Ancient Sculptural Representations

Etchings and engravings of ancient sculptures and deities, illustrating the beauty of classical forms and mythological themes.

Achilles wounded by an arrow in his heel

Study for "The Landing of Columbus". Dated: c. 1842. Dimensions: sheet: 61.6 × 48.26 cm (24 1/4 × 19 in.). Medium: charcoal, wash, and crayon on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Vanderlyn.

Pencil drawing by Rudolf Weyr depicting a sitting male figure facing right.

La Victoire (Victory). Dated: 1865. Dimensions: sheet: 31.3 × 22.3 cm (12 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.) plate: 25.5 × 16.2 cm (10 1/16 × 6 3/8 in.). Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mariano Fortuny Y Carbo.

Standing male nude. Standing male academic nude, with a clenched fist and a staff in his hand.

Sculpture Van Amor, Hubert Quellinus, 1646 - 1670 print Classic sculpture of a boy with curly hair and a cloth bound around his waist. He looks up and has his right hand in the air. At the bottom right: D. de print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection of Gerard Reynst. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros)

Statue of Arpocrate or Harpocrates, Greek god of silence. He holds a horn and wears a lotus flower on his head. Found in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate engraving by Giacomo Bossi after an illustration by A. Tofanelli from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili's Il Museo Capitolino (The Capitoline Museum), Rome, 1820.

Sculpture of Marsyas; Marsia Simulacrum Roma (...); Antique sculptures in Rome; Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae Quae in Publicis Locis Visuntur Icones. Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album.

Landscape male nude with raised arm. Landscape male nude, the right arm raised. Right: No. 103.

Laocöngroep. Laocoön and his sons are attacked by two hoses.

Guercino, a youth. Photo production of drawing in 'The Reveley Collection of Drawings at Brynygwin', fig. 16.

Male nude, lying on the back.

Study of Woman Bathing. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Etienne Fessard (French, Paris 1714-1777 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 15 13/16 × 9 15/16 in. (40.1 × 25.2 cm). Date: 1739. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Bliżej Kultury Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869 1907)

Statue of Amor with his arrow sleeve next to him, 1636 - 1647 print Statue of Amor with his arrow sleeve next to him. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Paris leaning on tree stump, fontal view. from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues ..." 1817 Giovanni Battista Balestra The statue is in the collection of the Hermitage where it entered in 1815. It was formerly in the collection of Josephine de Beauharnias in the Castle of Malmaison near Paris as noted on this engraving.. Paris leaning on tree stump, fontal view. from "Oeuvre de Canova: Recueil de Statues ...". Giovanni Battista Balestra (Italian, Bassano del Grappa 1774-1842 Rome). 1817. Engraving and etching. Prints

John Vanderbank, 1694-1739, British, Seated Male Nude, 1738. Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Sitting naked, c. 1585 Sitting naked man, partly turned to the left, with a garland of acorns. One of the 'Ignudi' (naked men) of Michelangelo's ceiling painting. Numbered below: 11. The print is part of an album. Print Maker: ItalyaFter Painting by: Vatican City paper engraving Sitting naked man, partly turned to the left, with a garland of acorns. One of the 'Ignudi' (naked men) of Michelangelo's ceiling painting. Numbered below: 11. The print is part of an album. Print Maker: ItalyaFter Painting by: Vatican City paper engraving

Baroque copper engraving by Pieter de Jode showing a nude male figure, produced between 1629 and 1675, focusing on anatomical detail and line technique.

Nude studies of woman and man, seen from behind. Artist: Jacob de Wit. Draughtsman: Jan Brandes. Dating: 1787 - 1808. Place: Skälsebo. Measurements: h 433 mm × w 275 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Representation of the Calydonian boar hunt: in the middle, Oeneus, King of Calydon; beside him, the Aetolian messenger; behind them, Meleager and his wife Cleopatra; at Oeneus' feet, the boar, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Francesco Cepparoli from a drawing by Vanni, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume III, plate 14, 1757-1787, Naples.

Standing man with hand in the side and basket on the head ..

