Venus and Mythological Figures

Artistic representations of Venus and other mythological figures like Cupid, depicted through etchings and engravings with a romantic, classical style.

Narcissus, crowned with flowers, admiring his beauty; beside him, Cupid feeling pity for him, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Francesco Cepparoli from a drawing by G E Morghen, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume V, plate 28, 1757-1787, Naples.

Venus ontwate amor, Benoît Audran (II), After Jean Antoine Watteau, 1727 print France paper etching / engraving disarmament. Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Diana in Endymion, Louis Desplaces, After Nicolas Fouché, 1692 - 1739 print Paris paper etching / engraving Diana (Luna) visiting the sleeping Endymion

Mars, Flora and Venus with a flying cupid holding an arrow. Etching by C. Schut I.

Copper engraving and etching by Pieter de Jode II depicting the allegorical figures Cybele and Neptune representing the association of lake and country, created between 1620 and 1674.

Venus grabs Cupido with his wings, Bernard Lens (II), 1669 - 1725 print paper Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Nymph and small faun as a love couple, c. 1642 - c. 1750 print A small faun touches the female genitals of a naked nymph. paper sexual organs (human). partially clothed

Narcissus, crowned with flowers, admiring his beauty; beside him, Cupid feeling pity for him, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Francesco Cepparoli from a drawing by G E Morghen, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume V, plate 28, 1757-1787, Naples.

Two children, Girolamo Rossi (I), After Guercino, 1632 - 1664 print A child, lying on the belly, puts his hand on the shoulder of a second child kneeling. The kneeling child pulls a curtain. Italy paper etching children's games and plays. infant, baby ~ the ages of man

Bacchus en ariadne, Michel Dorigny, after Simon Vouet, 1644 print France paper engraving / etching (story of) Ariadne and Bacchus

Woedende Medea, Émile Lassalle, After Eugène Delacroix, 1859 print paper. Medea kills her two children; she flees from Corinth in a chariot drawn by winged dragons

Black chalk design by Eduard Charlemont showing details of 'The Smendacht Dream' for the Burgtheater, including two satyrs and a standing woman on wrapping paper.

Lucretia Bedreigt Door Sextus Met Dolk, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1743 - 1747 print paper etching the rape of Lucretia: Sextus Tarquin threatens her with a dagger or a sword

Hercules and Deianira, Pieter van Gunst, After Titian, 1659 - 1731 print Deïanira is sitting on Hercules' shot and embraces him. Cupido plays with the club of Hercules. Amsterdam paper engraving Hercules in love with Deianira, daughter of Oeneus

Venus makes a toilet. Venus sits naked on a stool and looks at herself in a mirror. For her a pigeon and behind her bath supplies. On the right a look to a man with a stick looking at Amor. This print is part of an album.

Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, Cupid and Psyche, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, blued whie, laid paper.

Photo production of a print with the paris judgment, Anonymous, 1855 - 1865 visit card. photograph This photo is part of an album. cardboard. photographic support albumen print the Judgement of Paris (without Mercury)

Laurent de La Hyre, Diana Recumbent, 1620s Diana Recumbent

Venus an AMOR MET DUUIVENTS, GILLES DISHEREAU, AFTER Jean Baptists (Le Vieux), 1732 - 1776 print Paris paper etching Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute). bunch of grapes

Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, Susanna, undated. Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper.

Copper engraving and etching by Jacques Chéreau the Younger titled Amor and Psyche, created between 1710 and 1776, illustrating 18th-century French mythological engraving techniques.

Apollo jerking a nymph, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, engraving by Francesco Cepparoli from a drawing by G E Morghen, from Le antichita di Ercolano esposte (The antiquities of Herculaneum exposed), Vv.Aa., volume IV, plate 27, 1757-1787, Naples.

