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Mythology

8,151 works

Engraved print of Venus with a pearl necklace, arm raised to her hair, embraced by a winged Cupid against a dark background.

Venus en Amor

Gustav Eilers, 1887

Grey wash drawing of centaurs by a pond beneath tall, twisting trees with hills in the distance.

Centaurs at a Pond

Friedrich Preller the Elder, 1824-78

Oval etching of a seated nude woman by a stream beneath trees, with draped cloth and hatched landscape background.

Nymph at a Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 1744

Etching of a seated female nude in an oval frame, with drapery, trees, and a bow and quiver at the left.

Diana at the Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 1744

Printed page with pen sketches of draped figures, a seated nude, Mars and Venus, and horses drinking at a river.

Moeder met kind, Venus en Mars, Maria Magdalena, badende vrouw en drinkende paarden

Firmin Gillot, 1864

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanalian revel with reclining revelers, a piping satyr, putti, a dog, and trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Hendrick Berckman, 1651

Mezzotint of Venus holding back Adonis from the hunt, with a cupid, hunting dogs, and a large tree in a woodland setting.

Venus weerhoudt Adonis van de jacht

Wallerant Vaillant, 1658

Mezzotint of Venus cradling the dying Adonis, with a cupid, a boar, swans and a chariot in a wooded landscape.

Adonis sterft in de armen van Venus

Wallerant Vaillant, 1658

Mezzotint of Venus and Anchises seated in a draped interior with a winged Cupid at their feet, by Wallerant Vaillant, 1658.

Venus en Anchises

Wallerant Vaillant, 1658

Print of ten horizontal panels showing bacchanal scenes with classical figures, chariots, and dancing revelers in pink-tinted

Plate with Ten Bacchanal Scenes

comte de Paroy Jean Philippe Guy Le Gentil

Watercolor elevation of a Louis XV style salon wall with mirror, marble fireplace, rococo paneling and cupid medallions.

Elevation of a salon decorated in Louis XV style

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Engraving of Apollo kneeling to flay the bound satyr Marsyas beside a tree, with a distant landscape and sailboat.

Apollo vilt Marsyas

Peter van Liesebetten, 1660

Etching of a wounded centaur rearing on a grassy plain while nude hunters with spears pursue it under a cloudy sky.

Verfolgter Centaur, from the series Intermezzi

Max Klinger, n.d.

Engraved costume design of a man in an ornate plumed helmet and embroidered tunic holding a spear in a formal garden.

Costume of Endymion from the Ballet "Triumph of Love" (Habit d'Andimion du balet du 'Triomphe de l'amour)

Jean Bérain, ca. 1681

Etching of smiths working at a forge with Venus and Cupid, armor and bellows in the foreground, smoke rising.

Venus en Amor in de smidse van Vulcanus

Cornelis Schut, 1618

Engraving of Jupiter and Callisto: two embracing women on rocks, a cupid drawing a bow, and cherubs at left.

Jupiter and Callisto

Pierre Milan, 1537-40

Engraved plate of a centaur struggling with a figure atop a pedestal flanked by two putti holding a garland.

Gevecht van centaurs

Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, 1772

Engraved print of a muscular nude Hercules with a club on his shoulder, standing beside a tree stump on a plinth.

Hercules

Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, 1772

Engraving of a couple in period dress with a cupid beside a fountain and formal garden, with French verse below.

Youth

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a chained nude woman on a rocky cliff, with a sea monster rising from the waves below her.

Andromeda

Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, 1772

Engraving of the reclining nude Venus with winged Cupid beside her, a bow and quiver nearby, numbered 13.

Venus en Cupido

Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, 1772

Engraving of Bacchus, a nude male figure crowned with vine leaves, holding a basket of grapes and a pouring pitcher.

Bacchus

Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, 1772

Engraving of Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion on grassy ground, with a cloak billowing behind him, plate number 17.

Hercules en de Nemeïsche leeuw

Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, 1772

Engraving of gods and goddesses gathered on clouds with winged putti overhead and a blacksmith at an anvil at right.

The wedding of Cupid and Psyche

Bartholomeus Spranger, 1587

Engraving of Orpheus playing a lyre surrounded by animals including a lion, deer, peacock, and dragon.

Orpheus betovert de dieren met zijn muziek

Giovanni Battista Pasqualini, 1622

Engraving of putti, Bacchus children with a goat, a harp and grape garlands in a wooded landscape.

Kinderen van Bacchus met geit

Etienne Fessard, 1724

Engraving of an armed allegorical figure labeled La Vertu, with spear and shield, inside an ornate oval frame, by Abraham Bos

Virtue: Athena

Abraham Bosse, 1637

Engraving of Venus with a winged archer, a seated woman in water, nude women on a rocky shore, and doves in the sky.

Venus, plate 43 from Planets and Spheres

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, c. 1465

Engraving of Psyche holding a lamp over the sleeping nude Cupid on a four-poster bed, with Latin verses below.

Amor en Psyche

Claude Mellan, 1624

Etching of Roman temple ruins with tall Corinthian columns, a broken entablature, and small figures among fallen stones.

Temple of Jupiter Tonans [Jupiter the Thunderer]. 1. Temple of Concord, plate 7 from Some Views of Triumphal Arches a…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Pencil drawing of a standing nude figure with one arm raised over the head, wearing a wreath, in classical pose.

Staande Apollo, de linkerarm omhoog

Willem van Mieris, 1672

Drawing of Hercules aiming a bow at the centaur Nessus, who carries Deianira across a landscape.

Hercules richt zijn pijl op Nessus die Deïanira ontvoert

Willem van Mieris, 1672