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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,432 works

Pen and wash drawing of three nude women standing together, the central figure seen from behind, with draperies over their ar

The Three Graces

Sebastian Schütz, 1600-1631

Etching of gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto offering crowns, with an eagle, horses, and putti holding a heraldic shield above.

Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto offering their crowns to the arms of Cardinal Borghese

Simone Cantarini, 1642-43

Engraving of a bacchanal with a maenad, satyrs, a lyre, grapevine, putti carrying grapes, and a goat.

A Bacchanal

Battista Franco Veneziano, 1530-61

Drawing of Bacchus with vine crown and jug beside an urn, with putti and a seated woman among grapevines and a tree.

Arcadian Scene with Bacchus

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Engraving of Hercules with a raised club fighting a many-headed hydra beside a tree and rocks.

Hercules Killing the Hydra of Lerna

Battista Franco Veneziano, after 1552

Engraving of a centaur carrying off a draped woman as an archer draws a bow beside a tree, with a reclining nude holding flow

The Abduction of Dejanira

Battista Franco Veneziano, 16th century

Drawing of a man approaching a wounded woman by classical ruins, with a flying cupid, dogs, and tall trees.

Silvio Approaches Dorinda whom He Has Wounded with an Arrow (Il Pastor Fido, act IV, scene 8)

Richard van Orley, ca. 1700

Grey wash drawing of Christ on a cross appearing above a kneeling monk, with angels, putti and watching saints on steps.

Christ Appearing to St. Bernard

Johann Georg Wolcker, 1700-1766

Engraving of a centaur carrying a woman away while a nude archer aims a bow beside a tree and rocks.

The abduction of Dejanira held by the centaur Nessus

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraving of Diana and her nymphs resting in a forest with hunting dogs, a quiver of arrows, and a satyr behind a tree.

Diana resting with her nymphs

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraving of a seated bearded man under a statue of Bacchus while figures kneel and approach in a colonnaded hall.

Man Seated Beneath a Statue of Bacchus, Receiving an Audience

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Engraved mythological banquet scene with vases, a grapevine arbor, an elephant, a flying putto, and reclining figures among l

The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (right panel)

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1530-61

Pencil drawing of nine classical women with musical instruments on a rocky slope beside a winged horse.

The Muses on Parnassus

Pieter de Grebber, 17th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of nude women in a forest clearing, one embracing a goat-headed satyr, with children nearby.

Women Bathing in a Wood, Surprised by a Satyr

Balthasar Katzenberger, 1580-1627

Engraved frieze of Neptune in a sea-horse chariot with tritons, a trident and putti over rolling waves.

Frieze with Neptune and Tritons

Girolamo Mocetto, ca. 1500-1530

Engraving of a reclining nude woman in a landscape with trees and a distant tower, signed DO CAMP 1517.

Nude woman (Venus) reclining in a landscape

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Pen drawing of a wooded landscape with a Bacchic procession of satyrs, maenads and a centaur, with a distant hilltop temple.

The Triumph of Bacchus

Joseph Anton Koch, 18th-19th century

Pen and ink drawing of a draped female figure pointing to a crescent moon with two infants beside her and a tree.

Classical Female Figure (Diana or Venus) with Two Infants

Francesco Primaticcio, ca. 1539-42

Brown ink drawing of the goddess Diana with a spear and two hounds beside tall trees, with a hilly landscape behind.

The Goddess Diana with Her Hounds Standing in a Landscape

Agostino Tassi, n.d.

Engraving of infant Jupiter nursed by goat Amalthea, with nymphs, a shepherd and goats in a rocky landscape.

Jupiter suckled by the goat Amalthea

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of nude revelers and satyrs around a wine vat under a grapevine, with sleeping putti in the foreground.

Bacchanal with Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1475

Engraving of Leda embracing a swan with a cupid in a wooded landscape, framed by rococo scrollwork and garlands.

Leda and the Swan

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of two nude figures in a forest with a winged horse rearing among trees and clouds.

Fantasy

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1824-98

Drawing of the nude Farnese Hercules leaning on a club, rendered in black chalk and white highlights on blue paper.

The Farnese Hercules

Pieter van Lint, 1639

Ink and wash drawing of Juno on a chariot above a reclining woman and bearded river god with a peacock and putti.

Juno on Her Chariot Visiting a Young Woman and a Rivergod

Richard van Orley, late 17th-mid 18th century

Engraving of a nude muscular man confronting a sprawled nude figure before a crowd beside a colonnaded building.

The Fight Between Ulysses and Irus

Jan Müller, 1589

Engraving of nymphs removing a thorn from a satyr's foot beside a tree, with a child and distant landscape.

Oreads Removing a Thorn from a Satyr's Foot

Jan Müller, 1590

Engraving of Minerva in armor leading Hercules and Scipio across rocky ground, with Cupid above and a temple at left.

Minerva Leading Hercules and Scipio to the Temple of Fame

Jan Müller, ca. 1591

Engraving of seated nude Venus receiving fruit baskets from nymphs and a satyr, with putti and a classical column behind.

Venus Honored by the Nymphs

Jan Müller, ca. 1591

Engraving of Mercury with winged helmet and sandals lifting nude Psyche in a dynamic pose, against a striated arched backgrou

Mercury Abducting Psyche (lateral view Psyche's side), from a set of three views of the sculpture

Jan Müller, ca. 1593