Venus and Love Themes

Prints depicting Venus and themes of love, featuring celestial and mythological elements, with romantic interactions portrayed in lush landscapes.

Sleeping Venus by Saters Spied, Jacob Matham, After Hans Rottenhammer (i), 1599 - 1601 print Haarlem paper engraving satyr(s) spying upon. Venus asleep

Sleeping Venus by Saters Spied, Jacob Matham, After Hans Rottenhammer (i), 1599 - 1601 print Haarlem paper engraving satyr(s) spying upon. Venus asleep

Hercules en deïanira, Jacob Matham, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1588 - 1592 print Hercules and Deianira in an amorous hug in a landscape. Next to Hercules are his club and lion skin. Hercules kills the Centaur Euryment in the background. Haarlem paper engraving Hercules in love with Deianira, daughter of Oeneus

Odoardo Fialetti, Venus with Cupid Whittling His Bow, c 1617 Venus with Cupid Whittling His Bow

Pierre Biard the Younger, Venus with the Graces and Putti, 1620s Venus with the Graces and Putti

Venus and Adonis; Metamorphoses from Ovid. Venus Luchtkoost Adonis. His hunting dogs are watching. Amor is at the two swans.

Cupid carves a wooden bow with a file, with his back turned toward Venus 1617 Odoardo Fialetti Italian. Cupid carves a wooden bow with a file, with his back turned toward Venus 397870

Hercules kills the snakes; Life of Hercules. The young Hercules sits on his cradle, and strangled with his hands the snakes sent by Juno on him. Law watch Alcmene and Amphytrion surprised from their bed. A cartouche without text in the undermarge.

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Hercules and Dejanira, from a series of the Loves of the Gods, Jacob Matham, Netherlandish, 1571-1631, Hendrik Goltzius, Netherlandish, 1558 - 1617, Engraving on laid paper, Netherlands, ca. 1597, Print, Print

Cupid prepares to shoot an arrow as Venus looks over her right shoulder 1617 Odoardo Fialetti Italian. Cupid prepares to shoot an arrow as Venus looks over her right shoulder 397872

Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, Pomona - The Goddess of Orchards, undated. Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper.

Venus watching Cupid carving a new bow, from Scherzi d'amore (Games of love) prints, etchings, works on paper

Venus and Adonis as lovers in an embrace. Behind a tree Amor with his bow and in the distance Atalanta, the lover of Meleager, as she is killed by a wild boar., Venus and Adonis, print maker: Jacob Matham, (mentioned on object), publisher: Jacob Matham, (mentioned on object), Haarlem, 1599 - 1600, paper, engraving, h 173 mm × w 228 mm

Love in Psyche.

Cupid and Psyche, Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, after Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1599-1641, Flemish, active in Britain (1620-21; 1632-34; 1635-41), undated, Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, blued whie, laid paper, Sheet: 10 3/16 × 13 1/2 inches (25.9 × 34.3 cm), Plate: 9 13/16 × 13 3/16 inches (24.9 × 33.5 cm), and Image: 9 9/16 × 13 1/16 inches (24.3 × 33.2 cm), arrows, arrows, beauty, bows (weapons), box, god, goddess, love, quiver, religious and mythological subject, rescue, river, sleeping, story of Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius, 'Metamorphoses' (Golden Ass) IV 28 - VI 25), wife, wings

Natural law unveiled by science, Pieter Tanjé, After Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1744 print The law of nature, in the person of Venus, embraces it right away. She holds a sword in the hand. Science unesuvers and the truth illuminates the law of nature. Putti, who the genius of the writer Richard Cumberland, overcome Thomas Hobbes' fault, who lies on the ground. Title page for a book by Richard Cumberland, in which he fights the ideas of Thomas Hobbes. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving 'Natura' (allegorical figures or scenes; or as diana of ephesus, with many breasts); 'Nature' (Ripa). Equality, Equity, Faiorss, Righteousness; 'Equality', 'Equity', 'Giuditio Giusto', 'Drit and just order', 'Equality' (Ripa). Symbolic Represementions, Allegories and Emblems ~ Science, 'Scientia'; 'Science', 'Studio' (Ripa). Truth; 'TRAPE (RIPA). Error; 'Error' (Ripa)

Jupiter en Juno, Jacques Belly, After Agostino Carracci, c. 1641 print France paper etching Jupiter and Juno as lovers

