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Musée du Louvre (Department of Paintings)

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Nude woman in red hat and jeweled necklace holding a veil, standing before dark trees with a castle and lake beyond.

Venus in a Landscape

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529

Fresco of classical women in draped robes presenting gifts to a standing woman in a red gown, with a small child at right.

Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to Giovanna degli Albizzi

Sandro Botticelli, 1483

Ceiling painting of Bacchus and Ariadne on a panther-drawn chariot, framed by gilded stucco and reclining marble figures.

L'Automne ou Le Triomphe de Bacchus et d'Ariane

Hugues Taraval, 1769

Painting of Venus seated nude on clouds beside Adonis, who holds arrows and embraces her, with white doves in a blue sky.

Vénus et Adonis

Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle, 1772

Painting of Venus reclining nude on red cushion, Adonis in golden armour with spear, and cupids in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Francesco Albani, 1630

Sketch of a seated Jupiter reaching toward a kneeling huntress with a bow and arrows, with putti in clouds below.

Diane implorant Jupiter de ne pas l'assujettir aux lois de l'hymen

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1802

Painting of nude Apollo flaying a bound satyr beneath a tree while other satyrs and two draped women watch in a forest.

Apollo Flaying Marsyas

Filippo Lauri, 1650

Painting of nude women bathing in a grotto stream as a hunter with stag antlers and a red cloak approaches with dogs.

Diana and Actaeon

Giuseppe Cesari, 1603

Painting of Venus embracing Adonis, with a Cupid and two hunting dogs in a dark wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Luca Cambiaso, 1560

Two running figures in a hilly landscape, a woman in blue drapery fleeing a young man in yellow, with a cupid on a cloud abov

Apollo and Daphne

Francesco Albani, 1615

Helmeted Minerva with spear and shield stands at right beside draped Muses, instruments and books, and cherubs in the trees.

Minerva and the Muses

Jacques Stella, 1635

Painting of a sleeping nude youth in a dark forest as a pale luminous female figure approaches through mist and foliage.

Girodet Sleep of Endymion

Anne-Louis Girodet, 2010

Rubens painting of nude figures on clouds, including Ixion embracing a cloud, a peacock, a cupid, and a seated god.

Ixion, king of the Lapiths, deceived by Hera (Juno)

Peter Paul Rubens, 1615

Painting of a garden landscape with a pyramidal fountain, a broken Neptune statue in water, women on steps, and tall trees.

Paysage composé : la Rivière, dit aussi Fontaine pyramidale avec une statue de Neptune brisée

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1700

Venus on a gilded chariot led by Cupid toward a reclining figure in a dark wooded landscape, with putti above.

Venus Led by Cupid to the Dead Adonis

Jacopo Bertoia, 1550

Oil painting of reclining Venus with armored Mars, cupids, a dog and attendants before a smoky forge glow.

Mars and Venus in Vulcan's Forge

Luca Giordano, 1670

Painting of reclining Venus on a bed with cupids working at a forge in a wooded landscape by Francesco Albani.

The Rest of Venus and Vulcan

Francesco Albani, 1621

Painting of two nude women bathing by a forest pool with hunting dogs, bows, arrows and dead game beside them.

Diana leaving her Bath

François Boucher, 1742

Baroque allegory of a helmeted woman with a spear, crowned by putti, with a trampled figure, palette and open book below.

Allegory of France as Minerva Trampling Ignorance and Crowning Virtue

Sebastiano Ricci, 1718

Classical landscape with figures by a river, a lyre player, a fortified city with a bridge, and dark clouds above.

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

Nicolas Poussin, 1650

Large painting of Venus on clouds with Vulcan beside armor, surrounded by cupids and doves in a blue sky.

Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1757

Painting of Bacchus in a chariot with panthers, satyrs, and a reclining woman holding grapes in a pastoral landscape.

Le Triomphe de Bacchus

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1747

Painting of Minerva enthroned on clouds above women and cupids gathered among books and art tools.

Minerva and the Arts

Nicolas Pierre Loir, 1666

Painting of Vulcan holding a sword below Venus seated on clouds with a cherub, swans and armor nearby.

Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1732

Landscape painting with a waterfall, a pool, and women with hunting dogs in a wooded scene by Paul Bril, 1615.

Landscape with Diana Discovering the Pregnancy of Callisto

Paul Bril, 1615

Reclining nude woman sleeps as a satyr approaches, with a cupid in a tree, hunters and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Jupiter and Antiope

Titian, 1551

Circular painting of an embracing couple with a leafy garland, the woman in a pink gown and pearls, the man in blue, before d

Mythological Couple

Paris Bordone, 1540

Oval painting of Apollo chasing Daphne, who reaches for a laurel branch, with a river god and spilling urn below.

Apollo pursuing Daphne

René-Antoine Houasse, 1677

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph beside a stone well, watched by a satyr leaning over it, with a pink curtain and landscape.

A Sleeping Nymph with a Satyr

Giulio Carpioni, 1660

Painting of a seated nude young man with a staff and grapes, pointing skyward, in a wooded landscape with mountains and a lak

Saint John the Baptist, known as Bacchus

Francesco Melzi, 1510