nudity

Handle Spout Vessel in Form of a Female and Skeletal Figure in an Erot...

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her...

Cup with frieze of Erotes

Handle Spout Vessel Depicting an Erotic Scene

Handle Spout Vessel Depicting a Couple in an Erotic Embrace

Marble sarcophagus with flying erotes holding a clipeus portrait

Spout Vessel Depicting Two Skeletal Figures in Erotic Scene Attached t...

Pair of gold earrings with pendant Erotes

Fragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene

Vase fragment, terracota, Europe, Roman

Standing male with Erotes, bird. Accession Number: 17.194.2032

Pair of gold earrings with Erotes

Ending in Erotes singing. Hellenistic

Pair of gold earrings with pendant Erotes

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil jar)

Aphrodite in a chariot drawn over the sea by two Erotes. Classical

Glass bowl fragment with erotic scenes

Erotic amulet, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

From Egypt Ptolemaic Period

Archaic Greek Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Interior, seated youth holding fruit (quinces?)Exterior, obverse, flute girl peering into amphora (jar)Reverse, flute girl holding cup of special shapeThe decoration of vases used in symposia (drinking party) d... More

Pair of gold disk earrings with pendant Erotes

Disc enclosing flower with pendant in the form of a winged Eros. Hellenistic

Handle Spout Vessel Depicting an Erotic Scene

Vase Fragment, terracota, Europe, Roman

Erotes chasing wild boars. Accession Number: 17.194.1997

Pair of gold hoop earrings with Erotes riding doves

Blackware Spouted Vessel in the Form of a Couple in an Erotic Embrace

Vase fragment, terracota, Europe, Roman

Priapus, fluteplayer, Erotes.

Erotic figurine, Egypt, Late Period (525-332 BCE)

Erotic figurine, Egypt, Late Period (525-332 BCE)

From Egypt Late Period–Ptolemaic Period

Marble statue of a youth

Pair of gold earrings with Erotes

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her...

Handle Spout Vessel Depicting an Erotic Scene

Pair of gold-disk earrings with Erotes pendants

The winged Eros was a particularly popular image for earrings, because he would appear to be flying when suspended from the wearer's ear. Hellenistic

Roman Marble statue of Aphrodite

Copy of a Greek statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.

Marble statue of Aphrodite statue

Statuette of an Erotic Figure

Roman Terracotta mirror stand

Pair of Erotes supporting mirror. Imperial

Roman Sarcophagus with Erotes

Roman Sarcophagus of a Boy with Erotes Feeding Griffins

Marble sarcophagus with flying erotes holding a clipeus portrait

Engraved Ring with Aphrodite Weighing Two Erotes

Thymiaterion (brûle-parfum) aux deux Eros (CVA 342)

Base en forme de pyxis évidée, supportée par trois pattes de lion. Debouts sur cette base et adossés, deux Erotes tenant dans la main droite une couronne soutiennent de leurs ailes dressées une coupelle.

Red-Figure Skyphos with (A) Satyr and (B) Maenad LACMA AC1992.152.4 (2...

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Red-Figure Skyphos with (A) Satyr and (B) Maenad LACMA AC1992.152.4 (2...

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Plaque with Erotic Scene, India

Shunga period

Plaque with Erotic Scene, India

Shunga period

Neck amphora with (A) erotic scene and (B) man and woman between sphin...

Heavenly beauty, sculpture collection Rijksmuseum

This female figure has raised her flywhisk to brush away the little monkey tugging at her clinging lower garment. The imprints of fingernails on her cheek and shoulder betray the fact that she has just been wit... More

Globular Jar with Modeled Figures in Erotic Scene

Casket with Erotes and Animals

Casket with Erotes and Animals

Stirrup Spout Vessel Depicing Erotic Scene

Stirrup Spout Vessel Depicting Erotic Scene

Jar in the Form of an Erotic Scene

Jar in the Form of an Erotic Scene

Lucretia, Italian

Ornament with a pair of lovers

Before British prudery gained the upper hand, Indians regarded erotic scenes as auspicious symbols (mangala). Erotic images were often affixed to furniture as ornaments. This plaque probably adorned the side of... More

Adam; Eve, Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini

Apollo and Diana, Jacopo de Barbari, Italian

Jacopo de' Barbari, sometimes known or referred to as de'Barbari, de Barberi, de Barbari, Barbaro, Barberino, Barbarigo or Barberigo, was an Italian painter and printmaker with a highly individual style.

Minerva in a Decorative Frame with Grotesques, from the Judgment of Pa...