Juvenis auscultans seni de divinis admonenti, Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after Pellegrino Tibaldi, 1527-1596, Italian, after Camillo Procaccini, ca. 1551-1629, Italian, 1764, Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 18 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (46.6 x 36.4 cm), Plate: 17 13/16 x 13 13/16 inches (45.3 x 35.1 cm), and Image: 15 9/16 x 12 3/8 inches (39.6 x 31.5 cm), Bible, Christianity, clouds, costume, divinity, father, gesture, heaven, men, Old Testament, pointing, religious and mythological subject, son, the book of Proverbs, the book of Proverbs, chapter V, togas, wisdom

Depicts Orpheus with Eurydice, created as a copper engraving print by Marcantonio Raimondi around 1509-1510.

Paris, Joullain, François-Charles, Chéreau, widow François, Fessard, Etienne, Boucher, François, France, L'amour d'ésarmé., Love arrow taken from Amor by Venus, recto - handwritten, print, prints, 1710:, height 465 mm, width 305 mm, 1714 - 1777-05-02, print maker, printmaker, 1761 - 1761, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching, French, 1703-09-29 - 1770-05-30, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, 1734 - 1790

. River landscape with two nymphs, sitting on the shore, and thetis with Achilles in her arms. Two nymphs at a pine stable with a classic vase behind them. In the middle of: 6. Sixth print from a series of fourteen with scenes from the life of Achilles.

Venus and Amor on the clouds, Jacob Matham (attributed to), after Hendrick Goltzius, 1599 - 1603 print Venus and Amor on the clouds. Amor with arrow sleeve and bow, venus in the background in her car drawn by two swans. Two pigeons in the air. Haarlem paper engraving (story of) Venus (Aphrodite)

Venus and the rose. Venus is sitting on a rock in a landscape. She gets a thorn from a rose bush from her foot. In the foreground a rabbit on the right.

Hercules at the Crossroad ca. 1498 Albrecht Dürer German. Hercules at the Crossroad 391058

Fall, Jan Saenredam, After Abraham Bloemaert, 1604 print Eva offers Adam an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Around the trunk of the tree is a snake wrinkled that provides Eva another apple. In the background, Eva is seduced by the snake. paper engraving Temptation and Fall (scenes with both Adam and Eve). Eve simultaneously offers some of the fruit to Adam and takes some more from the serpent (or the tree). walker and runner birds: turkey. cat. the serpent tries to persuade Eve to take some of the fruit (usually an apple)

Copper engraving by Jan Harmensz. Muller around 1597 depicting the Roman deities Bacchus, Ceres, and Venus. The artwork shows the three figures, gestures, symbolic elements, and classical attire in late 16th-century European style.

Pan Subdued byCupid. Artist: Agostino Carracci, Italian, 1557-1602

Batheba taking a bath in King David's palace garden. Two maids help her. One hands her a towel, the other hangs a cloth on the clothesline. From his balcony David watches the scene. Batheba takes a bath Batheseba in the bathtub , print maker: Balthasar Bernards, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Bernard Picart, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, c. 1711 - c. 1720, paper, etching, engraving, h 353 mm × w 218 mm

Copper engraving by Lucas Hugensz. van Leyden titled 'Prudence', created in 1530, depicting the personification of Prudence with detailed figure and symbolic attributes.

Bas-relief with David and Batseba, Matthijs Pool, After Barend Graat, After Francis van Bossuit, 1727 print The naked Batseba is bathed. She is assisted by employees. King David sees her from the roof of his palace. In the middle of numbered: X. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching David, from the roof (or balcony) of his palace, sees Bathsheba bathing

Connection between Water and Earth, Vincenzo Vangisti, After Peter Paul Rubens, 1754 - 1798 print The female personification of earth and the male personification of water are together under a tree on the waterfront. On the left a saat with a fruit basket and a leopard. A putto is floating upstairs. French text and coat of arms in STUDMARGE. print maker: Italypublisher: Paris paper engraving / etching earth (one of the four elements). water (one of the four elements). river-gods. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. satyr(s) (in general)

The temptation of Adam and Eva, Zacharias Dolendo, After Bartholomeus Spranger, c. 1580 - c. 1601 print Adam and Eva are in hug for the tree of good and evil. The snake provides Eva de Appel. Behind Adams back, Eva takes the apple. On the floor a dog scratches behind his ear. paper engraving Eve takes the fruit from the serpent (or the tree) in the presence of Adam (who may be trying to stop her)

Venus and the rose, Venus sits on a rock in a landscape. She takes a thorn from a rose bush out of her foot. In the foreground on the right a rabbit., Venus wounded by the thorns or a rose-bush, the roses change from white to red (possibly combined with the story of Adonis), Marco Dente, Italy, 1498 - 1532, paper, engraving, h 256 mm × w 172 mm

Andrea Andreani after Domenico Beccafumi, Eve, Italian, 1558-1559 - 1629, 1586, chiaroscuro woodcut

Sitting allegorical female figure, Hendrik van Limborch, 1691 - 1759 drawing paper. ink pen / brush Truth; 'Verití' (Ripa)

Black chalk drawing by Johann Joseph Friedrich Langenhöffel depicting the Judgment of Paris, with a black edging line, dated 1800.

Glaucus and Scylla Made 1656-1666 Italy. Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper . Salvator Rosa

Portrait of Amalia of Solms, Wencheslaus Hollar, 1639 print Portrait of Amalia. She is in a departure with an orange branch in her right hand. The three graces offer her palm leaves. Two columns with two lines each French text each in the lower margin. print maker: Low Countriespublisher: Londonpublisher: London paper engraving / etching / letterpress printing

Fall with female snake. Eva offers Adam an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Around a branch of the tree the snake has been wounded that has a woman's face. Around the tree some animals (cat, dog, goat, sheep and parrot). The print has a Latin caption.

Bacchus finds Ariadne on Naxos, John Smith (print maker/ publisher), after Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, After Perino del Vaga, After Titian, 1709 print London paper Bacchus finds Ariadne on Naxos

A 1649 etching by Nicolas Chaperon depicting the Fall, illustrating 17th-century European biblical and religious subjects and the story of original sin.

Andromeda, in Greek mythology the daughter of the Ethiopian king Cepheus and Cassiopeia, c. 1700, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from prehistoric times

Lusty Sater at a Nymph, Anonymous, After Arnold Houbraken, 1700 - 1750 print A naked nymph, with an oil lamp under a canopy, is pulled on her robe by a satap behind a tree. Copy to the print of Houbraken from part 2 of a series of prints with emblems. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving satyr(s) (in general) - aggressive, unfriendly activities and relationships. oil-lamp. satyr(s) pursuing nymph(s)

Apollo in Waarheid, Bernard Picart (Workshop of), After Louis Chéron, 1725 print Apollo hands its winch to the allegorical figure of truth (Veritas). She is sitting on a cloud and holds a mirror in her hand. Pegasus flies to the left in the background. In the margin the title in French. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving (story of) Apollo (Phoebus). Truth; 'Verití' (Ripa). Pegasus, the winged horse

Bacchus finds Ariadne on Naxos, Moyses van Wtenbrouck, 1700 - 1710 print Bacchus looks at the sleeping Ariadne. He has a grape voucher in his hand. Scene from Ovidius Metamorphosen (with. VIII, 176-177). print maker: The Haguepublisher: Amsterdam (possibly) paper etching / engraving (story of) Ariadne and Bacchus

The caution shows Hercules De Spiegel der Virtue and Moed, Mattheus Terwest, 1680 - 1757 drawing paper. ink. graphite (mineral) pen / brush Strength, power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortress of mind and body', 'Fortress of the joint body with the genericity of the soul', 'Fortress & value of the joint body with prudence & virtue of the soul', 'Force' (Ripa). Prudence, 'Prudentia'; 'Prudence' (Ripa) ~ One of the Four Cardinal Virtues. Precaution. Roman Personifications of Abstract concepts. (Story of) Hercules (Heracles). Looking in The Mirror; Contemplation of Own Beauty

Louis XIV (King of France), Paris, Duchange, Gaspard, Poussin, Nicolas, Picart, Bernard, Hermaphrodite, Jupiter and Antiope, verso lower left - stamped, The nymph Antiope sleeps at the edge of a lake (Lake Salmacis). Jupiter, in the guise of a satyr, stalks her and pulls aside her shawl. In the air flies Cupid, aiming an arrow at them., print, prints, height 245 mm, width 164 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1693 - 1693, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Frans, 1594-06 - 1665-11-19, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1662-04 - 1757-01-06, publisher, uitgever, 1638-09-05 - 1715-09-01, verlener van privilege

Parijs, Beauvarlet, Jacques, Raoux, Jean, Frankrijk, Offer aan Priapus, Paris, France, verso - gestempeld, print, prent, prints, prenten, height 441 mm, width 333 mm, 1731-09-25 - 1797-12-07, print maker, printmaker, 1741 - 1797, paper, papier, etching, etchingsen, engraving, engraver (drukprocedé), Frans, 1677-06-12 - 1734-02-10, after, after a painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Angelica and Medoro 1565-1575 Italy. It is thought that this may be the first depiction of an episode from Ariostoís poem Orlando Furioso in which Orlandoís madness is precipitated when his beloved, the Princess Angelica of Cathay, falls in love with the page Medoro. The immensely popular poem, first published in 1532, existed in over one hundred Italian editions by the end of that century.. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Giorgio Ghisi

Titian, Amsterdam, Gunst, Pieter van, Mythological love stories, Apollo and Daphne, verso lower left - stamped, The nymph Daphne is pursued by the enamoured Apollo. She prays to her father Peneus for help and immediately changes into a laurel tree: from her hands grow branches and leaves. In the foreground the river god Peneus., print, prent, prints, engravings, height 435 mm, width 298 mm, 1649 - 1731-05-22, print maker, printmaker, 1659 - 1731, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Italian, 1488 - 1576-08-27

Aminta en thestylis, Gerard Hoet (i), 1658 - 1733 print Torquato Tasso's characters Amint and Thestylis in classic clothing in a landscape. Two lines in Dutch under the performance. unknown paper etching pastorals, Arcadian scenes. (lovers) caressing each other

Allegory on charity. An almost naked woman (charity) runs in a coastal landscape, a bundle of spikes and a branch of roses in the left arm, giving up money with the right hand. At her right foot, a beautiful young woman is scoring roses for a boar (generosity); At her left foot, an ugly old woman buries a pot of money (greed). Under the show two Latin lines.

Sideline; Tactvs; The five senses. Landscape with feminine sense spirit personification, with a pigeon on her hand. A man embraces her and the dog sitting on her lap. In the foreground Venus and Amor. In the margin, in two columns, a caption in Latin. Print from a series of five with the five senses.

Children playing 1750 Pierre Alexandre Aveline French. Children playing 394020

Artist: Schelte Adams Bolswert, Flemish, 1586-1659, After: Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593-1678, Jupiter as aChild, Etching, platemark: 36.3 × 47 cm (14 5/16 × 18 1/2 in.), Made in Flanders, Flemish, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

The marriage of Adam and Eva, Frans de Bakker, 1736 - 1767 print Adam and Eva Nude in Paradise. Adam holds Eva's hand. God, symbolized by Hebrew letters that radiate light, gives the couple his blessing. Behind Eva is a lion. Amsterdam paper etching God blesses Adam and Eve; institution of marriage

Venus and Adonis, draughtsman: Gillis Mostaert (I), 1583, paper, pen, brush, h 119 mm × w 91 mm

Luck, Girolamo Scarselli, After Guido Reni, 1665 - 1675 print Fortuna floats over a globe. She tips a bag of coins. A putto pulls her hair. Italy paper etching Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Aurea fortune', 'Good luck', 'peaceful luck overo Clemente', 'fate' (Ripa)

Pan and Natura. Image of an image of pan and kind. Pan bends forward to kind that extends her arm to embrace pan. Upper rights a r.

Hendrik Goltzius, Ignis, c 1586 Ignis

Ceres, Nicolaas Braeu, after Karel van Mander (I), 1598 print An image of the goddess of agriculture Ceres, placed in a niche. Ceres holds a sickle around the harvests in her hand. Next to her is a horn of abundance filled with fruits. Two snakes on either side of the goddess symbolize the fertility of agricultural land. With a Latin caption. paper engraving (story of) Ceres (Demeter). flowers: poppy

