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128 works by 46 artists

128 works featuring “Cave” by 46 artists, from the 15th to the 20th century, held in 64 museums.

The penitent Saint Jerome, Titien

The penitent Saint Jerome, c. 1575.

Saint Jérôme pénitent (museum title)

Titien (Italian), oil on canvas

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Spain

The Capo Sant' Angelo, Amalfi, Edward Lear

The Capo Sant' Angelo, Amalfi, c. 1885.

The Capo Sant' Angelo, Amalfi (museum title)

Edward Lear (British), graphite and gray wash on wove paper

Yale Center for British Art, United States

Naufrage à la côte, Eugène Delacroix

Naufrage à la côte, 1862.

Naufrage à la côte (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States

Odysseus and Calypso, Arnold Böcklin

Odysseus and Calypso, 1882.

Odysseus und Kalypso (museum title)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss), oil on mahogany

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Saint Jerome, Le Greco

Saint Jerome, c. 1610–1614.

Saint Jerome (museum title)

Le Greco (Spanish), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art, United States

The Nymph of Spring, Arnold Böcklin

The Nymph of Spring, c. 1866.

Quellnymphe (museum title)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss), tempera on panel

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

The Resurrection of Christ, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Resurrection of Christ, 1562.

The Resurrection of Christ (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), drawing

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands

La Déploration du Christ, Eugène Delacroix

La Déploration du Christ, 1857.

La Déploration du Christ (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany

Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château-Noir, Paul Cézanne

Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château-Noir, 1900s.

Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château-Noir (museum title)

Paul Cézanne (French), oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, France

Studies for a Stage Setting, Leonardo da Vinci

Studies for a Stage Setting, 1496.

Studies for a Stage Setting (museum title)

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

The Blue Grotto, João Batista da Costa

The Blue Grotto, 1898.

Gruta azul (museum title)

João Batista da Costa (Brazilian), oil on canvas

Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil

Médée furieuse, Eugène Delacroix

Médée furieuse, 1862.

Médée furieuse (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Elysium & Tartarus, or The State of Final Retribution, James Barry

Elysium & Tartarus, or The State of Final Retribution, 1792–1808.

Elysium & Tartarus, or The State of Final Retribution (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), etching, engraving

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Lot's Wife, Waitomo Caves, Charles Blomfield

Lot's Wife, Waitomo Caves

Lot's Wife, Waitomo Caves (museum title)

Charles Blomfield (New Zealander), oil on canvas

Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Landscape from La Source Bleue, Gustave Courbet

Landscape from La Source Bleue, 1872.

Paysage de la Source bleue (museum title)

Gustave Courbet (French), oil on canvas

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Troll hag and three princesses, Erik Werenskiold

Troll hag and three princesses, 1908–1910.

Trollkjerring og tre prinsesser (museum title)

Erik Werenskiold (Norwegian), pencil on paper

National Museum of Norway

The Repentant St. Peter, Le Greco

The Repentant St. Peter, 1600s.

Las lágrimas de San Pedro (El Greco, obras originales) (museum title)

Le Greco (Spanish), oil on canvas

Phillips Collection, United States

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Hieronymus Bosch

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (museum title)

Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch)

Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Niels Klim crawls into the cave, Nicolai Abildgaard

Niels Klim crawls into the cave, 1788.

Niels Klim kryber ind i hulen (museum title)

Nicolai Abildgaard (Danish), drawing

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, Le Greco

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, c. 1595.

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation (museum title)

Le Greco (Spanish), oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

The Mystical Nativity, Sandro Botticelli

The Mystical Nativity, 1500.

La Nativité mystique (museum title)

Sandro Botticelli (Italian), oil on canvas

National Gallery, United Kingdom

Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto, Shitao

Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto, 1700.

Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto (museum title)

Shitao (Chinese)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Satan Summoning His Legions, Johann Heinrich Füssli

Satan Summoning His Legions, 1802.

Satan über dem feurigen See, Beelzebub zu sich aufrufend (museum title)

Johann Heinrich Füssli (Swiss), oil on canvas

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Saint Francis of Assisi in Prayer and Penance, Melchor Pérez de Holguín

Saint Francis of Assisi in Prayer and Penance, 1694.

San Francisco de Asís en oración y penitencia (museum title)

Melchor Pérez de Holguín (Bolivian), oil

Casa Nacional de Moneda, Potosí, Bolivia

The Cliff (La falaise), Roderic O'Conor

The Cliff (La falaise), 1893.

The Cliff (La falaise) (museum title)

Roderic O'Conor (Irish), etching and drypoint

National Gallery of Ireland

Christ Carried Down to the Tomb, Eugène Delacroix

Christ Carried Down to the Tomb, 1859.

