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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Drawing of a nude toddler standing and reaching out with one arm, rendered in white highlights on brown paper.

Nude Boy, Walking to the Left

Anselm Feuerbach, 1840-80

Pen and ink drawing of two nude classical statues beside rearing horses on a ruined pedestal, with small figures nearby.

The Dioscuri on Monte Cavallo (recto); Study of a Spiral Staircase (verso)

Maarten van Heemskerck, ca. 1533

Etching of robed lawyers seated at a candlelit table in a library, with allegorical figures of Justice and putti floating abo

A Conference of Lawyers

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1776

Reddish-brown chiaroscuro woodcut in three panels showing nude men abducting women among horses and classical architecture.

The Rape of the Sabines

Andrea Andreani, 1585

Mezzotint of men in 18th-century dress gathered in a Royal Academy studio with sculptures and a nude model.

The Royal Academy of Arts

Richard Earlom, August 2, 1773

Engraving of nude damned figures, demons and serpents tumbling downward through clouds into a dark abyss.

The Fall of the Damned

Pieter Soutman, 1642

Etching of a nude figure beside a tree with bearded men and a tall-hatted figure gathered around a goat on the ground.

Two Figures Attentive to Punchinello, with Others, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Lithograph of nude bathers in a landscape with clouds, rocks and trees, by Paul Cézanne, in soft grey and green tones.

The Large Bathers (Les Baigneurs)

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1898

Brown chiaroscuro print of nude men lifting a struggling woman above a rocky base, modeled like a marble sculpture.

Rape of a Sabine Woman

Andrea Andreani, 1584

Mezzotint of young men drawing a seated female model in a vaulted room with columns and a classical statue, lit by lamplight.

An Academy by Lamplight

William Pether, February 20, 1772

Engraving of nude mythological figures with Jupiter descending from clouds above a reclining man and a woman holding wheat.

The Four Elements, plate 1 from "Mythological Subjects"

Jacob Matham, 1588

Woodcut print of an eagle carrying a youth aloft over nude men, horses and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Zeus as an eagle, abducting Ganymede

Giovanni Battista Palumba, 1500-1510

Engraving of Ixion embracing Juno on a dark cloud above classical ruins, a lion, and small figures below.

Ixion attempting to seduce Juno, surrounded by clouds with ruins below

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1520-39

Engraving of two nude men in an infernal scene, one attacked by a serpent, with robed figures watching at left.

The Circle of the Thieves; Buoso Donati Attacked by the Serpent

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Etching of a marble vase with figures on a garden terrace, a seated boy sketching it, cypress trees and an obelisk behind.

The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden ter…

Stefano Della Bella, 1656

Etching of Venus: a reclining nude woman, a winged cupid carrying a flower basket, dense trees and birds in the sky.

Realm of Venus

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of a nude woman kneeling with one arm raised, beside a male figure, with loose hatched lines in the background.

Potiphar's Wife (Potiphars Weib)

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1914

Engraving of nude figures and putti in a wooded landscape, with a winged cupid in the tree above.

Allegory of the Power of Love, with a man at center embracing a semi-naked woman, who is bound to a tree by Cupid

Cristofano di Michele Martini, 1480-1535

Etching of a nude long-haired man carrying a pale figure across a rocky hillside beneath cliffs and distant snowy mountains.

Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III)

Max Klinger, 1898

Engraving of the prophet Ezekiel seated among nude figures and architectural framing, with sibyls in the lower spandrels.

The Prophet Ezekiel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Pen and ink drawing of sea gods and tritons battling among reeds and waves, with a nude woman at left.

Battle of the Sea-Gods (right portion of frieze)

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1485-88

Etching of a reclining nude woman before a crowd of men in top hats, lit by a spotlight against a dark background.

A Life

Max Klinger, 1884-98

Engraving of four classical figures around an altar, including a helmeted warrior, nude youths, and a draped woman with a spe

Four classical figures (pagan sacrifice)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1638

Etching of a nude man astride a horse as a soldier with a raised sword and fallen figures appear in a landscape behind.

Plate 37 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'This is worse' (Esto es peor)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Woodcut of Saint Simon's martyrdom: a bound figure sawn on a frame, crowd and rider nearby, castle on hill.

Simon, from The Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Etching of a classical-style bust of a woman with curled hair and a gathered draped garment, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Antique bust of a woman

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Engraving of Prometheus bound on a rock while an eagle tears at his torso, with a distant city in the background.

Prometheus

Sebastiano de' Valentinis, 1558

Engraving of Jupiter hurling lightning at falling giants below a cloud bank filled with gods and cherubs.

Fall of the Giants, Jupiter in the clouds overhead striking the Giants with lightning

Girolamo Fagiuoli, ca. 1539-49

Engraving of a seated nude Diana with a spear, three hounds, a hunting horn on a tree, and a landscape behind.

Seated figure of Diana the Huntress

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Grey-green woodcut of two nude men wrestling beside classical columns and a tree.

Hercules and Antaeus

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1517-18