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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Hand-colored caricature etching of a seated man watching two dancing women behind a sheer curtain, while a uniformed man peek

Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797…

James Gillray, February 20, 1805

Engraving of three nude women embracing before palm trees and fountains in an arched frame, after Marcantonio Raimondi.

The Three Graces, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Monochrome print of a reclining nude woman with curly hair lying on pillows beneath draped bed curtains.

Nude Reclining on Curtained Bed [Emma Hamilton (?)]

Adam Buck, November 1, 1797

Pencil sheet with studies of hands, a nude male figure, and sketched heads and forms by Eugène Delacroix.

Studies of Hands and Figures for the Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon

Eugène Delacroix, 1833-38

Engraving of a Roman triumph with a nude hero on armor, a woman holding a laurel wreath, soldiers and classical architecture.

The triumph of a Roman Emperor; a young naked hero stands at center on a pile of armor; a woman at right holds aloft…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510

Caricature of a sculptor offering a cup to a statue of a woman bending down from a pedestal in a cluttered studio.

Pygmalion, from Histoire Ancienne, published in Le Charivari, December 28, 1842

Honoré Daumier, December 28, 1842

Graphite sketch of a fallen male nude with raised arm and studies of clenched fists by Eugène Delacroix, 1852.

Studies of a Fallen Male Nude for "Hercules and the Horses of Diomedes"

Eugène Delacroix, 1852

Engraving of Saint Lawrence on a gridiron over a fire, with nude executioners, robed onlookers and arcaded architecture.

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, after Bandinelli

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1520

Engraving of a nude woman pouring from a pitcher into a goblet beside a column, with a cherub above holding a ring.

Temperance (Temperancia)

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Pencil sheet with several sketched studies of muscular nude male figures in twisting, falling poses.

Figure Studies after Rubens's "The Fall of the Rebel Angels"

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1820-22

Pen drawing of a nude warrior pressing down on a sprawling second figure, on aged paper.

A Warrior Subduing Another (recto); Warrior Seen in Bust-Length with Fantastic Helmet (verso)

Maso Finiguerra, 1460-64

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre beside Pan, with a flying putto blowing a horn above, in a cross-shaped frame.

Apollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs fo…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Ink sketch of a lion crouching in the lower left and a seated female nude above it on a pale sheet.

Studies of a Lion and a Female Nude (recto); Figure Studies (verso)

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1844

Engraving of dancing putti under a tree, with putti in branches and a torch-bearing goddess on clouds above.

Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpine

Francesco Rosaspina, 1805-12

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre and laurel branch among nine draped Muses in a wooded landscape.

Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus

Raphael Morghen, 1784

Lithograph of a nude rider bound to a rearing horse on a rocky shoreline, with a stormy sky and a French caption below.

Mazeppa

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Engraving of two flayed muscular men beside two skeletons, with armor and a drapery backdrop.

Two Flayed Men and Their Skeletons

Domenico del Barbiere, ca. 1540-45

Engraving of a reclining nude nymph with a greyhound in an oval cartouche, framed by caryatids, cherubs and fruit garlands.

The Nymph of Fontainebleau

René Boyvin, n.d.

Black and white print of five nude women bathers standing together before dark trees and a hazy sky.

Group of Bathers

Camille Pissarro, 1897

Etching of two bathers, one standing nude adjusting a hat and one seated figure bending to touch her foot, in loose hatched l

Two Bathers (Les Deux Baigneuses), from "L'Estampe Originale"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Print of a seated nude woman seen from behind, bending over, set against dark vertical strokes of trees.

Girl Putting on Her Stockings

Edgar Degas, 1876-77

Monochrome lithograph of bathers in shade beneath trees, with figures bending and standing near a wooded bank.

Bathers in the Shade of Wooded Banks

Camille Pissarro, 1894

Etching of two nude women seated in grass, one raising a hat, with diagonal cancellation lines across the sheet.

Les Deux Baigneuses (Cancelled impression)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Pen and ink sketch of three nude women in overlapping poses, with handwritten labels past, present, to come along the top.

The Hours

Samuel Shelley, ca. 1800

Etching of three nude women embracing in shallow water beneath trees, with a fourth figure seated on the bank.

Four Bathers

Camille Pissarro, 1895

Etching of two bathers: one standing nude adjusting a hat, one seated woman touching her bare foot, with hatched ground.

The Two Bathers

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Red chalk drawing of a nude figure seen from behind, with studies of a head and limbs on tan paper.

Nude Figure

Alfred George Stevens, 1862-65

Red chalk drawing sheet with nude male figures and draped kneeling figures in studies by Andrea Sacchi, 1641.

Figure and Drapery studies (recto); Three Studies of a Male Torso for the "Coronation of Marcantonio Pasqualini" (verso)

Andrea Sacchi, 1641

Pen and brown ink drawing of a crowd of muscular figures gesturing beneath classical arches and an elevated platform.

Ecce Homo

Maarten van Heemskerck, 16th century

Etching of a nude warrior seen from behind, leaning on a fasces, with armored soldiers and a flag in the background.

A Roman Warrior with Fasces

Leendert van der Cooghen, 1666