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Oil sketch of Neptune reclining with a trident amid dark blue waves, framed in ochre, by Eugène Delacroix.

Neptune apaisant les flots : Esquisse pour le salon de la Paix à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris

Eugène Delacroix, 1852

Sketch of floating muse-like women playing harp and lyre in a cloudy sky above a city of rooftops.

Esquisse pour le salon des Lettres de l'Hôtel de ville de Paris : Les muses parisiennes (plafond)

Jules Lefebvre, 1896

Loose sketch of a winged figure in orange drapery above draped female figures floating among pastel clouds, in an arched fram

Esquisse pour le salon d'entrée sud de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Apollon et les muses

Henri Martin, 1892

Sketch of white-robed women dancing in a circle among clouds, with cherubs and garlands in an octagonal frame.

Esquisse pour la mairie de Suresnes : Ronde des bacchantes (plafond central)

Edouard Michel-Lançon, 1898

Sketch of Bacchus enthroned on clouds with cherubs, winged figures and revelers raising glasses on a terrace below.

Esquisse pour la mairie du 12ème : Le triomphe de Bacchus (plafond du grand escalier)

Joseph Alexis Mazerolle, 1880

Loose sketch of two flowing female figures in pink drapery floating among pine branches above a green hillside.

Esquisse pour la bibliothèque de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : les Muses (Plafond)

Henri Martin, 1899

Loose painting of a nude bacchante with a laurel wreath holding a thyrsus staff, draped in blue fabric against a pale backgro

Bacchante au thyrse

Henry Cros, 1880

Painting of a reclining nude youth embraced by a draped woman in clouds, with a dog, bow and arrows beside him in a forest.

Diane et Endymion

Ecole allemande, 1780

Etching sheet of sketched heads, a bearded man in a hood, a satyr face, and scrolling cartouche forms by Stefano Della Bella.

Second collection of various scribbles and etching proofs. Two women's heads, a satyr and a cartouche. Twelfth number…

Stefano Della Bella

"Here is the Good-goddess, the Idean of the mountains," (Mellerio 148)

Odilon Redon, 1896

Lithograph of reclining Venus surrounded by winged cherubs in a forest, with a lute and arrows in the foreground.

Venus and the loves after Joseph Guichard

Félix Bracquemond, 1854

Etching of a reclining Cupid beside a blank stone, with clouds of figures above and a sea god on sea horses below.

Game of Fables. Cupid. First number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 489 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Engraving of a seated woman with a sunflower reaching toward a winged cupid holding a torch beneath a large tree.

Clytie and Cupid after Annibale Carracci. Dutuit page 340

Francesco Bartolozzi

Engraving of Apollo on a cloud with a lyre greeting two men, one with a winged helmet and caduceus, beneath a flying Pegasus.

Illustrations for the works of Jean-François Regnard, Apollo... (Portalis, tome I, pages 17 et 19)

Antoine Borel, 1790

Etching of a crowned winged figure with a scepter and eagle seated on a cloud, rendered in fine parallel hatching.

Game of Fables. Jupiter. Fourth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 490 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Pencil sketch of a winged Cupid playing an instrument inside an ornamental rococo cartouche on ochre paper.

Musician Cupid

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Pen and wash drawing of a reclining nude woman with two nymphs and a bearded triton, plus a cherub head at left.

Nymphes et triton

François Boucher, 1753

Etching of Neptune with a trident riding a shell chariot drawn by a sea horse through stormy waves.

Game of Fables. Neptune. Fifth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 529 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Engraving of Minerva arming Perseus in a wooded landscape, with a winged messenger at left and nymphs at a spring above.

Minerva giving arms to Perseus

Fauns and Caprids (doubtful piece)

Christian Wilhem Ernst Dietrich ou Dietricy

Etching of a seated woman in a long gown beside a peacock, with a hilly landscape and ruins behind her.

Game of Fables. Juno. Sixth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 491 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a woman in a chariot with a child and doves, set before cypress trees and an arched garden wall.

Game of Fables. Venus. Seventh number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 504 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a seated woman with a dog beside her in a dense wooded landscape with tree trunks.

Game of Fables. Diana. Eighth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 517 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Apollo standing with a lyre and quiver, a radiating halo above him, with rocks, trees and a rising sun behind.

Game of Fables. Apollo. Tenth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 505 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Bacchus walking with a dog beside a garden urn and tree, with a hedge and cloud in the background.

Game of Fables. Bacchus. Twelfth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 518 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Venus on a cloud-borne chariot above a sleeping Adonis, with a hunting dog in a wooded landscape.

Game of Fables. Venus and Adonis. Sixteenth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 525 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of three women walking arm in arm across a grassy garden landscape with trees, hedges and a fountain.

Game of fables. The Three Graces. Nineteenth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 513 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Apollo chasing Daphne, who raises leafy branching arms as she runs across a shadowed landscape.

Game of fables. Apollo and Daphne. Twentieth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 501 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of nine women with musical instruments under a tree, beside a helmeted figure carrying a shield, by Stefano Della Bel

Game of fables. The Nine Muses. Twenty-fourth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 533 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a figure riding a large eagle in flight over rough waves and rocks, dated 1644.

Game of fables. Jupiter and Ganymede. Twenty-sixth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 497 ; Dutuit 116)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644