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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Sepia ink and wash drawing of two studies of a crouching male nude hiding among bushes.

Two Studies of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) Hiding in a Bush

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

Grey wash drawing of two riders with spear and bow, a winged horse, a lion and a hound on the ground.

Man's Fortitude

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, late 18th-early 19th century

Engraving of a Bacchic revel with dancing satyrs and figures around a Priapus statue hung with grape garlands, with Italian v

The sacrifice to Priapus who is in the form of a statue in the centre, Bacchus and a satyr at the left

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of an allegorical stage scene with lottery wheels, a central pedestal of gods, and crowds of figures below.

The Lottery

William Hogarth, after 1724

Engraving of nude Apollo shooting an arrow at a winged serpent, with muses above left and Cupid on a cloud at right.

Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupi…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Hercules with a raised club driving Envy or Avarice from a temple while the Muses watch.

Envy or Avarice at the right being driven from the temple of the Muses by Hercules who raises a club, the muses watch…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre pointing at a kneeling man about to flay Marsyas, bound naked to a tree at left.

Apollo seated at the right with a lyre, pointing to a kneeling man who is about to flay Marsyas tied naked to a tree…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre gesturing to a kneeling man while nude Marsyas is tied to a tree at left.

Apollo seated at the right with a lyre on his knee, pointing to a kneeling man who is about to flay Marsyas who is ti…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of an ornate covered cup with three nude figures forming the stem and putti harvesting grapes on the lid.

Covered Cup with Nude Figures Forming Stem

Engraving of nymphs attending Psyche in a bath, with a sleeping figure in bed at right and Italian verse below.

Plate 7: Psyche attended in her bath by nymphs, in the background right Psyche represented again laying in bed, from…

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1520-36

Etching of the Judgment of Paris with nude women, a seated man, a child, goats and trees in a wooded landscape.

The Judgment of Paris

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1543-46

Engraving of nude Venus lifting a drape beside a winged Cupid in a landscape with a tree stump.

Venus and Cupid

Woodcut of an angel with a sword expelling nude Adam and Eve from a fruit tree, with dense line hatching.

Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Small Passion" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Pencil study of a standing nude man shouldering a wooden block, with a smaller repeated sketch of the pose at right.

Study of a Male Nude Shouldering a Wooden Block

Christen Købke, ca. 1832

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crouching male nude hiding his face and body against a dark background.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) Trying to Hide Himself

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

Brown ink and wash study of a seated male nude twisting with one arm outstretched, on aged paper.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair

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

Ink sketch of a crouching nude male figure bowed over a long staff, drawn with loose contour lines and brown wash.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair Trying to Hide Himself

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

Engraved ornamental vase with a veiled nude figure, winged youth, cherub, and a serpent coiling around the neck.

Vase with Two Winged Figures Draping a Term

René Boyvin, 17th century

Engraving of warriors in a boat on rough sea beside rocky shore, framed by nude figures and fruit garlands.

Aeëtes Gathers the Limbs of Absyrtes (Tandis qu'il fait les membres ramasser, Grecs font devoir de leurs voiles hauls…

René Boyvin, 1563

Engraving of a central female bust in an oval, flanked by women, with reclining figures and ornamental frieze below.

Bust of a woman flanked by three women on each side, set within an elaborate frame

Battista d'Agnolo, ca. 1540-80

Etched frieze of draped women carrying offerings in procession, with a man sacrificing a ram at an altar on the right.

Frieze-like procession of draped women bearing offerings and horns, at right a man cuts a ram's throat before an alta…

Pierre Brébiette, ca. 1617-25

Etching of Ceres sowing seed behind a goat-drawn plough, with a lion-skinned man and embracing satyr figures on the right.

Ceres sows seeds and walks behind a goat-drawn plough, at right a man draped with a lion skin grasps a woman's garmen…

Pierre Brébiette, ca. 1617-25

Etching of mythological figures in a landscape: a satyr with a bow, a draped woman, Mercury, nude figures on a goat, and a st

Composition of figures arranged in a landscape foreground before a statue of a female goddess, at left two nude figur…

Pierre Brébiette, ca. 1617-25

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of nymphs surprised near a bath, with a reclining river god in the foreground.

Diana Surprised at her Bath

Hans Rottenhammer, after 1610

Engraving with six cameo-style scenes of mythological figures, putti, dolphins, horses, a triton and a seated man on a sea cr

Six subjects after antique cameos: female figures tending to a seated male figure; putti and dolphins; female figure…

Battista Franco Veneziano

Engraving of four mythological male figures, some wearing grape wreaths, seated on a cloud within an oval frame.

Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, and another god seated on a cloud under an arch, an oval composition, from a series of eight…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1560-69

Engraving of Psyche flying with an urn while two winged putti support her above a landscape with ruins and a town.

Psyche Carrying Waters of the Styx (from the Farnesina frescoes)

Marcantonio Raimondi

Etched horizontal frieze of acanthus scrolls with embracing figures and a reclining cherub in a central medallion.

Design for a Frieze with Acanthus Scrolls with the Theme of Love, plate 7 from "Decorative friezes and foliage" (Orna…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1645-50

Engraved print of a nude youth flying past a tree trunk with billowing drapery, with a river and mountains behind.

Zephyr

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1864

Engraving of allegorical figure Fiducia with flag and scroll, trampling a fallen woman surrounded by theatrical masks.

Fiducia, from "Virtues Conquering Vices"

Jan Sadeler, 1579