Pluto, Louis Desplaces, after Michel Anguier, 1697 - 1739 print Paris paper engraving / etching (story of) Pluto (Hades), Dis Pater, Orcus. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Statue of Venus with fruit in her hands, 1636 - 1647 print Image of Venus, the goddess of love, naked, seen on the back. In her right hand she keeps fruits and leaves. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving (story of) Venus (Aphrodite). piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Léda au homard.. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Leda (Greek mythology), Lobsters

Apollo van Belvedère, anonymous, Samuel Lankhout & Co, in or before 1877 - 1903 print The Hague paper (story of) Apollo (Phoebus)

Sitting male nude, seen on the back.

Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. Engraving by G. Rossi after Filati after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

Statue of Bacchus with a putto, 1636 - 1647 print Image of the god Bacchus with a drinking cup in his hand and a bunch of grapes. There is a putto next to him. On the tree trunk the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

anatomical study by Bernardino Genga 'Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno ricercata non solo su gl'ossi, e muscoli del corpo humano'. (Rome, 1691). Bernardino Genga (1620ñ1690) was a scholar of Classical medical texts, editing several works of Hippocrates

Lerna. Philips Galle (Holland, Haarlem, 1537-1612). Holland, 1587. Prints; engravings. Engraving, squared for transfer

A naked man walks through a rocky landscape with a scythe; representing summer. Etching by J. Coelemans, 1703, after L. Cardi da Cigoli.

Icarus, with a quite inadequate pair of wings

Pomona, Jakob Gottlieb Thelott, after Johann Daniel Herz (I), 1718 - 1760 print Germany paper engraving / etching Pomon

Statue of a naked boy with torch; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani I. Image of a naked young man with a torch in his outstretched right hand and two fruits in his left hand. Perhaps Apollo on the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.

Saint John the Baptist in the Desert. Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483-1520 Rome). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 × 9 in. (28 × 22.8 cm). Draftsman: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar (French, Lille 1762-1834 Rome). Engraver: Charles Clément Bervic (French, Paris 1756-1822 Paris). Series/Portfolio: Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et camées de la galerie de Florence et du palais Pitti. Date: 1791. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi).

The Image Seen by Nebuchadnezzar 1655 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch. The Image Seen by Nebuchadnezzar 392001

An "Académie": Striding Man Leaning on a Plank 1742-43 Carle (Charles André) Vanloo French. An "Académie": Striding Man Leaning on a Plank 395436

Male Academy Drawing, with a Subsidiary HandStudy. Artist: Marcel Paul Maurice Stéphane Mangin, French, active 1875-1914

Apoxyomenos, the statue of an athlete wiping dust and sweat from his skin with the help of a strigil. Apoxyomenos by Lysippus, a bronze statue by the sculptor Lysippus from the second half of the 4th century BC. Illustration from 1870, digitally enhanced reproduction of a 19th-century original. Historical, exact date unknown.

Copper engraving by Marco Dente from 1510-1527 showing a young Olympian figure, depicting classical mythological character in dynamic pose.

Roma - Gladiatore combattente - Museo Capitolino , Antiquities, Sculpture, Gladiators. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Due Fanciulli in marmo, sopra la Ringhiera dell Vivaio grande all'Isolotin Boboli: Opera di Domenico Pieratti.. Vascellini, Gaetano, 1745-1805. Soldini, Francesco Maria. Prints. 1789. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Sculpture , Italy , Florence

Design for a Christian statue, Louis Royer, 1803 - 1868 drawing Design for a sculpture. paper. pencil piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. particular types of adult Christ (without others)

Troy Triptych, Study for Love subduing Oblivion, 1875 By Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Oil Painting, Art Movement, Pre-Raphaelite, Nude, Male, Greek gods, goddesses, Study

Berlin, Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus, Mr. de Vollange plays his guitar, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 81 mm, width 102 mm, German, 1726-10-16 - 1801-02-07, print maker, printmaker, 1798 - 1798, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

The dying Gaul , Antiquities, Sculpture, Death, Warriors. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Male Nude, Johannes de Mare, After Philippus Velijn, 1825 print paper engraving human figure of ideal proportions, e.g. academic nude

Hercules, hero of Olympic games; Hercules in the gymnasium still image. Illustrations. 1789 - 1819. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Heracles (Greek mythology), Mythology, Hercules (Roman mythology), Athletes, Male nude in art, Olympic games (Ancient), Clubs (weapons), Cameos, Ancient

Mars, Roman god of war, naked warrior with helmet, spear and flame. Identified with the Etruscan god Laran or Maris. From an engraved common garnet gem. Mars Incis. in Gemma Vulgo Granata. Copperplate engraving from Francesco Valesio, Antonio Gori and Ridolfino Venutis Academia Etrusca, Museum Cortonense in quo Vetera Monumenta, (Etruscan Academy or Museum of Cortona), Faustus Amideus, Rome, 1750.