Lucretia, Italian

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio - Loves of the Gods

No collection of erotic prints should be without Caraglio’s Loves of the Gods. Consisting of twenty-some prints, this scandalous series presents the amorous escapades of the classical gods fairly explicitly. Th... More

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio - Loves of the Gods

No collection of erotic prints should be without Caraglio’s Loves of the Gods. Consisting of twenty-some prints, this scandalous series presents the amorous escapades of the classical gods fairly explicitly. Th... More

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio - Loves of the Gods

No collection of erotic prints should be without Caraglio’s Loves of the Gods. Consisting of twenty-some prints, this scandalous series presents the amorous escapades of the classical gods fairly explicitly. Th... More

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio - Loves of the Gods

No collection of erotic prints should be without Caraglio’s Loves of the Gods. Consisting of twenty-some prints, this scandalous series presents the amorous escapades of the classical gods fairly explicitly. Th... More

Cornelis Bos - Sacrifice to Priapus

Beverland owned a large collection of prints, many of which were erotically charged. He used them to illustrate his notes about sexuality. Priapus, an ancient god of fertility, features frequently in erotic pri... More

Lucas Cranach the Younger - Nymph of the Spring

Lucas Cranach the Younger - Nymph of the Spring

Statue of Hercules

This engraving presents a draughtsman drawing a gigantic statue of the demigod Hercules. Beverland also had a copy of this impressive print in his private collection. However, he did not keep it intact. As he w... More

Nude Warrior (Mars?) Leaning over a Volute (recto); Nude Child Playing...

Young Lord and Young Woman

Alongside all manner of classical and mythological subjects, the French court sculptor Prieur also made a few figurines representing daily life. With this elegant couple he played with the unequal standing of t... More

Adam; Eve, Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini

De pleisterplaats Otsu

Revel of Erotes

[Female Nude Seated on Bed], Alfred Stieglitz

Young Lord and Young Woman

Alongside all manner of classical and mythological subjects, the French court sculptor Prieur also made a few figurines representing daily life. With this elegant couple he played with the unequal standing of t... More

David Vinckboons I - The Bird-Nester

A lad steals eggs from a nest. Two peasants watch him closely, so intently in fact that they are oblivious to the boy cutting one of their purses. The depiction may have an erotic significance: whoever stands b... More

Adriaen de Vries - Bacchus Finding Ariadne on Naxos

The god Bacchus, accompanied by a satyr with a torch, discovers the sleeping Ariadne and falls in love with the princess. It is hardly a coincidence that Cupid, the god of love, is seated in the foreground. De ... More

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Erotic Print, Japan, Edo period, Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806) Edo period (1615–1868)

Carlo Maratti - Nude Male Figure

Ascribed to Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625–1713 Rome)

Carlo Maratti - Nude Male Figure

Silver Hans Ludwig Kienle - Horse and Rider

The Flute-player, Rembrandt van Rijn

This print was formerly called ‘het Uylenspiegeltje’ (the scoundrel), and not without reason. Rembrandt concealed all kinds of erotic double entendres in this scene of a shepherd couple beside the water. The ma... More

Girl in a Large Hat

The girl with her exotic, broad-brimmed sun hat and suggestively exposed shoulder offers the viewer her basket with fruit: the erotic message is unmistakeable. The painting was originally intended to hang high ... More

Rembrandt van Rijn - Nude Man Seated before a Curtain

Rembrandt van Rijn - Nude Man Seated before a Curtain

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Lovers in the Garden, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints

After a little music, from an untitled series of 12 erotic prints

A Courtesan with Her Client, the first sheet of an untitled erotic pic...

Portrait of Hadriaan Beverland with a Prostitute

This striking panel painting shows the eccentric Beverland with a wine glass and a pipe. Sitting next to him is a prostitute. This portrayal was a deliberate provocation. Done in various shades of brown (the so... More

The insistent lover, from an untitled series of erotic prints

John Smith - The Music Lesson

This aristocratic lady and her music teacher have just interrupted their lesson to give into their sensual urges. The flute on the table, tilted upwards, leaves no room for doubt regarding this gentleman’s inte... More

Cup and saucer with with an erotic scene and flower sprays

Kop en schotel van porselein met gemodelleerde vakken in de wand, beschilderd in onderglazuur blauw. De wand van de kop met twee rijen gemodelleerde vakken, de onderste met bloemtakken, de bovenste met landscha... More

De vermoeyde dienst meyt (The Tired Maidservant)

The master of the house chances upon his practically naked maidservant in bed. His curiosity aroused, he has put on his spectacles to compare her body with that of his spouse. He covers her vagina with his hat... More