Parijs, Poignant, Etienne Léon, Lafosse, Charles de, Pierron, Jean Antoine, Collection of prints after Flemish, German and Dutch painters, Galerie des peintres flamands, Dutch and foreign by Le Brun, Allegorie à la Gloire de Rubens, Allegorical representation with bust of Peter Paul Rubens, Paris, verso - stamped, Around the bust of painter Peter Paul Rubens on a pedestal stand and sit allegorical female figures including a woman playing the flute, a woman with a piece of a column, a woman with four breasts, a woman with a painter's palette and a woman with an armillary sphere. A putto with a bust and measuring instruments sits with them. At the top an angel flies with a caduceus and flame on its head, lauds the bust of the painter. In the bottom margin a French text., print, prints, height 296 mm, width 228 mm, French, print maker, printmaker, 1791-01 - 1791-01, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1636-06-15 - 1716-12-13, after, after painting by, Publication (Even

. Diana, surrounded by nymphs, is disapproving towards the pregnant Callisto, which is naked on a rock. Scene from Ovid 'Metamorphoses (with. II, 460-465).

Haarlem, Goltzius, Hendrick, Matham, Jacob, Three goddesses among the clouds, Minerva, verso lower left - stamped, The goddess Minerva, sitting on a cloud. She wears a helmet, holds a spear and a shield and is accompanied by her attribute: the owl., print, prints, height 206 mm, width 153 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1571-10-15 - 1631-01-20, print maker, printmaker, 1585 - 1589, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01, after print by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Putto conducts a Sater Grapes, Anonymous, 1650 - 1800 print paper satyr(s) (in general)

Two putti with mirror, Louis Ferdinand I ELLE, After Gerard van Opstal, After Tetelin, 1654 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Mirror

Susanne, surprise dans le bain par les deux vieillards, Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660-1737, Dutch, undated, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 10 7/16 x 7 11/16 inches (26.5 x 19.5 cm), Plate: 10 x 7 3/16 inches (25.4 x 18.2 cm), and Image: 9 5/16 x 7 1/8 inches (23.6 x 18.1 cm), bathing, beards, cloaks, fountain, lust, men, nude, Old Testament, religious and mythological subject, the elders making advances towards Susanna, turban, undress, urn, woman

Two Fauns Carrying a Child (copy). Raphael, 1483-1520. 1501 - 1525. Raimondi, Marcantonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Sixth Day: Creation of man, Jan Harmensz. Muller, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1589 print The sixth day of creation: God creates Eva, while Adam is sleeping on the ground. In the background God the Father and Adam. Adam points to the animals. To the Bible text in Gen. 1: 26-31. paper engraving creation of man; the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1:26 - 2)

A young man flight for Bacchus, Venus and Amor. A young man, according to the Latin caption of genius, escaped Bacchus, Venus and Amor.

Amsterdam, Luyken, Caspar, Eve offers Adam the forbidden fruit, verso - manuscript in brown ink, print, prints, verso - stamped, 4, height 112 mm, width 147 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1672-12-18 - 1708-10-04, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1712, paper, papier, etching

Jupiter is suckled by the goat Amalthea, Matthijs Pool, after Barend Graat, 1696 - 1727 print Jupiter is raised by Nymphs on Mount Ida. They feed him with the milk of the goat Amalthea. A shepherd gives him honey bones. In the margin a three -faced caption in Dutch. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching Amalthea, the nymph, usually in the shape of a goat, suckles the new-born Jupiter

David and Batseba, Pieter van den Berge, 1692 - 1737 print Batseba washes her feet in a source while King David spied her from his roof terrace (2 Samuel 11: 2). He sends a messenger with the assignment to bring Batseba to the palace. Amsterdam paper engraving David, from the roof (or balcony) of his palace, sees Bathsheba bathing

The robbery of Europe, draughtsman: Hans Krieg, 1600 - 1647, paper, pen, brush, h 152 mm × w 144 mm

Venus Wounded by Cupid's Dart. Agostino Veneziano (Italian, active 1514-1536); after Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1516. Dimensions: 181 x 134 mm (image/sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Engraving in black on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, Juno, Venus, and Cupid, undated. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Venus and Mars embracing with a putto to either side ca. 1680 Giuseppe Diamantini. Venus and Mars embracing with a putto to either side. Giuseppe Diamantini (Italian, Fossombrone 1621-1705 Fossombrone). ca. 1680. Etching, squared in black chalk; second state of two. Paolo Pagani (Italian, Castello Valsolda 1661-1716 Milan). Prints

Four seasons suggested by four children. Spring with floral wreath sits in the middle, the back of the summer with corn sheaf, right autumn bearing fruits and winter warming to a fire.

