Female-nude

Antonio da Correggio’s "Jupiter and Io" shows the nymph Io in an ecstatic embrace with Jupiter, who has taken the form of a cloud.

Franz von Stuck's "Springtime of Love" depicts a beautiful nymph, reclining naked in a verdant landscape, listening to a garlanded youth playing a pipe. They are at once at ease with each other and with the countryside around them. It is a scene of harmony and sensual abandonment. Von Stuck frequently depicted a mythological world populated with nymphs and centaurs, baccantes and fauns. It was a playful world with distinctly comic and erotic undertones.

Heinrich Lossow represents "Leda and the Swan" as they are fornicating in the grass in the middle of the forest.

Henri-Edmond Cross - Running nymphs (La fuite des nymphes)

Egon Schiele’s "The Family" shows three figures pressed tightly into the foreground, a man, a woman, and a small child.

The painting "Two Acrobats" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner shows two naked performers locked into an impossible balancing act which may represent how a person's can be internally conflicted or confused.

Gerda Wegener’s painting “The Three Graces” is an interpretation of the classical mythological theme, depicting the three goddesses associated with beauty, charm, and creativity. Wegener’s style is characterized by the use of clean lines, vibrant colors, and intricate patterns. The figures are outlined with precision, and their bodies are rendered with smooth, flowing contours. The background features elaborate patterns, typical of the Art Deco movement.

Josef Čapek’s "Before Bedtime" is often titled "Před spaním – Toaleta". It catches a woman in an intimate, relaxing and self-absorbing moment of the day, as she undoes her hair and combs it loose for the night, before going to bed.

Percy Shakespeare’s "Seated Nude (Summer)" (c.1933) shows a single nude young woman seated on the ground in an outdoor, sunlit setting.

François Boucher’s "Leda and the Swan" is a Rococo painting with an erotic twist which explores the mythological theme of Leda being seduced by Zeus turned into a swan.

František Šindelář's painting "Two nude girls" depicts two girls reclining on the grass in the forest near what seems to be a brook.

Antonio da Correggio's "Leda and the Swan" “depicts the mythical scene from Greek mythology in which Zeus, the king of the gods, transforms into a swan to seduce and impregnate Leda, the mortal queen of Sparta. Corregio depicts Leda holding on to a root behind her, drawing in the swan and her head and body moving to better meet the divine swan.