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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Red and grey chalk drawing of a flayed male torso showing exposed musculature, arms raised, head tilted back.

Ecorché: Torso of a Male Cadaver

Eugène Delacroix, 1828?

Engraving of nude Venus wringing water from her hair beside a tree, with a quiver hanging above and a distant sea and ship.

Venus wringing the water from her hair, standing at the water's edge

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1506

Engraving of Apollo reaching for Daphne, whose body is transforming into a laurel tree, with a landscape behind them.

Apollo and Daphne

Agostino Veneziano, 1518

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with several figure studies of reclining, struggling and draped figures by Delacroix.

Figure Studies for the Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon

Eugène Delacroix, 1833-35

Engraving of the Apollo Belvedere statue, a nude youth with a cloak and quiver beside a tree trunk with a python.

The Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican his left hand resting on the tree trunk around which coils a python

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of a nude muscular man in a plumed helmet holding a flag, standing over a lion, with a town in the background.

Man with a Flag

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Ink and wash drawing of a monumental fountain elevation with a bearded river god statue in a central niche.

Design for a Monumental Fountain

A. Le Canu, 1750-70

Engraving of two embracing nude figures beneath a tree, with a deer and a distant hilltop town in the landscape.

Medor and Angelica from Lodovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' or Venus and Adonis embracing, set within a landscape

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of a wolf-headed nude man standing beside a reclining bearded man on a couch, with wolves in a rocky landscape behi

Lycaon Transformed into a Wolf

Agostino Veneziano, 1524

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged allegorical figure above banners, dolphins and cherubs in an ornate design.

Corner of the Ambassador's Staircase at Versailles (recto); Sketches of Figures and Dolphins (verso)

Pierre Lélu, n.d.

Engraving of a reclining nude woman embraced by a man under a tree, with a horned animal and a distant town in the landscape.

Medor and Angelica from Lodovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", or Venus and Adonis embracing, set within a landscape

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Engraving of nude men climbing rocks beside trees, a clothed youth standing at left and a hilltop town in the distance.

The Climbers

Agostino Veneziano, 1524

Pen drawing of a triumphal procession with elephants, horses, torch bearers and classical architecture.

Triumph of Julius Caesar

Andrea Mantegna, Possibly late 15th or 16th century

Engraving of nude Orpheus playing a violin beside Eurydice covering herself, with a large tree at right.

Orpheus standing at left playing the violin, Eurydice at right covering herself

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1509

Engraving of a winged skeleton holding an open book surrounded by emaciated figures, kneeling mourners and scattered skeletal

Skeletons

Agostino Veneziano, 1518

Pen and ink study of a bearded prophet-like man in draped robes raising one arm, on a grey-toned sheet.

Study for the Prophet Jeremiah (recto); Studies of a Horse Seen from Below and of a Man Seated on a Chair, Probably a…

Henry Fuseli, 1764-70

Engraving of Thisbe beside the nude body of Pyramus with a sword in his chest, in a landscape with a river and castle.

Thisbe finding Pyramus laying on the ground with a knife in his chest

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1505

Sheet of pen and brown wash studies showing many nude male figures in seated and reclining poses.

Figure Studies

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a bacchanal with reclining revelers, cherubs, a fountain and classical columns.

Bacchanal

Michel Dorigny, 17th century

Engraving of a satyr grappling with a nymph in a forest, with a third nude figure at right and a distant landscape.

A satyr fighting for a nymph

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-20

Pen and brown ink sheet of figure studies, nude bodies, a winged putto and ornamental scrolls, by Vincenzo Tamagni.

Sheet of Figure Studies and Ornamental Motifs (recto and verso)

Vincenzo Tamagni, 1520-30

Engraving of the back of a muscular nude Hercules statue on a pedestal, with a cloak and two onlookers below.

Farnese Hercules

Hendrick Goltzius, ca. 1592, dated 1617

Engraving of a nude woman in an arched niche holding a drape and a snake, personifying Prudence.

Prudence personified by a woman standing in a niche, holding a shawl in her right hand, a snake coiled around her lef…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1515-25

Engraving of the Laocoön group: a muscular bearded man and two sons wrestling with serpents before a stone wall.

Laocoön and his sons being attacked by serpents

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Brown ink drawing of a reclining woman in a hammock with a standing navigator, ships, an anteater, and the word America.

Allegory of America

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, ca. 1587-89

Engraving of an allegorical scene with a woman holding a wreath, an old man with a staff, a nude man with a dragon, and a chi

An allegorical scene; a young woman at centre holding a wreath above her head, at left is a old man leaning on a stic…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1515-27

Engraving of Laocoön struggling with serpents beside a pedestal, with a Minerva temple, ships, and the sea behind.

Laocoön and his two sons being attacked by serpents upon a pedestal, a temple to Minerva behind them, another temple…

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Gray wash drawing of a rococo design with acanthus scrolls, a reclining laurel-crowned woman, sleeping children, and a rooste

Design for Rear Decoration of a Coach

Agostino Letterini, n.d.

Engraving of a kneeling woman reaching up to a naked man holding a curved stick, with two nude men beside her against arched

A woman kneeling at centre reaching up with her right hand to place a ring on the finger of a naked man holding a cur…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of emaciated figures gathered around a skeleton on the ground, with a winged skeleton of Death holding an open book

The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death…

Marco Dente, 1515-27