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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,215 works

Pencil drawing of a seated female nude seen from behind, leaning on one arm, legs extended over a stone base.

Seated Female Nude Seen from the Back

Samuel Amsler, 1819

Etching of reclining women with a lyre, a flute-playing putto, and cherubs among clouds in an allegorical scene.

The Harmony of Nature

Pierre Lélu, 1762

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanalian revel with reclining revelers, a piping satyr, putti, a dog, and trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Hendrick Berckman, 1651

Engraving allegory of Africa with a central female figure, an elephant, a lion, palm trees, archers and a chameleon.

Allegory of Africa, from "The Four Continents"

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, ca. 1590-1600

Engraving of allegorical America, a nude woman with feathered headdress riding an armadillo, with hunting and battle scenes b

Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

Adriaen Collaert, 1580-1600

Etched frontispiece of a standing nude male figure leaning on a tablet inscribed Six Figures Académiques, by Carle Vanloo.

Frontispiece: Six Figures Académiques

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Print of ten horizontal panels showing bacchanal scenes with classical figures, chariots, and dancing revelers in pink-tinted

Plate with Ten Bacchanal Scenes

comte de Paroy Jean Philippe Guy Le Gentil

Etching of a winged genius with a lyre and torches on a cloud, inside an oval frame, labeled Genie de la Poësie.

Genie de la Poësie

Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 18th century

Engraving of a robed woman holding an infant, with a child and a cherub beside her under a tree, Latin text below.

Charity, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Engraving of a woman carrying a broken column over her shoulder, with a landscape and Latin inscription below.

Fortitude, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Etching of a standing woman holding a goblet beside a tree, with a distant town and a Latin inscription below.

Temperance, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

Abraham Bosse, 1636

Etching of fishermen hauling a heavy net of fish from a rocking boat under a cloudy sky over a choppy sea.

Miraculous Draught of Fish

Pieter Soutman, 1595-1657

Woodcut of Christ leading nude figures from a dark underworld past a horned demon, with a kneeling bearded man at lower right

Christ in Limbo, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1509

Woodcut of a coat of arms with a wild man blowing horns above, a wild man leading hunting dogs on the shield, framed by vines

The Arms of Johann Tscherte

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Illustration from Dürer's "Vier Bucher von Menslicher Proportion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1528

Two outlined figures, a man and a woman, in side and front views with horizontal proportion lines and German labels.

IIllustration from Dürer's "Vier Bucher von Menslicher Proportion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1528

Etching of a muscular nude man seated and hunched forward, head bowed, against dark hatched shadow, with small sketched heads

Ugolino

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1860

Engraving of the nude hero Hercules struggling with a serpent-like hydra, club raised, cloak flying, Latin inscription at rig

Hercules and the Hydra

Andrea Mantegna, n.d.

Engraving of a sculptor's studio with busts, statues and three elegantly dressed visitors in conversation.

The Sculptor

Abraham Bosse, 1642

Charcoal and white chalk drapery study of a standing woman in flowing robes, with a faint nude figure sketched beside her.

Drapery Study for "Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen"

Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon, 1817

Woodcut of Christ breaking into limbo, with a winged demon above and naked figures among broken gates and rubble.

Christ in Limbo, from "The Large Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Black-and-white print of Christ with a halo entering a broken gate of hell, with demons and naked souls.

Christ Descending into Hell

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of nude men bathing in a covered bath house, one playing a flute, with a town and castle in the background.

The Bath House

Albrecht Dürer, 1496

Engraving of a heraldic coat of arms with a wild man blowing hunting horns, a second wild man leading dogs, and grapevines.

Coat of Arms of Johann Tscherte

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of an angel with a flaming sword expelling two nude figures from a tree, on a sheet with faint printed text.

The Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Small Passion", edition Venice

Albrecht Dürer, 1612

Engraving of Arion playing a lyre on a dolphin in a stormy sea, with sea nymphs and a burning ship in the background.

Arion

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1763-66

Engraving of bathers under a wooden pavilion with a walled town and towers in the background, one man playing a flute.

The Bath House (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Etching of a seated nude man with clasped hands in front of a hatched curtain, resting on a wooden bench.

Nude Man Seated before a Curtain

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1646

Engraving of nude women bathing at a grotto waterfall, a hunter at upper right, stag and hounds in the distant woods.

Diana Surprised by Actaeon

Aegidius Sadeler, 1586-1629

Hand-colored print of an old sculptor carving a cherub beside a seated nude model in a cluttered classical studio.

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800