Alphëus and Arethusa, Abraham BLOTELING, After Jan van Neck, 1655 - 1690 print The Nymph Arethusa flees the river god Alphëus from the water. She pulls up on a branch of a tree on the bank. In the background, a tree hangs on a tree as a symbol of love. Under the print a verse from the metamorphoses of Ovidius. paper engraving Alpheus changed into a river-god: when pining away for the love of Arethusa, Alpheus the hunter is changed into a river-god (Pausanias V 7, 2)

Liberi, Pietro, Fragonard, Jean Honoré, Two women on a cloud, recto bottom left - stamped, Two women, half naked, in the clouds., print, prints, verso center - stamped, Cav. Libris palais Resonico a Venise, height 170 mm, width 114 mm, French, 1732-04-05 - 1806-08-22, print maker, 1763 - 1764, third quarter 18th century, paper, etching, 1605 - 1687-10-18

Copulating couple in four-poster bed; Erotic scenes. In an 18th-century interior is a nude couple on a four-poster bed. There is a footstool for the bed.

Roof van Proserpina, John Smith (print maker/ publisher), after Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, After Perino del Vaga, After Titian, 1709 print London paper the rape of Proserpina (by Pluto in his chariot); possibly with Diana and Minerva trying to rescue her

Neptune and Amphitrite; Mythological love stories. Amphitrite is on the lap of Neptune and kisses him. In the foreground Cupid and a dolphin.

Leda and the Swan 18th century Gilles Demarteau French. Leda and the Swan. Gilles Demarteau (French, Liège 1722-1776 Paris). 18th century. Crayon-manner etching printed in red and black ink. Prints

Fontainebleau, Primaticcio, Francesco, Italy, Ghisi, Giorgio, Oval ceiling paintings in the Galerie d'Ulysse in Fontainebleau, Venus, two goddesses and two putti, verso - stamped, two goddesses and two putti on clouds., print, prints, height 190 mm, width 242 mm, Italian, 1520 - 1582-12-15, print maker, printmaker, 1541 - 1582, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1504-04-30 - 1570-09-14, after a painting by

Three Children On Dolphin 1755-76 Gilles Demarteau French. Three Children On Dolphin 394291

Woman with putto, anonymous, c. 1787 print France paper etching / engraving cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. adult woman. beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion - FF - fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa)

Johann Nepomuk Ender's 1815-1817 ink drawing depicts Apollo pursuing Daphne, executed with red highlights and washes, showing human figures, posture, and gestures.

Venus en Adonis Met Amor, Giovanni Battista Pasqualini, After Guercino, 1620 print Venus and Adonis partially undressed in a landscape. Next to Venus is Amor with a tense arch. print maker: Italyafter design by: ItalyVaticaanstad paper engraving Venus and Adonis as lovers. (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros)

Jupiter and Danaë. Jupiter descends down Danaë in the form of golden rain or light, while she lies on a rest. Her old servant looks from behind a curtain. In the distance a face on argos. Under the margin a single-line caption in Latin.

The Three Marys, by A. Carracci. Caldesi & Montecchi (British, active 1850s)

The Creation of the World: Human Creation.

David Watching Bathsheba Bathe n.d. de la Court French. David Watching Bathsheba Bathe 385165

Jupiter and antiope. The sleeping antiope on a bed. Amor is on the bed and tries to hunt Jupiter, who disguised as Ster under the sheets the nudity of anti-monopes.

Pierre Jacques Feillet (Lithographer) (After Rubens, Peter Paul); José de Madrazo y Agudo (Director); Real Establecimiento Litográfico de Madrid (Printer) / 'The Three Graces'. 1832 - 1837. Lithographic aquatint, Crayon lithography, Pen lithography, Scraper on wove paper; 1832 - 1837. Lithographic aquatint, Crayon lithography, Pen lithography, Scraper on wove paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Requesting AAM and EVA, 1660 print Adam embraces Eva and takes the apple. The snake watches from the tree. This print is part of an album. paper etching Eve offers the fruit to Adam

Bliżej Kultury Verlag Gerlach & Schenk in Vienna (1882 1901)

Venus in Cupid.

Venus and Cupid, two other goddesses and a putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau 1560s Giorgio Ghisi Italian. Venus and Cupid, two other goddesses and a putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau 367594

Bacchus, Ceres and Venus, after Michelangelo, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Sculptuur Van Love; Cupid 's also thoughtful, standing as a statue at the famous day when; Antieke Sculpturen in Rome; Of the Ancient Rome, known as the city of statues are to be seen in the public places, and icones.Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album.

Mercury gives Paris the golden apple, Mercury and Paris in a landscape. Mercury floats in the air and gives Paris the golden apple., (Story of) Mercury (Hermes), Mercury brings Paris the golden apple, Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Rome, 1686 - 1748, paper, engraving, h 382 mm × w 236 mm

Three young men, Salvator Rosa, c. 1656 - c. 1657 print A young man with a hat sitting on an edge and gesturing with his right hand. Two other young men behind the edge. Italy paper etching / drypoint head-gear

A drawing by François Boucher depicting a satyr family, executed in black and white chalk between 1730 and 1770.

Adam & Eve, watched by an angel. First published: 1677 Date: 1677

Woodland Maid and Youth, Lionel Aristide Lecouteux, French, 1847 - 1909, Raphaël Collin, French, 1850 - 1916, Etching on vellum, A maiden clothed in animal skin, seated on a grassy bank, offers a drink in a shell to a nude youth standing before her, one foot in a shallow stream., France, 1893, Print, Print

Apollo and Daphne; Mythological love stories. The Nymph Daphne is being chased by the Loved Apollo. She prays her father Peneus, for help and immediately, she changes in a laurel tree: her hands growing hands and leaves. In the foreground the river god peneus.

Allegory on the silk trade, Jacob de Wit, 1738 drawing Mercury stands with a sitting woman whose foot play two children. Design for a painting. paper. ink pen / brush (story of) Mercury (Hermes).

Black peace min, 1713; Black peace min / l'obscur amour pacifique; Plates about the peace of Utrecht from 1713 / 't Lusthof from MoMus. Black peace min. Jupiter and antiOpe in an allegory on the peace negotiations for the peace of Utrecht, 1713. Jupiter as a Sater (King Louis XIV) spies the sleeping antiope (Queen Anna). In the plate verses in Dutch and French. Part of a group of 28 new and old plates adapted to illustrate the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. Part of the print work is issued under the collective title 't Lust-Hof of Momus with the bundled series of cartriders during the 1901-1713 of the Spanish Succession War.

A naked maid in bonnet and silk stockings guides a man's penis to penetrate her, 18th century. The man is naked expect for hose and shoes. Copperplate engraving heliogravure by Francois Rolland Elluinafter Antoine Borel from Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouches Memoiren des Saturnin, von ihm selbst Niedergeschreiben, Privatdruck, Liepzig, 1911. Also known as Le Portier des Chartreux, it was one of several erotic novels written by Latouche, 1715-1782, a lawyer at the Paris Parliament.

Jupiter and Semele, Crispijn van de Passe (II) (attributed to), c. 1636 - 1670 print Jupiter drops down on Semele's bed and kills her through his lightning bolts. Behind him the eagle, his symbol. paper engraving Jupiter kills Semele by coming to her with his lightning and thunderbolts. attributes of Jupiter: eagle. bed with tester.

Pencil drawing by Moritz von Schwind titled 'Ritterliche Lovers', created in 1823, showing two figures in romantic and knightly attire with gray-laved shading.

Agamemnon is deluded by a vision appearing under the form of Nestor.

Sleeping Venus under a tree. The naked Venus is stretched out under a tree. In the background a tweemaster at sea. Leaf 12 recto from a sketchbook with 63 sheets.

La charité romain (Roman Charity), in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger) 1782-1821 Jean Jacques Lagrenée French. La charité romain (Roman Charity), in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger) 424204

Venus and Satyr 1592 Italy. Engraving with etching and plate tone on ivory laid paper . Annibale Carracci

Ceiling depiction of Venus in the Palazzo Verospi in Rome after Francesco Albani, executed in red chalk, showing figure, posture, and classical composition.

Frontispiece from Cipriani's "Rudiments of Drawing". Francesco Bartolozzi; Italian, 1727-1815. Date: 1792. Dimensions: 202 x 298 mm (plate); 271 x 382 mm (sheet). Color engraving and stipple engraving, on paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Statue of a kissing couple.

Company at a Source, Jacques Vaillant, After Titian, 1653 - 1691 print Two musicianing young men and two naked women are at a source. In the background the contours of a village. paper private festivities, merry company - AA - in the open air, 'fíªte champíªtre'

Death of the Strong Wicked Man, from "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair March 1, 1813 After William Blake British. Death of the Strong Wicked Man, from "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair 348304

Woman in bed with a headdress on her foot La coiffe , print maker: Mathieu Barathier, (mentioned on object), after: Mathieu Barathier, (mentioned on object), publisher: Morlot, Paris, 1831, paper, h 546 mm × w 359 mm

Achille Devéria, La Pensée (Thought), 1810-1857, lithograph on wove paper.

Matham, Jacob, Schonaeus, Cornelius, Haarlem, Cimone and Iphigenia, The young peasant Cimone kneels beside Iphigenia, whom he sees for the first time, sleeping by a fountain. Scene from Boccaccio, Decamerone, 1353., print, prints, height 195 mm, width 227 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1571-10-15 - 1631-01-20, print maker, printmaker, 1599 - 1603, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1541 - 1611-11-23, writer, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Adam and Eva in Paradise, Gerard de Lairesse, 1665 print Adam and Eva, naked in paradise. Adam holds Eva's hand and tries to get up just after he is created by God. Behind Eva is a cat. The print is part of a seven -part series with scenes from the Bible book Genesis. paper etching Adam and Eve in paradise (before the Fall)

Jules Boilly after Pierre Paul Prud'hon, Apollo and the Muses, 1851 Apollo and the Muses

Jupiter in Antiope, Gerard de Lairesse, After Abraham Bloteling, 1675 - 1685 print In a landscape under a canopy, Jupiter embraces, in the form of a Sater, the sleeping antiope. In the background the moon melon. paper Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, approaches the sleeping Antiope; the eagle may be standing nearby

Susanna molested by the elders. Stipple engraving by J. Jenkins, 1823, after P.F. Mola.

Venus and Mars surprised by Apollo, G. Rijckius, Robert de Baudous, 1615.

Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, Bacchus, undated. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige, laid paper.

Phoebus and Leucothea, Print made by John Smith, 1652-1743, British, undated, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, blued white, laid paper, Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 7/16 inches (18.1 × 13.8 cm) and Image: 6 11/16 × 5 5/16 inches (17 × 13.5 cm), bed, bedroom, canopy, embrace, god, halo, love, nude, nymph, religious and mythological subject, sandals

Juno, Venus, and Cupid, Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, undated, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 1/4 inches (24.3 × 18.4 cm) and Image: 9 × 6 13/16 inches (22.9 × 17.3 cm), bow, chariots, cherubs, clouds, crown, doves, dress, gifts, goddesses, meeting, nudes, peacocks (birds), religious and mythological subject, sunlight

. 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 its nymphs and has a Latin caption. In the left area the number 18.

Naked woman with wings and arrow, Bernard Lens (II) (Possible), 1669 - 1725 print paper (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa)

Plate 9 from 'Los Caprichos': Tantalus (Tantalo.) 1799 Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish. Plate 9 from 'Los Caprichos': Tantalus (Tantalo.) 333785

Reproduction of an painting: nude woman reclining, angel at right; 1865 - 1870; Albumen silver print

Venus Spied by a Sater, Arnold Houbraken, 1688 - 1700 print Venus, in conversation with Amor, is spied on by a satater. Avchter her a plaque with seven lines in French. Title print of part 2 of a series of prints with emblems, in total consisting of three parts with 23, 17 and 20 prints respectively. Dordrecht paper etching / engraving satyr(s) spying upon. sleeping; unconsciousness. oil-lamp

Badend Venus puts Putti, Julien-Léopold Boilly, after Pierre Prud'hon, 1852 print Paris paper bath of Venus

A drawing by Johann Heinrich Tischbein of the mythological figures Acis and Gala, created with dark gray stone chalk and lead handle.

