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Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph)

Sandro Botticelli, 1480

Painting of a nude woman with a sheer veil, gold jewelry and elaborate hairnet, standing on rocky ground against black.

Venus

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532

Two nude women rest by a pond in a green wooded landscape, with a duck on the water and a distant building.

Two Nymphs at Rest (Jupiter and Callisto?)

Palma Vecchio, 1520

Painting of Orpheus seated in a forest clearing playing music as lions, deer, elephant, horse and birds gather around him.

Orpheus Charming the Animals with His Music

Roelant Savery, 1610

Painting of a wooded landscape with tall trees and a group of robed figures and a nude child on a path.

The Birth of Adonis

David Teniers the Elder, 1600

Painting of a reclining nude woman with red hair lying on grass in a dark, shadowy forest.

Nymph

Victor Müller, 1862

Nude figures dance in a circle around a statue of Venus in a Gothic arched rotunda.

Dance around the Statue of Venus

Hans Bock, 1570

Ornate painting of two women in a central medallion, surrounded by flower urns, griffins, and gilded scrollwork.

Juno and Flora

Ignaz Unterberger, 1775

Painted ornamental panel with a central medallion showing Jupiter and Hebe, framed by scrolls, urns, sphinxes and a Greek key

Jupiter and Hebe

Ignaz Unterberger, 1775

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bacchanal procession with a chariot, satyrs, maenads, putti and a big cat in an oval frame.

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Brown wash drawing of Venus on a cloud above smiths forging armour and a shield in a cave workshop.

Venus in the workshop of Vulcan, who is forging the weapons of Aeneas

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1752

Red chalk drawing of a bacchante on a goat beside a Pan herm, and a satyr fighting a buck in a rocky landscape.

Bacchante, sitting backwards on a goat on a Pan herm, and a satyr fighting a buck, placed in a landscape

Michel Corneille the Younger, 1520

Red chalk drawing of dancing nymphs and a piping satyr in a landscape, with seated figures in the foreground.

Dancing nymphs and satyrs

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil drawing of Apollo with a lyre offering a wreath to a woman, a winged horse behind them, and trees in the background.

Apollo presents the wreath to Poetry

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1766

Red chalk drawing of nude Hercules with club and lion skin inside a circular medallion with inscriptions, 1744.

Hercules with fur and club (Commemorative coin "Extraordinaire des Guerres 1744")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1744

Pen and brown ink drawing of nymphs and bearded river gods reclining by water jars beside reeds and a classical ruin.

Nymphs and River Gods

François Boucher, 1735

Pen and wash drawing of a mythological bacchanal with nude figures, satyrs, a seated woman and a flying putto in a landscape.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Raymond de Lafage

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude smith hammering at an anvil in a forge, with a figure behind him, inside a circular frame.

Cyclops in the forge of Vulcan (Special coin "Extraordinaire des Guerres 1751")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1751

Red chalk drawing of a nude figure leaning over a pool in a wooded landscape with trees and rocks.

Narcissus contemplates his reflection in the spring

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and wash drawing of a reclining woman on a couch surrounded by nude revelers, a lute player and a horse in a landscape.

Marriage of Bacchus and the sleeping Ariadne

Raymond de Lafage

Red chalk medallion drawing of Mercury playing a flute beside a cow as a reclining man sleeps in the foreground.

Mercury lulls Argus to sleep with his flute playing to abduct Juno, who has been transformed into a cow (Special coin…

Edmé Bouchardon, 1742

Grey wash drawing of a laurel-crowned ruler offering sacrifice before a Cupid statue, with cherubs in the clouds above.

A ruler crowned with a laurel wreath has sacrifices offered before the statue of Cupid

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

Pen and grey wash drawing of nymphs and fauns dancing around a pan herm, with a reclining nude in the foreground.

Bacchanal, nymphs and fauns dance around a pan herm

Raymond de Lafage

Pen and chalk drawing on blue paper of Bacchus and Ariadne reclining under a tree with cherubs bringing grapes.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1742

Watercolor of a ruined temple colonnade with a seated Jupiter statue and small figures gesturing toward it, in a circular fra

Architectural Capriccio: Interior of a temple ruin with a statue of Jupiter tonans and figures

Victor-Jean Nicolle

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman and a nude figure with a crescent headpiece, with two cupids on a cloud above.

Jupiter, in the guise of Diana, approaches Callisto

Johannes van Dreght, 1780

Pencil drawing of a wooded landscape with a seated figure and dogs resting by a path at the lower right.

Diana resting at the edge of a forest

Friedrich Preller the Elder

Grey wash drawing of nude women bathing in a stream under a rocky hillside with a tree, a hunter with bow at right.

Diana surprised by Actaeon

Cornelius van Poelenburgh

Pencil sketch of a man in a long coat holding a book beside a tree with a cupid, birds and a shrub.

Man with glasses walking in sunshine, Cupid above him

Brown wash drawing of a leaning tree and a reclining figure in a wooded landscape under clouds.

Narcissus looks at himself in the spring

Nicolas Poussin

Red chalk drawing of a muscular male nude seen from behind, with a draped cloth over one arm on tinted paper.

Farnese Hercules

Gaspare Diziani

Brown wash drawing of a female figure and cupid leading a young man away from a sleeping centaur on rocky ground.

Eine weibliche Gestalt (Venus?) führt in Begleitung eines Amorknaben einen Jüngling von einem schlafenden Kentaur (Ch…

Pietro Antonio Novelli

Oval drawing of a seated woman, a putto with a trumpet and another winged putto among clouds, in grey pencil on paper.

