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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Engraving of the Calumny of Apelles, 1602, with allegorical figures in an ornate decorative border and Greek inscription.

The Calumny of Apelles

Cornelis Cort, 1602

Engraving of a nude woman by a dragon in a river landscape, with a winged rider on a hippogriff in the clouds above.

Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica

Cornelis Cort, 1565

Engraving of an emaciated man astride a monster, raising a skull, surrounded by snakes and creatures.

Fury personified as an emaciated man astride a monster, holding a skull in his raised left hand

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1520-39

Engraving of a rustic cabin interior with a reclining nude woman, attended figures, and a servant at a table with jugs.

Vignette of the first volume, page 165: Usage des Russes après le Mariage et avant la Noce, from Voyage en Sibérie fa…

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Etching of two reclining nude figures under a tree with a flying cupid holding a garland and a classical column.

Vignette en regard du nom de Aug. de St. Aubin (Vignette next to the name of Augustin de Saint-Aubin), volume 2, plat…

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1762

Pen and ink sketch page with two female nudes, a seated male nude, and three small equestrian figures.

Two Female Nudes; Seated Male Nude (after Michelangelo?); Three Equestrian Figures (from Sketchbook)

Thomas Sully, 1810-20

Pencil study of a standing female nude with loosely sketched drapery over the shoulder, on tan paper.

Study of a Nude with Drapery

Auguste Rodin, ca. 1908

Pen and ink drawing of a standing nude male figure holding a bow, with fine hatching modeling the muscular body.

Standing Male Nude Holding a Bow ("Poynter Apollo")

Albrecht Dürer, 1501-3

Pen and gray wash design of a nude female figure holding a celestial globe inside an ornate oval scrolled cartouche.

Design for an Ornamental Panel with the Figure of Astronomy

Johann Matthias Kager, 1590-1637

Chalk drawing on blue-grey paper of two reclining nude figures, a winged cherub, and drapery, titled Diana and Endymion.

Diana and Endymion

Januarius Zick, 1745-97

Pen and ink drawing of putti around a panel showing a nude archer aiming at pigeons.

Putti grouped around a rectangular panel

Watercolor of a winged sphinx above a reclining nude woman in red drapery, with a jeweled urn in a dark grotto.

Sphinx in a Grotto (Poet, King and Warrior)

Gustave Moreau, 1887-1888

Two black chalk studies of crouching nude male figures on toned paper, with red guide lines and a signature.

Two Crouching Nude Male Figures

Simon Vouet, ca. 1640

Drawing of a bacchanal wedding feast with revelers, musicians, putti, and an elephant beneath grapevines, in red chalk and wa

The Wedding Feast of Bacchus and Ariadne

Guy Louis Vernansal the Elder, ca. 1709

Brown ink and wash drawing of three nude men in twisting poses with studies of arms and legs, by Paolo Pagani.

Studies of Three Naked Men, a Right Arm and a Nude Figure Supported by Another (recto); Studies of a Figure with Left…

Paolo Pagani, 1700-1710

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a group of reclining nude women, with curly hair, overlapping in a tangle of bodies.

Group of Six Reclining Nude Women (Nymphs Bathing) (recto); Sketch of a Leg (verso)

Taddeo Zuccari, 1529-66

Etching of a woodland sacrifice to Pan, with a goat, satyrs, nymphs and a large tree beside an altar.

Sacrifice to Pan

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1762-63

Pen and wash drawing of a bacchanal with nude women, wreathed revelers, putti, grapevines and classical columns in a garden.

Bacchanal

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, ca. 1765-66

Graphite study of a male figure with shaded torso and draped limbs on pale paper.

Study for a male figure in "Comus-The Measure" (recto); Reclining male nude (verso)

George Richmond, before 1864

Red chalk drawing of a seated female nude, arm extended to grip a vertical support, on cream paper.

Study of a female nude, seated

George Richmond, 1870-79 (?)

Pencil sketch of a nude female figure with arms raised, hair and drapery flowing, standing atop a mound.

"Jocund Day Stands Tip Toe on the Misty Mountain Tops" (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5)

George Richmond, ca. 1830

Graphite sketch of robed figures among trees, a compositional study with loose overlapping lines on pale paper.

Compositional Study for "Comus-The Measure" (recto); Studies of a Man's Right Leg, after Titian, and a Profile, for "…

George Richmond, before 1864

Chalk drawing on grey paper of a reclining female nude with head turned upward and legs extended.

Study of a Reclining Female Nude

Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1710-50

Engraving of about fifteen nude children dancing in a line, one playing a trumpet at left, hands linked.

Fifteen Nude Children Dancing

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1535

Red chalk drawing of a nude male figure seen from behind, floating among grey clouds, with handwritten inscription below.

A Nude Male Seen from the Back in Clouds (after Michelangelo Buonarroti)

Daniel Fröschl, 1602 (?)

Grey wash drawing of four nude women approaching a classical altar, with putti flying in clouds above and waves at left.

Four Nude Women Surrounded by Putti, Approaching an Altar

Carl August Ehrensvärd, 1765-1800

Brown wash drawing of Christ with a staff among nude figures and demons at a gateway, with winged creatures above.

Christ in Limbo

Luca Penni, ca. 1547-48

Pen and brown ink sketch of a muscular male nude with twisted torso and raised arm on aged paper.

Seated Nude Male Figure (recto); Ornamental Designs of Foliage, a Grotesque Head, and a Leg (verso)

Agostino Carracci, ca. 1590-93

Pen and watercolor drawing of a centaur carrying a nude woman across water, with a hilly landscape behind them.

The Abduction of Deianira

William Hamilton, 1770-80

Pen and watercolor drawing of a winged female figure with serpent hair raising a staff amid stormy clouds, a temple beyond.

Envy from Ovid's "House of Envy" (Book II, lines 760-796) (recto); A naked woman (verso)

William Hamilton, 1770-80