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Mythology

8,065 works

Red chalk drawing of an imaginary garden with classical urns, a carved figure, a niche, and fountain-like architecture.

Study for a Garden Capriccio

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Etching of a woman beside a white cow and a kneeling man with a staff, with trees on the left and open landscape on the right

Juno Delivering Io, plate 1 from The Story of Mercury and Argus

Moses van Uyttenbroeck, c. 1620-26

Ink and wash drawing of Neptune with a trident, spiked crown, and oval medallion showing horses and a chariot.

Design for Neptune with an Oval Medallion

Charles Percier

Pen and ink drawing of a rococo ornamental design with scrolls, a cornucopia of flowers, and hanging garlands.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration (recto); Daphne Pursued by Apollo (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Title page of an 1558 print series by Hieronymus Cock, with Latin heading and Dutch text in black type on paper.

Title Page, from Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological Scenes

Hieronymus Cock, 1558

Engraving of the sleeping goddess Diana reclining nude under a tree while a satyr watches from the left.

Sater bij slapende Diana

Jean Pelletier, 1746

Engraving of bacchantes with vine wreaths gathered around a fountain and a Bacchus statue, with rocks, trees, and ruins behin

Bacchanten

Jean Pelletier, 1746

Engraving of Narcissus reclining by a pool, reaching toward his reflection, with a dog and dense trees in a forest setting.

Narcissus

Jean Pelletier, 1746

Etching of Mars and Venus in a bath, with winged cupids holding drapery and attending the basin in a classical setting.

Mars and Venus in the Bath

Giovanni David, 1770-90

Print of a robed Orpheus holding a lyre labelled Concertgebouw, drawing a crowd of figures over Amsterdam rooftops toward the

Orpheus' Lier / Bij het vijf en twintig jarig bestaan van het Concertgebouw te Amsterdam

Johan Braakensiek, 1913

Pen and brown ink ornamental design with cherubs, garlands, a floral urn, and scrollwork, framed by a double border.

Ornamental Design

Jacob Roer, ca. 1694

Etching of Apollo driving a chariot drawn by horses through clouds, with sun rays radiating behind him.

[Apollo w rydwanie]

Nicolas Pierre Loir, 1679

Red chalk drawing of nude Andromeda chained to rock as a sea monster with open jaws rears at left.

Andromeda, after Agostino Carracci

Pieter Tanjé, 18th century

Etching of putti gathered around a classical column and helmeted warrior, with drawing sheets and smoke clouds above.

Putti bij een heiligdom van Minerva

Paul Troger, 1724

Pen and ink studies of a nude athlete, a seated lyre player, a centaur, and seven putti on pale paper.

Studies for the decoration of the Library, Palais Bourbon, Paris: standing nude athlete; seated man with a lyre; cent…

Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863

Etched frontispiece of a chapel altar with the Virgin Mary, kneeling worshippers, and an inscription naming Notre Dame de Bon

Frontispiece for the Miracles and Graces of Our Lady of "Bon-Secours-les-Nancy"

Jacques Callot, 1630

Brown ink and wash drawing of an oval ornamental cartouche with scrollwork and a central mythological scene of two figures.

Ornamental Design with Diana and Endymion in a Central Cartouche

Jacob Denys, n.d.

Engraving of a crowned Juno on clouds with a peacock and two winged cherubs, with a faint cityscape at the base.

Allegorische voorstelling met Juno

Bernard Picart, 1683

Engraving of Cupid holding a lamp over the sleeping nude Psyche, with an old woman watching startled in the shadows behind.

[Amor i Psyche. Inc.:] Aspice viator: fortis humanae vices [...]

Albert Haelwegh, 1673

Pen and brown wash drawing of a muscular bearded nude man holding a club, with a lion skin draped over his arm.

Hercules, Standing with a Club

Domenico Beccafumi, 1530-40

Brown wash drawing of draped nymphs dancing near a laden table in a wooded glade, with reclining men at right.

The Dance of the Nymphs, from The Tempest

Frederick Christian Lewis, 1810/40

Etching of a satyr family in a rural setting with an owl on a post, a goat, and a tree behind them.

Scherzi: the happy satyr and his family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Black and white chalk drawing of two muscular nude men wrestling, one lifting the other, on blue-grey paper.

Kopie naar een beeldengroep van Hercules en Antaeus

Cornelis Joseph d' Heur, 1717

Engraved print of Philemon and Baucis welcoming Jupiter and Mercury at a rustic table, with a goose and a hearth beside them.

Philemon et Baucis recoivent dans leur cabane Jupiter et Mercure

Joseph Van Loo, 1735

Head of a Satyr Facing Left

Jusepe de Ribera, ca. 1625-30

Etching of a peasant family eating at a table in a rustic interior, with a satyr holding a goat at right and a rooster above.

[Satyr u chłopów]

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1739

Black and white lithograph of the Dutch steam corvette Medusa under cannon fire in a Japanese bay, 1863.

Aanval op de Nederlandsche Stoomkorvet Medusa in de binnenzee van Japan, den 11 Julij 1863

Maarten Bos, 1863

Engraving of a seated musician playing a harp, surrounded by a lion, stag, boar, horses and a mouse under a tree.

Orpheus from Fighting Chimeras and Scenes from Aesop's Fables

Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594

Etching of a winged figure leaning toward a seated cupid-like child against hatched shadows.

Mab and Cupid (Mab et Cupidon)

Alphonse Legros

Engraving of Venus reclining in the clouds beside a winged Cupid holding a bow, within an oval frame.

Venus and Cupid in the Clouds

Jan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1592

Engraved frieze of a Bacchic triumph with centaurs, satyrs, a chariot and putti moving across a landscape strip.

The Triumph of Bacchus

Engraving of nude Venus with drapery beside winged Cupid holding a bow, in an oval frame with a distant landscape.

Venus and Cupid

Hendrick Goltzius, 1583