Christ Carried Down to the Tomb (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

National Museum of Western Art, Japan

Arcadian Landscape. Motif from Baia in Italy, Jens Juel

Arcadian Landscape. Motif from Baia in Italy, 1791.

Italiensk landskab, kaldet De elysæiske Marker: Bajæ ved… (museum title)

Jens Juel (Danish), oil on wood

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

The Resurrection of Christ, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Resurrection of Christ, 1560.

The Resurrection of Christ (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), engraving

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

"Per Paars, Book 1, Canto 1. Envy at Aeolus's", Wilhelm Marstrand

"Per Paars, Book 1, Canto 1. Envy at Aeolus's", 1863.

"Per Paars 1. bog 1. sang. Avind hos Æolus (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), pencil, pen, black ink and Indian ink

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Chasse au tigre, Eugène Delacroix

Chasse au tigre, 1854.

Chasse au tigre (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, France

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, 1660.

Paysage avec Hercule et Cacus (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

Koningstijger met prooi, Raden Saleh

Koningstijger met prooi, 1866.

Koningstijger met prooi (museum title)

Raden Saleh (Indonesian), oil on canvas

Private collection

Orphée secourant Eurydice, Eugène Delacroix

Orphée secourant Eurydice, 1862.

Orphée secourant Eurydice (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

Musée Fabre, France

Cannibal Scene, Ignacio Merino

Cannibal Scene, 1850.

Escena de caníbales (museum title)

Ignacio Merino (Peruvian), oil

Ignacio Merino Municipal Art Gallery, Peru

Triptyque des ermites, Hieronymus Bosch

Triptyque des ermites, 1493.

Triptyque des ermites (museum title)

Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch), oil on wood panel

Doge's Palace, Italy

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, Le Greco

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, c. 1605–1610.

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation (museum title)

Le Greco (Spanish)

Meadows Museum, United States

Selim et Zuleïka, Eugène Delacroix

Selim et Zuleïka, 1857.

Selim et Zuleïka (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

Kimbell Art Museum, United States

The Entombment, Rembrandt van Rijn

The Entombment, c. 1654.

De graflegging (museum title)

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch), etching

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

石涛山水人物图卷, Shitao

石涛山水人物图卷

石涛山水人物图卷 (museum title)

Shitao (Chinese)

Palace Museum, China

Oedipus and the Sphinx, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808.

Œdipe explique l'énigme du sphinx (museum title)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Christ on the Mount of Olives (one panel of the Passion cycle), Hans Holbein le Jeune

Christ on the Mount of Olives (one panel of the Passion cycle), c. 1524.

Christus am Ölberg (museum title)

Hans Holbein le Jeune (Swiss), oil on limewood

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Hercules and Alcestis, Eugène Delacroix

Hercules and Alcestis, 1862.

Hercules and Alcestis (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French)

Phillips Collection, United States

Elysium and Tartarus or the State of Final Retribution, James Barry

Elysium and Tartarus or the State of Final Retribution, 1791.

Elysium and Tartarus or the State of Final Retribution (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), etching strengthened by engraving

Yale Center for British Art, United States

Saint Jerome, Jean-Léon Gérôme

Saint Jerome, 1874.

Saint Jerome (museum title)

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French), oil on canvas

Städel Museum, Germany

Philoctetes in the Island of Lemnos, James Barry

Philoctetes in the Island of Lemnos, 1777.

Philoctetes in the Island of Lemnos (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), engraving

Yale Center for British Art, United States

Saint Anthony Abbot and St. Paul, the first hermit, Diego Velázquez

Saint Anthony Abbot and St. Paul, the first hermit, c. 1634.

Saint Antoine Abbé et saint Paul, premier ermite (museum title)

Diego Velázquez (Spanish), oil on canvas

Prado Museum, Spain

Saint Francis of Assisi and Brother Leo in Meditation, Le Greco

Saint Francis of Assisi and Brother Leo in Meditation, c. 1600–1605.

Saint Francis of Assisi and Brother Leo in Meditation (museum title)

Le Greco (Spanish), oil on canvas

Museo de Arte de Ponce, Porto Rico

Lionne et lion dans leur antre, Eugène Delacroix

Lionne et lion dans leur antre, 1856.

Lionne et lion dans leur antre (museum title)

Eugène Delacroix (French), oil on canvas

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada

Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir, Paul Cézanne

Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir, 1900–1904.

Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir (museum title)

Paul Cézanne (French), oil on canvas

National Gallery, United Kingdom

La Vierge aux rochers, Leonardo da Vinci

La Vierge aux rochers, 1494.

La Vierge aux rochers (museum title)

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian), oil on poplar panel

National Gallery, United Kingdom