of clenched fists by Eugène Delacroix, 1852.

Studies of a Fallen Male Nude for "Hercules and the Horses of Diomedes"

Eugène Delacroix, 1852

Grey wash drawing of a man in uniform lifted to the clouds by a winged figure, with allegorical figures and a classical tomb

Apotheosis of George Washington

Etienne Pallière, ca. 1799

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre beside Pan, with a flying putto blowing a horn above, in a cross-shaped frame.

Apollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs fo…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of Cupid above a flaming urn, with a horse-drawn chariot and procession of figures in a hilly landscape.

The Triumph of Love, from "The Triumphs of Petrarch"

Francesco Rosselli, 1480-1500

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre and laurel branch among nine draped Muses in a wooded landscape.

Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus

Raphael Morghen, 1784

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man and a nude woman on a rock looking up at an eagle flying among forest trees.

Jupiter and Io, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

Engraving of a reclining nude nymph with a greyhound in an oval cartouche, framed by caryatids, cherubs and fruit garlands.

The Nymph of Fontainebleau

René Boyvin, n.d.

Pen drawing of a classical palace with tiered fountains and columns, framed by foliage, with figures in the foreground.

The Palace of Neptune (Water Palace)

Joseph Lemercier, 19th century

Brown wash drawing of Jupiter embracing a white heifer under a tree while Juno watches from a cloud with a peacock.

Jupiter and Io, disguised as a white heifer, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

Drawing of a draped woman seated on clouds beside a large eagle, with trees and a column in the background.

Jupiter and Astraea

Giulio Campi, ca. 1545-50

Grey wash drawing of a woman at a fountain before a ruined temple, with a classical Hercules statue among trees behind.

A Woman at a Fountain by a Ruined Temple, the Farnese Hercules in the Background

Johannes Antiquus, 1726-50

Grey wash drawing of two seated figures beside a white cow and cattle under trees, with a draped cloth hanging overhead.

Mercury Rescuing Io from Argus, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

Engraving of a young boy riding a large eagle in flight above a landscape with a river, trees, and a half-timbered house.

Ganymede as a young boy riding a large eagle (Zeus) in flight above a landscape

Giulio Campagnola, ca. 1500-1505

Grey wash drawing of a shepherd seated under a ruined classical arch beside a statue of Hercules, with a distant landscape.

A Shepherd under a Ruined Arch with the Farnese Hercules

Johannes Antiquus, 1726-50

Etching of a young nude girl riding a satyr within an oval frame surrounded by leafy foliage, with a vessel on the ground.

A Young Girl Astride a Satyr

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Engraving of a wild bacchanal in an oak forest with dancing satyrs, nymphs, musicians and a winged figure with a bow.

Bacchanal

Giulio Sanuto, ca. 1557

Engraving of a woman being carried off by a bearded rider on a horned creature under swirling clouds, dated 1516.

Abduction of Proserpine

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of muscular Hercules with a club facing a winged, many-headed hydra coiled among rocks under a cloudy sky.

Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

Marco dell'Angolo del Moro

Engraving of nude mythological figures with Jupiter descending from clouds above a reclining man and a woman holding wheat.

The Four Elements, plate 1 from "Mythological Subjects"

Jacob Matham, 1588

Woodcut print of an eagle carrying a youth aloft over nude men, horses and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Zeus as an eagle, abducting Ganymede

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Engraving of Ixion embracing Juno on a dark cloud above classical ruins, a lion, and small figures below.

Ixion attempting to seduce Juno, surrounded by clouds with ruins below

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1520-39

Engraving of Minerva and Mercury arming Perseus in a wooded landscape, with nymphs watching from rocks above.

Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

Jan Müller, 1604

Etching of a drunken Silenus raising a cup while a satyr pours wine beside a barrel, with a donkey at right.

Drunken Silenus holding a cup aloft into which a Satyr pours wine

Jusepe de Ribera, 1628