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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,208 works

Engraving of a caparisoned elephant with heraldic banners, armored men, and a crowd on a classical balcony.

Royal Elephant

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1542-45

Engraving of Cleopatra reclining on a bed, holding an asp, with an attendant beside her within an ornate oval border.

Cleopatra Bitten By an Asp

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Red and black chalk drawing of a bowed, nude male torso leaning forward on grey paper.

Half Figure of a Man, Nude to the Waist

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 18th century

Engraving of Athena and Poseidon in a mythological contest, with a rearing horse, sea figures, and a winged figure above.

Contest between Athena and Poseidon

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of a violent struggle among many nude men wielding clubs, with fallen figures and a stone arch behind.

Combat of Naked Men

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Brown wash drawing of two allegorical figures with a crocodile, dog, lion, spear, parasol and fallen urn in a landscape.

Allegories of Africa and America

Claude Louis Desrais, n.d.

Etching of a river landscape with boats framed by ornate scrollwork, reclining figures, putti, and flaming urns.

Landscape with Ornamental Frame

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1543

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris with three nude goddesses, Cupid, a swan, a dog, and a forest landscape.

The Judgment of Paris

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Pencil drawing of a winged youth embracing a nude woman, with reclining and seated figures among clouds at right.

Mythological Scene, from the Legend of Cupid and Psyche

Bonaventura Genelli, early 19th-mid 19th century

Engraved design of an ornate vase with reclining nudes, supporting male figures, grapevines and a lion mask.

Vase

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of nude women bathing in a classical interior, framed by fruit garlands, scrolls, and cupids.

Women Bathing

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraving of Jupiter with thunderbolt among clouds above a group of reclining mythological figures in a lunette shape.

Jupiter Pressing the Stormclouds

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Engraving of the Pietà: the dead Christ lies across the Virgin's lap while mourners and ladders surround them.

Pietà

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Engraving of Actaeon with stag antlers beside nude women bathing at a fountain, framed by a decorative grotesque border.

The Metamorphosis of Actaeon

Jean Mignon, 1535-55

Engraving of classical figures tending a garden beside a herm, an arched gateway, a lattice fence and a large tree.

The Garden of Pomona

Léon Davent, ca. 1540-45

Engraving of a seated nude sibyl writing at a sloped desk beside a lamp, with fine crosshatched shading and draped cloth.

A Sibyl

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Grey wash drawing of Neptune and Amphitrite among clouds above sea figures, tritons and fish.

Allegory of Fishery: Neptune and Amphitrite

Gabriel François Doyen, ca. 1773

Engraving of mythological figures in a classical interior, a hero holding a torch beside a reclining woman and a bearded man.

Hercules surprising Fanus who mistook him for Omphale

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Engraving of nude mythological figures, a man carrying a boar's head to a seated woman, with winged putti and a dog.

Meleager Bringing the Boar's Head to Atalanta

Antonio Fantuzzi, 1540-45

Pencil sketch of two muscular male figures in combat, one raising a club over a kneeling figure, with rocks and handwritten l

Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1761

Engraving of mythological figures, a nude man at left and draped figures in the center, with a curtain and statue at right.

Hercules dressed as a Woman

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman seen from behind, hair pinned up, draped garment over her lap.

Woman Seated, Seen from Back

Paul Gavarni, 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of six figure studies, including seated mother and child, reclining figure and standing nude.

Six Figure Studies, including four for "The Poor Italian Family"

Théodore Géricault, 1816-17

Pencil drawing of a nude man reclining on a draped divan, head tilted back, one arm hanging over the cushion.

Male Nude Reclining on a Divan

Anne-Louis Girodet, ca. 1793

Red chalk drawing of a reclining muscular male nude beside a pouring urn, with draped cloth and sketched figures above.

Reclining River God

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Etching of a reclining nude woman seen from behind, her head resting on her arm, with loose drapery and hatched shadows.

Study of a Woman Viewed from Behind

Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Brown and white drawing of a helmeted warrior and a boy mourning a nude man on a bier, with armour and an altar behind.

The Mourning of Pallas

Anne-Louis Girodet, ca. 1790-93

Pencil study of three reclining nude male figures drawn in different poses on a pale sheet.

Studies for the Cadaver of Acron

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1810-12

Engraving of armored warriors on horseback fighting over a nude body while mourning women kneel at left.

Achilles Removing Patroclus' Body From the Battle

Léon Davent, ca. 1547

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude man resting on a stick, looking upward, with hatched shading.

Seated Male Nude Resting on a Stick

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1765-1810