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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,394 works

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted horseman in a battle scene with fallen bodies, columns, a domed building and smoke.

Ulysses Entering Troy with the Death of Astyanax

Giuseppe Piattoli, 1785-1800

Moonlit coastal drawing with a rocky arch, a winged horse, small figures on the shore, and a calm sea beyond.

Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain, 1674

Lithograph of a muscular nude warrior grappling with a centaur, rendered in soft gray shading on cream paper.

Theseus Conqueror of the Centaur Eurytus

Eugène Delacroix, 1825

Graphite and white chalk drawing of a standing Apollo with radiating light, holding a wreath and lyre amid clouds.

Standing Figure of Apollo

Pen and wash drawing of Apollo with a lyre beside a nude woman, with Neptune and nymphs on a sea creature and a city behind.

Apollo and Galatea in a Landscape with Neptune and Three Nymphs

Orazio Samacchini, 1550-60

Engraving of mythological figures in draped robes and nude forms before a curtain and rocky landscape, with a dog at right.

Hercules dressed as a woman

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Pen and ink sketches of classical architecture, columns, scrollwork and putti for a decorative casket design.

Sketches for the Design of a Casket (recto); Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths(?) (verso)

Girolamo da Carpi, 1545-55

Ink and wash drawing of sea gods kneeling before a standing king on a pedestal, with cherubs and clouds above a harbor.

Neptune and other Marine Deities Paying Homage to Louis XIV

Michel Corneille the Younger, n.d.

Circular engraving of a sorceress offering a cup to a man beside a ship, with serpents and ornate architecture around them.

Circe Giving a Drink to Ulysses's Companions

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a bearded man leaning on a term pedestal with a lion mask, framed by hanging ornaments and reeds in an oval.

Term in the form of Hercules With His Club

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Etched landscape with a pollarded willow over a stream, dense trees at right, and a small satyr figure at lower left.

The Satyr

Charles-François Daubigny, 1850

Engraving of nude and draped muses with musical instruments and putti in a wooded landscape, by Antonio Fantuzzi.

Muses at the Foot of Mount Parnassus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of Venus bathing in a basin while nymphs pour water and attend her in a classical interior.

Venus Bathing Attended by Nymphs

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Red chalk drawing of crowned muses and winged figures in a forest, with women transforming into birds near a fountain.

The Nine Pierides Transformed into Magpies after Their Unsuccessful Competition with the Muses (Ovid, Metamorphoses,…

Antoine Dieu, n.d.

Engraving of Athena and Poseidon in a mythological contest, with a rearing horse, sea figures, and a winged figure above.

Contest between Athena and Poseidon

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Pencil drawing of a winged youth embracing a nude woman, with reclining and seated figures among clouds at right.

Mythological Scene, from the Legend of Cupid and Psyche

Bonaventura Genelli, early 19th-mid 19th century

Engraving of Adonis lying dead while women mourn him in a forest, with cupid above and a fruit-garland border.

The Death of Adonis

Jean Mignon, 1544

Engraving of a rocky river landscape framed by classical figures, putti, fruit garlands and an ornamental pediment.

Frame of Ignorance Defeated

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Pencil and chalk study of a draped female figure resting on a globe, with a separate head study looking upward at left.

Study for the Muse Urania

Michel Dorigny, mid-17th century

Engraving of the death of Adonis: a reclining youth surrounded by women, Cupid with a bow above, forest behind, fruit-garland

The Death of Adonis

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraved landscape with rocky peaks, a walled hilltop town with a domed church, trees, a house and ducks in the foreground.

Landscape from "Venus Pushing Cupid" frame

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Brown wash drawing of Neptune with a trident and Amphitrite among clouds and sea figures.

Allegory of Fishery: Neptune and Amphitrite

Gabriel François Doyen, 1768

Engraving of Actaeon with stag antlers beside nude women bathing at a fountain, framed by a decorative grotesque border.

The Metamorphosis of Actaeon

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Red-toned engraving of classical goddesses on a staircase before bearded gods, framed by reclining nudes and putti.

Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite Leaving Olympus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Red-ink engraving of a seated woman resting her head on her hand beside a well, with a fire and tree behind her.

Psyche

Léon Davent, ca. 1542

Grey wash drawing of Neptune and Amphitrite among clouds above sea figures, tritons and fish.

Allegory of Fishery: Neptune and Amphitrite

Gabriel François Doyen, ca. 1773

Engraving of Silenus carried by attendants of Bacchus, with satyrs, a horse, a ram, and figures holding vessels and fruit.

Silenus Carried by Two Attendants of Bacchus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1543

Engraving of a seated draped woman with an urn among clouds, flanked by a griffin, a dragon and serpentine creatures.

Jupiter's Eagle Bringing the Water to the Styx to Psyche

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Pen and brown ink drawing of two seated satyrs in a landscape with a hilltop building and a sun diagram.

Two Satyrs in a Landscape

Titian, ca. 1505-10

Engraving of nude Hercules standing over crouching Cacus beside classical columns and an arched opening.

Hercules and Cacus

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45