. Interior with Lucretia that is about to cross with a dagger. Bottom left a motto in Latin that refers to her virtue. In the margin a two-legged caption in Latin.

Venus and Adonis, from the series The Story of Adonis ca. 1579 Philips Galle Netherlandish. Venus and Adonis, from the series The Story of Adonis. Philips Galle (Netherlandish, Haarlem 1537-1612 Antwerp). ca. 1579. Engraving; second state of two. Prints

Satyrs before 1645 Claude Mellan French. Satyrs 393279

Vertumnus and Pomona, Gerard Valck, After Caspar Netscher, 1681 - 1726 print Vertumnus, the Italian God and protector of gardens and orchards, and Pomona are in an intimate position at a fountain in a garden. There are two goats behind them. Amsterdam paper Vertumnus and Pomona. goat

. Lucretia tries Sextus Tarquinius, who wants to raping her. On the left looks a clerk.

Arcadian Scene with Bacchus. Artist: Gerard de Lairesse (Dutch, Liège 1641-1711 Amsterdam). Dimensions: sheet: 14 15/16 x 9 3/4 in. (38 x 24.7 cm). Date: n.d.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Four performances of successively a men's head, putto, man fighting with lion and sater that embraces a nymph, Richard de Saint-Non, after Jean Honoré Fragonard, After Rafaël, 1771 print paper etching (story of) Galatea; 'Galatea' (Ripa). the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) (+ nude human being). cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. man struggling with animals. satyr(s) pursuing nymph(s)

Louis Marin Bonnet after François Boucher, Jupiter and Danaë, 1774 Jupiter and Danaë

Five boys, two satyrs and a goat 1647 Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian A young boy crowned with a wreath of grapes, holding a bunch of grapes, lifted by a young satyr and a boy over the back of a third boy, watched by a fourth, holding up a jug; a satyr playing a tambourine at right, and a boy playing a recorder; a goat grazing behind at left; after Peeter van Avont. Five boys, two satyrs and a goat 361613

Hercules as a sleeping child ..

Amor and Psyche, monogrammist VG (17th century), 1600 - 1700 print Psyche looks at the sleeping amor by the light of a lamp. paper etching Psyche, holding a lamp, gazes at the sleeping Cupid, who awakens when a drop of hot oil falls on him

Saturnus, Venus Ent Amor, Stefano Mulinari, After Baldassare Peruzzi, After Pietro da Cortona, After Rafaël, c. 1751 - c. 1790 print Saturn with his scythe and choirs is accompanied by Venus and Amor. Among them the signs of fish (pisces) of the zodiac. In the lower margin a two -way verse in Italian. print maker: Italyafter painting by: Romeafter drawing by: Italyafter painting by: Italy paper etching Pisces (zodiacal sign of February). (story of) Saturn (Cronus). Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Gallait, Louis, Fierlants, Edmond, Photographic reproduction of a drawing after the painting Jeanne la Folle by Louis Gallait, This photograph is part of a cover with twelve photographs and two text sheets., photograph, photo, reproduction, photographs, photographically illustrated books, height 355 mm, width 281 mm, Belgian, 1819-06-20 - 1869-12-21, photographer, 1858 - 1863, photographic paper, albumen print, albumine print, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1810-03-10 - 1887-11-20

Thereseus a minotaurus, antoni-seat, 1765 - 1837 print With his club in the hand, thesively stands above the minotaurus he conquered. Figures around Him broke him in tribute. To a classic sculpture. Netherlands paper etching / engraving most important deeds: Theseus and the Minotaur. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Summer. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Louis Félix de La Rue (French, Paris 1731-1765 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in. (20.1 x 25.7 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Boy with Two Hens and aBasket. Artist: Unknown After: Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566-1651

Children playing, Johannes de Vreede, 1847 - 1900 print Playing naked children in a forest, one has a fruit and the other a bird. A arrow case hangs on the tree. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving children's games and plays

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