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Mythology

7,952 works

Pencil drawing of a wooded landscape with a seated figure and dogs resting by a path at the lower right.

Diana resting at the edge of a forest

Friedrich Preller the Elder

Grey wash drawing of nude women bathing in a stream under a rocky hillside with a tree, a hunter with bow at right.

Diana surprised by Actaeon

Cornelius van Poelenburgh

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded classical sea god statue standing on a pedestal beside a dolphin, with a draped cloth.

Statue of Neptune, Venice

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of a man in a long coat holding a book beside a tree with a cupid, birds and a shrub.

Man with glasses walking in sunshine, Cupid above him

Brown wash drawing of a leaning tree and a reclining figure in a wooded landscape under clouds.

Narcissus looks at himself in the spring

Nicolas Poussin

Seated woman in blue drapes with a tragedy mask, laurel wreath and trumpet beside her, framed by an arched gilded border.

Muse of Tragedy

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Pencil sketch of a female torso in outline on yellowed paper, with simple contour lines for breasts, waist and hips.

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (Torso of Venus)

William Page, 1850

Red chalk drawing of a muscular male nude seen from behind, with a draped cloth over one arm on tinted paper.

Farnese Hercules

Gaspare Diziani

Engraved title page with allegorical women, a helmeted Minerva, coats of arms, and the title Spiegel van Staat des Vereenigde

Allegorical representation with Faith, Minerva and Discord

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1706

Engraved emblematic print with Apollo on clouds above a kneeling figure, framed by a crowned bust, warrior, and open book.

Apollo sitting on clouds and kneeling figure

François van Bleyswijck, 1722

Pen and wash drawing of a frontispiece cartouche with a winged cupid writing, an old man pointing, and an open book.

Design for a Frontispiece: Cupid Studying Nature

Chalk drawing on blue paper of Neptune in a chariot drawn by sea horses, with tritons, a sea nymph and cherubs.

The Triumph of Neptune

Unknown artist, 18th century

Etching of Neptune in a sea chariot with horses, beside Arion playing a harp on a dolphin, with a ship and city behind.

Tableau vivant with Neptune and Arion

Pieter Nolpe, 1642

Engraving of Perseus on winged Pegasus attacking a sea monster near a chained woman on a rocky shore, with a city in the dist

Tableau vivant with Perseus and Andromeda

Pieter Nolpe, 1642

Engraved certificate with allegorical figures in a rowing boat and an exhibition city view, awarding a medal to W. B. Tholen.

Hercules wrestles with Achelous

Charles Emmanuel Patas, 1786

Brown ink and wash drawing in an oval: a woman holds a lamp over a sleeping reclining youth beside draped fabric.

Cupid and Psyche

Gaspare Diziani

Brown wash drawing of four figure groups including satyrs, goats, a bearded man with a book and a wine jug.

Four groups with satyr and silenus

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and ink drawing on grey paper of three allegorical figures: armored Mars, crowned Venice with a lion, and bearded Neptune

Mars, Venezia and Neptune (trompe-l'œil sculpture)

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and ink drawing with white highlights on blue paper showing three classical figures: Venus with a cupid, Mercury with win

Venus, Mercury and Minerva (trompe-l'œil sculpture)

Gaspare Diziani

Ink and wash drawing of Athena guiding a youth among clouds, with a reclining nude and winged figures below.

Athena shows a youth the path of virtue

Gaspare Diziani

Engraving of a nude woman standing on a scallop shell in the sea, with bearded gods on clouds above and sea monsters below.

The Birth of Venus

Marco Dente, 1511

Engraving of a seated nude woman removing a thorn from her foot, with a rabbit, palm trees, and a distant hilltop town.

Venus Extracting a Thorn from Her Foot

Engraving of Vulcan hammering metal at an anvil with cupids assisting and a nude Venus standing nearby.

Vulcan at the Forge

Engraving of a sailing ship in battle amid smoke and fireworks, with a Latin inscription beneath the scene.

Spectacle with ship with fireworks and the pillars of Hercules

Jacob Neefs, 1636

Pencil sketch of a seated man, an infant in a basket, and two standing figures in a classical interior.

The Infant Hercules Throttling the Serpents

William Blake, 1790-1793

Engraving of a statue of Apollo at the center of clipped hedge alleys, with figures in period dress in a garden setting.

Statue of Apollo on Clingendael estate

Daniël Stopendaal, 1687

Engraved title page with a seated Jupiter figure, an eagle, an armillary sphere, a warship, and a Latin cartouche.

Jupiter and a warship with the coat of arms of Alessandro Farnese

Jan Sadeler, 1585

Watercolor design of Neptune with trident bending toward a nude woman by rocky cliffs, with blue border and Dutch inscription

Design for a wallpaper painting with Neptune and Coronis

Rienk Keyert, 1751

Watercolor of Neptune driving sea horses over waves while Venus, with Cupid and swans, appears in the clouds above.

Venus requests Neptune to prevent Telemachus from landing on Ithaca

Rienk Keyert, 1719

Engraved allegory: Minerva beside a bust crowned with laurel by a winged figure, with a seated writer and classical ruins beh

Virtue fosters [she crowns] herself Minerva

Carlo Antonini, 1770

Engraving of nude Hercules raising a club as a centaur grips him from behind beside a bare tree.

Hercules and Nessus

Marcantonio Raimondi, c. 1504/1509

Engraving of Leda with a swan and cupids beside broken eggshells, with a ruined domed building and landscape behind.

Leda and the Swan

Giovanni Battista Palumba, c. 1510