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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Pen and brown ink drawing of two ornate urns flanking a draped armor design with scale-like patterns and putti.

Ornamental Design with Amphore and Antique Style Armor

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 16th century

Etched engraving of an ornate ancient marble candelabrum with swan-headed supports and a figure holding a bowl atop.

Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Batt. Pi…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778-80

Line drawing of a nude woman reclining on her side, head resting on her arm, hair loose, on a cream background.

Girl

Egon Schiele, 1918

Pencil sketch on blue paper of two winged female figures and a putto within ornamental scrollwork.

Design with Two Winged Female Figures and a Putto

Bernardino Poccetti, 1568-1612

Engraving of a man with a dagger attacking a nude woman on a canopy bed while a servant with a torch watches at left.

Tarquin attacking Lucretia, a servant at left witnessing the scene

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Pen and wash drawing of a draped woman leaning toward a seated male nude viewed from behind.

Woman Talking to a Seated Male Nude

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Engraving of nude Apollo shooting an arrow at a winged serpent, with muses and Cupids in the sky above.

Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupi…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of river-god Peneus reclining with daughter Daphne, a palm branch, and three nymphs carrying jars near a grotto.

Daphne embracing her father, the river-god Peneus, at the left three nymphs bring jars from "Story of Apollo and Daphne"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Pencil sketch of a woman with flowing hair carrying a tray of heads overhead, with loose drapery swirling about her legs.

Girl Carrying a Tray with Four Heads

William Bell Scott, ca. 1876

Engraved print of Michelangelo's Last Judgment with nude figures rising from graves and a boatman in a skiff at lower right.

Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraving of Christ as judge on a cloud, surrounded by saints and crowds of nude figures in the Last Judgment.

Christ as Judge Surrounded by Saints (upper central section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraved Last Judgment composite with trumpeting angels, nude figures and devils dragging souls downward, with a crowded boat

Trumpeting Angels and Damned Souls Being Pulled Down by Devils (lower center and right section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraving of a seated nude woman holding scales and a sword, with a winged putto holding a wreath above her.

Justice, from the series The Virtues

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve in a wooded setting, Eve reaching toward Adam beneath a serpent and apple tree.

Fall of Man

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Hope

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve, Eve offering an apple to Adam beside a tree in a rocky landscape, dated 1529.

Fall of Man

Lucas van Leyden, 1529

Engraving of a blindfolded seated nude woman beside a column, with a cherub and drapery above, labeled Fortitude.

Fortitude, from "The Seven Virtues"

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a seated nude woman with a mirror and compass, with a winged cherub above, labeled Prudencia, 1530.

Prudence, from "The Seven Virtues"

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a seated woman nursing an infant with children beside her, a cherub above with a mirror, and a banner reading CA

Charity, from "The Seven Virtues"

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a seated woman nursing a child, with a cherub above, a pitcher on a table, and a CARITAS banner.

Charity, from the series The Virtues

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a nude woman holding a cup and pitcher beside a column, with a cherub above, labeled Temperancia.

Temperance, from the series The Virtues

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a nude female figure holding a chalice beside a cross, with an angel above and books at her feet.

Faith, from "The Seven Virtues"

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of a nude woman holding a chalice beside a cross, with an angel and open books in the background.

Faith (Fides), from "The Seven Virtues"

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Etching of a woman bathing in a stream under willows, with three ducks in the grass in the foreground.

Canards surpris

Félix Bracquemond, 1882

Etching of satyrs and bacchantes celebrating Bacchus around a garlanded herm statue in a rocky wooded grotto.

The Fête of Bacchus

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a seated nude young man with drapery behind him, resting his arm on a stone block.

Seated Nude Young Man in Nearly Frontal View

Guercino, ca. 1618

Engraved studio scene with classical statues, a nude figure, workers at a hoist, and framed ornamental and anatomical details

The Analysis of Beauty, Plate 1

William Hogarth, March 5, 1753

Engraved Egyptian-style chimneypiece by Piranesi, with caryatids, sphinxes, hieroglyphs and stepped pyramid motifs around the

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Groups of three female nudes at the base of each jamb, surmounted by larger kneel…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Grey and pink wash design of a neoclassical fireplace with draped female figures, laurel pilasters and winged putti roundels.

Design for a Chimney Piece in the Pompeian Style

Robert Adam, ca. 1775

Pen drawing of an ornate bucket-shaped vessel with figural handle, garlands, and reclining river gods among reeds.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Interlaced Figures, on a Body Adorned with Bucrania, Garlands, and T…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50