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Mythology

8,151 works

Engraved frieze of a classical wedding feast with reclining gods, putti, winged figures holding garlands, and draped women.

The Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche

François Perrier after Raphael, c. 1635

Engraving of the goddess Juno seen from behind, nude, with a crown, a peacock at her feet and a bird on her shoulder.

Juno met pauw

Cornelis Jacobsz. Drebbel, 1598

Etching of a nude woman in a draped gown embracing and kissing a leafy-crowned male figure beside tree branches.

Naakte vrouw kust een beeld van een faun

Armand Rassenfosse, 1872

Etching of Hercules struggling with the centaur Nessus beside a tree, with a draped woman standing at right.

Hercules doodt de centaur Nessus

Giovanni Pietro Possenti, 1628

Etching of Venus and putti capturing a bearded satyr in a wooded landscape, with figures in dense hatched lines.

Een sater door putti en Venus gevangen

Giovanni Pietro Possenti, 1628

Etching of classical mythology: a pointing woman beside a peacock and cloud, a chariot, a dog, and a man on a balcony.

Het kind Hercules doodt de slangen

Antonio Tempesta, 1608

Engraving of a seated queen beside Minerva in a plumed helmet holding a spear and shield, with columns and a curtain behind.

Henrietta Maria en Minerva

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1639

Kneeling bearded man gestures toward a bronze statue of a figure with a raised sword, in a dark print.

Cellini knielt neer voor zijn bronzen beeld van Perseus

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1888

Engraving of a city canal with a tall church tower, framed by allegorical figures, putti and a Latin inscription banner.

Stadsgezicht met Domkerk te Utrecht en allegorie met Minerva en deugden

François van Bleyswijck, 1681

Engraved title page with a view of Utrecht, allegorical women, a Justinian bust and cherubs blowing trumpets.

Gezicht op Utrecht in omlijsting met godin Minerva en deugden

François van Bleyswijck, 1681

Engraved bookplate with Minerva, an owl, two putti holding books, and a library interior under the words PATET OMNIBUS.

Titelvignet met bibliotheek en godin Minerva en putti met boeken

François van Bleyswijck, 1681

Engraved oval print of Bacchus raising a drinking cup, with grape clusters, a companion and a rocky landscape behind.

Bacchus met drinkschaal en druiventrossen

Johannes Cornelis Bell, 1832

Engraved landscape with a river, fisherman, farmhouse, distant town and two winged figures flying in the sky.

Landschap met Narcissus

Jan Sadeler, 1570

Print of a sleeping nude woman and a satyr in an oval landscape, framed by ornate floral and fruit decoration with a swan.

Jupiter en Antiope

Jean Joseph Pelissier, 1896

Engraving of Mercury with a caduceus and the Three Graces in a wooded landscape, with Latin text below.

Mercury and the Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1589

Engraving of a woman with raised arms before a Diana statue, a man holding a goblet, and onlookers behind a curtain.

Kama voor het beeld van Diana en Sinorix en de gifbeker in het midden

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1787

Lithograph of nymphs mourning at a stone tomb with an urn beneath dark trees, after a painting by Gendron.

Nimfen bij het graf van Adonis

Eugène Louis Pirodon, 1864

Pencil drawing of a classical bearded head with curly hair, an academic study after a marble bust dated 1871.

Academic study after a sculpture: bust of Zeus of Otricoli

Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale, 1871

Watercolor of two winged cherubs lifting a palm frond near a seated nude woman with flowers and arrows in a landscape.

Eros and Anteros with Psyche Looking at Them

Johannes Riepenhausen, 1810-60

Engraved scene of Psyche at her toilet with attendants in a draped interior, with Italian verse beside it.

Fotoreproductie van een gravure, voorstellende het toilet van Psyche

Léon Vidal, 1876

Oval enamel shield showing Minerva in armor with a flag and landscape, framed in gilded ornament on a red background.

Emaillen wapenschild met Minerva door Jean de Court

Léon Vidal, 1876

Ink and wash drawing of reclining nude figures in a meadow under dark clouds, with loose hatched grasses and foliage.

Sommertag, Die Schlafenden, drei Akte mit Faun

Josef Engelhart, 1897

Etching of a draped figure bending over a bare-bodied figure bound to a tree, with a landscape and water to the right.

Apollon et Marsyas

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a bearded smith at an anvil with armor on the ground, facing a draped woman gesturing toward him.

Vulcan et Thetis

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Pen and grey wash drawing of a nude male figure with a staff beside a ruined tower and arched bridge, dated 1616.

Neptune and Amphitrite

the Elder Elias Wolff, 1616

Engraving of Bacchus with putti, a panther, grapevines and fruit, with Latin verses below, dated 1628.

Triomf van Bacchus

Engraving of Apollo flying inside a zodiac ring with putti, and reclining and seated figures in a landscape below.

Apollo omlijst door dierenriem

Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, 1704

Hand-colored print of Venus in a dove-drawn chariot above a city with harbor ships and townspeople below.

De planeet Venus en haar invloed op de wereld

Jan Sadeler, 1585

Pen and ink drawing of a female figure on clouds holding a dove aloft, with billowing drapery behind her, on blue-grey paper.

Venus with a Dove

Nicolai Abildgaard, ca. 1780

Mezzotint of the young Bacchus reclining on a goat, with two satyrs, one playing a flute and one offering grapes.

Twee saters bij de jonge Bacchus op een geit

Johann Gottfried Haid, 1764

Pen and blue wash drawing of Apollo and the Nine Muses with poets in a wooded clearing on Mount Parnassus.

Apollo and the Nine Muses surrounded by Poets on Mount Parnassus

Karel Škréta, later 17th century

Engraving of Mercury handing the infant Bacchus to nymphs in a wooded grotto landscape, with a satyr and a dedication inscrip

Mercurius geeft Bacchus aan de nimfen van Nysa

Andrea Procaccini, 1681