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Introduction

Prints and Drawings with a Classical Reference

December 15, 1965 - January 9, 1966

Selected Objects

After Giovanni Tognolli

George Washington, 1800s

Johann Gottlieb Facius

Sappho Inspired by Love, Composes an Ode to Venus, 1778

Attributed to Luca Penni

Venus Riding on a Shell Chariot, ca. 1540-1555
No Image Available

Albrecht Altdorfer, printmaker

Horatius Cocles, 1520 - 1530
No Image Available

Aristide Maillol, designer

Daphnis et Chloe, 1937

Ilya Bolotowsky

Abstraction, 1941

Felice Giani

Vestal Virgins Showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate, 1785-1790
No Image Available

Honoré Daumier

Mars and Venus (Mars et Venus), 1842

Italian

The Rape of Ganymede, ca. 1550

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Artist Drawing from the Model (Het Beeldt van Pigmalion), ca. 1639 (printed ca. 1652)

Édouard Manet

Olympia, 1867

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals, ca. 1650
No Image Available

Honoré Daumier

Despair of Calypso (Le Désespoir de Calypso), 1842
No Image Available

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, designer

Battle of Tritons, 1700s

Théodore Chassériau

Venus Anadyomène, 1842

Jan Harmensz. Muller

The Fight Between Ulysses and Irus, 1589

Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck

Study for the Death of Hercules, 1630s

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, designer

The Triumph of Hercules, 1700s

French or Flemish

Venus and Adonis, late 1600s- early 1700s

Adamo Scultori

Sacrifice of a Pig, ca. 1547-1587

Aegidius Sadeler I, designer

Allegory of the Marriage of Ferdinand II of Austria and Eleanor Gonzaga, 1606
No Image Available

Albrecht Altdorfer, designer

Neptune-Rape of Nymph, 1500s
No Image Available

Jean Lepautre, designer

Interior with the Death of Cleopatra and her Attendants, 1600s

Monogrammist H.F.E., printmaker

Parnassus Profaned, 1500 - 1530

Gustave Moreau

Hésiode (Hesiod), early 1880s
No Image Available

Christoffel Jegher

Drunken Silenus Assisted by a Fawn and a Satyr, early 1600s - mid 1600s

Attributed to Giovanni Paolo Pannini

Scene in Roman Ruins, 1600s

Claude Mellan, printmaker

Death of Adonis, 1636 - 1662
No Image Available

Claude Lorrain, designer

Mercury and Argus, 1662

Hendrick Goltzius

Oceanus, ca. 1588 - 1590
No Image Available

Léon Davent, printmaker

Polyphymnia, mid 1500s
No Image Available

Gabriel Perelle, designer

Landscape with River, 1600s
No Image Available

Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers, engraver

Phaedra and Hippolytus, ca. 1802

Hendrick Goltzius

Proserpine, ca. 1588 - 1590

Agostino Carracci, printmaker

The Harmony of the Spheres, 1589-1592
No Image Available

Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune

The Goddess Diana, a Sorceress, and the Furies, mid 1700s - early 1800s
No Image Available

Francois Forster, designer

L' Aurore et Céphale, 1821

Marcantonio Raimondi

Mars, Venus, and Cupid, 1508

Italian

The Elephants, ca. 1470-1500
No Image Available

Jacques Philippe Le Bas

Etude du Dessein (The Study of Drawing), 1749

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Cupid and Psyche, late 1700s-early 1800s

Francesco Solimena

Alexander's Defeat of Darius at the Battle of Arbela, 1735-36
No Image Available

Etienne Delaune, designer

Jupiter, 1500s

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Ship of Fortune, 1633
No Image Available

Adolph von Menzel, designer

Menu for Returned Warriors, 1866

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, printmaker

Rovine del Sisto, o sia Della Gran Sala delle Terme Antoniniane (Ruins of the Xystus, the central hall of the Antonine Baths), 1765

Antonio da Trento, woodcutter

The Tiburtine Sibyl Showing the Virgin and Child to Augustus, ca. 1527-1530
No Image Available

Jean Moyreau, designer

Feste Bacchique, early 1700s - mid 1700s

Possibly Jan de Bisschop

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius, mid 1600s - late 1600s

Unknown artist

Hercules and Antaeus, 1470-1500
No Image Available

Etienne Delaune, designer

Junon, 1500s
No Image Available

Charles Wilkin, designer

Cornelia and her Children, 1792
No Image Available

Circle of Giovanni Battista Busiri

Landscape, early 1700s

Albrecht Dürer, printmaker

The Large Horse, 1505
No Image Available

Pablo Picasso, designer

Los Trois Amies, 1927
No Image Available

Georges Braque, designer

Athenée, 1900s

Hubert Robert

Antique Ruins with Figures, ca. 1765-1778

Marco Dente, designer

Venus Wounded by the Rose's Thorn, ca. 1516

Albrecht Dürer, designer

Nemesis, ca. 1501- 1502

Giorgio Ghisi, engraver

Allegory of Life, 1561
No Image Available

Salvator Rosa, designer

Battle of Tritons, 1600s

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, etcher

River Gods, 1750 - 1780

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, designer

Satyr Seated at the Foot of a Statue of Priapus, 1600s

Marco Dente, engraver

Entellus and Dares, ca. 1515–1524
No Image Available

Eugène Delacroix, designer

Feuille de Sept Médailles Antiques (Sheet with Seven Antique Medals), 1825

Jacques Bellange

Military Figures outside a City, 1612-1616

John Hamilton Mortimer

Tritons, 1757 - 1779

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