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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Hand-colored page with a poem in red text, showing a reclining nude, two children, lions, and a twisted tree.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Engraving of three nude men on a rocky cliff, with soldiers emerging from a forest and a village in the distance.

The Climbers: three naked men, one seen from behind climbing onto a river-bank, soldiers emerge from the forest in th…

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510

Pen and watercolor drawing of a nude muscular man lifting an arm while supporting a draped figure bent at his side.

Standing Nude Man Supporting Fainting Female (Ludovisi Gaul in the Uffizi)

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Black chalk drawing of a nude man turned left, with a bearded satyr head sketched beside him on pale paper.

Half-Figure of a Nude Man Facing Left, Head of a Satyr

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Engraving of a nude helmeted man holding a banner beside a seated lion, with a town in the background.

Naked man wearing an elaborate helmet viewed from behind holding a banner, a lion seated on the ground

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Pen and white heightened drawing on blue paper of classical gods feasting at a table among clouds, with cupids overhead.

Feast of the Gods

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Engraved title page showing a reclining skeleton on a shrouded bier, flames, and an inverted nude figure holding a goblet.

The Skeleton Re-Animated, Title Page to "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair

William Blake, March 1, 1813

Engraving of a nude muscular man walking right, carrying a stacked column base on his shoulders, with tree stumps behind.

Naked man walking to the right carrying a column base

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517-20

Oval drawing of gods on clouds above sprawled nude giants among rocks, one figure holding a torch and a ladder nearby.

Fall of the Giants

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Engraving of a dying muscular man on a bed, a spirit rising above him, a woman mourning and a figure covering their face at r

Death of the Strong Wicked Man, from "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair

William Blake, March 1, 1813

Engraving of a nude youth holding a deformed child, with a Latin inscription on a tablet beside him.

A naked youth holding in left hand a deformed child

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Brown and white wash drawing on blue paper of hunters on horseback and a nude man spearing a charging boar, with hounds.

Hunt of the Calydonian Boar

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Woodcut of nude trumpeters leading a horse with a horn and a rider holding a laurel branch, with a dog and a cat in the proce

Trumpeters leading Ceasar on horseback, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504

Engraving of a nude woman seen from behind holding billowing fabric, facing a standing male nude before a hatched backdrop.

Nude woman viewed from behind holding fabric which blows behind her, looking at male nude standing in contrapposto in…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Engraving of Victory standing among bound captives, shields, weapons and a ship prow, with Latin verse below.

Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies

Frans Floris, 1552

Sheet with sketches and designs for two vases, three classical heads en profil and two slave figures (recto); Design…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Engraving of a seated bearded elder pointing upward beside a nude laureate man, a tree, and an armillary sphere.

Seated old shepherd gesturing towards the sky and speaking to nude male surrounded by tools of measurement

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Etching of a helmeted hero freeing a nude woman chained to rocks beside a sea monster, with a winged horse above.

Perseus Saving Andromeda

Giovanni David, 1775

Pen drawing of sea gods with fish tails battling in rippling water among reeds, one blowing a horn, one wielding a sword.

Battle of the Sea Gods (right portion of frieze)

Andrea Mantegna, before 1481

Engraving of soldiers attacking mothers and infants in a city street, with a stone bridge and towers behind them.

The Massacre of the Innocents

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1512-13

Pen and ink drawing of putti, sea figures and clouds arranged around a central seated figure in water.

The Triumph of Amphitrite

Luca Cambiaso, ca. 1550-1580

Engraving of a reclining bearded river god with cornucopia, a she-wolf and two infants, framed by a border of boats and anima

The Tiber, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, mid-16th century

Engraving of a nude man gripping a bent figure's hair and raising a whip, with a wheel and tree stump on grass.

A naked man holding Fortune by the hair and whipping her

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Color print of Venus at her toilette, nude and reclining, attended by cherubs and doves beside draped curtains and a classica

The Toilet of Venus

Jean François Janinet, 1783

Engraving of a reclining mermaid and bearded merman by water, with a walled town and castle on a cliff behind them.

The Sea Monster (Das Meerwunder)

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Pen and ink drawing of a standing male nude with curly hair holding drapery, shaded with fine hatching on blue paper.

Standing Male Nude

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1506

Circular brown ink drawing of the Judgment of Paris with three nude goddesses, a seated man, Cupid, and a reclining river god

The Judgment of Paris

Pieter de Jode, late 16th-mid 17th century

Engraving of a nude man seated on a pedestal, bending to remove a thorn from his foot, with hatched background.

Man Removing a Thorn from his Foot, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Engraving of a nude young man pointing toward sunbeams beside a tree, and an old man reclining in grass at right.

An old man reclining on the ground at right; at left a naked younger man standing pointing toward the sun with and le…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Etching of a nude woman swinging from a branch above a seated bear, framed by flowering trees and bamboo.

Intermezzi, Opus IV

Max Klinger, 1881