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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Engraving of a nude man wrestling a horned bull on rocks, with three women holding fruit-filled cornucopias at right.

Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, fr…

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1526-27

Etching of a nude huntress asleep under a tree, with a quiver of arrows and a bow beside her and a landscape behind.

Sleeping Huntress

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Etching of a satyr family resting by an obelisk and stone wall, with a woman, child, and standing figure with a staff.

Satyr Family with the Obelisk, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Engraving of a bacchanal with nude revelers, a heavy Silenus, satyrs and a flute player beneath grapevines.

Bacchanal with Silenus

Andrea Mantegna, before 1475

Etching of Adam reaching into a tree while Eve sits holding fruit, with animals around them and Latin text below.

Garden of Eden, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Engraving of mythological figures: nude women, a seated god with a sleeping cupid, a rearing chariot, and an eagle carrying a

Jupiter tumbling from a horse-drawn carriage at right, Ganymede riding Jupiter's eagle upper center, below Venus and…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Brown-toned print of a seated nude man seen from behind beside a large tree, with a reclining figure in the lower left.

Man seated viewed from behind (Narcissus)

Antonio da Trento, ca. 1527-30

Etching of nude Adam and Eve led away by a skeleton violinist as an angel descends above, with Latin text below.

Paradise Lost, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Engraving of a nude figure of Prometheus with an eagle inside a V-shaped cornice decorated with scrolls and foliage.

Torture of Prometheus set within a cornice

Cherubino Alberti, 1580

Etching of nude figures in a wooded landscape, a woman reaching toward a tree beside a man, with a seated figure at lower lef

Apollo and Daphne

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1538-40

Print of muscular giants falling among rocks beneath a thunderbolt-wielding figure on clouds, with an eagle and inscription p

Fall of the Giants

Bartolomeo Coriolano, 1638

Etching of the mythological flaying of Marsyas, with two muscular figures on a rock amid hatched trees and faces peering from

The Flaying of Marsyas

Giovanni Pietro Possenti, mid-17th century

Etching of Venus with a winged figure holding a child, a dove, a chariot and putti in clouds, within an oval frame.

Venus entrusting Cupid to Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1758-80

Engraving of classical gods assembled on clouds, including Mercury with a caduceus, Neptune with a trident, and winged putti.

Assembly of the Gods after the ceiling composition in the Loggia di Psiche, Villa Farnesina, Rome

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1527

Etching of Venus reclining in a garden surrounded by cupids, a herm of Pan, and trees, with a distant mountain landscape.

The Garden of Venus who reclines in the centre before a term of Pan and surrounded by cupids

Pietro Testa, ca. 1631-37

Engraving of warriors fighting and figures fleeing a burning city, with a seated figure and smoke rising from ruins on the ri

The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, with a young boy holding a lantern walking beside them.

Aeneas rescuing Anchises, a young boy carrying a lantern at left

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1525

Ink and wash sketch of a standing woman in a long gown with a faint second figure at left, study for a bride painting.

Studies for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding"

David Wilkie, ca. 1838

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ in Limbo with a red-robed figure lifting nude souls from a ruined arch amid flames and demons.

Christ in Limbo, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Engraving of the Laocoon sculpture with serpents, a temple to Minerva, ships on the sea, and scattered classical fragments.

Ancient bas-reliefs with Laocoon, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, ca. 1516-20 (?)

Engraving of a lavish outdoor banquet with seated diners, servants, a musician, and a nude figure in a tub.

The Rich Man at His Table, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1554

Engraving of a satyr carrying a nude woman over his shoulder, with a dog below and a flowing cloth behind them.

Woman Being Carried to a Libidinous Satyr

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Pen and grey wash drawing of a bearded artist in a studio with a globe, palette, statue, and landscape painting.

The Artist in His Studio

Ruprecht Bartz, 1636

Pen and wash drawing of Susanna seated nude with two elders beside her under a tree, a city and spire behind.

Susanna and the Elders

Augustin Medow, 1622-60

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with nude figure studies, a Bacchus-like youth with grapes, and several head studies.

Figure and head-studies (including Bacchus) (recto); four main figure studies repeated from the recto (verso)

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, 1745-1815

Pen and ink drawing of a nude male figure holding an ornate urn, with French proportion notes along the right side.

Study of a Male Figure Holding a Vessel (Apollo)

François Boitard, ca. 1711

Engraving of ornate classical armor: a Medusa-faced shield, a hunt-decorated shield, a helmet and a sword.

Parti in grande restaurati de' Trofei de Ottaviano Augusto (Restored detail of the Trophy of Octavian Augusto)

Francesco Piranesi, ca. 1753

Pen and grey wash drawing of three panel designs with seated allegorical women, a harp player, a globe, and a cherub.

Design for Three Panels for a Library

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, 1745-85

Mezzotint of a crowded life drawing class with a nude male model posed before artists sketching at easels under a hanging lam

The Life Class of the Vienna Academy

Johann Jacobé, 1790

Pen and ink architectural study of a tiered monument with columns, niches with figures, and reclining statues above an arch.

Architectural Study

Michelangelo, n.d.