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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,175 works

Titian painting of a reclining nude Venus beside a lute player, a cupid and a landscape under red velvet drapery.

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian, ca. 1565-70

Circular drawing of a winged warrior with a sun shield and spear beside a seated woman and a putto on a cloud.

Allegorical Figures Representing Virtue and Abundance

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Group of women in silk drapery and jewelry gather by a forest stream, with a castle visible among trees behind them.

Florinda

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1853

Painting of nude figures gathering fruit in lush trees, with cattle, sheep, cherubs and birds in a wooded landscape.

The Golden Age

Joachim Wtewael, 1605

Painting of three Tahitian women by a pool beneath flowering trees, two wearing red cloths and one partly nude at left.

Three Tahitian Women

Paul Gauguin, 1896

Painting of a reclining nude woman with a long braid, seen from behind, resting on a grassy hill overlooking the sea.

Reclining Nude

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883

Oval grisaille painting of a seated female allegorical figure on a cloud, gazing upward against a golden background.

A Female Allegorical Figure

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740-50

Oil sketch of a reclining male nude sleeping on a draped cloth against a dark brown background.

Male Nude

Edgar Degas, 1856

Caravan of camels and men resting at a stone well in a golden desert valley under a blue sky.

Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba (Beersheba) in the Desert South of Hebron

Charles de Coubertin, 1850

Painting of the Judgment of Paris: three nude goddesses before a seated youth, with a winged messenger, a child, a dog and sh

Judgment of Paris

Alessandro Turchi, ca. 1640

Seated woman nursing an infant with children nearby, sleeping boy in blue, dim landscape and hills behind, oil painting.

Charity

Carlo Cignani, ca. 1680

Oil study of a seated nude man with curly hair, twisting on a wooden stool beside a crate against a dark brown background.

Study of a Nude Man

Gustave Courbet, early 1840s

Neptune in a chariot pulled by grey sea horses through waves, with tritons, putti and a flying cupid under a cloudy sky.

The Return of Neptune

John Singleton Copley, ca. 1754

Reclining nude woman asleep on red and white drapery in a wooded landscape with a distant sea at dusk.

Ariadne

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1831-35

Three nude young men in a green woodland clearing; one stands playing pan pipes while two recline on white cloth.

Arcadia

Thomas Eakins, ca. 1883

Back view of a nude woman seated on rocks, dipping her foot into water, with red drapery and dark trees behind her.

Musidora

Thomas Sully, 1813-35

Open wooden paint box with a loose oil study of a reclining nude on the lid and a heavily used palette below.

Paint box with nude study

Helena de Kay, ca. 1871

Painting of a seated nude woman pointing toward flying cupids at a window, with an old man and alchemical objects in the room

Old Age in Search of Youth

David Teniers the Younger, 1650s

Paul Gauguin's painting of a nude woman seen from behind beside seated companions, with a red cloth and dark water in the bac

Tahitian Women Bathing

Paul Gauguin, 1892

Hanging scroll of a seated couple on a mat beneath flowering vines on a trellis, with a red fan and sake bottle.

Enjoying the Evening Cool under a Gourd Trellis

Utagawa Toyohiro, early 19th century

Painting of a reclining nude woman on a spotted cloth in a landscape with trees, water and small background figures.

Bacchante in a Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865-70

Oil sketch of three nude women with raised arms and loose draperies against a dark brown background.

The Three Graces

Miniature portrait of a dark-haired woman with bare shoulder, red shawl and pink rose, in a gilded oval frame.

Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773-1806)

Giovanni Battista Gigola

Nude woman seen from behind, seated on a riverbank beside a dark tree under a pale evening sky.

A Bather (Echo)

Jean-Jacques Henner, 1881

Painting of a nude woman seen from behind before a mirror, with a red curtain and bed in a warm interior.

Woman before a Mirror

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1897

Oil study of a seated female nude seen from behind, head bowed, one arm raised, against a brown and green background.

Study of a Female Nude

Henri Lehmann, 1840

Painting of a nude man seen from behind, arms outstretched, standing on a rock in dark water beside a shadowy landscape.

The Bathers

William Morris Hunt, 1877

Nude woman with gold jewelry reclines by a spring pool, with a castle and river town in the background and partridges at her

Nymph of the Spring

Lucas Cranach the Younger, ca. 1545-50

Watercolor and pencil self-portrait of a thin nude man with one arm outstretched against an ochre background, signed EGS 1911

Self-Portrait

Egon Schiele, 1911

Red chalk drawing of a reclining nude woman seen from behind, with a grey sketched pedestal and architecture at right.

Reclining Nude Figure (recto); unidentifiable sketches (verso)

Jean-Antoine Watteau