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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,442 works

Engraving of a couple in period dress with a cupid beside a fountain and formal garden, with French verse below.

Youth

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of an armed allegorical figure labeled La Vertu, with spear and shield, inside an ornate oval frame, by Abraham Bos

Virtue: Athena

Abraham Bosse, 1637

Pencil drawing of a warrior in a plumed helmet driving a chariot pulled by horses, with a bearded guide and a shield at the s

Composition from the "Tragedies of Aeschylus," plate 17 (recto); Goddess statue from "The Suppliants," plate 7 (verso)

John Flaxman, 19th century

Etching of Neptune with trident among sea gods, tritons, sea creatures and flying putti above the waves.

The Realm of Neptune, from "Drawing Book"

Frederick Bloemaert, 1650-56

Etched almanac page with paired scenes of courtly figures, a child, putti and an obelisk fountain within ornate scrolled fram

Almanach for 1639: Louis XIII and Anne of Austria entrusting the Kingdom and the Heir Apparent to the Virgin

Abraham Bosse, 1638

Engraving of Venus embracing Adonis beneath trees, with Cupid between them and a lion at the lower right.

Venus and Adonis, from "The Story of Adonis"

Philips Galle, ca. 1579

Engraving of a armored man with a club beside a lion and rooster, with a battle scene and chariots in the sky behind him.

Declaration of War on Spain by Louis XIII: The King as Hercules

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Watercolor of an Arcadian landscape with a stone arch, a statue, figures on steps, and a boat on a lake.

Arcadian Landscape with several Figures and a Statue of Diana

Gerard Melder, 18th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a circular border with seated female figures, musical instruments and draped figures around an e

Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)

Luca Penni, 1525-35

Chalk drawing of a helmeted bust of Minerva in a dark niche above a pedestal with a winged relief.

Bust of Minerva

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1798

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling Cacus in a landscape with bare trees, a distant town, and scattered armor.

Hercules and Cacus

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of a coat of arms with a wild man blowing horns above, a wild man leading hunting dogs on the shield, framed by vines

The Arms of Johann Tscherte

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of Minerva with a shield and coat of arms, a putto painting it, and putti holding garlands beside monogram cartouch

Minerva and the Arms of François Sublet de Noyers Painted by the Genius of Painting

Abraham Bosse, mid to late 17th century

Engraving of Mercury helping a man out of a pile of nude bodies, with a tree and woman's torso at left.

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand…

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, ca. 1490-1525

Engraving of the nude hero Hercules struggling with a serpent-like hydra, club raised, cloak flying, Latin inscription at rig

Hercules and the Hydra

Andrea Mantegna, n.d.

Black and white print of a bearded hero struggling with armored warriors among bare trees, with a distant town and birds.

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Albrecht Dürer, 1496

Brown wash drawing of winged cupids, one drawing a bow at a target while others kneel and sit around him.

Design of putti at play

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of several figures, including a standing man and a kneeling woman, on pale paper.

Sketch for the Judgment of Solomon (?); verso: Dancing Mythological Figures

Christian Gottlieb Schick, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a draped female figure beside a horse with curled mane, a winged figure and two putti above.

Diana and Hecate

Rosso Fiorentino, n.d.

Engraving of a heraldic coat of arms with a wild man blowing hunting horns, a second wild man leading dogs, and grapevines.

Coat of Arms of Johann Tscherte

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of nude women bathing at a grotto waterfall, a hunter at upper right, stag and hounds in the distant woods.

Diana Surprised by Actaeon

Aegidius Sadeler, 1586-1629

Hand-colored print of an old sculptor carving a cherub beside a seated nude model in a cluttered classical studio.

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800

Pen drawing of an ornamental frieze with acanthus scrolls, a nude man wrestling a lion, and winged figures.

Frieze with Acanthus Scrolls and a Man (Hercules?) fighting a Lion

Jean Le Pautre, 17th century

Engraving of a muscular classical statue of Hercules with a lion skin and a child, on a pedestal with inscription.

The Emperor Commodus as Hercules

Hendrick Goltzius, 1592

Engraving of a seated woman resting her head on her hand, with a winged cupid beside her and a wreathed figure holding a cup

Ariadne, Cupid and Bacchus

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1788

Engraving of nude bathing nymphs in a wooded landscape beside a rock and pool, with draped cloth and foliage.

Bathing Nymphs

Francesco Bartolozzi, March 1, 1787

Sepia engraving of a bearded painter with palette and brushes, beside a cherub holding a dog's chain and a bow.

Guercino Self-Portrait

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1790-99

Etching of Venus standing in a chariot pulled by sea creatures, with nude attendants, cherubs in the sky and a distant mounta

Venus on a Chariot

Pierre Brébiette, 1640-49

Engraving of Apollo grasping Daphne as she turns into a laurel tree, with a river god pouring water below.

Apollo and Daphne

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of blindfolded Cupid riding an eagle inside an oval medallion within a decorative rectangular frame.

Cupid Astride an Eagle

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96