Diogenes Asking Alexander the Great to Step Aside (recto); Striding Academic Male Nude (verso)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Title

Diogenes Asking Alexander the Great to Step Aside (recto); Striding Academic Male Nude (verso)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1800–1899

Medium

Charcoal and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto), and charcoal with stumping (verso) on cream laid paper with blue fibers

Dimensions

38 × 51.8 cm (15 × 20 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.2789

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