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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Etching of a nude figure held by a grotesque man beneath a monstrous shadowy creature, with a figure reaching up below.

Plate 62 from "Los Caprichos": Who would have thought it? (Quien lo creyera!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a nude woman carried aloft by grotesque figures, with a cat holding an umbrella, by Goya, 1799.

Plate 65 from "Los Caprichos": Where is mom going? (Donde vá mamá?)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a nude old witch flying on a broomstick with an owl above, signed Goya, plate 68 from Los Caprichos.

Plate 68 from "Los Caprichos": Pretty teacher! (Linda maestra!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Red chalk study of three nude women grouped together, one arm raised, beside a stone bench, by Jacques Louis David.

Study for the Wife and Daughters of Brutus (recto); Study of a Male Nude (verso)

Jacques-Louis David, ca. 1788

Engraving of the nude muscular Farnese Hercules statue with lion skin and club in an arched niche.

Farnese Hercules

Mario Cartaro, 1552-88

Etching of two nude figures, a horned goat, two cats, a skull and a jug, from Goya's Los Caprichos plate 60.

Pllate 60 from "Los Caprichos": Trials (Ensayos)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a gaunt old woman holding a nude figure aloft while shadowy faces and an old man watch from below.

Plate 69 from "Los Caprichos": Blow (Sopla)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Hand-colored print of two dealers and a boy in a gallery of paintings, with a reclining nude and an auction notice.

Vive la France, Marchands de "Tableaux" se Preparant pour la Vente Publique / Picture "Dealers" Preparing for "Auction"

Alfred E. Baker, 1840

Etching of soldiers in fur hats dragging a nude body across the ground, with a tree and hills behind them.

Plate 33 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'What more can be done?' (Qué hai que hacer mas?)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of corpses hanging and sprawled in a landscape, with a grotesque head at right; Goya's Disasters of War plate 39.

Plate 39 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'An heroic feat! With dead men!' (Grande hazaña! C…

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Drawing of a nude reclining man on rocks with two draped figures reaching toward him, white highlights on tan paper.

The Drunkenness of Noah, Genesis 9:21-23

Daniel Seiter, 17th-early 18th century

Watercolor of two winged cherubs lifting a palm frond near a seated nude woman with flowers and arrows in a landscape.

Eros and Anteros with Psyche Looking at Them

Johannes Riepenhausen, 1810-60

Pen and wash drawing of an allegorical battle scene with armed men, a nude figure, and a winged figure in clouds.

Allegory of the Battle at Selimbar (October 28, 1599)

Hans von Aachen, 1552-1616

Etching of a bearded man seated in the foreground with a second figure in shadow behind him, rendered in dense hatched lines.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens and His Model

Anders Zorn, 1897

Graphite and white chalk drawing of a seated nude man with curly hair leaning on a cushion over a stone block.

Study of a Seated Male Nude

Philipp Otto Runge, late 18th-19th century

Pen and gray wash drawing of an armored warrior with a spear among clouds, with nude figures and a skeleton below.

Allegorical Scene (Temptations of a Wealthy Man?)

Master of the Stockholm Wolf Huber Copies, first half 17th century

Watercolor of three nude boys bathing by a wooded riverbank with dense trees and leafy plants.

Riverside with Three Bathing Boys

Christian Friedrich Gille, 19th century

Study of a Nude Man in Profile turned to the Right

Antonio Canova, n.d.

Etching of a dense forest with large trees, a nude figure running on a bank and another figure reaching from a stream.

Alpheus and Arethusa

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Engraving of a haloed saint surrounded by demons, witches and grotesque creatures in a cluttered magician's workshop and sky.

St. James and the Magician Hermogenes

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Engraving of nude figures and grotesque creatures in a fantastical landscape, illustrating Lust from The Seven Deadly Sins.

Lust (Luxuria) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Engraving of a winged figure above a collapsing house with falling pillars, flames, and dead nude figures, by William Blake.

The Destruction of Job's Sons

William Blake, 1825-26

Engraving of a nude man reaching toward a seated muscular figure, with winged demons and flames behind them.

The Circle of Corrupt Officials: The Devils Tormenting Ciampolo

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Engraving of a six-footed serpent creature attacking a nude man as two nude figures recoil and robed figures watch under flam

Circle of Theives: Agnello Brunelleschi Attacked By a Six-Footed Serpent

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Engraving of a dying muscular man on a bed, a grieving woman beside him, and a ghostly spirit rising above.

Death of the Strong Wicked Man, from "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair

William Blake, May 1, 1808

Engraving of a Last Judgment scene with an enthroned Christ, angels with books, rising nude souls and falling damned figures

The Day of Judgment, from "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair

William Blake, March 1, 1813

Engraving of a nude figure seated atop a stone tomb gazing upward, while an old man with a cane approaches an open door below

Death's Door, from "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair

William Blake, 19th century

Engraving of a nude man seated on a tomb gazing at light while an old man with a cane enters a stone doorway below.

Mourir C'est Renaitre (Death and Immortality)

William Blake, 19th century

Engraving of Constantia floating above a flaming altar as armoured soldiers watch a man holding his hand in the fire.

Constantia, from "Virtues"

Maerten de Vos, ca. 1581

Etching of a horned demon with a serpent tail above a reclining nude on a stone altar, with winged figures in the sky.

The Sacrifice, from "The Satanic Ones"

Félicien Rops, ca. 1882