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Classical Mythology Scenes

Depictions of mythological figures and themes, including love, tragedy, and nature, featuring detailed engravings and etchings.

Venus is growing to adonis; Metamorphoses from Ovid. Venus is growing at the dead body of her beloved Adonis. On the left in the background the wild boar that killed him. On the right in the background the lorrent amor and the wagon of Venus. In the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.
Venus is growing to adonis; Metamorphoses from Ovid. Venus is growing at the dead body of her beloved Adonis. On the left in the background the wild boar that killed him. On the right in the background the lorrent amor and the wagon of Venus. In the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.
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Black chalk and brown feather drawing by Willem Doudijns depicting Hercules defeating Nessus.
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Anche a me, Madre mia! (Me too, mother!) 1828 William Young Ottley. Anche a me, Madre mia! (Me too, mother!) 698481
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Bella, Stefano della, Nymph with Dog, verso - stamped, A nymph with a quiver around her waist holds a hunting dog by its collar., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 188 mm, width 146 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings
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Cain kills Abel. Cain with a piece of jawbot in raised hand, Abel pushes on the ground.
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Le Charcutier (Bartsch 41) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The charcutier (Bartsch 41). Forte, circa 1652.
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Bacchanal with infant satyrs and putti at left, a naked male figure reclines in front of a pedestal carved in bas-relief, two clothed figures look toward the right 1633-78 Giulio Carpioni Italian For another impression in The Metropolitan Museum of Art see 27.78.1(203) (Wilton Album, folio 60). Bacchanal with infant satyrs and putti at left, a naked male figure reclines in front of a pedestal carved in bas-relief, two clothed figures look toward the right 397553
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Daman, Italy, Biscaino, Bartolomeo, Bacchanal, verso - stamped, A satyr, a nymph, two young satyrs and putti in a landscape. The satyr pours wine into the cup of the nymph who is suckling a young satyr., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 231 mm, width 161 mm, 1632 - 1657, print maker, printmaker, 1642 - 1657, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, Italian, publisher, uitgever
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Allart van Everdingen, Reynard Tells a Story of Hidden Treasure, probably c 1645 1656 Reynard Tells a Story of Hidden Treasure
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The Cult of the Demon. Dated: probably 1627. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.
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Dream of Aeneas: Aeneas rests his head on his hands atop his shield, while the river god Tiber leans on a vessel and points upward with his left hand ca. 1663-1664 Salvator Rosa Italian The Metropolitan Museum's painted version of Salvator Rosa's 'Dream of Aeneas' (65.118) may have preceded this etching, but in the print Rosa altered nearly most of the details clearly wanted to achieve a very different effect. The artist drew his inspiration from Virgil's Aeneid (8.26-65), in which the weary hero, having finally reached Italy and about to enter into war with Turnus, falls asleep on the bank of the Tiber. The god of the stream appears to him, offering advice and foretelling his future as the founder of the Roman race.. Dream of Aeneas: Aeneas rests his head on his hands atop his shield, while the river god Tiber leans on a vessel and points upward with his left hand 341632
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Nessus transfer Deeanira to the river; Metamorphoses from Ovid. Hercules helps his beloved deilanira on the back of the Centaur Nessus, the ferryman who should bring her to the other side. In the background, Nessus tries to kidnap her halfway through the river, after which Hercules shit him.
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Galle, Philips, Vos, Maerten de, Antwerp, Passe, Crispijn van de (I), History of Adam and Eve, The Creation of Eve, recto - handwritten in brown ink, God lets Adam fall into a deep sleep while he removes his rib and creates Eve. In the inscription of the frame a Bible quotation from Gen. in Latin., print, prints, verso - stamped, 2, height 100 mm, width 94 mm, 1564 - 1637, print maker, printmaker, 1580 - 1588, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Southern Netherlands, 1532 - 1603-12-04, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1537 - 1612-03-29, publisher
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Soil; Cybele with amor and animals; The four elements. Cybele, ruleres all over nature, is under a tree and looks at Amor who arrives with a burning torch. Links are a dog and a deer. The show represents the Earth element.
