A nude figure as an artistic subject. Now rare.

A nude figure, esp. as represented in painting, drawing, or sculpture. Frequently in plural. Now rare.

Chiefly Art. A painting, sculpture, photograph, etc., of a naked human figure; a figure in such a painting, etc. Also: a naked person.

With the. The nude, as a genre in Art. Obsolete.

Art. With the: the naked or undraped human figure conceived of as an aesthetic object; the representation of this in art.