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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,442 works

Engraving of Minerva in a helmet teaching a young boy in a fleur-de-lis robe beside an inscribed plinth and olive tree.

Minerva Instructs the Dauphin

Claude Mellan, 1640

Engraving of three nude women holding a circular wreath and an inscribed draped cloth against a cloudy sky.

The Three Graces

Claude Mellan, 1659

Engraving of two nude male figures, Hercules and Atlas, supporting a large celestial globe marked with constellations above t

Hercules Assisting Atlas

Engraving of Minerva seated with a blank shield, flanked by figures of Peace holding an olive branch and Justice holding scal

Minerva Flanked by Peace and Justice (Armoiries de Gallard et de Mesmes)

Red chalk drawing of a standing nude woman with one hand on her chest, looking upward, on cream paper.

Standing Female Nude (after the Medici Venus)

Christian Daniel Rauch, 1805

Engraving of seated Minerva in a plumed helmet holding a spear, with a shield, books, a sphere and instruments beside her.

Minerva

Engraving of satyrs around a table in a garden, gazing at a cylindrical mirror showing an anamorphic elephant.

Satyrs Admiring the Anamorphosis of an Elephant

Hans Troschel, 17th century

Engraving of three winged putti among clouds, one holding up an arrow, with fine hatched shading on bodies and drapery.

Trois Amours dont un tient une flèche (Three Loves, one of which holds an arrow), from Premiere Livre de Groupes d'En…

Pierre Alexandre Aveline

Etching of playful putti riding and leading a goat among grapes and a fruit basket beneath trees.

The Feast of Bacchus

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, ca. 1738

Etching of nymphs and a triton beside a waterfall fountain beneath a classical urn, surrounded by foliage.

Naiades, Tritons and the Bath of Priap

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1736

Etching of cherubs resting after a hunt, with a dead hare, a bow and an ivy branch in a woodland setting.

The Return from the Hunt

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, ca. 1738

Engraving of Venus on clouds with cherubs and nymphs, while armored Aeneas gestures beside a reclining river god.

Venus and Aeneas

Pierre François Courtois, mid-18th century

Engraving of Venus reclining on clouds pouring nectar into Cupid's mouth, with two cherubs nearby.

Venus Giving Nectar to Cupid

Pierre François Basan, 18th century

Engraving of Mercury teaching a small winged Cupid from a book, with a reclining woman, doves, and clouds in the background.

Cupid Instructed by Mercury

Pierre François Basan, 18th century

Etching of an oval cartouche with a helmeted warrior and putti above and reclining figures among armor and instruments below.

The Forges of Vulcan, from Book of Cartouches

Johann Georg Hertel, mid-18th century

Engraving of an allegorical woman with arrow and comic mask, flanked by two cupids, within an oval frame with French verse.

Satyrical Poetry

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1741

Etching of two winged cupids on clouds, one holding a flaming torch over his shoulder and one gripping a bow.

Two Cupids, One Carrying a Torch, Another a Bow

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1727-60

Red chalk style print of two cupids playing beside a fountain among rocks and leafy branches.

Fountain with Two Cupids

Gilles Demarteau, ca. 1773

Engraved print of a reclining woman with a tambourine and a winged child offering flowers, amid clouds and drapery.

The Muse Erato, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"

Albert Ardail, 1890

Engraving of three cupids with a bow, arrow and flames inside an oval frame, with French inscription below.

Fire

Jean Daullé, ca. 1748

Engraving of three playful cupid infants embracing beneath a tree, with grapes, fruit and a bird in the foreground.

The Cheerful Cupids

Jean Daullé, 1750

Engraved print of the Apollo Belvedere statue, a standing nude male figure with a draped cloak and tree trunk, labeled ΑΠΟΛΛΩ

Apollo Belvedere

Asher Brown Durand, 1825

Engraving of a reclining nude woman on a white cloth in a forest clearing, with a distant sea and coastline at right.

Ariadne

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Etching of two chubby cupids on a cloud, one with feathered wings and one with bat wings, one holding an arrow.

Two Cupids, One with Bat Wings

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Engraving of two cupids on a cloud, one raising a torch and the other embracing a bouquet, with fine hatching.

Two Cupids, One Holding Torches

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of two cupids, one holding a flower wreath while the other reclines on a cloud, drawn in fine hatched lines.

Two Cupids, One Holding a Wreath

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of two winged cupids reclining on clouds, one holding a ball, with fine hatched shading.

Two Cupids, One Holding a Ball

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of three winged cupids tumbling together on clouds against a hatched background.

Three Cupids

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Engraving of three nude female figures on a cloud with a cherub holding two torches above them, garlands at their feet.

The triumph of the Graces

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet

Etching of several winged putti carrying garlands and baskets of fruit, some flying and some resting on clouds.

Groups of Children

François Boucher