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after Carle Van Loo, Academy Academy

Venus Aphrodite, by Alcamanes. Dated: published 1829. Medium: lithograph proof before letters. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Richard James Lane after John Flaxman.

Pan, Greek god of nature, depicted with beard, figleaf, goat legs and pan pipes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Gods), Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c.1820.

Democritus. Etching by A. Houbraken.

Print from Drawing Book. Dated: c. 1610/1620. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Luca Ciamberlano.

Drawing, Female Torso From a Plaster Cast; Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906); USA; black chalk, white chalk on cream wove paper; 40.1 x 28.8 cm (15 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1942-50-313

Venus, Roman goddess of love, naked with dolphin and cherub at her feet. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Gods), Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c.1820.

Saint Paul the Hermit. Engraving by P. Trière, 1797, after A. Esteve after J. Ribera.

Standing male naked, seen from the front. Draughtsman: Jan Veth. Dating: 1874 - 1925. Measurements: h 505 mm × w 297 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The satyr Marsyas teaching the young Olympus to play tibia, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Pietro Campana from a drawing by Vanni, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume I, plate 9, 1757-1787, Naples.

Omphale, Queen of Ludia, combing Greek hero Hercules' hair. He reaches out for the skin of the Nemean lion. On sardonyx and dactylotheca from the collection of the antiquarian Charles Francis Greville. Hercules and Omphale in Sardonie Orient & Dactyl. Mezzotint copperplate engraving by John Spilsbury from his Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems, John Boydell, London, 1785.

Seated male nude, seen from the side (2nd prize 1788), Johannes Zijnsenis, 1788 drawing paper. chalk sitting figure (+ nude human being). sitting figure (+ nude human being)

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Fleuron on the Title Page, from Dissertation sur les attributs de Vénus qui a obtenu l'Accessit au judgement de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres à la séance ublique du mois de Novembre 1775. Par M. L'Abbé de La Chau, biliothécaire, secrétaire Interprète et Garde du Cabinet des Pierres gravées de S. A. S. M.gr le Duc d'Orléans. A Paris. de l'Imprimerie de Prault. Imprimeur du Roi quai Gêvres. et se trouve chez Pissot Libraire ru Hurepoix published in 1776 Augustin de Saint-Aubin French. Fleuron on the Title Page, from Dissertation sur les attributs de Vénus qui a obtenu l'Accessit au judgement de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres à la séance ublique du mois de Novembre 1775. Par M. L'Abbé de La Chau, biliothécaire, secrétaire Interprète et Garde du Cabinet des Pierres gravées de S. A. S. M.gr le Duc d'Orléans. A Paris. de l'Imprimerie de Prault. Imprimeur du Roi quai Gêvres. et se trouve chez Pissot Libraire ru Hurepoix 423303

Female Term encased by a Strapwork Panel. Artist: Anonymous, French, 16th century. Dimensions: each: 11 7/16 x 3 15/16 in. (29 x 10 cm). Date: ca. 1545-65. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Seated Nude. Dated: 1860s-1870s. Dimensions: sheet: 38.74 × 28.58 cm (15 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.). Medium: charcoal and chalk on blue-gray wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William P. Babcock.

Old faun or silenus Marsyas playing tibia, beside him maybe young Olympus, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving from a drawing by Vanni, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume IV, plate 29, 1757-1787, Naples.

Study of a nude male figure by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) an Italian polymath of the Renaissance.

Saint Sebastiaan, Albrecht Dürer, 1499 - 1503 print Saint Sebastiaan, bound by a tree, arrows in his body. Nuremberg paper engraving St. Sebastian, tied to a tree or a pillar, is pierced by arrows

Stefano Tofanelli's chalk drawing depicts a girl placing a flower wreath, showing figure, gesture, and seasonal theme of spring.

SCULPTURE FROM THE TEMPLE OF DIANA AT EPHESUS, 1873

The trunk of an écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.

Mars; Paintings by Francesco Albani. The war god Mars with shield and spear. Decoration of a pendentive.

