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The Abduction of the Sabine Women, probably 1633–34, Nicolas Poussin (French), Oil on canvas (46.160) |
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The Accommodations of Desire, 1929, Salvador Dali (Spanish), Oil and cut-and-pasted printed paper on cardboard (1999.363.16) |
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Beauty Revealed, 1828,
Sarah Goodridge (American),
Watercolor on ivory (2006.235.74) |
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Bottle, Skeletal Couple with Child, 3rd–7th century,
Peru, Moche,
Ceramic (1978.412.196) |
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Cameo cup fragment with lovemaking scene, first half of 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass (81.10.349) |
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Childbirth bowl (scodella) with Aeneas Fleeing Troy (interior) and grotteschi (exterior); and tray (tagliere) with Pyramis and Thisbe (top) and Hercules and the Nemean Lion (bottom), ca. 1530–40,
Baldassare Manara (Italian, Faenza),
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (1975.1.1043a,b) |
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Choes (jug), ca. 450–400 B.C.; red-figure,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (37.11.19) |
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Ear Ornament or Pendant (Mamuli), 19th century,
Kanatangu district, eastern Sumba Island, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia,
Gold (1990.335.4) |
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Eurydice, ca. 1510–16,
Attributed to Antonio Lombardo (Italian, Ferrarese),
Marble (17.190.737) |
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Girdle, late 14th century,
Italy; Venice (?),
Basse taille enamel and silver-gilt plaques, mounted on a woven band (17.190.963) |
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Headrest, 19th–20th century, Somalia; Somali (?) people, Wood (1979.206.31) |
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Jane Avril, 1893,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French),
Lithograph printed in five colors; machine wove paper (32.88.15) |
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Lidded Saltcellar, 15th–16th century,
Sierra Leone; Sapi-Portuguese,
Ivory (1991.435a,b) |
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Loving couple (mithuna), Eastern Ganga dynasty, 13th century, Orissa, India, Ferruginous stone (1970.44) |
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Merrymakers at Shrovetide, ca. 1615, Frans Hals (Dutch), Oil on canvas (14.40.605) |
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Odalisque in Grisaille, ca. 1824–34,
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French) and Workshop,
Oil on canvas (38.65) |
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Paying the Hostess, mid-1670s,
Pieter de Hooch (Dutch),
Oil on canvas (58.144) |
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Plate with the Death of the Woman of Sestos, 1532,
Francesco Xanto Avelli (Italian),
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (32.100.378) |
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Plate, ca. 520–510 B.C.; red-figure,
Greek, Attic,
Signed by Epiktetos as painter,
Terracotta (1981.11.10) |
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Poet Virgil in a Basket, 1525, Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish), Engraving (41.1.23) |
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Priapus and Lotis, third quarter of 16th century,
Unidentified Sixteenth-Century Etcher (possibly Jacopo Bertoia, Italian, Parma), after Francesco Parmigianino (?) (Italian, Parma),
Etching (27.78.1[26]) |
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[Reclining Odalisque], 1858, Roger Fenton (British), Salted paper print from glass negative (1997.382.34) |
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Ring stone with four goddesses and four date palms, Mauryan period, 3rd–2nd century B.C., India, Stone (2000.284.10) |
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Seated Couple, 16th–20th century, Mali; Dogon peoples, Wood, metal (1977.394.15) |
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Two Lovers, 1630; Safavid, Riza cAbbasi (ca. 1565–1635), Isfahan, Iran, Tempera and gilt paint on paper (50.164) |