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Abraham Repudiating Hagar. Dated: 1516. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: LUCAS VAN LEYDEN.
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Dood Van Maria Magdalena, Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, After Carlo Cignani, 1682 - 1740 print The dying Mary Magdalena is honored by angels. An angel supports Maria Magdalena's body. Italy paper etching death of St. Mary Magdalene
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Child carrying a dog over his shoulder, walking towards the right, another dog running alongside to right, a woman with two children to right in the background. Artist: Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 5 1/4 in. (13.7 x 13.4 cm). Date: ca. 1660-64. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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After Hans Sebald Beham, Two Loving Pairs with Clown Two Loving Pairs with Clown
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Apollo Hoedt the herd of Admetus, Moyses van Wtenbrouck, 1600 - 1645 print Apollo plays the flute, behind him is his herd. Scene from Ovidius metamorphoses (with. II, 680-685). print maker: The Haguepublisher: Antwerp (possibly) paper etching / engraving Apollo tends Admetus' flock as penalty for having slain the Cyclopes
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Emblem: cave, Caspar Luyken, after Jan Luyken, c. 1700 print In the foreground two travelers. They investigate a cave. Nuremberg paper etching Abstract Ideas and Concepts. 'en route', traveller under way. cave, grotto
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Master of the Beheading of St John the Baptist, Allegorical Theme Combat of Animals, c 1515 1520 Allegorical Theme: Combat of Animals
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Jan van Huysum's flower still life features a vase with putti relief, with a fountain and park landscape in the background, drawn with oil coal and graphite pencil, showing water stains and restored cracks on the left edge.
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Woman with a putto by Marco Antonio Franceschini, attributed to Kutschera, executed in pen with laved technique, dated 1648-1729, showing figure and composition.
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a round composition ca. 1641 Stefano della Bella Italian. Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a round composition 412400
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Photo production of a painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, representing two children with a shell and a lamb, anonymous, After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1860 - c. 1875 photograph Part of travel album with recordings of artworks, people and sights in Spain. photographic support albumen print child. sheep
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Design for a print, Apollo shoots Coronis with an arrow, draughtsman: Jacob de Wit, 1706 - 1754, paper, pen, brush, brush, h 179 mm × w 231 mm
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Allegory in Arts and Sciences with four putti.
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Drunk people by Anonymous painter, copper engraving, 1656, Private Collection
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Somer, Paul van (II), Playing putti, Putti playing under a canopy, verso lower left - stamped, Under a canopy putti play a recorder and tambourines. Bacchus holds a bunch of grapes for a putto. In the foreground a putto lies asleep on the ground with a wine jug in his arms., print, engraving, prints, engravings, No. 86, verso lower center - handwritten in pencil, height 72 mm, width 113 mm, Dutch, 1659 - 1704, print maker, printmaker, 1670 - 1697, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception
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Diana is equipped for hunting by her nymphs. Draughtsman: anonymous. Draughtsman: Jacques Kuyper (rejected attribution). Dating: 1700 - 1800. Measurements: h 142 mm × w 150 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Adam and Eve in Paradise / Abel by Cain beaten.two Representations of A plate. At the Top Right Numbered: 8 and 10.
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Minerva and the muses; Metamorphoses from Ovid. Minerva visits the muses on Mount Helicon, to listen to their songs. The muses play their instruments. In the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.
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Wszyscy Święci w MNK unknown, Patinir, Joachim (ca 1475/1485 1525)
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Gregorio Guglielmi drawing depicting Jakob's struggle with the angel, executed in chalk, circa 1765.