Vilain, Victor (n.1818-08-03-D.1899-03-06), Marius standing on the ruins of Carthage (title awarded), 1837. House of Victor Hugo-Hauteville House.

Figure From the Last Judgment by Lucas van Leyden, Pieter de Mare, After Abraham Delfos, After Lucas van Leyden, 1768 - 1796 print Leiden paper etching / engraving hands folded

Three studies on a male nude model, sitting with a sword. Draughtsman: Christiaan van Geelen jr.. Dating: 1804 - 1826. Measurements: h 323 mm × w 480 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Naked man, leaning with the right hand on a stone block, Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg, 1836 print paper etching / engraving the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) (+ standing)

Seated Female Nude. Draughtsman: Mattheus Terwesten. Draughtsman: Augustinus Terwesten (I). Dating: 1659 - 1711. Measurements: h 495 mm × w 475 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Lib. IV, Tabula XIX, Lib. IV, Adriani Spigelii Bruxellensis equitis D. Marci, olim in Patavino gymnasio anatomiae et chirurgiae professoris primarii Opera quae extant, omnia, Aselli, Gaspare, 1581-1626, Bucretius, Daniel, d. 1631, Fialetti, Odoardo, 1573-1638, Harvey, William, 1578-1657, Spiegel, Adriaan van de, 1578-1625, Valesio, Francesco, b. ca. 1560, Walaeus, Johannes, 1604-1649, van der Linden, Johannes Antonides, 1609-1664, Engraving, 1645, Plate 19, page 67.

The fire after Rixens

Masques Parisiens. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, 1889. Prints; etchings. Soft-ground etching

Lauréus, Alexander, work, Lying naked man, black chalk and white chalk, drawing, FIGURE; man; quid; back, 38 cm x 56 cm

. The power, represented as a virtually naked woman wearing a lion skin as Cape, the right arm around a pillar. This print is part of a postal series of the seven virtues, each in the form of a woman's figure with attributes, standing in a niche.

Etching by Edme Bouchardon depicting a male act, created in 1738, showing human figure and anatomy study.

Diefstal, Enea Vico, After Francesco Salviati, 1533 - 1567 print A naked man with tools in his hands with which he tries to open a door. There is a dog next to him. At the bottom of a Latin text line. print maker: Italyprint maker: Zuid-Nederlandafter design by: Italy paper engraving theft. burglary

Virginia Richards, Figurehead Hercules, c 1937 Figurehead: Hercules

Jupiter, drawn from the collection of M. Denon. Louis Lafitte (French, 1770-1828); printed by Comte de Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant (French, 1759-1849). Date: 1815-1825. Dimensions: 337 × 210 mm (image); 363 × 257 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Sculptuur Van Hercules; Her van Forum Boarium; Her beautifully made of brass and the statue on the Capitol; Antieke Sculpturen in Rome ; Are to be seen in the public places, and images were of the Ancient Rome, known as the city of statues . Onderschrift in het Engels . Prent maakt deel uit van list .

A boy with a skin disease together with the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below them an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge.

This month is named after the Roman emperor Augustus, who is shown as a god drinking from a golden dish.

An Archer, Narbonne School, .

Front view, with one arm outstretched, Proportion study of a man's body Drawing Book of the Proportions of the Human Body Proportions du Corps Humain , print maker: Jan Punt, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacob de Wit, (mentioned on object), unknown, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1747, paper, etching, engraving, h 377 mm × w 376 mm

Naked woman, in the bathtub.

Proportiefiguur.Proportion belty: Standing woman from the front, with footstems.

Siena: costume of the Wood Contrada,

dying Gaul, marble statue from the 3rd century BC in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, Italy, digitally enhanced reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.

Standing child, Abraham Delfos, 1741 - 1820 drawing paper. ink pen

Krishkunded Alice Salvatore ruled down. .

Statue of Mercury, Reinier van Persijn, 1640 print Statue of Mercury, with the Caduceus in hand. At the bottom left of the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print from a publication with reproduction prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. Rome paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. (story of) Mercury (Hermes)

Boy with a lump, Pieter Willem van Megen, After Albertus Frese (De Jonge), 1760 - 1785 print A boy with bare torso has a tumor in his neck and around his armpit. The Hague paper etching / engraving boy (child between toddler and youth). internal tumours

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