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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,378 works

Decorative panel of two spotted panthers eating grapes beneath a vine, with red and green parrots perched above on a gold gro

Panthers of Bacchus Eating Grapes

Alexandre François Desportes, ca. 1719-20

Painting of Perseus on a winged horse with a sword, approaching a nude Andromeda beside a cliff as a sea monster rises below.

Perseus and Andromeda

Bernardino Cesari, 1600

Portrait of a young woman in a gold gown sketching in a large book on a red sofa, with a classical urn and sunset sky behind

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, ca. 1836-37

Venus reclines nude on a gilded couch with doves and cupids attending her beside a teal drapery and a pearl necklace.

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher, 1751

Nude woman as Diana the huntress with bow and quiver, beside a resting deer in a dark green forest.

Diana the Huntress

Giampietrino, 1526

Painting of four young musicians with a lute, violin and sheet music, one winged figure, against a dark background.

The Musicians

Caravaggio, 1597

Painting of three nude women before an armored knight and a bearded man beneath an oak, with Cupid overhead and a castle land

The Judgment of Paris

Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca. 1528

Painting of a goddess on a golden chariot pulled by winged griffins, surrounded by a crowd of women in a hilly landscape.

Goddess of Chaste Love

Francesco di Giorgio, 1468

Reclining nude Venus on blue cloth with Cupid holding a laurel wreath over an incense burner, red curtain behind.

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto, 1520s

Painting of nude men, centaurs and satyrs hunting wild animals in a forest, with fire and smoke in the distance.

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494-1500

Painting of a mythological procession with nude and gowned women, winged putti, and attendants under a dark teal sky.

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Andrea Schiavone, 1550

Painting of a blind giant with a bow carrying a guide on his shoulders through a forest, toward clouds and a distant sea.

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin, 1658

Painting of Venus embracing Adonis, with a cupid, hunting dogs, and a rainbow over a dark forest landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Titian, 1550s

Painting of reclining nude Venus holding a laurel wreath, with winged Cupid beside her on a blue drape before red curtains.

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto, 1530

Painting of Venus embracing Mars in armor beside a grey horse, with two cupids and classical ruins in a landscape.

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese, 1570s

Painting of nude women bathing in a woodland pool beside a rocky outcrop, with a hunter and dog at the right edge.

Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1836

Painting of a woman as Diana holding a golden bow, with arrows, leopard fur, and a red drape beside a tree.

Madame Bergeret de Frouville as Diana, formerly identified as Madame de Maison-Rouge

Jean-Marc Nattier, 1756

Painting of Flora and Zephyr embracing in a garden with cupids scattering flowers beneath a stone urn.

Flora and Zephyr

Jacopo Amigoni, 1730s

Nude woman beside a swan with infants hatching from eggs in a wooded landscape with a distant building.

Leda and the Swan

Francesco Bacchiacca

Nude women bathe in a forest pool beside a rocky cliff while a hunter with a dog enters the woods on the right.

Diana and Actaeon

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1836

Painting of a seated woman drawing a bow as a winged Cupid kneels beside her, with hunting dogs and a wooded landscape behind

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni, 1761

Painting of several episodes from the Argonauts story: a ship, a golden procession, a rider crossing a bridge, and a city.

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Biagio d'Antonio

Painting of Diana with nymphs, hunting dogs and a winged cupid carrying a torch beneath a tree.

Diana

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1849

Oval painting of two reclining women in a forest with cherubs in clouds and an eagle at left.

Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto

François Boucher, 1763

Nude woman with long auburn hair seated against a rocky cliff, draped in white cloth, looking startled.

Echo

Alexandre Cabanel, 1874

Painting of a draped white figure on a cliff while several dogs bark and leap across a sunlit, ochre landscape by the sea.

Pallas Athena and the herdsman’s dogs

Briton Rivière, 1876

Painting of a reclining nude woman on a leopard-print cloth in grass by the sea, with a tree and cloudy sky behind her.

Bacchante by the Sea

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865

Reclining nude woman on sea waves with flying cherubs above her, under a pale blue sky.

The Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel, 1875

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph in a dark forest, watched by a satyr with a staff, a shepherd nearby.

Nymph and Shepherd

Johann Liss, 1625

Painting of a young woman in a white blouse with a patterned headband, one hand raised to her head, against a dark backdrop.

The Muse: History

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, ca. 1865