Genre
The Human Figure
The human body is the measure painting keeps returning to. Renaissance workshops drilled it from the antique and the live model, treating anatomy as the grammar of the art, so that a turned shoulder or a planted foot could carry the weight of a whole composition. It is the subject by which painters were judged.
Key artists
Works
Venus and Adonis
Venus with a Mirror
The Chess Players
Venus and Mars
Lake Lucerne
Venus and Cupid
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son
The Young Bather
Venus and Adonis
Bacchus and Ariadne
The Dead Toreador
The Dancing Class
Young Girl Reading
The Organ Rehearsal
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
The New Bonnet
The Harvesters
Saint George and the Dragon
Salome
Madonna and Child
Autumn - On the Hudson River
The Storm
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Pygmalion and Galatea
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Pandora
Young man in Mayo costume
The Matador Saluting
The Valley of Wyoming
Cider Making
Domestic Scene
The Ark
A Bachelor's Drawer
The Source
Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)
The Saithwaite Family
The New Bonnet
The Horse Fair
The American School
The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children
Hugo Reisinger
Saint Martin and the Beggar
Two Women at a Window
The Interior of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Madame David
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
View from Vaekero near Christiania
The Dancer
The Daughters of Catulle Mendès
The Musicians
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan
Venus and Adonis
Harlequin
The Dead Christ with Angels
The Death of Socrates
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
High Point: Shandaken Mountains
Femme Lisant
Madame Georges Charpentier and her Children
Stag at Sharkey's
Two men contemplating the Moon
Family Group of Four on Sofa
Family Group
Morning Toilet
Landscape with Bathsheba
A Windmill on a Polder Waterway, Known as ‘In the Month of July’
Paris, rue du Havre
Saint Lucy
A Dance in the Country
Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes
Venus and Adonis
Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife
The Holy Family
The Swing
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)
釈迦三尊十六羅漢像|Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats
Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso
Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family
William II, Prince of Orange, and his Bride, Mary Stuart
Landscape at Les Pâtis, Pontoise
Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels)
The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene
The Last Moments of John Brown
Untitled
A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant
September Morn
Young Lady in 1866
The Rope Dance
Paintings of physicians by Jan Steen
The Empress Elizabeth of Russia (1709–1762) on Horseback, Attended by a Page
Venus and Music
The Union of Earth and Water (Antwerp and the Scheldt)
The Ages and Death
Venus and Adonis
Susanna and the Elders
La Grenouillère
Portrait of an Olivetan Monk
Return from the Hunt by Piero di Cosimo
The Meeting
Boating
The Gulf Stream
Madonna and Child with Saints
L'Arlésienne
View from the Quai d'Orsay
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows
Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
Watson and the Shark
View of Rhenen
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Country House in a Park
Venus and Adonis
Bacchus and Ariadne
Portrait of Jan van Nes (1631-80). Vice admiral of Holland and West-Friesland
Glass Blowers of Murano
Watson and the Shark
The Aegean Sea
Bayside, New Rochelle, New York
The Cathedrals of Art
Saint Teresa of Ávila Interceding for Souls in Purgatory
Abraham's Parting from the Family of Lot
The Cathedrals of Broadway
The Crucifixion
God Holds Adam and Eve Responsible
The Card Players
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
Calling the Cows Home
Regatta at Sainte-Adresse
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Moonlight Landscape with Crab Fishermen
The Twelve Apostles: Saints Bartholomew, Andrew, Matthew, James the Greater, Thaddeus, Philip, James the Lesser, Simon, Peter, Paul, Thomas, and John
The Old Oaken Bucket which Hung in the Well
Tilla Durieux
Portrait of Johan Hulshout (1623–1687)
Approaching Thunder Storm
Slave Market in Rome
The Great Bath at Bursa
The Three Graces
Lady and Gentleman on Horseback
Five O'Clock Tea
Italian Woman (La Morieri)
Madonna of Humility (Madonna dell'Umiltà)
Thérèse Louise de Sureda
Cows in a Meadow near a Farm
Cutting the Stone
Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume
Venus and Adonis
Dressing for the Carnival
Untitled
涅槃図|Death of the Historical Buddha (Nehan-zu)
The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
The Visit to the Nursery
The Dissolute Household
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Untitled
元 錢選 王羲之觀鵝圖 卷|Wang Xizhi watching geese
Untitled
Family Group in a Landscape
David and Bathsheba
Saints Nicholas of Tolentino, Roch, Sebastian, and Bernardino of Siena, with Kneeling Donors
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
The Adoration of the Magi
Bathsheba at her bath
The Virgin Adoring the Host
The Judgment of Paris
Untitled
Untitled
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Virgin and Child
Landscape with Hunters
Charles IV of Spain and His Family
Mary Magdalene
Untitled
Final study for "La Grande Jatte"
The Nativity with Saints
Untitled
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Nevada Falls, Yosemite
Skiffs
A Sermon on Charity (possibly the Conversion of Saint Anthony)
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
The Crucifixion
Matthew Clarkson
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
Edward Smith Stanley (1752–1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, with His First Wife (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753–1797) and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851)
The Lamentation
Merrymakers at Shrovetide
The Crucifixion
Tobias Curing His Father's Blindness
Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi
Untitled
The Fletcher Mansion, New York City
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Untitled
George Washington
Untitled
The Crucifixion
Frequently asked questions
What is The Human Figure?
The Human Figure is a motif in painting. The human body is the measure painting keeps returning to.
How many The Human Figure works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 6,168 public-domain The Human Figure works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key The Human Figure artists?
Key The Human Figure artists in the collection include Titian, Thomas Eakins and Paolo Veronese.