Italy, Zanetti, Anton Maria I, Bacchus drinking from a pitcher, verso - stamped, Bacchus seated with a vine in his hand while a child pours wine into his mouth., print, prent, prints, enten, height 117 mm, width 92 mm, Italian, 1680 - 1757, print maker, prentmaker, 1690 - 1757, paper, papier, etching, etchings

Evening, 1611 - 1637 print Landscape with Diana, the moon goddess, as personification of the evening. She wears an arrow and bow and is accompanied by two hunting dogs. A deer show in the background. In the margin a two -way caption in Latin. paper engraving personification of the evening, 'Vesper'. (story of) Diana (Artemis). hunting, chase

The Apollo Belvedere sculpture. Greek god Apollo with bow in his hand after shooting an arrow at the chthonic serpent Python. In chlamys cloak and sandals. From the Palazzo Belvedere, Rome. Copperplate engraving by Richard Collin after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

. Eurydice is only bitten by a snake and cries. Her naked foot is on Orpheus' knee. Her shoe lies on the ground. In the background the precipitated giant aristaeus.

Noli MeTangere. Engraver: Luca Ciamberlano, Italian, 1570/80-1641 or after After: Federico Barocci, Italian, 1528-1612

Allegory on transience. Three naked putti play for a pyramid. One of them is to bubble blowing. The putti is surrounded by transience symbols such as globe, the bubble, skull and antique sculpted head. These objects indicate the expiry of time. The book and the painting palette can be conceived if art overcomes death.

Adam and Eva surrounded by the animals in Paradise, Caspar Luyken, 1712 print Amsterdam paper etching Adam and Eve in paradise (before the Fall)

Putti assisting Woman carve a Bust of a Soldier, Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after unknown artist, undated, Engraving

. For a tree, the naked Diana (with arrow and bow) and one of its nymphs. The print is part of a three-part series of Diana and her nymphs.

The Muse Erato. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Albert Ardail (French, Paris 1865-1914 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 11 1/8 in. (18.8 × 28.3 cm)Plate: 6 3/4 × 9 1/16 in. (17.1 × 23 cm). Printer: A. Salmon and Ardail (French, active 1863-96). Publisher: Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Date: 1890. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Love couple under tree. Draughtsman: Frans van Mieris (II). Dating: 1724. Measurements: h 180 mm × w 201 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Venus in Cupid, 1595 - 1667 print Venus with burning heart in hand, looking down on Cupido next to her. In the upper corners of pigeons, burning hearts with arrows pierced in the undercarrows. paper engraving Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Nimf, Putto en Jonge Sater, Agostino Carracci, c. 1590 - c. 1595 print A nymph, a putto and a young sater in a landscape. The putto fills the toenails of the nymph and the young sater touches her. Italy paper engraving nymphs (in general); 'Ninfe in commune' (ripa). satyr (s) (in general). : 'Yours', 'amoretti', 'Puitti'

Vertumnus and Pomona. The naked vertumnus and Pomona, the god and goddess of the fruit, sit on a stone in front of a tree. Vertumnus asks for the apple that Pomona has in hand. Fruit is in the foreground. The print has a Latin caption.

Leda and the swan. .

Venus and Adonis with amor. Venus and Adonis partially undecided into a landscape. Next to Venus State Amor with tense bow.

Venus; Gods and goddesses involved in the judgment of Paris. Landscape with Venus and its companion Amor. In the frame a peripheral in Latin that refers to the role that Venus played in the judgment of Paris. She is one of the three goddesses who had to judge Paris and promised to reward him with the love of every woman he chose. Print from a series of six with gods and goddesses.

Rest of Diana and her nymphs after the hunt, Diana is resting with her nymphs after the hunt and is spied on by three satyrs. The killed animals are lying on the floor in front of them, Diana and her nymphs surprised by satyrs, Jacob Louys (mentioned on object), Haarlem, 1644 - 1650, paper, engraving, h 342 mm × w 405 mm

Ceres, draughtsman: anonymous, draughtsman: Gerard de Lairesse, (rejected attribution), Netherlands, 1600 - 1699, prepared paper, pen, brush, h 76 mm × w 103 mm

Hercules as Putto with the Hydra van Lerna, Louis Ferdinand I Elle, After Gerard van Opstal, After Tetelin, 1654 print Paris paper etching (2) the Hydra of Lerna is killed by Hercules. ornament ~ medallion

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