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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,442 works

Engraved ornament with a winged female figure centred between owls, griffins, rabbits and scrolling foliage.

Bellone

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Etching of a satyr on stage pulling back a curtain and pointing at an audience, with jesters at lower left.

Satyr standing on a stage and pointing downward toward an audience, two jesters gesticulate at lower left

Pierre Hutin, 1755

Engraved fireplace design with sphinxes, a cupid on draped canopy, urn and garlands, title banner below.

Design for a Fireplace Surmounted by Sphynxes and Cupid, title page from "Nouveaux dessins de cheminées à l'italienne"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Etching of a satyr drinking from a vase held up by putti, with draped curtains, vines and a seated figure at left.

Design for a Panel with a Satyr Drinking from a Vase held up by a Putti, from "Feuillages et autres ornements"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Etched decorative frieze with Neptune and Amphitrite in a sea chariot above and tritons and mermaids among waves below.

Two Designs for Frieze Decorations with Sea Creatures, of which one features Neptune and Amphitrite, from "Frises, fe…

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Etched ornamental print with two friezes of acanthus scrolls, fruit garlands, sea figures and a classical bust in a medallion

Two Designs for Friezes with Acanthus Scrolls, from "Frises, Feuillages ou Tritons Marins à la romaine"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Etching of two ornamental panels with putti, acanthus scrolls, grapevines, satyr figures and a candelabra.

Two Designs for Panels with Candelabra Decorations, from "Montants d'ornement"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1640-82

Etching of a horned satyr and a bacchant embracing beside a staff, with a draped tent and landscape behind them.

Bacchant, Satyr, and Fauness, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740

Etching of two putti with grapes and a jug beside a reclining figure, with a hazy landscape behind them.

Bacchanal

Pierre Parrocel, 17th-18th century

Engraved oval print of a vase with serpent handles, a satyr mask base, and a nude figure riding a goat.

Vase with mask, a nude cup-bearing figure riding a goat followed by a satyr, and reptile handles, an oval composition…

Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 1751-58

Engraving of Cupid on a chariot drawn by four horses, with figures on foot, a temple and a hilltop town behind.

Triumph of Love: four horses draw a carriage with Cupid standing upon a smoking platform, preceded by gods and goddes…

Georg Pencz, ca. 1539

Etching of a satyr carrying another figure on his back while a young satyr wades through water beside dense foliage.

Satyr family, on the move

Salomon Gessner, 18th century

Etching of a satyr playing a pipe with dancing putti, one holding a tambourine and another a mask, beside a low wall.

Satyr playing a pipe beside a putti holding a mask, surrounded by putti climbing over a low wall and dancing with mus…

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Etching of a woman seated by a river with two satyrs, ruined arched aqueduct and trees in the background.

Corsica seated before satyrs on the bank of a river, from a pair of plates for Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor fido"

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1640

Etching of satyrs carrying a drunken Silenus, with a putto holding grapes and a woman at left.

Three satyrs carrying the drunken Silenus, preceded by a putto carrying grapes; behind them a satyr carrying a large…

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Etching of a peasant family eating at a table while a satyr with goat legs sits on a chair beside cabbages.

The Satyr and the Peasant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1764

Engraving of Jupiter as a helmeted warrior with sword and shield, beside a tree and a distant walled town.

Jupiter, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B., 1528

Engraving of Venus with long curly hair holding an arrow and flaming heart beside a tree, with a bull at her feet.

Venus, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B., 1529

Brown and white wash drawing of Venus at left with cupids playing around trees in an oval landscape.

Venus at left in the company of cupids playing

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1520-27

Etching of Pan reclining with two satyrs, a large vase on a pedestal, a sheep, and trees under a distant landscape.

Pan reclining at left with two standing satyrs, a large vase on a pedestal at right

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645

Engraved landscape of a seated woman under trees overlooking a harbor with sailing ships and ruined arches.

Seascape with Bacchus and Ariadne

Claude Lorrain, 1742

Engraving of Venus seated on clouds with Cupid holding an arrow beside her, finely hatched in black and white.

Venus and Cupid in the Clouds

Giovanni Paolo Cimerlino, 1568

Etching of Venus with cupids presenting armor and a shield to a helmeted warrior in a forest landscape.

Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas

Pietro Testa, ca. 1638-40

Engraving of muscular nude smiths hammering at an anvil in a forge, with a winged child and a draped woman at right.

The Forge of Vulcan

Cornelis Bos, 1546

Engraving of Bacchus with grapes and torch, a seated woman playing lyre, and winged Cupid with bow beside a wine press.

Bacchus, Music, Amor

Jan Sadeler, 1575-1600

Etching of a bearded centaur playing a lyre beside a young boy under trees, with centaurs and dogs in a wooded landscape.

The Education of Achilles

Giovanni Cesare Testa, 1650-55

Etching of Venus and Adonis reclining after the hunt, surrounded by putti, hunting dogs, and a dead boar in the foreground.

Venus and Adonis, surrounded by many putti, reclining after the hunt, with a dead boar in the lower right

Pietro Testa, 1631-37

Etching of women bathing an infant in a classical interior, with a centaur under a tree at left and attendants in the backgro

The birth and the infancy of Achilles

Pietro Testa, 1648-50

Engraving of muscular men poling ornate decorated boats through choppy water, with mythological figures and masks on the hull

Plate 6: figures in boats decorated with mythological subjects using poles to propel them

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-60

Engraving of Achilles dragging Hector's body by a chariot before a walled city, with a winged Victory figure above.

Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy

Pietro Testa, 1648-50