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Mythology

8,104 works

Pen and brown ink study sheet with several nude figures, intertwined couples, and a winged cupid at upper left.

Studies for Apollo and Daphne, Zeus and Juno, Orpheus and Eurydice and other figures (recto and verso)

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, n.d.

Pen and wash study of a fountain with a seated woman, dancing figures, statues and an ornate scrolled frame.

Study for The Allegory of Spring

Federico Zuccaro, 1579

Pen and gray wash drawing of mythological figures, a chariot and horses among clouds, with faint transfer grid lines.

Studies of Aurora and Apollo

Pietro Fancelli, 1794

Engraved frieze of tritons, nymphs, putti and sea horses riding across waves in a mythological procession.

Frieze with Tritons and Nymphs

Girolamo Mocetto, 1515/20

Charcoal and chalk study of a crouching nude female figure resembling classical sculpture, seated on a pedestal, dated 1812.

Academic study after a sculpture: crouching Venus

Pieter Jan de Vlamynck, 1812

Japanese print of a potted sago palm, plum branch and adonis plants beside bundled ingots, with calligraphy at upper left.

Potted Sago Palm, Plum and Adonis Plants, with Copper and Silver Ingots

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, 1822

Drawing of Diana and her nymphs resting in a forest, with reclining figures and a cloth raised among the trees.

Diana mit ihren Nymphen im Wald rastend

François Boucher, 1740

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a rearing horse and rider, ornate chariot scrollwork, and studies of male heads.

Sheet of Sketches: Sculpture for a Banquet Honoring Queen Christina of Sweden

Giovanni Paolo Schor, early 17th-late 17th century

Brown wash drawing of Venus with Cupid between Bacchus and Ceres, with grapes, drapery and a distant landscape.

Venus mit Cupido zwischen Bacchus und Ceres

Daniël Kellerthaler, 1609

Brown wash drawing of a mountain landscape with a tower, a walking figure with a staff, and a large tree.

Gebirgige Landschaft mit Burg im Mittelgrund, vorne mythologische Szene

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Brown ink and wash landscape drawing of a river with a rowing boat, framing trees, a distant building and hills.

Landschaft: Fluss mit Fährmann (mythologische Szene?)

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Engraving of a woman beside a bear under a tree, with a chariot pulled by peacocks in clouds above a village landscape.

Juno verandert Callisto in een beer

Léon Davent, 1547

Etching of a bear on a hillside before a river and a ruined city with towers and arches under a rain cloud.

Callisto als beer smeekt tot Jupiter in een landschap met ruïnes

Léon Davent, 1547

Etched print of Jupiter on an eagle among clouds above a wooded landscape with a running figure and distant towers.

Callisto wordt door Jupiter opgenomen in de sterrenhemel

Léon Davent, 1547

Etching of a figure in a chariot pulled by birds through clouds over a rough sea, framed by large trees.

Juno in haar strijdwagen keert terug naar Olympus

Léon Davent, 1547

Line drawing of six nymphs in flowing robes dancing in a procession beside a tree, with a German caption band below.

Procession and dance of the nymphs

Wilhelm Volz, 1898

Engraving of a statue labeled Hermaphroditus beside a grapevine-carved column and a small dog on a pedestal.

Sculptuur van Bacchus, met sater en panter

Hubert Quellinus, 1646

Engraving of a reclining nude man beneath an eagle and winged figure, with swirling flames and a river landscape behind.

Prometheus

Thomas de Leu, 1609

Brown ink drawing of a classical villa on terraces with figures in a garden and trees in the foreground.

Mythologische Szene, im Hintergrund Villa oder Nymphäum

Michel Corneille, 1651

Engraving of Prometheus and a nude man holding fire, with a sun chariot in the clouds and animals in a landscape.

Prometheus Forms Man and Animates Him with Fire from Heaven

Hendrick Goltzius, 1589

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd around a woman falling beside a serpent, with figures in turbans and trees behind.

Mythologische oder alttestamentarische Szene: Stürzende Frau von einer Schlange angegriffen

Michel Corneille, 1651

Graphite sketch of a seated nude youth embracing a bearded faun with goat legs on a pedestal.

Study of a Nude Figure and a Faun

Attributed to Pierre Andrieu, n.d.

Hand-colored caricature of four elderly gentlemen in wigs peering at a reclining nude painting on an easel in a classical int

Connoisseurs

Thomas Rowlandson, June 20, 1799

Graphite sketch of a seated nude man between a standing armored woman and a striding woman on yellowed paper.

Hercules Between Virtue and Vice

Eugène Delacroix, 1849-52

Engraving of a battle between centaurs and armored warriors with bows, spears and shields, figures crowded across a long frie

Combat of Centaurs and Lapiths, from Combats and Triumphs

Etienne Delaune, c. 1550/60

Etching of Venus seated under a tree watching a winged Cupid carve a bow beside her.

Venus watching Cupid carving a new bow, from Scherzi d'amore (Games of love)

Odoardo Fialetti, 1617

Engraving of a draped woman touching a winged Cupid beside a column, with a second Cupid aiming a bow from above.

Psyche Opens the Fateful Box

Master of the Die, 1520

Etching of Puck riding a winged horse rearing above a mountain, surrounded by cloud scenes of dancing figures and a train.

Puck on Pegasus

George Cruikshank, 1861

Brown ink landscape drawing with a ruined round tower, large trees on the right, a seated figure and clouds.

Landschaft mit Psyche vor dem Palast Amors

Claude Gellée gen. Lorrain, 1663

Gouache drawing of three goddesses in a chariot through clouds, with a helmeted figure and flocks of birds.

Three goddesses (allegorical study)

Engraved design of an ornate wall decoration with putti, draped swags, classical urns and reclining mythological figures.

Wanddecoratie met Hercules en Minerva

André-Charles Boulle, 1710

Engraved title page with architectural frame, busts of Justinianus, and figures of Minerva and Justice beside law tablets.

Architecturale omlijsting met buste van keizer Justinianus en Minerva en personificatie van gerechtigheid

François van Bleyswijck, 1681