Die Muse der Musik mit zwei Genien, deren einer eine Trompete trägt

Brown ink and wash drawing in an oval: a woman holds a lamp over a sleeping reclining youth beside draped fabric.

Cupid and Psyche

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and wash drawing of a reclining bearded man beside an anvil, with smiths working at a forge in an arched workshop.

In Vulcan's smithy

Pen and wash drawing of a spear-holding warrior beside a seated smith, a seated woman, and a child with an urn.

Mars in der Schmiede des Vulkan, vor Venus stehend, die Amors Pfeile in Honig taucht

Brown wash drawing of four figure groups including satyrs, goats, a bearded man with a book and a wine jug.

Four groups with satyr and silenus

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil drawing of a woman with fish and a triton lifting a conch shell to his lips.

Mädchen mit Triton und Fischen

Cornelis de Wael, 1620

Drawing of a nude woman reaching out near a tree, with a reclining figure by water in a blue-toned wooded landscape.

Landschaft mit Apollo und Daphne

Willem van Mieris

Pen and ink drawing on grey paper of three allegorical figures: armored Mars, crowned Venice with a lion, and bearded Neptune

Mars, Venezia and Neptune (trompe-l'œil sculpture)

Gaspare Diziani

Grey wash drawing with red chalk of a fountain with sea horses, putti and scrolled ornament, with Dutch handwriting below.

A neptune fountain

Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Pen and grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with figures bathing by a stream beneath tall trees.

Landschaft mit Diana und Aktäon

Joseph Anton Koch, 1832

Pen and ink drawing with white highlights on blue paper showing three classical figures: Venus with a cupid, Mercury with win

Venus, Mercury and Minerva (trompe-l'œil sculpture)

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and grey wash drawing of Jupiter reclining beside Alcmene, surrounded by cherubs and classical architecture.

Jupiter in de gedaante van Amphitrion by Alcmene

Brown ink and wash drawing of a Bacchic procession with a central nude youth, a tambourine player, a piper and a satyr with g

Bacchantenzug (Triumph des Bacchus)

Ink and wash drawing of Athena guiding a youth among clouds, with a reclining nude and winged figures below.

Athena shows a youth the path of virtue

Gaspare Diziani

Painted bouquet of red ranunculus, white narcissus and blue flowers tied with a pink ribbon, with a yellow butterfly.

Blumengebinde mit roter Ranunkel (Ranunculus), weißer Tazette (Narcissus tazetta) und blauer Blume (?) mit Postillon

Barbara Regina Dietzsch

Red chalk drawing of two satyrs, one muscular and nude in the foreground, the other with hairy goat-like legs behind.

Two satyrs

Pen and brown wash drawing of Venus beside Cupid, shown as a sculpture in an arched niche.

Venus with Cupid (trompe-l'œil sculpture)

Gaspare Diziani

Graphite drawing of a nude youth reclining on draped cloth, with a hound standing beside him at left.

The dead Adonis

Bonaventura Genelli

Pencil sketch of Roman ruins with a vaulted arch, a bell tower, fallen columns in the foreground and a distant dome.

Blick auf den Tempel der Venus und der Roma sowie über den Campo Vaccino des Forum Romanum in Rom

Friedrich Mosbrugger

Brown ink and wash sketch of a fountain design with a central standing figure and reclining figures on rocks.

Design for a nymph fountain

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and wash sketch of Jupiter reclining on clouds beside Psyche and a winged Cupid figure.

Psyche in front of Jupiter

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Pencil drawing of Bacchus with ivy crown and thyrsus beside a faun raising grapes, on pale paper.

Bacchus and Faun

Friedrich Mosbrugger, 1827

Pen and wash drawing of seated Hercules beside standing nude Omphale, with Cupid holding a club and figures behind a pedestal

Hercules and Omphale

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and wash drawing of Diana aiming a bow at a satyr carrying off nymphs through a wooded landscape.

Diana verfolgt den Räuber ihrer Nymphen

Pierre Brébiette, 1626

Ink and wash sketch of a crowned, bearded standing figure holding a thunderbolt, with a draped cloak and an eagle beside him.

Stehender Zeus mit dem Donnerkeil in der Rechten, neben ihm der Adler

Georg Rafael Donner

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining nude woman on a bed as a winged figure descends from above.

Jupiter and Semele

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and watercolor drawing of a bacchanalian procession with a chariot, nude revelers, elephants, and a classical temple.

The triumph of Bacchus

Johann Viktor Platzer, 1625

Grey wash drawing of nymphs around a reclining woman in a wooded landscape, a fountain at right and a hunter with hounds in t

Diana und Kallisto, im Hintergrund der sich nähernde Aktaion

Jacob Lois, 1643

Pen drawing of a grotesque satyr-like mask made of curling leaves, with horns and a snarling open mouth.

Satyr-like leaf mask

Christoph Amberger

Pen and grey wash drawing of Venus and Apollo with Cupid floating among clouds, one arm raised.

Venus, Apoll und Amor, durch die Wolken schwebend

Johann Matthias Kager

Pen and wash drawing of Venus and Cupid under a draped tent, with Flora and Zephyr embracing at left.

Venus und Amor unter einem Zelt sitzend, links von ihnen stehen Flora und Zephir

Joseph Heintz the Elder

Pen sketch of clouds, putti, a sun chariot and seated gods arranged across a celestial composition on pale paper.

Tierkreis mit Jupiter und Merkur, vor denen ein Fürst sitzt, rechts unten Phoebus auf dem Sonnenwagen, links oben der…