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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Engraving of a nude female figure holding a torch while standing on a pedestal, with clouds in the background.

Feminine Figure

Engraving of three nude women holding a circular wreath and an inscribed draped cloth against a cloudy sky.

The Three Graces

Claude Mellan, 1659

Engraving of a seated allegorical woman gazing at a sunburst, with a cornucopia, books, armor, and figures in a landscape.

Allegory of France with the Arms of Richelieu (Allégorie sur la Paix)

Engraving of two nude male figures, Hercules and Atlas, supporting a large celestial globe marked with constellations above t

Hercules Assisting Atlas

Red chalk drawing of a standing nude woman with one hand on her chest, looking upward, on cream paper.

Standing Female Nude (after the Medici Venus)

Christian Daniel Rauch, 1805

Engraving of a reclining nude woman with three children, one holding grapes, beneath draped fabric, with small sketches in th

Allegorical Subject: Nude Woman, Three Children and a Mousetrap (La Sourcière)

Engraved frontispiece with a draped man holding a book, a winged youth with a lyre, and a putto lifting a laurel wreath.

Frontispiece: Virgil, Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera

Claude Mellan, 1641

Circular etching of two caryatid terms supporting cornices, a draped central pillar, and flanking architectural fragments, da

Two Terms, Two Cornices and a Pillar

Hugues Sambin, 1554

Engraving of Saint Catherine kneeling by a spiked wheel as an angel with a palm and sword hovers above in clouds.

Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Claude Mellan, 1625

Engraving of Venus on clouds with cherubs and nymphs, while armored Aeneas gestures beside a reclining river god.

Venus and Aeneas

Pierre François Courtois, mid-18th century

Engraving of Mercury teaching a small winged Cupid from a book, with a reclining woman, doves, and clouds in the background.

Cupid Instructed by Mercury

Pierre François Basan, 18th century

Engraving of two women and cupids with grapes and a basket beneath a grapevine in a wooded landscape.

Erigone Vanquished

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1745

Engraving of a nude woman with flowers in her hair seated on a ledge, draped in cloth, looking downward.

Study of Woman Bathing

Etienne Fessard, 1739

Graphite and white chalk study of a reclining nude man with a sketched kneeling woman above him, on tan paper.

A Nude Woman Kneeling at the side of a Reclining Man (Study for Mary Magdalen Lamenting Christ)

Julius Hübner, 1857

Engraving of a nude woman on a flower-strewn bed as a winged cupid holds a mirror above her against a starry sky.

Danaë

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1824

Engraving of three nude female figures on a cloud with a cherub holding two torches above them, garlands at their feet.

The triumph of the Graces

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet

Engraved print of a reclining nude woman on draped cloth beside rocks and plants, with French inscription below.

Study of a Reclining Nude

Jean Edme Nochez

Etching of Telemachus in armor arriving on a wooded shore where draped nymphs gather, with a ship and an older man with a sta

Arrival of Telemachus at the Island of Calypso

Antoine-Jean Duclos

Engraving of Diana and nymphs bathing by a forest stream while a young hunter, Actaeon, peers from the trees.

Diana and Acteon

Pierre François Tardieu

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated woman beside a bust and classical sculptures in a studio, dated 1704.

Allegory of Sculpture

Jan Claudius de Cock, 1704

Etching of a nude woman with a cherub, a seated man holding a child, and grotesque faces peering from a tree at left.

La Rascienne Honteuse

Etching of a standing male nude with one hand at his neck, a draped cloth at his hips, against hatched background.

An "Académie": Standing Man

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Etching of a seated nude man, head resting on one hand, one leg extended, against a hatched dark background.

An "Académie": Sitting Man

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Etching of two nude men, one kneeling and lifting the legs of a reclining man draped over a stone ledge.

An "Académie": One Man Lifting the Legs of Another Man

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Etching of a seated nude man seen from behind, pulling a cord, with hatched shading on the stone setting.

An "Académie": Man Pulling a Cord

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Etching of a nude male figure leaning on a plank, one arm raised, with fine cross-hatched shading.

An "Académie": Striding Man Leaning on a Plank

Carle Vanloo, 1742-43

Engraving of two statue-like figures on pedestals: a draped woman on the left and a bearded Hercules in a lion skin on the ri

Terms of Hercules and Deianira

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

Etched frontispiece with a nude youth holding a title sheet and a reclining child playing a flute, both wearing laurel wreath

Third Frontispiece

James Tissot, 1876

Brown wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around a seated Diana in a forest, with a man watching from the trees.

Diana and Actaeon

Joseph Bergler the younger, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of two kneeling nude men, one reaching toward the other, with faint pencil background details.

Two Nude Men Playing with Dice

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century