MFA Images: NudesExplore this subject through images from across the MFA's collection./internal/media/dispatcher/714766/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAcademic Nude Study (Female)about 1870Gaudenzio Marconi1996.2025117/internal/media/dispatcher/757320/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAcademic Study of a Nude Man1856–58Edgar Degas38.1653251376/internal/media/dispatcher/1109882/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailActaeon Watching Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing1612Joachim Anthoniesz. Wtewael57.11933583/internal/media/dispatcher/978137/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailActaeon Watching Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing1560sPaolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)59.26033633/internal/media/dispatcher/775153/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAfter the Bath (large version)1891–92Edgar Degas1982.616244745/internal/media/dispatcher/1097169/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAmerican Beauties1867Jerome B. Thompson1986.40034783/internal/media/dispatcher/1807326/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.97156665/internal/media/dispatcher/1136489/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAutomedon with the Horses of Achilles1868Henri Regnault90.15231014/internal/media/dispatcher/1235991/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Battle of the Nudesabout 1460-1475Antonio PollaiuoloP9744862/internal/media/dispatcher/679591/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCaptivesEvariste Vital Luminais24.23032136/internal/media/dispatcher/815240/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCaricature of a overweight nude womanabout 300 B.C.03.915151603/internal/media/dispatcher/913786/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCarmelina1903Henri MatisseRES.32.1432429/internal/media/dispatcher/840165/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDouble- sided drawing for "Apollo in his Chariot with the Hours"(MFA Stairway) a. (Recto)Two Sketches of Male Nude (front view) b. (Verso) Various sketches: male nude, limbs, and compositional designs1921–25John Singer Sargent28.658243128/internal/media/dispatcher/828754/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailEight Bathersabout 1918–23Maurice Brazil Prendergast61.66333692/internal/media/dispatcher/813463/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailExpulsion from Paradise1470sBenvenuto di Giovanni56.51233565/internal/media/dispatcher/731191/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)1504Albrecht Dürer30.1042456/internal/media/dispatcher/851113/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFemale NudeArtist unknown, Japanese2002.4447414619/internal/media/dispatcher/863930/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFemale Nude by the Sea (from an unidentified series)Artist unknown, Japanese2002.19161435080/internal/media/dispatcher/863932/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFemale Nude by the Window (from an unidentified series)Artist unknown, Japanese2002.19163435082/internal/media/dispatcher/863931/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFemale Nude in Bath (from an unidentified series)Artist unknown, Japanese2002.19162435081/internal/media/dispatcher/801359/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFemale Nude Seated in Water1906Ichijō Narumi2002.935394589/internal/media/dispatcher/967455/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFemale Nude with FlowersHashiguchi Goyō2005.10451311/internal/media/dispatcher/776827/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFigure (Study for or after "Red Stone Dancer")1913–14Henri Gaudier-Brzeska66.219261375/internal/media/dispatcher/871993/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHenri Matisse and his model1939Brassaï (Gyula Halasz)1976.726173720/internal/media/dispatcher/1174692/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHercules as Heroic Virtue Overcoming Discordabout 1632–33Peter Paul Rubens47.154333143/internal/media/dispatcher/948381/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailInterior of a Bathhouse1770sIsoda Koryūsai21.4962232640/internal/media/dispatcher/1544067/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailJudith with the Head of Holofernes1543Jan Massys12.104831440/internal/media/dispatcher/866609/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKaoyo Gozen, the Wife of En'ya Hangan; based on a painting by Kikuchi YōsaiArtist unknown, Japanese2002.12449426774/internal/media/dispatcher/914107/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKohl vessel in the form of a nude woman1550–1186 B.C.72.4158168/internal/media/dispatcher/677872/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Lady of the Gorge1912Childe Hassam19.132431812/internal/media/dispatcher/null/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailLittle Man with Dark Red Foot1997Javier Marín2003.57.2478012/internal/media/dispatcher/577472/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Little Nude Model, Reading1889–90James Abbott McNeill WhistlerM2109282918/internal/media/dispatcher/752498/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMale Nude with Tumbleweed, Paradise Cove1986Herb Ritts2000.880313547/internal/media/dispatcher/1751751/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMars and Venusabout 1630Nicolas Poussin40.8932734/internal/media/dispatcher/1174691/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMercury and a Sleeping Herdsmanabout 1632–33Peter Paul Rubens42.17932830/internal/media/dispatcher/1178129/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMiniature wine jug (chous) depicting a nude boy with his pet birdabout 425–420 B.C.01.8086153813/internal/media/dispatcher/608466/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailModel shrine with nude goddess6th–3rd century B.C.1990.605164642/internal/media/dispatcher/909125/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMoorish Bath1870Jean-Léon Gérôme24.21732124/internal/media/dispatcher/1453217/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Morning Glory1899Elihu Vedder26.78132248/internal/media/dispatcher/856719/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude1935Edward Weston1973.303172803/internal/media/dispatcher/768225/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude19th centuryCharles Bargue27.493242665/internal/media/dispatcher/1718075/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude1920Charles Sheeler1986.746264579/internal/media/dispatcher/771340/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude (Elizabeth Lynes)about 1953George Platt Lynes2002.4338310/internal/media/dispatcher/846899/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude female figure1550–1070 B.C.11.2519138606/internal/media/dispatcher/823814/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude female statuette5th century B.C.88.878152316/internal/media/dispatcher/780104/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Figure Kneeling Among Cloudsabout 1928Kahlil Gibran32.106244761/internal/media/dispatcher/786372/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude figure of a woman bending rightmid-20th centuryAlexander Archipenko51.645255165/internal/media/dispatcher/768170/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailA Nude Man Reclining, Holding a Clubabout 1526Albrecht Dürer59.532260818/internal/media/dispatcher/768179/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Man Seated and Another Standing, with a Woman and Baby Lightly Etched in the Backgroundabout 1646Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnP575108503/internal/media/dispatcher/768180/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Man Seated and Another Standing, with a Woman and Baby Lightly Etched in the Backgroundabout 1646Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnP576108505/internal/media/dispatcher/768178/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Man Seated Before a Curtain1646Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnP574108495/internal/media/dispatcher/768181/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Man Seated on the Ground with One Leg Extended1646Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnP578108497/internal/media/dispatcher/768182/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Man Seated on the Ground with One Leg Extended1646Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnP579108502/internal/media/dispatcher/828514/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Man Seen from Behindabout 1530–1550Antonio da Trento2002.571354284/internal/media/dispatcher/768253/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude (Sketch for Conquerors of Salamis)Fernand CormonRES.38.566343642/internal/media/dispatcher/768264/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude (Sketch for Conquerors of Salamis)Fernand CormonRES.38.586343643/internal/media/dispatcher/1613289/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Study of Thomas E. McKellerabout 1917–20John Singer Sargent1986.6034754/internal/media/dispatcher/1007045/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Woman Reclining Against a Rock1824–25Francisco Goya y Lucientes63.108133763/internal/media/dispatcher/765591/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Woman Seated on a Moundabout 1631Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnP582106466/internal/media/dispatcher/1747860/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude Woman Standing, Drying Herself1891–92Edgar Degas1983.313268480/internal/media/dispatcher/785358/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNude youth4th century B.C. or later18.442151091/internal/media/dispatcher/1133384/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNymph and Shepherd in a Landscapeabout 1630Cornelis van Poelenburch1987.5634831/internal/media/dispatcher/818883/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailProposition Diurne (La femme au miroir)1937Paul Delvaux2003.32354723/internal/media/dispatcher/1226155/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailRandolph, New Hampshire1915William Zorach1993.867a35602/internal/media/dispatcher/810423/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Female Nude1763François Boucher43.236251910/internal/media/dispatcher/757172/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Female Nude (Study for "Summer"); verso: Standing Female Nudeabout 1884Raphaël CollinRES.38.556326652/internal/media/dispatcher/799050/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Male Nude; verso: Male Nude with Raised ArmundatedCarle van