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Rijksmuseum

3,042 works

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion under trees, with a hound running in the background.

Hercules in gevecht met de Nemeïsche leeuw

Gabriel Salmon, 1528

Woodcut of Hercules carrying a boar on his shoulder with a club, set among tree trunks in a forest.

Hercules vangt het zwijn van Erymanthus

Gabriel Salmon, 1528

Engraved allegory: a seated woman reaches up as a crown and coins fall, with a lion and globe beside her and a figure above.

Juno schenkt de kroon van de doge aan Venetië

Valentin Lefèbvre, 1682

Hand-colored engraving of an allegorical arch with Venus in a chariot, cupids, and a coastal landscape beyond.

Toneel met de kroning van Venus, 1599

Pieter van der Borcht, 1599

Hand-coloured engraving of a bearded Hercules figure on a pavilion, chaining seated women holding coats of arms, with the mot

Hercules Gallicus, 1599

Pieter van der Borcht, 1599

Engraving of Saint John the Evangelist writing at a desk, with an eagle perched on a pillar behind him and an inkwell in fron

De evangelist Johannes

Lucas van Leyden, 1518

Engraving of a hooded figure writing on a tablet, seated beside a reclining ox with a tree and flask behind.

De evangelist Lucas

Lucas van Leyden, 1506

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude woman chained to rocks, with a winged rider on a flying horse above.

Perseus en Andromeda

Leonaert Bramer, 1606

Engraving of a classical nude female statue standing on a pedestal beside a dolphin, signed Mellan and dated 1675.

Standbeeld van Venus of Amphitrite

Claude Mellan, 1675

Hand-colored print with two religious scenes: Saint Job with an angel above, and Christ riding a donkey into Jerusalem among

Saint Job / Den H. Job / Entrée à Jérusalem de notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ [(...)]

M. Hemeleers-van Houter, 1827

Two ornamental etched frames with scrollwork; left shows Venus and Cupid on clouds, right shows a nude figure with drapery.

Lijst met Venus en Cupido en lijst met naakte vrouw

Susanne Maria von Sandrart, 1668

Page from a book showing a photo of a chained Bible on a lectern and an engraving of Cumnor Place with trees and a stone brid

Chained bible, Cumnor Church

Henry W. Taunt, 1907

Engraving in a circle of Venus reclining with a wine cup, Bacchus with grapes, Ceres with wheat, and a cherub, 1595.

Bacchus, Ceres en Venus

Hendrick Goltzius, 1595

Mezzotint of the Madonna and child under a palm tree, with a cherub above and a rabbit in the foliage at right.

Madonna met kind onder een palmboom

Richard Earlom, 1768

Mezzotint of sleeping nude nymphs and Diana in a forest, watched by satyrs, with hunting dogs and dead game in the foreground

Slapende Diana en haar nimfen bespied door saters

Richard Earlom, 1784

Brown ink and wash drawing of Venus spanking a winged Cupid who lies across her lap on draped cloth.

Venus spanking Cupid

Constantijn Netscher, 1682

Engraving of Mercury riding Pegasus in a central cartouche, surrounded by ornate scrollwork, cherubs, eagles and foliage.

Rechthoekige cartouche met Mercurius op Pegasus

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1565

Etching of a violinist in a forest surrounded by animals including sheep, deer, dogs, and birds, with a distant town.

Orpheus betovert de dieren met zijn muziek

Jan van Ossenbeeck, 1660

Etched frieze of a satyr aiming a bow at a Bacchus statue as Mercury watches, with nymphs, a goat and birds in woodland.

Sater schiet een pijl op een beeld van Bacchus terwijl Mercurius toekijkt

Pierre Brébiette, 1617

Etching of Bacchus seated on a leopard with bacchantes, satyrs, putti, a donkey and a goat among vine garlands.

Bacchus gezeten op een luipaard omringd door bacchanten en een ezel

Pierre Brébiette, 1617

Etching of Bacchanalian revelers with satyrs, putti, a donkey and goats in a wooded landscape, with women at right.

Bacchanten met ezel en bokken

Pierre Brébiette, 1617

Etching of Bacchus and his followers, nymphs and satyrs, in a festive procession with a donkey and goats.

Bacchus en zijn gevolg door nimfen gevangen

Pierre Brébiette, 1617

Engraving of Apollo with a laurel wreath and lyre reclining on clouds, framed by a decorative octagonal border.

Apollo op een wolk

Jan Evert Grave, 1777

Engraving in a circle of Venus with grapes and wheat, a winged Cupid at her feet, with a Latin inscription around the rim.

Venus en Cupido

Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

Engraved title page with two classical figures beside a lyre pedestal, papal keys and tiara above, and Latin inscription.

Apollo en Erato bij de bron van Hippocrene

Cornelis Galle, 1632

Engraved title page with Apollo and Erato beside a lyre, papal arms, and an inscribed plinth, Antwerp 1637.

Apollo en Erato bij de bron van Hippocrene

Cornelis Galle, 1637

Red and black printed page with two framed scenes of Odysseus, a galley, sirens with a harp, and printed verse.

Odysseus bij Polyphemus, de sirenen en Scylla

Walter Crane, 1887

Black and red line illustration of Ulysses with Circe and Calypso in ornamental borders, with verse text.

Odysseus bij Circe en het afscheid van Odysseus en Calypso

Walter Crane, 1887

Black-and-white print with red borders: armed men with bows on the left, and a man embracing a woman beside a brazier on the

Odysseus en Telemachus schieten met pijl en boog, en Penelope omhelst Odysseus

Walter Crane, 1887

Engraving of a seated Zeus statue in a domed temple, with wrestling athletes and onlookers in the foreground.

Standbeeld van Zeus in Olympia

Philips Galle, 1572