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Hercules equipment after his works, Giorgio Ghisi, After Giulio Romano, 1567 print Hercules lying in a landscape with club and lion sheet. A settlement on the coast in the background. print maker: Italyafter design by: Mantua paper engraving (story of) Hercules (Heracles). resting - BB - out of doors
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Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection : thinking a beautiful nymph is under the surface, he jumps in, is drowned, and changed into a flower
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Italy, Raphael, Hercules and the Nemean Lion, verso - stamped, In a hilly landscape Hercules is fighting the Nemean Lion. On the right a second lion crawls into a cave and in the foreground lies the club of Hercules., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 302 mm, width 413 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1493 - 1493, 16th century, 16e eeuw, paper, papier, houtsnede, Work conception, 1483-04-07 - 1520-04-07
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Depicts the biblical figure Gideon, created by Augustin Hirschvogel in 1549 using etching. The composition shows Gideon in a moment of divine or military significance.
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Woodcutter: Antonio da Trento, Italian, 1508-1550, After: Parmigianino, Italian, 1503-1540, Saint John theBaptist, ca.1527-30, Chiaroscuro woodcut, sheet: 14 × 14.2 cm (5 1/2 × 5 9/16in.), Made in Italy, Italian, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints
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Hercules and the Nemean Lion, Niccolò Vicentino, After Rafaël, 1568 - 1629 print In a landscape, Hercules is fighting the Nemean lion. In the foreground the club of Hercules. Italy paper (1) Hercules chokes the Nemean lion with his arms
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Artist: Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch, 1636-1672, Les Deux Moutons (The TwoSheep), Etching, sheet: 6.9 × 9.4 cm (2 11/16 × 3 11/16in.), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints
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Boreas and Oreithyia, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie). Artist: Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence); Designed by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (French, 1595-1676). Dedicatee: Louis XIV, King of France (French, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1638-1715 Versailles). Dimensions: Sheet: 1 13/16 × 2 3/16 in. (4.6 × 5.5 cm). Patron: Cardinal Jules Mazarin (Italian, Piscina 1602-1661 Vincennes). Publisher: Henri Le Gras (French). Series/Portfolio: 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie). Date: 1644. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The Roman of Fox: 40- Festival celebrated at the Lion Court in honor of the Bear and the Wolf (Bartsch 40) ALLART VAN EVERDINGEN (1621-1675). The Roman Roman: 40- Festival celebrated at the Lion Court in honor of the bear and the wolf (Bartsch 40). Water-strong on paper, 1650-1655. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.
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Drinking soldiers and prostitutes, copper engraving, 16th Century
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Antwerp, Jode, Pieter de (I), Italy, Tempesta, Antonio, Metamorphoses of Ovid, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum, Leucothoe a Phoebo vim patitur, Apollo and Leucothoe, verso - stamped, Apollo makes love to Leucothoe on a bed. In the background on the left the sun chariot. Title in Latin in the bottom margin., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 104 mm, width 117 mm, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05, print maker, printmaker, 1606 - 1606, paper, papier, etching, etsen, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Zuid-Nederlands, 1570 - 1634-08-09, publisher
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Marguerite's Ghost Appearing to Faust, from Faust. Eugène Delacroix; French, 1798-1863. Date: 1828. Dimensions: 267 × 354 mm (image); 293 × 428 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: EUGENE DELACROIX.
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Drawing by Joseph Bergler the Younger showing Herse and Pandorsa opening a mysterious box, with Hermes in the background, executed in brown ink, dated 1803.
