How to talk about some pictures in the following context?

I would like to write about Botticelli’s "Birth of Venus” and its ancient … -- I don’t know what word would be proper here, which I could call "pre-pictures,"
meaning that there are similar pictures about the birth of Aphrodite from the ancient Greece.
For e.g.: Botticelli’s picture and its ancient prefiguration/archetype/prototype/antecedent?