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Female nude in art

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Female nude in art

35 images from works
  • The death of Cleopatra. Etching by or after A. Hirschvogel, 1547.
  • A young woman, posing naked in a photographic studio, sitting on the arm of a "Roman" chair. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Superficial anatomy of the woman: posterior view. Engraving by A. Bell after G. Bidloo, 1798.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, lying on her front on a piece of fabric, a goblet and jug beside her. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young woman posing naked but for a long veil, leaning back in a chair, in a photographic studio, in front of a curtain. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).
  • A young naked woman holding a Japanese fan is seated in a landscape. Etching by or after W.S. Coleman.
  • A young woman seated on a low balustrade posing naked.
  • A woman posing naked leaning on a table with a book under her arm.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, standing in front of a table on which is a vase of flowers. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.

Works from the collections

335 works

    • Pictures

    A woman wearing bodystocking posing in a photographic studio.

    Walery. | Date: [late 19th century] | Reference: 531760i
    Part of: Studio portraits of women: France.
    • Pictures

    A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 3308220i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures

    A Guyanese woman posing naked. Halftone, 1898, after A. Vignola, 1897.

    Vignola, Amédée, active 1897-1915. | Date: [approximately 1898] | Reference: 538445i
    Part of: Untrodden fields of anthropology.
    • Pictures

    A young North African woman, posing naked standing on some rocks, against a painted background in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.

    | Reference: 548603i
    • Pictures

    A young woman posing naked, standing in a photographic studio.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1910] | Reference: 540568i
    Part of: Portraits of English women.

Related topics

Women
Photography of the nude
Ethnology
Anthropology
Furniture
Textiles
Paris
Hair
Egypt
Africa

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