Loo15.1347229664/internal/media/dispatcher/799051/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Male Nude with Subsidiary Study of a Face; verso: Two Studies of a Male Nude with Raised ArmsCarle van Loo15.1348229665/internal/media/dispatcher/1001295/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Nude1909Ernst Ludwig Kirchner57.233577/internal/media/dispatcher/1190003/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Nudeabout 1840–41Gustave Courbet57.70233597/internal/media/dispatcher/897947/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Nude1980William Thomson1981.2734408/internal/media/dispatcher/774903/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining NudeundatedFrançois Boucher65.2537168682/internal/media/dispatcher/774904/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Nude1730sFrançois Boucher65.2541168759/internal/media/dispatcher/970901/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Nudeearly 20th centuryHashiguchi Goyō1970.4262078/internal/media/dispatcher/776750/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReclining Nude (Nu Couché)1900–05Henri Matisse55.941257844/internal/media/dispatcher/813520/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailRichard1979R. B. Kitaj2003.11398701/internal/media/dispatcher/1367158/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailRiverbank with Bathersabout 1882Jean Charles Cazin20.59331833/internal/media/dispatcher/1807325/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSatan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.96149927/internal/media/dispatcher/840006/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSeated Nude1965Richard Diebenkorn2003.262401655/internal/media/dispatcher/631613/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSeated Nude in Profile1902–35Gaston Lachaise66.945261590/internal/media/dispatcher/1318345/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSeated Nude, Leg Raised1968Richard Diebenkorn1975.667173789/internal/media/dispatcher/1164058/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSeated Nude (Les Regrets)1847–48Jean-François Millet19.9731767/internal/media/dispatcher/757174/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSeated Nude Woman, Seen from Behind (Study for "Summer")about 1884Raphaël CollinRES.38.561326653/internal/media/dispatcher/829668/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSheet of Studies with a Nude Man1893Lovis Corinth50.3397158776/internal/media/dispatcher/840131/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Architecture, Painting and Sculpture - Figure seated beneath Painting - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2500238437/internal/media/dispatcher/840136/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Architecture, Painting and Sculpture - Relief Figure under Sculpture to Left of Mural - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2517238482/internal/media/dispatcher/840130/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for cartouche over Music - Youth Seated - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2499238436/internal/media/dispatcher/899889/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Cartouche over Prometheus - Youth Kneeling - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2486238423/internal/media/dispatcher/840135/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Cartouche over Prometheus - Youth - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2516238481/internal/media/dispatcher/840132/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Dancing Figures - Central Figure - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2509238475/internal/media/dispatcher/846747/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Eros and Psyche - Psyche - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2481238418/internal/media/dispatcher/899894/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Fame (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2491238428/internal/media/dispatcher/846746/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Ganymede (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2480238417/internal/media/dispatcher/846745/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for Prometheus; Various sketches: figures within circles (verso)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2479238416/internal/media/dispatcher/899897/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for the Messianic Era - Soul of Man - Boston Public Library Murals1903–16John Singer Sargent28.544243904/internal/media/dispatcher/843523/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch for the Sphinx and the Chimaera - Chimaera - (MFA Rotunda)1917–21John Singer Sargent21.2493238430/internal/media/dispatcher/799072/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSketch Page with Nude and Classical HeadsAugust 3, 1931Pablo Picasso57.551267280/internal/media/dispatcher/979259/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailStanding Female Nude1905–08Elie Nadelman2006.846474256/internal/media/dispatcher/783307/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailStanding Female Nude, Seen from Behind1785–90Pierre-Paul Prud'hon65.2598170800/internal/media/dispatcher/761339/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailStanding Female Nude, Seen from Behind (recto and verso)Raphaël CollinRES.38.550329525