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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Painting of a nude woman with red hair holding a flowering branch with white blossoms against dark green leaves.

Nude with Flowering Branch

Gustave Courbet, 1863

Study of a Nude Man

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1810-20

Painting of a hag in a black cloak beside a sleeping nude woman, with a raised dagger and winged spirits in a dark sky.

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches

Henry Fuseli, 1796

Painting of a nude woman seen from behind standing in a stream beneath a waterfall, framed by dark green foliage.

The Source

Gustave Courbet, 1862

Painting of two bare-shouldered women with a bowl of red fruit and pink flowers against green foliage.

Two Tahitian Women

Paul Gauguin, 1899

Painting of a sculptor embracing a nude marble statue in a studio, with Cupid above and plaster busts along the wall.

Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Léon Gérôme, ca. 1890

Nude woman with bow and quiver beside a reclining deer in a dark wooded landscape.

Diana the Huntress

Robed figure in blue raises arms toward a stormy sky as nude figures rise among green and yellow drapery.

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco, ca. 1608-14

Reclining nude woman on a white bed with a man in a turban beside her and an eagle among clouds above.

Aegina Visited by Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1767-69

Painting of Saint Anthony surrounded by demons, a nude woman, a burning city and grotesque creatures in a dark landscape.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Grisaille painting of a reclining nude woman seen from behind, with a head wrap, beside grey silk drapery.

Odalisque in Grisaille

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1824-34

Painting of Christ in red robes above clouds, with trumpeting angels and nude figures rising from earth in the Last Judgment.

The Last Judgment

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1525-30

Painting of a shivering woman with a putto on a fountain, bare frosted trees and a pale red sun in a wintry landscape.

Allegory of Winter

Jacques de La Joue the Younger

Reclining nude woman with an infant and attendants in draped robes beside an ornate couch, in a dark interior.

The Birth of Cupid

Master of Flora

Painting of a young woman with curled hair leaning on a stone fountain beside reeds, in a white blouse and pearls.

The Spring (La Source)

Jean-Marc Nattier, 1738

Figures with satyrs and a centaur unload hunted animals onto boats on a shore beneath a stormy sky.

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494-1500

Painting of a nude woman bending over a shallow woodland stream, surrounded by green trees and sunlit grass.

Bather in the Woods

Camille Pissarro, 1895

Horizontal painting of nude and draped figures in a rural landscape with a thatched hut, trees, and a pond.

Ludus pro patria (Patriotic Games)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1883-89

Painting of a nude woman standing with bowed head among colorful flowers beneath a bare tree and turquoise sky.

Pandora

Odilon Redon, ca. 1914

Painting of a nude woman bathing at a stone pool while a servant combs her hair and an attendant tends her foot, with a peaco

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1643

Reclining nude woman with yellow drapery on a grassy dune, bare trees and a dark sea horizon behind her.

Tamaris

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1886-87

Rubens painting of a nude banquet in a shell-covered grotto with servants, a parrot, and a sea view beyond.

The Feast of Acheloüs

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1615

Painting of a classical wedding procession with nude and draped women, a winged figure with a laurel wreath, and a teal sky.

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540

Painting of a nude man pulled from a river by armored soldiers beside a tent, with smoke, a horse, and a rocky cliff.

Alexander the Great Rescued from the River Cydnus

Pietro Testa, ca. 1650

Painting of Venus clasping the arm of Adonis in red tunic with a spear, a cupid, hunting dogs and a dark forest.

Venus and Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens, probably mid-1630s

Monochrome painting of a draped statue of Geometry on a dolphin, between Ionic columns, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Monochrome wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman on clouds with a curved horn behind her.

Allegorical Figure Representing Africa

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Painting of a nude woman bathing while two bearded elders watch from behind a wall and tree, with a small dog nearby.

Susanna and the Elders

Peter Paul Rubens

Monochrome painting of a draped female allegorical statue on a marble pedestal beside a fluted column and relief panel.

Allegorical Figure Representing Metaphysics

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Monochrome brown wash drawing of a feathered female figure with corn stalks and an alligator at her feet.

Allegorical Figure Representing America

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo