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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Pen and brown ink design for a vessel with scrolled handle, a reclining river god and two putti on its body.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Non-Figural Interlaces, on a Body Adorned with a River God and Two P…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Etching of a nude woman with long hair suspended upside down in a large spider web, with a small spider nearby.

Arachne

Otto H. Bacher, 1884

Engraving of a muscular bearded nude man gesturing toward a seated woman and cherub beside a fountain, with a boar.

Reuben [Genesis 49:3-4], from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Graphite sketch of a seated bearded male nude holding a staff beside a standing male nude seen from behind, on cream paper.

Seated and Standing Male Nudes, after photographs by Eugène Durieu

Eugène Delacroix, 1855

Engraving of helmeted Minerva with a spear and shield among nude muses with musical instruments under trees.

Minerva and the Muses

Andrea Schiavone, n.d.

Woodcut of a reclining woman as a draughtsman sights her through a grid at a table beside a window with a plant.

Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Reclining Woman

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1600

Engraving of a nude woman seated on a couch holding a dagger, with a curtain and a town view through a window behind her.

Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself

Enea Vico, ca. 1542-43

Engraving of a bearded man with a dagger leaning over a nude woman on a draped bed, with a servant behind curtains.

Tarquin and Lucretia

Cornelis Cort, 1571

Engraving with two scenes: a nude woman at her toilette with a child, and a muscular smith hammering at a forge.

Venus at her Toilette

Enea Vico, 1546

Circular ink and wash drawing of a prophet amid skeletons and nude figures beneath clouds and a divine figure.

Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones

Georg Pecham, late 16th-mid-17th century

Etching of a nude muscular man straining against a tree stump in a rocky landscape under a cloudy sky.

Milo of Croton

Philippe Auguste Hennequin, n.d.

Engraving of a nude man against a tree trunk, with classical ruins, columns and arches in the background.

Man Against a Tree

Master IQV, ca. 1543-44

Two etched versions of the Entombment showing mourners lowering the body of Christ onto a tomb.

Entombment

Guido Reni, ca. 1595-1600

Engraving of women on a riverbank under a tree, one kneeling to lift an infant, with a nude figure standing at left.

Moses Rescued from the Nile

Battista d'Agnolo, 16th century

Pen and ink frieze design with a reclining nude man, a female figure, scrolls and a small unicorn head.

Design for a Frieze: A Nude Man, Sea Creature, a Garland and Volutes, Small Head of Unicorn

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 1600-30

Pen sketches of six sculptures on pedestals, including a kneeling Magdalen, a winged angel, a boxer, and a Madonna with child

Sketches of six statues: Magdalen by Canova, Divine Love by Bienaimé, Praying Angel, Boxer by Canova, Trust in God by…

John Gibson, ca. 1850

Sketch of a statue: Bacchante by Bartolini

John Gibson, ca. 1850

Pen sketch of a seated nude statue with a lyre, beside a pedestal elevation and scale bars.

Sketch of a statue: Nymph (or Nymph of the Rhine) by Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler

Franz Xaver Schwanthaler, ca. 1850

Pencil drawing of a nude winged boy in a helmet centered among acanthus scrolls, flowers and vines in a framed panel.

Antique Roman Sculpture with Nude Winged Boy at the Center and Leaves and Vines

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pencil drawing of classical vase, hooded female figures with urns, nude women supporting a vase, and embracing figures in a n

A Vase and Classical Monuments Carved with Hooded Women Carrying Urns, Two Females Embracing Beneath a Vase and Two N…

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris: nude youth among goddesses, winged figures and putti in a landscape, with gods on clouds

The Judgment of Paris

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-60

Engraving of nude figures swirling in a storm vortex, with lovers at the center and a robed figure on a ledge at right.

The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Engraving of a reclining nude bearded hero beside a club and lion skin, with a harbor city and mountains behind him.

Hercules Resting from His Labors

Giorgio Ghisi, 1567

Engraving of the prophet Joel seated reading a scroll, with putti and architectural framing, after the Sistine Chapel ceiling

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

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the Eritrean Sibyl seated with an open book, flanked by putti and architectural arches, after Michelangelo.

The Eritrean Sibyl, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the seated Persian Sibyl reading a book, framed by nude figures and architecture, after the Sistine Chapel ceili

The Persian Sibyl, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of a seated sibyl reading a book in an arched frame, with nude figures and a putto around her.

The Persian Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of reclining nude Antiope with a satyr beside her, surrounded by fruit, vegetables and a cornucopia.

Jupiter and Antiope

Engraving of Paris choosing among three goddesses with Mercury between them, cherubs and chariots in the sky above.

The Judgment of Paris; Paris seated on a rock choosing between the goddesses Venus, Juno, and Minerva, the god Mercur…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1555

Engraving of the seated prophet Ezekiel with nude putti and sibyl figures in an architectural frame, after the Sistine Chapel

The Prophet Ezekiel, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75