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Illustration for the Decamerone of Boccaccio, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1697 print Illustration for the Decamerone of Boccaccio, History LXIX. Lidia is lying under a tree with her lover. Nicostratus, her husband, sits in the tree and sees it. Netherlands paper etching (scenes from) specific works of literature: Boccaccio, Decamerone
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Holy Elpidius and Holy Aenesius, Abraham Bloemaert, 1602 - 1622 drawing paper. ink pen / brush male saints (with NAME)
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Bacchanal Artist's working dates 1633-1678 Italy. The 18th-century author P. A. Orlandi once described Carpioniís mythological etchings as ìperfect conceptions, such as dreams, sacrifices, bacchanals, triumphs, dances of ëputti,í the most attractive caprices and fantasies that a painter, inclined to work on a small scale, has ever conceived.î This bacchanal of dwarf-like humans and shaggy satyr youths becomes more enigmatic with the addition of the figures at right. The naked man lounges in the pose of a statue of a river god, but his placement before an ancient altar relief, with a glimpse of a covered basket, implies that one of the ritual mysteries is taking place in conjunction with the wine consumption.. Etching on ivory laid paper . Giulio Carpioni
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Engraving of Bartolmé Murillo's "The Infant Christ and Saint John the Baptist with a Shell". Unknown
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Antwerp, Hoeswinckel, Eduwart van, Bruyn, Abraham de, Gheeraerts, Marcus (II), Marcus (I), Animalium Quadrupedum Omnis Generis Verae et Artificiosissimae Delineationes, Five reclining deer in a landscape, verso - stamped, Five reclining deer in a landscape. This print is part of an album., print, picture, album sheet, prints, pictures, height 86 mm, width 211 mm, Southern Netherlands, English, 1520 - 1590, print maker, printmaker, 1583 - 1583, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1562 - 1636-01-19, 1540 - 1587, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Abraham's Sacrifice. Rembrandt van Rijn; Dutch, 1606-1669. Date: 1655. Dimensions: 154 x 131 mm (image/plate); 157 x 132 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint on white laid paper. Origin: Holland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN.
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Antwerp, Jode, Pieter de (I), Italy, Tempesta, Antonio, Metamorphoses of Ovid, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum, Driope in arboris formam tranmigrat, Dryope transformed into a lotus tree, verso - stamped, Dryope transformed into a lotus tree. Title in Latin in bottom margin., print, prints, height 104 mm, width 117 mm, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05, print maker, printmaker, 1606 - 1606, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, South Netherlands, 1570 - 1634-08-09, publisher
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Susanna and the elders; Performances from the Old Testament. .
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Della Bella, Stefano (known as Etienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), a child teaching a dog to sit on his behind (A. de Vesme 98; Dutuit 211) (Main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.
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Reynard Promises to Reveal the Hidden Treasure. Dated: probably c. 1645/1656. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: ALLART VAN EVERDINGEN.
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The Poet Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591-1652). , ca.1620-1621. Etching on laid paper, 6 5/16 x 4 13/16 in. (16 x 12.2 cm). European Art ca.1620-1621
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Poor man sits among the pigs and takes food from a barrel in the form of the world, Jan Luyken, 1710 print Amsterdam paper etching globe. the poor. pig
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Fauns dancing with goats, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume II, plate 42, 1757-1787, Naples.
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Hercules in Cerberus, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 print Hercules stands with lifted club for Cerberus, the three -headed dog that monitors the entrance to the Hades. Title in Latin in STUDMARGE. print maker: Italypublisher: Antwerp paper etching (12) Cerberus captured and carried away by Hercules
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Hekuba and the Trojan women kill polymestor; Hecuba polymnestori oculos out; Metamorphoseon Sive Transformationum; Metamorphoses of Ovidius.hekuba and the Trojan Women Kill Polymestor. Hekuba Protrudes The Eyes or Polymestor. Title in Latin in undermarge.
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Bella, Stefano della, Jeu des fables (copy), Playing card with mythological scenes, Pan et Syrinx, Pan and Syrinx, verso - stamped, Playing card with a scene of Pan chasing Syrinx among bushes at the water's edge., print, playing card, prints, height 55 mm, width 57 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, after print by
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Bella, Stefano della, Jeu des fables (copy), Playing cards with mythological representations, Jupiter et Semele, Jupiter and Semele, verso - stamped, Playing card with a representation of Jupiter appearing to Semele., print, playing card, prints, height 55 mm, width 57 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, after print by
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Niobe; Card game with mythological performances; Jeu des Fables (copy). Playing card with a representation of Apollo and Diana who kill the children of Niobe.