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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,442 works

Engraving of winged cupids playing on rolling waves, one holding a billowing cloth above a group of putti.

Cupid on Water

Jean-Charles Le Vasseur, 1758

Engraving of the sleeping god Cupid reclining on drapery, with a quiver of arrows and a wooded landscape behind him.

The Sleep of Cupid

Jean-Baptiste Michel

Engraving of an old bearded man gesturing to a flute-playing youth beside sheep, with a classical temple and trees behind.

Termosiris Teaching Telemachus to Follow the Example of Apollo

Pietro Antonio Martini

Engraving of Diana and nymphs bathing by a forest stream while a young hunter, Actaeon, peers from the trees.

Diana and Acteon

Pierre François Tardieu

Engraved design of a rococo vase with a faun and a nymph on its body, standing on a pedestal with flowers at the base.

Design for a vase with a faun and a nymph, from Livre de Vases (Book of Vases), plate 10

Gabriel Huquier, 1742-50

Sepia wash print of Venus and Cupid with winged figures and cherubs among clouds in an oval frame.

Venus and Cupid

Richard de Saint-Non

Etching of three nude winged cupids tumbling in a somersault above a rocky mound, with an eagle perched at the lower right.

Three Cupids Turning a Somersault, an Eagle on the Right

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged cupids playing with a leafy vine branch, with one child reaching up and another leaning among the fol

Three Cupids Playing with Vine Branches

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged cupids in clouds, one holding a laurel branch and another embracing a plumed helmet.

Three Cupids Holding a Helmet

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three winged cupids on a ledge with a mirror, a flute, and a garland of fruit and leaves.

Three Cupids, Two Playing Music, One Holding Palm Leaves

Louis-Félix Delarue

Etching of three cupids playing among military trophies including a plumed helmet, shield and spear on a ledge.

Three Cupids with Military Trophies

Louis-Félix Delarue

Circular grey wash drawing of helmeted Minerva leading a procession of women beneath a tree in a landscape.

Minerva Leading a Procession of Women

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, mid-16th century

Engraving of allegorical figures under oak trees, with a helmeted woman with a spear, a pointing youth, and a rooster in the

Allegory on Good Government in France

Claude Mellan, 1685

Pen and wash drawing of a seated woman gesturing to a winged Cupid hiding his face in a wooded grove with putti.

Cupid's ruse

Hans Veit Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1792

Engraved print of a classical sculpted bust of a woman with braided hair in a niche, labeled Giunone on the pedestal.

Sculpted head of Juno

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

Engraving of two statue-like figures on pedestals: a draped woman on the left and a bearded Hercules in a lion skin on the ri

Terms of Hercules and Deianira

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

Etched title page showing a satyr-like figure writing beside a grinning monkey on a stone block bearing the title lettering.

Title Page, from Monkey-ana, or Men in Miniature

Thomas Landseer, 1827

Grey wash drawing of a winged putto riding a lion-like sea creature with a second head, highlighted in white on blue paper.

A Winged Putto Riding a Sea Horse and a Lion (recto); The Three Graces (verso)

Denys Calvaert, 1574

Brown wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around a seated Diana in a forest, with a man watching from the trees.

Diana and Actaeon

Joseph Bergler the younger, late 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor of a sleeping woman in blue drapery reclining in a shadowy landscape beside a golden vessel and a tree.

Psyche Asleep in a Landscape

Karl Agricola, 1837

Engraving of a Bacchic revel with dancing satyrs and figures around a Priapus statue hung with grape garlands, with Italian v

The sacrifice to Priapus who is in the form of a statue in the centre, Bacchus and a satyr at the left

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a seated nude woman from behind examining her foot beside a tree, with a hilltop town in the distance.

Venus removing a thorn from her foot

Master of the Die, 1532

Engraving of Juno and Venus in chariots drawn by peacocks and doves, with a cupid above and birds in a landscape below.

Allegory of Marriage and Love; Juno in a chariot drawn by peacocks at left, Venus in a chariot drawn by three doves a…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Apollo driving a horse-drawn chariot beside Venus in her beast-drawn chariot, with flying Cupid and swan above.

Apollo in his horse-drawn chariot at the left, above him above Jupiter hurls a thunderbolt, Venus at right in her cha…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a reclining river god embracing a young woman, with three nude nymphs carrying jars near rocks and trees.

Daphne embracing her father, the river-god Peneus, at the left three nymphs bring jars from the 'Story of Apollo and…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of nude Apollo shooting an arrow at a winged serpent, with muses above left and Cupid on a cloud at right.

Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupi…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Hercules with a raised club driving Envy or Avarice from a temple while the Muses watch.

Envy or Avarice at the right being driven from the temple of the Muses by Hercules who raises a club, the muses watch…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a seated woman with wheat riding a chariot pulled by two lions, with farm labourers in the background.

Cybele in her chariot drawn by two lions

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of reclining Bacchus with putti, one crowning him with vine leaves, and a nude statue of Priapus at right.

Bacchus surrounded by Putti, a statue of Priapus at right

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of bearded river gods pouring water from urns beside rocks, with a winged figure in clouds above and a woman in the

River gods consoling Peneus for the Loss of his Daughter, Daphne from 'The Story of Apollo and Daphne'

Master of the Die, 1530-60