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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,442 works

Engraving of a woman pointing while a kneeling figure fills a jug at a fountain guarded by serpents, with a rocky landscape b

Venus ordering Psyche to take water from a fountain guarded by dragons, from 'Fable of Cupd and Psyche'

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre pointing at a kneeling man about to flay Marsyas, bound naked to a tree at left.

Apollo seated at the right with a lyre, pointing to a kneeling man who is about to flay Marsyas tied naked to a tree…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of men at a classical altar with fire, leading a bull and ram, with a nude statue on a pedestal at left.

Psyche's father consulting the oracle, from 'The Fable of Psyche'

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Jupiter with an eagle and Mercury on clouds, Venus in a dove-drawn chariot at right, from The Fable of Psyche.

Venus in her dove-drawn chariot complaining to Jupiter who is accompanied by Mercury, from 'The Fable of Psyche'

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a seated woman carried on a litter past grieving figures, a winged child and pipe players, with Italian verses b

Plate 5: Psyche carried on a litter to a mountain, from "The Fable of Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre gesturing to a kneeling man while nude Marsyas is tied to a tree at left.

Apollo seated at the right with a lyre on his knee, pointing to a kneeling man who is about to flay Marsyas who is ti…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a crowd in classical dress before columns, with cupids and a goddess among clouds above.

Plate 2: the people rendering divine honors to Psyche, from "The Fable of Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of crowned figures seated on a dais under drapery, attendants standing beside columns, with Italian verse below.

Plate 3: Psyche's two sisters are married to kings, from "The Fable of Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of men sacrificing a bull and ram at a flaming classical altar, with a nude statue and Italian verse below.

Plate 4: Psyche's father consulting the oracle, from "The Fable of Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Zephyr carrying Psyche through clouds above a seated woman, with attendants and columns in a garden at right.

Plate 6: Zephir carrying off Psyche to an enchanted palace, from "The Fable of Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraved portrait of Apollo with curly hair, a draped mantle, and a laurel branch against a dark background.

Apollo wearing a mantle and holding a laurel branch and violin

Victor Marie Picot, 1784

Etched frontispiece with a seated allegorical figure, horned creatures on each side, a church, and a Latin inscription below.

The New Metamorphosis: Frontispiece, Vol.1

William Hogarth, 1724

Etching of Psyche holding a lamp over the sleeping winged Cupid on a bed in a columned bedchamber.

The New Metamorphosis, Plate 6: The Story of Cupid and Psyche

William Hogarth, 1724

Engraving of an ornate ewer with a central scene of Venus in a shell boat, cupid, and decorative grotesque masks.

Ewer with Venus

Engraved ewer decorated with Neptune riding sea horses over waves, with shells, putti and scrollwork ornament.

Ewer with Neptune

Etching of an ornamental salt-cellar topped by reclining Neptune with sea horses, with putti and winged figures on the base.

Salt-cellar with Neptune

Engraving of nymphs attending Psyche in a bath, with a sleeping figure in bed at right and Italian verse below.

Plate 7: Psyche attended in her bath by nymphs, in the background right Psyche represented again laying in bed, from…

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1520-36

Engraving of Psyche at a table with winged Eros and attendants, drapery behind, and men reading at right.

Plate 8: Psyche seated at a table and attended by invisible servants, Eros beside the goddess, from "The Fable of Cup…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of nymphs helping nude Psyche dress her hair in a draped bedroom, with Italian verse below.

Plate 10: nymphs assisting Psyche to dress her hair, from "The Fable of Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Psyche presenting a basket of treasures to two seated sisters before classical columns, with winged figures in c

Plate 11: Psyche gives presents to her sisters, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of two seated women and a standing woman in an interior with curtains, a column, and a sea view with boats.

Plate 12: Psyche's sisters persuade her a serpent is sleeping with her, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a kneeling nude woman gazing up at winged Cupid in a tree, with a river landscape and Italian verse below.

Plate 14: Cupid airborne gleeing from Psyche, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Psyche speaking with two sisters before classical columns, with a winged Cupid above a rock and Italian verse be

Plate 15: Psyche relating her misfortunes to her sisters, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of gods on clouds around Jupiter, with an eagle, a peacock, and Mercury kneeling at lower right, above Italian vers

Plate 30: Venus and Cupid pleading their case in the presence of Jupiter and other Gods, from "The Fable of Cupid and…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Venus directing the kneeling Psyche to sort grain before classical columns and arches, with a seated figure behi

Plate 22: Venus ordering Psyche to Sosort a heap of grain, from the 'Fable of Psyche'

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Etching of helmeted Mars leaning on a shield with a small nude Cupid pointing upward at the right.

Mars standing at the left leaning on a shield, Cupid at the right

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-46

Etching of a draped female figure seen from behind, drawing a bow beside a tree branch, in hatched linework.

Diana firing her bow viewed from behind

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1538-40

Etching of Daphne turning into a laurel tree as Apollo, holding a bow, reaches toward her in a grassy landscape.

Apollo at right holding a bow chasing Daphne at the left

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1538-40

Etching of Cupid seen from behind, raising an arrow in one hand and holding a bow in the other.

Cupid viewed from behind holding an arrow in his raised right hand, a bow in his left

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1543-45

Engraving of a nude muscular man seated beside a draped woman, with a lion skin at his feet, against hatched background.

Hercules and Deianira