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Mythology

8,112 works

Engraving of Diana holding a spear atop the reclining Orion, with a dog beside them and Latin verses below.

Diana and Orion

Jacques Bellange

Etching of a figure with a staff standing on a sea creature atop a pedestal, flanked by two gesturing nude figures.

"La Colere de Neptune," fontaine

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Etching of Perseus with a sword approaching the sleeping Medusa on a cushion, watched by a helmeted goddess in a wooded lands

Perseus onthoofdt Medusa

Alexander Runciman, 1774

Engraving of Bacchus raising a wine cup with a child holding grapes, set in an oval frame with a mountain landscape behind.

Bacchus

Johann Gottlieb Baerenstecher, 1788

Academic drawing of a nude male figure after a classical sculpture, with raised arm and quiver of arrows, in graphite and cha

Academic study after a sculpture: Medici Apollo

Albert Gregorius, 1793

Charcoal study of a classical bust with curled hair and headband, drawn on toned paper, by Albert Gregorius, 1793.

Academic study after a sculpture: bust of Dionysus

Albert Gregorius, 1793

Engraving of drunken Silenus with satyrs, nymphs and a centaur under a grapevine, with fruit and a wine jug.

Dronken Bacchus met saters

Pieter Soutman, 1642

Engraving of a bacchanal with reclining Silenus, a panther, silver vessels, grapes and a drinking satyr crowned with vine lea

Bacchanaal met Bacchus en Silenus

Frans van den Wyngaerde, 1636

Chalk drawing of the Farnese Hercules sculpture, a nude muscular bearded figure with a lion skin, on tinted paper.

Academic study after a sculpture: Farnese Hercules

Jean Cierckens, 1837

Grey wash drawing of a ceiling design with goddesses, putti and clouds, a helmeted woman with spear at lower left.

Ontwerp voor een plafondschildering met Venus, Minerva en Juno

Vittorio Maria Bigari, 1702

Line engraving of the nude figure Ariadne seated on a crouching panther, set on a stepped pedestal.

Ariadne zittend op een panter; vooraanzicht

Johann August Nahl, 1814

Etching of a couple at a night doorway below Venus and cupids in the clouds, with Dutch verse below.

Paar bij nacht bij een huis, Venus tussen de wolken

Jan van de Velde, 1621

Engraved ornamental cartouche with a standing draped figure, flanked by satyrs, vines, scrollwork and sea horses below.

Diana Standing

Etienne Delaune

Engraving of winged figures attacking harpies at a banquet table while armored men and a king react in a hall.

Jupiter verandert koning Lycaon in een wolf

Jean Lepautre, 1650

Engraving of gods at a banquet while a palace burns and figures recoil from flames, with a French caption below.

Apollo en Diana doden de kinderen van Niobe

Jean Lepautre, 1650

Etching of Venus in clouds handing armor to a helmeted warrior, with putti and a shield, in a circular frame.

Venus schenkt Aeneas wapens

Samuel Bottschild, 1693

Etching of Cybele in a lion-drawn chariot beside Jupiter and Pluto near a radiant sun, within an oval frame.

Berecynthia (Cybele) met Jupiter en Pluto

Samuel Bottschild, 1693

Etching of Vulcan at his forge with tongs and armor, while Venus floats on clouds above in an oval composition.

Vulcanus en Venus

Samuel Bottschild, 1693

Etching of Venus reclining on clouds with cupids, one aiming arrows and another sleeping below, in an oval frame.

Venus

Samuel Bottschild, 1693

Etching of Apollo seated on a cloud playing a lyre, with two putti holding a laurel branch and a bow, inside an oval frame.

Apollo

Samuel Bottschild, 1693

Engraving of the Nativity with Mary and the infant Christ in a manger, shepherds kneeling, and angels above a scroll.

L'adoration des bergers

Engraving of the Virgin Mary ascending on clouds, surrounded by cherubs and a radiant halo, within an oval frame.

L'Assomption de la Vierge

Etching of Venus seated beside a tree watching winged Cupid shaping a bow on the ground.

Venus kijkt naar Amor die een boog maakt

Odoardo Fialetti, 1617

Engraving of Psyche on Mount Olympus with gods on clouds, a helmeted goddess, and a chained nude figure in the foreground.

Psyche op de Olympus

Michel Dorigny, 1651

Etching of a woman raising a tambourine beside a satyr holding a child, a putto nearby, framed by dense foliage.

Danse de satyres

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Etching of a bacchante with grapes embracing a young satyr beside a tree and urn.

Bacchante et jeune satyre

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Etching of a sleeping nude woman on bedding as a bearded older man leans over her beneath a drape.

Jupiter and Antiope: The Larger Plate

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1659

Engraved landscape with rocky cliffs, a winding river, a hilltop castle, and two women beneath a large tree at right.

Rotsachtig landschap met Daphne en Peneus

Melchior Küsel, 1670

Etching of a satyr and nude nymph each holding an infant, framed as a relief panel beneath arching foliage.

Bacchanale - Satyr and Nymph with Infant and Infant Satyr

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Woodcut of Hercules shooting the centaur Nessus with an arrow as he carries a woman across a river, within an ornate border.

Hercules doodt de centaur Nessus

Virgilius Solis, 1569

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling a bull-headed Acheloüs before onlookers, framed by an ornate decorative border with verses.

Hercules in gevecht met Acheloüs

Virgilius Solis, 1569

Woodcut of Hercules ascending in a chariot over a river landscape, framed by an ornate border with Latin and German text.

Apotheose van Hercules

Virgilius Solis, 1569